Is Karl-Anthony Towns a Top 10 NBA player after 2 seasons?

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I never understood why people had KAT over Embiid, Giannis, or Kristaps if all are healthy.

Those guys are taller than him and more athletic and have skill sets as good.

The defending the rim thing is a major issue. He a great player but he not a generational talent.

What has shocked me the most is how bad his defense is considering he was a really good college defender.


I think it's fair to say Cauley Stein hid a lot of his defensive problems in College, cause it makes no sense how bad he's been on that end of the floor.
 

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I think it's fair to say Cauley Stein hid a lot of his defensive problems in College, cause it makes no sense how bad he's been on that end of the floor.
I guess

But that game versus Norte Dame in the elite 8, he was a terror to score against.

I also think we compared him to Okafor who is a flat or awful defender.
 

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But that game versus Norte Dame in the elite 8, he was a terror to score against.

I also think we compared him to Okafor who is a flat or awful defender.

Great point about him and Okafor, he got the benefit of the doubt as a defender cause we all compared him to Jah coming out of the draft. Meanwhile, Jah was actually a better defender than him last year :dead:
 

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:picard: That cant be true my eyes have been lying to me


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I was very high on KAT coming out of college, even used his defense as a strong point for him going 1, so I feel betrayed by how bad he is on that side of the floor.
 

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I was very high on KAT coming out of college, even used his defense as a strong point for him going 1, so I feel betrayed by how bad he is on that side of the floor.
:scust: Well, he's 22, still has to fill his body out :dame: and he has Thibs and Jimmy here. I think he can turn it around :ehh:
 

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Kristaps rim protection is elite, his defense against mobile smallball 4s is lacking because he really shouldn't be playing PF like that.

Not really good in PnR or post defense, either.

Really, he can't anchor an elite defense just like KAT.
 

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Not really good in PnR or post defense, either.

Really, he can't anchor an elite defense just like KAT.


Disagree there, eventually he's going to make the switch to C, I expect him to be built like Rudy Gobert in the future :hubie:\


The Knicks are better defensively with him on the floor, conversely the Wolves are worse defensively with KAT out there, they aren't that close to one another.
 

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I never understood why people had KAT over Embiid, Giannis, or Kristaps if all are healthy.

Those guys are taller than him and more athletic and have skill sets as good.

The defending the rim thing is a major issue. He a great player but he not a generational talent.

What has shocked me the most is how bad his defense is considering he was a really good college defender.

Because KAT is ungodly polished as an offensive scorer and he was polished as a rookie. He's probably more polished in a half-court then all of them.

Only transcendent talents are Embiid, Giannis, and Porzingis. I think healthy AD is too.
 
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