Jokic, Giannis, Luka

@@thelemonadelion4255right answer 💯

Jokic, Giannis, Curry

Jokic, embid, giannas

Shai, Shai, Shai

Pretty sure he’s actually staying 19 this year he just felt like it

Is he gay

Here we go.

Jokic wishes he was half as good as the undisputed goat Austin Reaves

@thelemonadelion4255 Prime Alex Caruso >>>>>

I just want another Asian point guard going 20-5-5

A.R. > L.J.

Nigga what

FAX🗣️🗣️

Finally showing the lollipop respect

Last season he had literally the worst defensive rating of all active players LOL

@@spideysense1847 we’re trolling

He wasnt that good after the bucks series

Naah. He definitely isn't top 10

If we're talking postseason it's hard to keep MJs son out but he coasts during the regular season

He’s better than luka so is shai

​@@snupedummybetter than luka is crazy he not better than him in postseason or regular season

He’s not good defender he’s not guarding perimeter , 0.6 blks per game for a center lmao ok he can’t box out to get rebound that’s it 😂😂😂

He’s not good defender he’s not guarding perimeter , 0.6 blks per game for a center lmao ok he can’t box out to get rebound that’s it 😂😂😂

@curtiszyr Oh dam you right, a center who doesn't guard the perimeter is bad. that's why Hakeem, Drob, Ewing etc were all such mid defenders 🤓 And using stocks to = defense in 2023 is just outing yourself as a casual lmao

@curtiszyr Oh dam you right, a center who doesn't guard the perimeter is bad. that's why Hakeem, Drob, Ewing etc were all such mid defenders 🤓 And using stocks to = defense in 2023 is just outing yourself as a casual lmao

@@MikeTheNBAGuy yea you only read perimeter defense but ignore the rim protection lmao . I mean KG guard perimeter and he’s 7ft so wrong he’s not a good defender. He’s all offense nothing wrong with that he’s still great and fmvp . You can’t have everything but you lot try to attribute everything to a player lol

Considering they had only Looney to match up with AD, dominating was what one would expect him to do.

Like there are some players you can't stop, but Davis does a great job of slowing them down.

Also got swept

Anthony "when healthy" Davis. That's the reason he's not top 5, his health. Same reason why embiid isn't number 1, health

AD is one of the most impactful players in the league and was insane that 2020 chip run

What Celtics playoff hurdle, you mean making it to 3 out of the past 4 conference finals? Not a celtics fan but their only hurdle left is the Chip

Durant cannot be ranked higher than Luka or Steph today, if he plays 75 games them ok. Anyways, numbers 9 sounds stupid, is a top 5

what playoff hurdle exists? the celtics has been more successful in the playoffs than 90% of the teams in the nba 💀

wow you just said exactly wtf jonny said. nice comment dummy

​@xoam Miami, denver ring a bell ?

Beacuse the NBA as a league has become cupcake long time ago and the Europeans is about to pass us

@@jimmykarlsson2567 you don't know ball bro - all the best players in the world are in the nba and there are a lot more people outside of the us than inside it - so it makes sense you get a lot of foreign stars

@@jimmykarlsson2567 Cause the NBA has become AAU ball. And that is what US born players are taught. Foreign born players are taught fundamentals. US players aren't. That's why you see a guy like Jaylen Brown struggling to dribble with his left hand or the countless players who don't know how to run a 3 on 2 fast break. There may be only a handful of players in the league that can throw a fundamentally sound bounce pass.

For years already 😂😂😂

The way is insane. The how clearly is mostly brain. It makes Europeans look smarter, hah. Even a European had to write it for you to read it it :P

KD also got injured off of an unlucky situation that would injure even durable players with Jimmy Butler landing on his leg. AD's injuries usually come from his frailty.

Agreed

Agreed, I think is the only thing I would change in this list. Maybe the 10th spot is debatable.

Butler and role players like Martin, Vincent and Struss. It wasn’t “on the back of Butler”.

Bro Jimmy cannot compare to Dame on offense at all. He has his heat check moments but dame is consistently a top 3-5 shooter in the league

Martin and Vincent@@dynamicflashy

so over the past 20 years Miami are making the finals without a top 10 player in the league dang@@beyondspeaks

@@sulwhale3171 yeah it’s a well constructed team. Jimmy is around 15-20

Assists are handed out like welfare sometimes

Assists have become very inflated for the last 8-9 seasons now. Simply because of spacing and three point shooting, those are easy junk assists to kick out to dudes that are snipers. Ball dominant players can easily inflate their assists with kick out bail out passing. No offense to Westbrook, Harden, Dame, and some other high assists guys, but they are not truly great passers. I think Westbrook is a very good passer and Harden is a very good passer, but I don't think they are anywhere near a Magic Johnson, John Stockton, Steve Nash, or a Jason Kidd. A lot of Harden's and Westbrook's assists are cheap and really not that impressive. And Dame never makes any spectacular assists, just mostly kick outs to three point shooters.

