ESPN NBA top 100 for 2022

Statlanta · Post #41 » by **Statlanta** » Wed Sep 21, 2022 4:37 pm

Projecting Bradley Beal to be a top 20 player in the world is lol. I'm not even sure he's better than Porzingis

Post #42 » by **oldncreaky** » Wed Sep 21, 2022 4:49 pm

yoyoboy wrote:Cavs with the 2 lowest ranked All-Stars from last year lol. 46th and 52nd after making an ASG of the top 26 players in the league at 21 and 23 years old. Make it make sense.

It's nothing to do with basketball. Market size and proximity to the media hubs of LA & NY seem to have more impact.

Go look at the CBS list, which is much better. They've still got Garland lower than I'd put him at, but you should find it less annoying than ESPN

kanersen · Post #43 » by **kanersen** » Wed Sep 21, 2022 4:56 pm

This list is straight trash.
They have Maxey over SGA.
I could go over the dozens of other examples but I don't think even the most homer of Philly fans would even go this far.

Post #44 » by **MoneyTalks41890** » Wed Sep 21, 2022 5:31 pm

Wolves have 3 top 25 players so they should sail to the chip.

nzahir · Post #45 » by **nzahir** » Wed Sep 21, 2022 5:44 pm

Ruma85 wrote:Hahaha westbrook,bane, and siakam are criminally underrated. What a joke espn

Russ is wayyyyy too high

CBS has him at 98

Not even sure if he should be there for a team with title hopes

timO · Post #46 » by **timO** » Wed Sep 21, 2022 5:53 pm

harden 11 /// 22-8-10 40%FG and declining

shai 48 /// 24.5-5-6 45%FG not yet in prime

:crazy:

GeorgeSears · Post #47 » by **GeorgeSears** » Wed Sep 21, 2022 6:19 pm

Bradley Beal (19) and Kyle Lowry(60) are too high. Lowry is barely top 100. Lowry completely flamed out during the end of last season, he was a liability in the playoffs, and I doubt he's going to get much better this season as he enters year 17.

Bradley Beal is 19 purely based off reputation alone. I doubt anyone who ranked this list watched any Wizards basketball, or watched Beal. He was bad.

realEAST · Post #48 » by **realEAST** » Wed Sep 21, 2022 6:36 pm

Trae Young over Jimmy Butler... I mean, it wasn't that long ago...

toooskies · Post #49 » by **toooskies** » Wed Sep 21, 2022 7:03 pm

GeorgeSears wrote:Bradley Beal (19) and Kyle Lowry(60) are too high. Lowry is barely top 100. Lowry completely flamed out during the end of last season, he was a liability in the playoffs, and I doubt he's going to get much better this season as he enters year 17.

Bradley Beal is 19 purely based off reputation alone. I doubt anyone who ranked this list watched any Wizards basketball, or watched Beal. He was bad.

You could argue that this ranking is purely reputational rather than an honest projection. That's what happens when you poll 200 ESPN employees, some of whom are intelligently following the ebb and flow of the league and others of whom only care about who's going to lead the highlights on SportsCenter.

CIN-C-STAR · Post #50 » by **CIN-C-STAR** » Wed Sep 21, 2022 7:06 pm

Didn't they put Derozan at like #83 last summer? :lol:

This list should come with a disclaimer: For Entertainment Purposes Only

aguiar95 · Post #51 » by **aguiar95** » Wed Sep 21, 2022 8:44 pm

From a Mavs POV:

Doncic (?) - Pretty fair if he's top-7.
Dinwiddie (#69) - A lot overrated, I'd have him as #90-95.
Wood (#92) - Probably fair, just inside top-100 feels fine.
Bullock (> #100) - Fair.
Finney-Smith - Call me a homer, but I'd easily have him inside the top-100.
Kleber (> #100) - Fair.
Hardaway (> #100) - Fair.

Biggest absurds: Barnes, Mobley and Cade inside the top 40, I'd have them in the 50's.

Catchall · Post #52 » by **Catchall** » Wed Sep 21, 2022 10:01 pm

Beal's ranking is a year or two out of date, imo.
James Harden isn't #11 at the moment, unless he has a real resurgence.

wegotthabeet · Post #53 » by **wegotthabeet** » Wed Sep 21, 2022 10:45 pm

CIN-C-STAR wrote:Didn't they put Derozan at like #83 last summer?
This list should come with a disclaimer: For Entertainment Purposes Only

ESPN pulled names out of hat.

BenoUdrihFTL · Post #54 » by **BenoUdrihFTL** » Thu Sep 22, 2022 2:21 am

Just gonna have to shrug and laugh at Jimmy Butler ranked 17

LoveMyRaps · Post #55 » by **LoveMyRaps** » Thu Sep 22, 2022 2:44 am

Wait Beal is #19??? LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

This guy isn't even top 30...

LordCovington33 · Post #56 » by **LordCovington33** » Thu Sep 22, 2022 3:13 am

JB2 wrote:When Marcus Smart is ranked ahead of Zion, you know ESPN is full of morons.

One plays, and one doesn’t. Hard to get ranked high when you can’t show any signs of durability.

Ruma85 · Post #57 » by **Ruma85** » Thu Sep 22, 2022 3:13 am

nzahir wrote:
Ruma85 wrote:Hahaha westbrook,bane, and siakam are criminally underrated. What a joke espn

Russ is wayyyyy too high

CBS has him at 98

Not even sure if he should be there for a team with title hopes

I agree to disagree.

Time for Change · Post #58 » by **Time for Change** » Thu Sep 22, 2022 3:25 am

So Curry, LeBron, Giannis, Jokic, Doncic, Ja, Embiid, Tatum, and Durant in some order are missing, who is the other member of the top 10?

LordCovington33 · Post #59 » by **LordCovington33** » Thu Sep 22, 2022 3:32 am

timO wrote:harden 11 /// 22-8-10 40%FG and declining

shai 48 /// 24.5-5-6 45%FG not yet in prime

Shai’s shooting efficiency has gone down (with a slight increase in PPG) and his team is one of the worst in the league. Plus 6 assists a game is not all that great for an elite PG. Harden’s ranking feels a little high (though he feels up all the stat sheet) , but SGA screams chucker, especially with his atrocious 30% three point shooting.

SA37 · Post #60 » by **SA37** » Thu Sep 22, 2022 3:43 am

oldncreaky wrote:
yoyoboy wrote:Cavs with the 2 lowest ranked All-Stars from last year lol. 46th and 52nd after making an ASG of the top 26 players in the league at 21 and 23 years old. Make it make sense.

It's nothing to do with basketball. Market size and proximity to the media hubs of LA & NY seem to have more impact.

Go look at the CBS list, which is much better. They've still got Garland lower than I'd put him at, but you should find it less annoying than ESPN

The CBS list is much better.

I liked this comment on Kyrie Irving (CBS list): Irving can do things on the court that no one else on this list can, but he frequently does things off of the court that no one else on this list would.

From the CBS list, the biggest gripes I'd have would be Vucevic at 90 (behind Seth Curry, Herbert Jones, and Nic Batum? Seriously?), De'Aaron Fox at 57, and Sabonis at 50.

Darius Garland should have been in front of Jamal Murray, Draymond Green, and Anthony Edwards, who I think is getting ranked based on where people think he will be versus what he actually did last year.

Gobert at 29 is much closer to reality than where ESPN has him (18) or where RealGM's General Board top-25 player list has him (13), which is just laughable.