SI: NBA top 100 rankings

sco · Post #1 » by **sco** » Mon Sep 9, 2019 9:05 pm

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/four-bulls-featured-sports-illustrateds-152321076.html
Otto 57
Thad 70
Lauri 75
Zach 90

https://www.si.com/nba/top-100-nba-players-2020

AKfanatic · Post #2 » by **AKfanatic** » Mon Sep 9, 2019 9:16 pm

That’s a pretty terrible list.....

Kurt Heimlich · Post #3 » by **Kurt Heimlich** » Mon Sep 9, 2019 9:17 pm

I honestly thought I clicked on the wrong list when Wiggins name came up first.

AKfanatic · Post #4 » by **AKfanatic** » Mon Sep 9, 2019 9:27 pm

Kurt Heimlich wrote:I honestly thought I clicked on the wrong list when Wiggins name came up first.

Him making the list, should disqualify the list from serious discussion.....

sco · Post #5 » by **sco** » Mon Sep 9, 2019 9:58 pm

Optimistically, this stuff motivates Lauri and, especially Zach to improve defensively!

logical_art · Post #6 » by **logical_art** » Mon Sep 9, 2019 10:22 pm

I'm not the biggest Zach fan, but 's no way that there's 89 players I'd rather have.

SHO'NUFF · Post #7 » by **SHO'NUFF** » Mon Sep 9, 2019 11:08 pm

logical_art wrote:I'm not the biggest Zach fan, but 's no way that there's 89 players I'd rather have.

There's a few posters here that'll disagree with you.

logical_art · Post #8 » by **logical_art** » Tue Sep 10, 2019 12:09 am

I don't have the time or inclination to do this well but this would be my knee jerk ranking of the Bulls top players.

Zach: ~40
Lauri & Porter: ~60
Thad : ~80

WindyCityBorn · Post #9 » by **WindyCityBorn** » Tue Sep 10, 2019 12:12 am

Andrew Wiggins making this list means it is worthless.

Post #10 » by **kulaz3000** » Tue Sep 10, 2019 12:18 am

SHO'NUFF wrote:
logical_art wrote:I'm not the biggest Zach fan, but 's no way that there's 89 players I'd rather have.

There's a few posters here that'll disagree with you.

Yeah, I'm going to be honest, he has his faults but that's a major disrespect.

He is the best player on the Bulls roster, it's as simple as that. Is the he the most valuable, considering what Lauri could become? Perhaps not, but as it currently stands, he is the best player.

meekrab · Post #11 » by **meekrab** » Tue Sep 10, 2019 12:19 am

350 NBA players should be upset they're ranked below Andrew Wiggins.

logical_art · Post #12 » by **logical_art** » Tue Sep 10, 2019 12:26 am

kulaz3000 wrote:
SHO'NUFF wrote:
logical_art wrote:I'm not the biggest Zach fan, but 's no way that there's 89 players I'd rather have.

There's a few posters here that'll disagree with you.

Yeah, I'm going to be honest, he has his faults but that's a major disrespect.

He is the best player on the Bulls roster, it's as simple as that. Is the he the most valuable, considering what Lauri could become? Perhaps not, but as it currently stands, he is the best player.

Zach's the hipster NBA fans choice to hate to prove that they value the right things and are not suckers who overrate flare and spectacular plays. I think its gotten to the point where he's underrated.

AKfanatic · Post #13 » by **AKfanatic** » Tue Sep 10, 2019 12:45 am

Given some of the names on this list so far...

And some Phoenix Suns players who will be named in the top 50 of that list...

AKfanatic wrote:That’s a pretty terrible list.....

meekrab · Post #14 » by **meekrab** » Tue Sep 10, 2019 4:54 am

AKfanatic wrote:Given some of the names on this list so far...

And some Phoenix Suns players who will be named in the top 50 of that list...

AKfanatic wrote:That’s a pretty terrible list.....

I'm confused how there could be ANY Suns players in the top 50 after they won a whopping 19 games last year :lol:

drosereturn · Post #15 » by **drosereturn** » Tue Sep 10, 2019 5:54 am

kulaz3000 wrote:
SHO'NUFF wrote:
logical_art wrote:I'm not the biggest Zach fan, but 's no way that there's 89 players I'd rather have.

There's a few posters here that'll disagree with you.

Yeah, I'm going to be honest, he has his faults but that's a major disrespect.

He is the best player on the Bulls roster, it's as simple as that. Is the he the most valuable, considering what Lauri could become? Perhaps not, but as it currently stands, he is the best player.

Best current talent yes. Best player, no unless your counting raw production.
I sort of like where SI is going since they are considering whether these top 100 players' production are translating to wins.
Otto Porter is clearly our best player esp considering the 15 game sample.
No one dare beats 50/50/90 on 18pts, 60%+ TS statline while being the #1 defender on the team.
If he did it nearly for a whole season, he would eclipse prime Deng and bested only by prime Rose and Butler.
Lauri placed higher makes sense since he didnt waste 5 yrs (sophmore avging 19/9 is way more impressive than a sg 24/5) and next yr will tell whether he is a winning player or not.

sco · Post #16 » by **sco** » Tue Sep 10, 2019 12:24 pm

It's not where our guys start, it's where they finish!

I feel like our guys aren't going to be stat monsters because there are 7 guys who will share the load across most stat categories.

ZOMG · Post #17 » by **ZOMG** » Tue Sep 10, 2019 2:47 pm

logical_art wrote:
kulaz3000 wrote:
SHO'NUFF wrote:
There's a few posters here that'll disagree with you.

Yeah, I'm going to be honest, he has his faults but that's a major disrespect.

He is the best player on the Bulls roster, it's as simple as that. Is the he the most valuable, considering what Lauri could become? Perhaps not, but as it currently stands, he is the best player.

Zach's the hipster NBA fans choice to hate to prove that they value the right things and are not suckers who overrate flare and spectacular plays. I think its gotten to the point where he's underrated.

In fact, he's now so underrated that he's starting to become overrated.

logical_art · Post #18 » by **logical_art** » Tue Sep 10, 2019 5:14 pm

ZOMG wrote:
logical_art wrote:
kulaz3000 wrote:
Yeah, I'm going to be honest, he has his faults but that's a major disrespect.

He is the best player on the Bulls roster, it's as simple as that. Is the he the most valuable, considering what Lauri could become? Perhaps not, but as it currently stands, he is the best player.

Zach's the hipster NBA fans choice to hate to prove that they value the right things and are not suckers who overrate flare and spectacular plays. I think its gotten to the point where he's underrated.

In fact, he's now so underrated that he's starting to become overrated.

Whoa!

Mr. Tibbs · Post #19 » by **Mr. Tibbs** » Tue Sep 10, 2019 7:19 pm

Honestly I'm just trippin over this picture

I know he's long and skinny, but damn I can't believe that isn't photoshop.

Post #20 » by **Michael Jackson** » Tue Sep 10, 2019 8:25 pm

meekrab wrote:350 NBA players should be upset they're ranked below Andrew Wiggins.

Wiggins at 100is fine. By no means does he live up to his contract or the hype he had. He also doesn’t live up to his just god given skill, but it isn’t as if he is Blakeney or Felicio. He is #25 in salary in the league which is just mind boggling bad but his production is still of some value. As remarkable as a bust that he is he still isn’t Markelle Fultz.