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Listening to this podcast and Nate has Randle in the tier below Giannis. They don't include guys like KD, Kawhi, AD who are listed at other positions. His partner, Danny Leroux, had Randle high on the tier below. I think their description of Randle's defense was off mark. Danny dinged Randle for his inability to guard on an island, which I don't is the case. Randle does have the ability to guard the perimeter and switch. It's his consistency that is the problem.

The guys they talked about include Lauri, JJJ, Draymond, Pascal, Randle, Zion, Evan Mobley. Zion is a special case. He's clearly above these guys when he plays. But he rarely plays.
They also make a case for Lauri over Randle, which I don't agree with. They say Lauri is more flexible offensively, which is true. But I think Randle clearly has a higher impact on the floor and is better defensively. Dray is weird one and, admittedly, I've never been as high on him as others. Personally, I'd rather have Randle in most situations. But there are teams you can argue that Dray would be a better fit. JJJ and Mobley are clearly the best defenders in this group (sorry, think Dray is overrated), but is their defense good enough to make up for their offense. I wouldn't call either one bad on offense, but they're not spectacular.

They also have Pascal edging Randle. I think this close and could either way honestly. How would you guys rank the league's power forwards?

Bang!

martin wrote:

BigDaddyG wrote:

ToddTT wrote:Julius is #1 if you factor in contracts.

Bang!

Naw, I'd have to say it's Lauri by that metric.

Julius is gonna be going on carrying team to 2 playoffs, just saying…

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Someone like Lebron, for as great as he still is, I would be concerned now about his availability.

Same with Durant.

BigDaddyG wrote:

ramtour420 wrote:When he has the right mindset he is The best power forward in the league. When he gets rattled he is not in the top 10 even. I think that's pretty fair

I'd still Giannis over Julius at his best. But everyone else is fair game.

1) Giannis
2) Durant
3) Davis
4)Zion
5)Randle
6)KAT
7)Sabonis
8)Siakam
9)JJJ
10) Markannen
11) Porzingis
12) George

I suppose it’s worth noting that at least in some stats, they still have higher totals than Randle (for example, Jokic has many more assists in spite of fewer games.

Thinking in terms of all NBA teams, it’d be remiss if the voters didn’t factor games played.

This year, I’d say:
Sabonis and Randle at the top of the list. Sabonis basically is the main hall distributor on the Kings and is a killer rebounder. I think he may already have had a better NBA career than his dad and is picking away at career achievements.

These next guys have missed in the neighborhood of 10-15% of their games.
Markkanen
Siakim

How do you rank Giannis? He has played 55/70 games - basically 21% missed.
But he’s so awesome that his team mostly wins when he plays and you have a clear comparison of how the team does without him.

And Julius Randle is on the verge of becoming only the 6th (to ever do it for us).

1.) Patrick Ewing = 2x. 1989-1990 (2,347 Points) and 1990-1991 (2,154 Points).

2.) Richie Guerin = 1x. 1961-1962 (2,303 Points).

3.) Carmelo Anthony = 1x. 2013-2014 (2,112 Points).

4.) Bob McAdoo = 1x. 1977-78. (2,097 Points).

5.) Bernard King = 1x. 1983-1984 (2,027 Points).

Julius Randle is currently @ 1,812 Points.

With another 10 freaking games to go!

He's currently averaging 25.2 Points Per Game.

If Julius Randle averages his current average of 25.2 Points Per Game? During the next 10 Games?

2,064 (5th All-Time!!!!!)

I'm personally hoping he scores another 301 Points to pass MELO 3rd All-Time @ 30.1 PPG (might just happen).

I wanted to create a thread about this but I don't myself. Nah. Not yet man. Gotta wait until the night he breaks that 2,000+ Point Record (ANY DAY NOW)