Top 10 Players (By Ben Taylor)

[LostCause]

From the guy that brought us the Backpicks list and the Thinking Basketball videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93zief7g2Jk

Healthy
1. Curry
2. Giannis
3. Kevin Durant
4. Anthony Davis
5. Kawhi Leonard
6. Lebron James
7. James Harden
8. Joel Embid
9.Paul George
10. Jokic

Including injuries:
1. Curry/Giannis
3. Anthony Davis
4. Kawhi Leonard
5. James Harden
6. Lebron James
7. Jokic
8. Embid
9. George
10. Damian Lillard

[SouBeachTalents]

AD way too high

And Kawhi & Durant (healthy) > Giannis, at least for now

[Manny98]

The guy definitely knows his basketball so i agree with his list. AD is getting heavily underrated because he's on a garbage ass team. People don't realize how much of a monster he actually is

Pair LeBron with AD It's over

[ArbitraryWater]

Informative video, although too numbers based for me.

But the backpicks show how smart he is.

[FKAri]

Is this going into next year? Because a hurt Kawhi outplayed Giannis. Also, I didn't know that Curry was "unhealthy" in this Finals. Get better lil fella.

[brooks_thompson]

I'm at a loss how even the smartest basketball guys devote so much time and energy to plain old player rankings. There's so much more to talk about...hardly no one brings up the brilliance of individual plays, whether they're drawn up or broken...everybody just wants a damn top 5 or top 10 list. High Fidelity (John Cusack) mentality has taken over the world.

[keep-itreal]

Why is Anthony Davis #5? What has he accomplished in this league to warrant being top 5?

Kawhi just won a title and FMVP but he's not better than AD, Giannis and Curry?

Garbage ass list

[superduper]

The guy definitely knows his basketball so i agree with his list. AD is getting heavily underrated because he's on a garbage ass team. People don't realize how much of a monster he actually is

Pair LeBron with AD It's over

Jrue Holiday has more impact in his pinky than AD has ever had in his entire body + his ugly ass eyebrow. Dude is straight trash. Bran stans stay sucking $tats *****.

[superduper]

Why is Anthony Davis #5? What has he accomplished in this league to warrant being top 5?

Kawhi just won a title and FMVP but he's not better than AD, Giannis and Curry?

Garbage ass list

Yeah the list is garbage. AD is AT BEST borderline top 10. Top 15-20 more realistically.

[NBAGOAT]

Giannis got valued for his dpoy lvl defense, feel like I should’ve considered it a lot too. His offense as Taylor says isn’t top 5 and needs work. However if gobert is top 10-15 for his defense, Giannis could still be really up there for his.

Edit: and he’s basically looking at ad pre trade request because that’s his actual lvl. Taylor has a huge emphasis on passing(why kawhi is low) and ad improved greatly there according to him. I still think he might be too high but on another note, jrues become kind of overrated.

[Doranku]

How could anyone think Steph Curry is the best player in the league after these playoffs?

[ArbitraryWater]

How could anyone think Steph Curry is the best player in the league after these playoffs?

or Giannis being better than Kawhi..

this is what happens when you forget to analyze play and just go by stats

[3ball]

From the guy that brought us the Backpicks list and the Thinking Basketball videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93zief7g2Jk

Healthy
1. Curry
2. Giannis
3. Kevin Durant
4. Anthony Davis
5. Kawhi Leonard
6. Lebron James
7. James Harden
8. Joel Embid
9.Paul George
10. Jokic

Including injuries:
1. Curry/Giannis
3. Anthony Davis
4. Kawhi Leonard
5. James Harden
6. Lebron James
7. Jokic
8. Embid
9. George
10. Damian Lillard

What's better:

Ball-dominant passing but weak teamwork...... or versatile, timely scoring ability that results in good teamwork and more winning??

I go with the latter, so Kawhi must be #1

Otherwise, it's harden or lebron's ball-domination stat-padding..

Just depends on what you prefer (winning vs losing)

[NBAGOAT]

What's better:

Ball-dominant passing but weak teamwork...... or versatile, timely scoring ability that results in good teamwork and more winning??

I go with the latter, so Kawhi must be #1

Otherwise, it's harden or lebron's ball-domination stat-padding..

Just depends on what you prefer (winning vs losing)

He actually addresses it in the video and I agree with him. Kawhis iso heavy scoring with meh passing is great for carrying bad teams but not as useful on great teams. You

[kuniva_dAMiGhTy]

Probably in the minority, but I still think Lebron is better than Giannis. And AD.

At least he was...when healthy.