Kelly Dwyer's Player Rankings:

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i don't know, kelly has been a pretty vocal yao supporter from what i've read in his articles. i'm guessing if yao came back tomorrow he'd have him back in the top 10 the following week.

 

Right, I mean who wouldn't take Manu over T-mac.


:tard:

 

I haven't read SI in over 10 years; not even on my radar.

Go ahead and blast me but Nash should be #1 or #2. No way he is behind Wade, TD and Gilbert. I also don't know if TD belongs in the top 5 right now.

 

Maybe this is for active players. There's no doubt that Kelly would put Yao in had he been playing.

 

Man, I wish that guy posted here, so we could give him a piece of our minds...

 

There are no injured players on the list. To name a few injuries that would be on list if they were playing... Michael Redd, Chauncey Billups, & Rashard Lewis.

 

no way he's behind the guy who basically single-handedly won the last title, is leading the league in PER this season, is putting up crazy stats, and who just led miami to a 4 game win streak in the first 4 games since coming back from his injury? yes, how crazy.

edit: in miami's last 11 games, wade missed 5 of them (well he played 6 minutes in one of them) and miami went 0-5 and he played in 6 of them and miami went 6-0. going back 17 games, he's missed 7 of them and they went 0-7 and played in 10 and they went 9-1. i'm thinking he's pretty good.

they're both ahead of him in PER right now (TD is #4 and agent 0 is #8 while nash is #12) and TD is having a pretty damn efficient and good season (and is still a hoss in the playoffs if last year's dallas series is any indication). maybe they'd like to see what it's like to never face a double team.

 

Damn, that's a Francis-esque accomplishment!

 

Manu, per 40: 23.6 ppg, 61% TS%, 6.5 reb, 3.2 turns, 4.9 apg, 2.9 steals. 24.8 PER
T-Mac, per 40: 24.7 ppg, 50% TS%, 6.1 reb, 3.5 turns, 7 apg, 1.2 steals. 20.8 PER.

And what is he, like, a spot ahead of Tracy?

Seriously, and I'm not saying this to avoid anything (I've been saying it since I started these things) ... you could switch any of those players around, and wouldn't get an argument with me. Switch the 1-3s, the 4-9s, the 10-16s, and the 17-20+s; I don't mind. Arbitrary, silly, rankings.

 

Pity, there's some good stuff in the magazine and on the site. Paul Forrester probably has the best around the NBA column on any major site, Ian Thomsen does great work with the mag, and Jack McCallum's gamers are still the best in the biz. And I point out some things in my Tuesday notes column that I haven't seen any other scribe (blog/site/newspaper/mag/whatever) point out.

 

i read your stuff. supporting fellow clutchfans.

 

I mean, the lot of it is usually crap, but I do get some good puns in there.

Although now I have to scrap my "Steve Blake is hurting the game and should be banned using some planted evidance" columns.

 

Kelly, is your weekly ranking about how good a player is NOW, or about how good he is over the season to date? If it's the latter, I agree that T-Mac shouldn't be very high because of his poor play earlier. But then why do you exclude injured players who have played significant amount before injury? If it is about NOW, then he should be top 10.

 

Yeah, I noticed Steve Blake making you look really bad on the worst-player-in-the-league thing.

 

You know KD, like A-3PO I don't subscribe to SI. You might just convince me otherwise though! As tinman says, gotta support fellow clutchfans!

 

Why wouldn't anyone subscribe to SI? It has excellent weekly articles that are well written, well thoughout pieces.

 

Because my wife would string me up for getting the swimsuit issue???

 

Yeah but Manu is a whiny b****.

Thats the whole point.


Same with Dirk.


If I was ranking players I'd have Vitaly Potapenko ahead of Dirk just to piss off mavs fans.


This is why I'm not the one ranking players