SI's top 100 players going into the 2020 season.

[CTbasketball92]

Writers' obsession with Tatum is so odd to me. He's literally proven nothing except that he's theoretically valuable one day, but even now, do we really see him becoming an All-NBA player?

He has no footspeed or shiftiness, so for his game he'd have to be an elite shooter from midrange and three-point land. He's only decent at midrange and merely "good" from three-point line. He's just a decent athlete. He's far less athletic than Carmelo. He's even less athletic than Paul Pierce, who no one thought was an above average athlete. That lack of burst and strength will keep him where he is and people need to start accepting that.

[brooks_thompson]

Writers' obsession with Tatum is so odd to me. He's literally proven nothing except that he's theoretically valuable one day, but even now, do we really see him becoming an All-NBA player?

He has no footspeed or shiftiness, so for his game he'd have to be an elite shooter from midrange and three-point land. He's only decent at midrange and merely "good" from three-point line. He's just a decent athlete. He's far less athletic than Carmelo. He's even less athletic than Paul Pierce, who no one thought was an above average athlete. That lack of burst and strength will keep him where he is and people need to start accepting that.

Preachin to the choir, man.

What I also found weird about the list is how out of nowhere a few times the writer would spend the whole blurb just dumping on the player for his flaws. The majority was pretty even-keeled, but there were a few guys he had nothing positive to say about.

[insidehoops]

Lists like these are best compiled by averaging what 10 or 20 writer say, rather than just the views of one or maybe two people