Sunday night edition of the Dunkdown basketball podcast continuing a tradition now four years in the making the top 10 players in the NBA would do this every March.

We've come a long way from 2014 the first season that I did this one at the top four were LeBron James, Kevin Durant, Chris Paul and Kevin Love at number four.

Steph Curry took the top spot the last two years. There will be a new number one this year, but before we get to that I should remind you that we are sponsored by movement watches MVMT watches.com slash cap space.

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So Danny, let's get started here. I had a little bit of a change in my criteria this year that we talked about when we were at the Warriors Grizzlies game today, but before we recorded.

Basically last year I said it was if you wanted to start a season with a certain player with average talent around him, you know, who would you most want to have.

I have changed that this year in large part because of my number one players performance last year in the playoffs to say if I wanted to win a playoff series with average talent around this player who would be number one pick B and of course my picks to me LeBron James.

What do you think of changing up the criteria a little bit? Is that a more relevant criteria than what we had last year when you're really talking about winning at the highest levels.

I think when you're discussing who the best players are, I find the discussion in terms of absolutes more interesting than best regular season because then consistency and all of that goes into play now.

If I were building a team, of course, you have to it depends on surrounding talent in terms of where you're classifying success.

But I think it's a more it's a more interesting question, but more than it's a more interesting question, I think it's a better way of approximating and calibrating value than the regular season because while durability is wonderful and extremely important.

At the end of the day, while I feel like Mark Jackson, it is really about giving yourself the best chance of winning a championship.

Yeah, just don't go preaching on any street corners and letting people upload it to YouTube though. That would be a little disturbing.

But yeah, I think that's right. And also just the fact that especially for older players, the fact that they can turn it on as LeBron did defensively in the NBA finals last year.

I think matters and it also to me matters a little bit, I think there are certain styles that can be more effective in the playoffs or certain regular season styles that are less effective.

It could be something like you're more easily exploited defensively in teams are really game planning for that.

It could be that you're extremely reliant on falls and whether and kind of BS foul drawing not like I'm going to go hard to the room and get followed trying to legitimately score.

And you know, hard and might fall into that category. Louis Williams would fall into that category that he's obviously not going to appear on this list.

But whether it's because the refs kind of get used to your tricks or just the other team does after playing you for seven games.

They just learn how to not foul as much over the course of the series. I think that that could be a little bit less effective as well.

So that's going to inform I think this analysis a little bit.

The two statistics that I'm going to be quoting here Kevin pelton as usual was kind enough to send me his statistics that he'd create based on the box score warp and what I'm going to be setting to his win percentage.

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