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Dunc'd On Basketball NBA Podcast

Power Forward Rankings 2019

Dunc'd On Basketball NBA Podcast

Nate Duncan

Sports

4.52.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2019

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Time to rank our power forwards, with some of our most significant disagreements so far. We struggle with where to rank Kevin Love, Paul Millsap, Tobias Harris, Ben Simmons (we explain why he's a power forward in our rankings), plus young studs like...

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0:00.0

Gonna catch up on some rankings here. So let's do power forwards and where we want to start a chorus is

0:06.2

What is a power forward and our general criteria has been that if you are a this would be a criteria and since it's only one if you

0:15.0

Would be a power forward on most teams in the league

0:18.1

Maybe not necessarily where you've been playing this year or what you're playing for your current team that makes you a power forward

0:24.5

And that will come into play for a few guys here

0:28.6

Generally the lines blur a little bit more between power forwards and centers then small forwards and power forwards because I think we kind of

0:36.4

Default towards making guys small for us because there's such a girth of small forwards

0:40.1

But we'll talk about specific guys as we get there

0:43.1

Why we decided to make them power forwards to me if you can't shoot threes or at least be very capable out to shooting lawn twos

0:51.3

You're probably a center unless you know, you're just too small to guard centers or you play for Tom Thibido

0:57.2

RIP and you also probably need to be able to guard some on the perimeter have some switchability

1:03.5

It's a sliding skill for a lot of things you handle the ball a little bit more than a center would you're more likely to be a power forward

1:10.0

If you can put the ball on the floor attacking it close out

1:13.3

Where are you standing on offense?

1:15.1

How would your offense look if you put a center next to you?

1:19.2

Those are a lot of the factors that we consider yeah, and

1:23.4

For the small forward power forward ones you probably heard about that in the podcast

1:27.9

We did if you haven't you can listen to it there

1:29.7

But really for me there are two distinctions one is if you absolutely cannot defend the average

1:36.4

Opposing small forward like Denola Galenari is a good example here like Galenari is a forward because he's not really a three

1:42.2

So I think that's a distinction to make and then also one of the

1:46.0

Decisions we made in the previous one was to put Ben Simmons as a power forward

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