Top 10 Defensive Centers in the NBA?

[shrink]

Make a list, check it twice, settle an argument for me.

[nate33]

For this year only:

1. Duncan
2. Haywood
3. Camby
4. Dalembert
5. Chandler
6. Yao
7. Biedrins
8. Bynum
9. D.Howard
10. Diop

EDIT Revised list after a little more consideration:

1. Duncan
2. Haywood
3. Camby
4. Chandler
5. Yao
6. Biedrins
7. Bynum
8. Dalembert
9. Okafor
10. D.Howard

[Jack wore plaid]

1. Camby
2. Dalembert
3. Kaman
4. Howard
5. Stoudemire
6. Przybilla
7. MIlicic
8. Chandler
9. Haywood
10. Yao

Duncan is not a center. The second Oden steps on the court this list changes.

[HarlemHeat37]

what are we basing it on though? post D? shot blocking? or everything mixed into one?..help D?..

woah woah, did I see Amare Stoudemire on a defensive list? damn, I must be thinking of the wrong guy then..isn't that the same dude that fouls anyone he is covering every 5 minutes?..

[Datruth345]

perkins 1-10

[nate33]

perkins 1-10

I had Perkins about 12th in my mental list. He's a solid defender but I just couldn't put him above anybody on my top 10 list.

His on/off differential is pretty mediocre considering he plays on the starting unit alongside Garnett, Pierce and Allen. A quick glance of the player pairs numbers shows that Garnett's on/off differential is better when he is not alongside Perkins than when he is (+19 and +15 respectively).

[That Nicka]

For this year only:

1. Duncan
2. Haywood
3. Camby
4. Dalembert
5. Chandler
6. Yao
7. Biedrins
8. Bynum
9. D.Howard
10. Diop

Bynum is not better than Biendrins?.. Also I think Dalembert's defense is over rated (although I have only seen him play twice this year)

[Basileus777]

1. Camby
2. Dalembert
3. Kaman
4. Howard
5. Stoudemire
6. Przybilla
7. MIlicic
8. Chandler
9. Haywood
10. Yao

Duncan is not a center. The second Oden steps on the court this list changes.

Amare? Hell, why not put Curry there as well?

[NO-KG-AI]

Yao is wayyyyyyyy underrated.... ever since he got burned by Boozer (a PF facing him up, he doesn't get any credit).

He's a TERRIFIC post defender, and a great anchor. I dunno what the stats are like this year, but he annually anchors one of the best teams...

The only guy I can say for certain is a better defender is Tim Duncan, and probably Emeka Okafor if we are counting him as a C.

[Patterns]

1. Camby
2. Dalembert
3. Kaman
4. Howard
5. Stoudemire
6. Przybilla
7. MIlicic
8. Chandler
9. Haywood
10. Yao

Duncan is not a center. The second Oden steps on the court this list changes.

He belongs on the other list. He may get a lot of blocks but he'll let his man score easily as demonstrated by Bynum's career high against him.

[yunggunz]

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Bynum is not better than Biendrins?.. Also I think Dalembert's defense is over rated (although I have only seen him play twice this year)

Me too. Hes definitely got some decent stats, but his man defense is pretty piss poor.

[revprodeji]

5. Stoudemire

Thats funny

[nate33]

Yao is wayyyyyyyy underrated.... ever since he got burned by Boozer (a PF facing him up, he doesn't get any credit).

He's a TERRIFIC post defender, and a great anchor. I dunno what the stats are like this year, but he annually anchors one of the best teams.

Dude, he is way underrated by just 2 posters. Nobody else is posting a list, they're just criticizing Jack's and mine.

I thought a 6th place award was pretty good. I don't think that's wayyyyyy underrating him. Haywood played him to a standstill Monday night. When Haywood was benched near the end of the 3rd quarter, their respective statlines were as follows:

Yao 6-15 FG, 12 Pts, 2 Reb, 2 Ast, 1 Blk, 4 TO
Haywood 4-6 FG, 11 Pts, 4 Reb, 2 Ast, 1 Blk, 3 TO

Yao put up some nice numbers down the stretch when our coach inexplicably kept Haywood out of the game. (This is something that has been complained about ad nauseum on the Wizards board.)

I can live with the criticism about Dalembert. Maybe he is too high. I've also been toying with moving Chandler up a bit. I forgot about Okafor too, but I wouldn't rank him much higher than 7th or so.

[That Nicka]

Ill go with

1. Camby
2. Yao
3. Howard
4. Haywood
5. Okafor
6. Chandler
7. Bynum
8. Biendrins
9. Dalembert
10. Diop

admittedly though, I havent seen nearly as much of East Coast centers as I have West Coast Centers

EDIT: Duncan and KG are ahead of everyone on this list... and JO is somewhere in the top 5

[Storm Surge]

1. Andrew Bynum























2. Duncan

[youngcrev]

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Bynum is not better than Biendrins?.. Also I think Dalembert's defense is over rated (although I have only seen him play twice this year)

That's because I'm assuming the only 2 times you saw him were when he got abused by Bynum. He's a very good team defender, and good man defender. Bynum just seems to have his number.

[youngcrev]

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Me too. Hes definitely got some decent stats, but his man defense is pretty piss poor.

Not really...

[UDRIH14]

no ben wallace, wow

[nate33]

Wallace is no longer anything more than a mildly above-average defender, at best. For 2 years now, Chicago has been significantly better defensively when Wallace was off the court. His rebounding and shot blocking is way down too. And he hasn't been a good post defender in years.

[Rasheeed!!!]

Given that Rasheed plays C this season, he's gotta be in the mix (with the like's of TD, KG). He's a better anchor than expected!