Doesn't matter after you factor in the dominance of Drummond. He is the best player on the planet and Asik is just happy to be playing in his galaxy.
I'd say asik is a top five Defensive center. Probably top three when it comes to defending the pick and roll. This year is the guy's first as a starter and he has already proven to be a rebounding machine. After another offseason working with K-mac Omer can become even better.
Tier 1: Duncan, Howard -Impact on both offensive and defensive ends. Tier 2: Jefferson, Bosh, Gasol, Garnett Tier 3: Gortat, Asik, Chandler, Vucevic, Noah, Cousins, Horford, Hibbert, Lopez, Monroe, Pekovic Tier 4: Sanders, Jordan, Varejao, Kaman, Bogut (2013), Okafor, Valanciunas, Drummond, Hickson etc. Phew...
every time those "better" centers go up against asik, they end up hammered with a lower than usual shooting percentage. (i'm excluding timmy and the diva). Asik is the reason we don't get out rebounded. I remember last season, before camby showed up, we'd get abused on the glass.
I don't think he's top ten. These guys are better RIGHT NOW. Chris Bosh Tyson Chandler DeMarcus Cousins Marc Gasol JJ Hickson Dwight Howard Al Jefferson Brook Lopez Greg Monroe Joakim Noah After that, the play pool is fairly muddled and its hard to really rank them. You've got injury-prone guys (Varejao, Nene), former all-stars having an off year (Horford, Hibbert), athletic big men (Jordan, McGee), defensive beasts (Asik, Sanders) young men beginning to take off (Drummond, Vucevic) and guys who're overlooked (Robin Lopez, Pekovic). So its hard to really pinpoint where Asik would be in a ranking system. But I agree with rogower that we have Asik on a great deal and he has the potential to improve his offensive game. So I'm very happy with him.
Vucevic, Varejao, and Jordan are all not better than Asik. Not even close. Hibbert is also having a worse season than Asik.
Asik falls in the 7-14 range, where there's a whole herd of inconsistent players who may or may not excel on any given night... Objectively...Asik falls somewhere right after Gortat and Pekovic....
Deandre Jordan? Are you kidding me? How old are you, kid? Pekovic??? OH MY GOD this kid! LMAO The only centers I put over Omer Asik are Howard, Bynum, Greg Monre, Roy Hibbert and Tyson Chandler. You need a slap in the face.
How many times do I have to say this? I was just naming some centers so that you guys didn't have to go look up all the centers in the league. That wasn't a list of centers that I'd put over Asik. Secondly, you wouldn't put Marc Gasol over Asik? Not Noah? Duncan? Brook Lopez? Al Jefferson? But you put Hibbert over him? You are the one who needs a slap in the face.