Where would Giannis rank after championship?

Where would Giannis rank All-Time?

  • Top 10

    Votes: 15 10.1%
  • Top 20

    Votes: 55 37.2%
  • Top 30

    Votes: 46 31.1%
  • Top 40

    Votes: 11 7.4%
  • Top 50

    Votes: 21 14.2%

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The Hawks were a lower level conference finals team that were already dealing with injuries to Bogdan and Hunter. They had no business being competitive with the Bucks and yet they were when Giannis was healthy. The series would have likely went 6 or 7 games if both Trae and Giannis didn’t suffer injuries.

The Nets were not built to withstand injuries to their stars. They were a team that went all in on being the greatest offense in NBA history by trading away their depth for a top 10 player. To suggest that they were a championship level team without Kyrie and Harden is just disingenuous.. I mean Blake Griffin was getting the bulk of their center minutes and the Bucks still struggled to score efficiently for most of the series. The Bucks looked like the inferior team when Kyrie was healthy and Harden was out and they struggled to beat the Nets when both Kyrie and Harden were injured.

If all things are equal, the Bucks are like the 4th or 5th best team in the league. Neither the Bucks nor the Suns should be punished for making the finals but these are important distinctions to make when discussing all-time rankings.
Everyone is dealing with injuries. Giannis himself is injured now, the Bucks haven't had Donte DiVincenzo all playoffs. I don't know why you think think they had no business being competitive with the Hawks. It's like if series aren't straight up sweeps y'all not satisifed that's not how the playoffs works. I saw the lowly Hawks and Cavs take a 66 win Celtics team to 7 games in '08, I then saw the Celtics beat the Lakers in 6 games and whip them by 40 to close out. It's the playoffs it's about match ups, adjustments, execution. How close was this Hawks series? The Bucks won the series with a double digit margin of victory. The Hawks stole the games they won with a 48 piece from Trae in the first game and a throwback Lou Will performance in that game Giannis got hurt. Also, all this downplaying of the Hawks when they have been one of the hottest teams in basketball since hiring Nate McMillian and they spent a bunch of $ this season bolstering the roster with firepower.

The Nets big man rotation was their weakness all year. They still had depth between Harris, Brown, Griffin, Green, Shamet. Griffin at the 5 was their advantage the Nets stayed exploiting Lopez with small ball line-ups and abusing him in P&R. The Nets wouldn't be able to do that with DeAndre Jordan playing. It's a luxury to have a guy like Blake Griffin as a role player. The smaller line-ups made them more switchable and allowed them to defend better too. It was by no means a easy series because again Durant was playing the best basketball of his career. I had the Nets winning it all healthy but they weren't healthy and might never be. I don't penalize Giannis for this he did what he was supposed to and matched the play of Durant, who is a top 15'er himself in a great series. Kyrie and Harden also weren't out all series lol. Kyrie played the first 3.5 games and Harden was around 60% the final two. In that final game Harden choked like he always does with wide open bricks and dumb ass, low I.Q. TO's. If Kyrie and Harden were fully healthy and Giannis lost y'all would hold that against him even though the Nets are stacked. So tell me how that work?

I also don't believe the Suns and Bucks are just the 4th or 5th best teams in the league. They too have had injuries these playoffs and throughout the year they were two of the best teams in the game. I had the Suns as the West's best team coming into the playoffs and the Bucks as the East's second best team. The Jrue and CP3 pick ups were big for both teams, and they have two of the most complete, foul proof rosters in the game. Again it doesn't seem like y'all want parity or non-sexy names/markets in the Finals. That same energy also isn't being kept when it come to other teams and players Finals runs in history.
 
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How is he top 15,20, 25 all time when he's not even top 5 currently active players undisputably and u could argue another 3 guys over him for the playoffs :dwillhuh:

Thecoli dikkriding for Giannis is disgusting

Time after time We got NBA players and analysts looking at this dude game and being...:francis::scust::hubie:

Did bearing the corpse of the Nets and having Middleton have 2 of the GOAT quarters in NBA history boost this man up
nikkas really in love with this man. Just off his free throws and complete lack of offensive game outside of the paint he is no where near the discussion. The Coli love doing the most.
 

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Top 15 off his resume. :yeshrug:

There legitimately aren't that many people who can say shyt about his resume NOW. Skill and a go to bag be damned, he has a HoF accolade sheet and he's only 26. A ring would immediately put him in a lot of discussions of "Was he one of the best ever at his position?", and y'all know it's coming.
 

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How is he top 15,20, 25 all time when he's not even top 5 currently active players undisputably and u could argue another 3 guys over him for the playoffs :dwillhuh:

Thecoli dikkriding for Giannis is disgusting

Time after time We got NBA players and analysts looking at this dude game and being...:francis::scust::hubie:

Did bearing the corpse of the Nets and having Middleton have 2 of the GOAT quarters in NBA history boost this man up

I'm on the fence on this argument but there are multiple people that didn't include him as a top ten player this year. I honestly disagree with that sentiment now(being that this was when they were projected to lose, and we know how in-the-moment everyone is :francis: ) but I personally listed close to thirty people better or close off the top of my head.
 

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nikkas really in love with this man. Just off his free throws and complete lack of offensive game outside of the paint he is no where near the discussion. The Coli love doing the most.
Giannis is a big man.

Wilt and Shaq couldn't shoot FT's either, they was worse than Giannis who isn't even among the worst ever % wise.

Giannis is also better than them outside the paint. :heh:

The Coli hates Giannis. :mjlol:
 

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How is he top 15,20, 25 all time when he's not even top 5 currently active players undisputably and u could argue another 3 guys over him for the playoffs :dwillhuh:

Thecoli dikkriding for Giannis is disgusting

Time after time We got NBA players and analysts looking at this dude game and being...:francis::scust::hubie:

Did bearing the corpse of the Nets and having Middleton have 2 of the GOAT quarters in NBA history boost this man up
There's three guys that are indisputably better than him (KD, Bron, and Steph) and they're top 15 all-time, with one of them being in the top 3.

And Giannis still had room to get better, while the other three guys are either out of their primes, or at the tail-end of it.

Giannis could potentially wind up with 4-5 MVPs, multiple rings, multiple DPOYs, and all of that on high efficiency.
 

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I'd say top 30. The resume & numbers say top 20 but can I really say he's top 20 ever when you factor in the eye test, nah tbh. He's on path to easily be top 15 though no question. I still cannot unquestionably say he's better than Anthony Davis yet.
Giannis is more durable and a better passer than Davis and he consistently provides unstoppable rim pressure. That allows him to carry teams further as team's best player and his resume as that is greater.

Davis himself will likely finish in the top 20 around even above KG when it's all over and also already has a HoF resume. :manny:
 

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He has a great resume but I don't like to rank players while they are in the peak of their prime the Bucks still need to win.
 
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Man idk the answer to this question but props to Giannis. As many all time ranking places as you take away from KD for always looking for a super team, you should add that many to giannis for staying in Milwaukee in this era.
 
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