Also I remember back in 2000s unless it was a pass to a layup or a straight jump shot you probably weren’t getting the assist. If a jab step was used or even a quick spin off from the post then that counted as a basketball move and didn’t allow an assist. Now it seems you can pass pump fake side step then shoot and still get an assist for that.

Good Take

Jokic is definitely number one now you’re just hating

He was #1 for a few years but Jokic overtook him last season

@@drewc8052 how am I a hater? I just said jokic is a good choice as the best player I just prefer giannis

@@alexgrissom3513Disagree. Imo Giannis’ defense puts him above Jokic, considering their offensive output is almost identical by advanced stats

@@theflesh9005 jokic just averaged a 30 point triple double and lost 4 games in the entire post season while Giannis got kicked in the first round. Jokic also won 2 MVPs and a FMVP since Giannis won a chip or an MVP.

Excellent comment

I appreciate it!

It’s not respect it’s common sense

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He’s obviously third. No more, no less

He just won a ring and FMVP last season, and he's the 2nd most popular active player. No one was disrespecting him for anything basketball related

He's definitely 6th in reality but it's ok

This list ass🤣🤣🤣

Says who 😂😂😂

Who?

@@jimmykarlsson2567kat said that

@@milanoboy9526 delusional KAT. He ain't changing anything about the game. Steph Curry made the bigs trying play like guards from the perimeter

😂😂😂 hilarious! Dont forget trae and Harden 😂😂😂

No Jimmy is not over Dame. As a Nuggets fan I would fear Dame way more than Jimmy

Fuck yeah he is top 10.

⁠@@puta1082why? Ik butler had an ok finals but there’s no way you’d fear Dame over the guy who sent a healthy bucks home in 5 games averaging 38/6/5

@@SagaTheFunniest Jimmy did not send the Bucks home good team play sent the Bucks home. Dame shoots daggers but just has not had the team/organization needed to win.

​@@puta1082didn't he play with McCollum and Aldridge once?

Was a very strong draft with a few Hall of Famers and several players who carved out solid careers for themselves.

Well, PEDs + genetics + media shilling at every turn can sure make it _seem_ 'amazing', anyway...

not just active but still top 10, that is literally insane

@@031nathan 🤣🤣🤣Only casuals believe that man is a top 10 player in the NBA. Do top 10 players shoot 37% from outside of 3 feet?

@@roboninja3194 The man knows how to hunt for layups and dunks. He saves up for it by not playing defense anymore.

I wish I could find a good NFL content creator like JA is with basketball from a historical teaching standpoint. Oh and ps- I’m only 28 so the history of my favorite sports and how we got to where we are today and who the all time greats are truly fascinate me. Idk if that is something that my age group cares about but it sure fascinates me. I know that Moses Malone was a bad Motherfucker (and a top 15 player all time) because of Johnny Arnett 💪

Say that to philly. Tatum makes em piss their pants

​@@hektor7798lol, not really...

Same. Those 3 are breaking down defenses like no others in todays NBA.

steph probably deserves a spot there as well then

Kai Sotto becomes rank #1 NBA superstar in NBA

Take KD off that list and I agree with you. KD was playing some of the best defense of his career with the Nets this year.

​@@jaketerpening3284KD only swipes the ball on few posessions as a help defender. He is weak with his frame and can get bullied, like he did by Jokic, he asked for switch every time. He played good defense in GSW but there he played way more chilled on offense so he could play more on D. I agree that he is better than all others mentioned but he is very conservative on defense most of the time...

​@@Shiljamannn Jokic was bullying AD man, I am not gonna knock someone's defense too hard because they can't contain Jokic one on one. He was definitely slower on defense with the Suns after coming off the injury and also needing to play 42 minutes a night and carry half the scoring load, but with the Nets this year he was playing great defense both on and off ball.

​@jaketerpening3284 Man I agree Joker #1 but like u said Joker bad defender and people like AD, Embiid and Dwight when he played used to bully him all game. NOT Gonna he much defensive bigs challenge cause Basically everyone a PF

@@Bigedub101 Wait, I did not mean to imply that Jokic is a bad defender. I just think KD is better. But I think KD is a good defender, and should not be grouped with Harden, Curry, Dame and Luka. I don't think Jokic should be grouped with them either though

Jokic blocks a lot of shots and changes alot of opponents shots. He also gets alot of Rebounds which stop the other teams possession and is a great form of defense. Without him denver would give up so many of put backs. He Clears the Back Board better than anyone in the NBA by far and that is a major part of defense. Cause the miss and get the rebound, try to get 25 a game. He's even made Gordon and Porter better at defense He's a top 5 Defender in the NBA. He might be the best defender in the NBA.

My favorite player since 2016. However I criticize him on the defensive end. The guy can play defense better than what he's doing, but he seems to only do it when needed to as oppose to doing it consistently.

Dame is not better than Jimmy or Shai. Full stop!

​@@javigar133I can agree

butler above durant is kinda nuts - ik jimmy just had a crazy playoff run and durant got smacked by jokic but durant was putting up rlly good numbers on a team he had only played 8 games with in the regular season

@@octaveg8056 yeah good take. Im Totally fine with that too.

i think his top 11-20 list at 11:40 counts basically as an honourable mention.

top 10 players of the 80s 90s 00s, and 10s would be more feasible. you'd see a lot of the same names from year to year anyhow

@@themizdma671 true, maybe he could give out the names that pop up more than two times. Then only go into detail on those who made the top 5 per year list once so its not always the same names.

LeBron does not belong on top 10

SOON. Trust me, I want it up in the next week or two at the latest.

If you are going to say that AD is made of paper, then KD is off the list completely. KD is the most paper player in the league right now and he doesn't play defense while AD is top tier on both ends of the floor. Yes, AD is delicate. But Kevin Delicate is a one way player and shouldn't even have been on the list due to his inability to stay on the court. Last year the guy hurt himself jumping in a pre game warm up and missed a dozen games.

Do you care at all for the fact that he's been missing half the games in the last 3 years?? I feel like you gotta factor that in. You average 0 with 0/0/0 splits when you're not playing. lol

​@@jonnyarnettdang 😂

@@jonnyarnettthe best ability is availability. UNLESS IT’S MY FAVORITE PLAYER!

@@jonnyarnettyour argument falls flat when you have lebron and Ad ahead of him who are also injury prone who’s numbers are not as good as Kd’s. You been hatin on Kd since he joined the warriors Jonny it’s okay to admit that my guy!

​@@jonnyarnett So the big issue I have is the way he got injured is not the way AD gets injured. Like this year, Jimmy Butler just fell onto his leg in a pretty brutal fashion. That's gonna take even the most durable player out. It's not like AD who just lands a little funny and is out for 2 weeks. His injuries strike me more as bad luck than necessarily a trend. At the beginning of the year he was carrying a Nets squad that sucked without him (even after picking up Bridges who has been balling out) and playing some of the best defense of his career. If not for the injury and then the team falling apart and him being traded, I think he would have been in MVP talks. The big red flag I have in the rating is that Lebron and AD are ahead of KD and Booker, but did worse against the nuggets, and had a worse regular season record. That should imply that the Suns had better role players (seeing as CP3 was hurt for pretty much the whole series) but that is obviously not true. The Suns had probably the worst depth in the league, where the lakers role players were performing quite well. You can't base your opinion 100% on results, but results can be an indicator that you are not giving guys their due props.

Yeah Jimmy over Damian at this point

No knock on Dame personally, but I would probably take Butler over him.

I thought he was a point guard. Had a great year last year regardless.

You can’t just put him over Lillard based on one great season. Come on now. Lillard has been consistently good forever, this kid is starting to break out. No way he’s over anybody on this list

Ja has zero business being a top 10 player. AD IS consistent. He's a defensive superstar and a flawed offensive player that can occasionally get hot. He doesn't have any truly elite skill on the offensive end that allows him to be consistent, but his impact on the defensive end is always consistent. People just view him the wrong way.

Absolutely no reason Ja should be top 10

Giannis is definetly no.2 and definetly getting better. He has been putting tons of hours in the gym ever since he came into the league and has many things to work on to improve his game. Luka is of course extremely good but not giannis level still.

@lamproskostopoulos365 Idk if you think Giannis is better than Luka. I ain't gonna fight you on it, I just don't see Giannis getting any better hopefully he can prove me wrong. I believe Luka is just as good as jokic offensively, It's jokic defense and consistency that ultimately puts him ahead of Luka. This is also why I have Luka at worse. 3, the only case for Giannis is his defense.

He still ain't winning anything though. Just great numbers

@@jimmykarlsson2567 then luka and dame shouldn’t be here lmao

@@quackmemes5410 wasn't too long ago when Luka lead his team to Western finals

@@jimmykarlsson2567 IDK look at the beginning of the year where he was carrying a Nets squad that sucked without him, then consider that the Suns were the toughest series for the Nuggets despite having no depth and losing their 3rd best player. He didn't win the ring, but they were probably the 2nd best team. It's wild that AD and Bron are both ahead of him and Booker when the had more help, got swept, and are just as injury prone. His injury also wasn't a sign of frailty like AD or Kahwi injuries are either. Jimmy Butler fell on his leg in a really bad way. That's going to take even the most durable player out. I don't knock him as hard for missing games for an injury like that, because it's mostly bad luck rather than an indication of more injuries to come.