Who is the best defender that you've watched?

[TheMan]

Pip, Rodman, TimmyD, Hakeem, KG, GP, BBowen, TAllen, MJ, BWallace, DRob, Mourning, KLeonard...

[hateraid]

Mutombo over Hakeem?!

Yes in terms of impact. Hakeem was a good one on one and help defender but Mutombo was an eraser and pretty much erased anything in the paint.

[3ba11]

Camby was a monster

[Prometheus]

Kevin Garnett

[Axe]

Camby was a monster

Zach randolph you mean.

[plowking]

Kawhi and Pippen on the perimeter.

Hakeem and Ben Wallace inside.

[HoopsNY]

Yes in terms of impact. Hakeem was a good one on one and help defender but Mutombo was an eraser and pretty much erased anything in the paint.

Curious to hear more about this. I think you're older than me, so you probably saw Hakeem in the mid to late 80s. I saw Mutombo and Hakeem in the 90s. Yes, Mutombo was a prolific shot blocker and did erase anything from the paint, but so did Hakeem. So what exactly made Mutombo more impactful?

[Jasper]

Holiday , Alvin Roberston
MJ , Payton

Pip , hondo
rodman , Giannis
Akeem , duncan

super difficult to pick top tier , there are more, all so close to elite

[FKAri]

Holiday , Alvin Roberston
MJ , Payton

Pip , hondo
rodman , Giannis
Akeem , duncan

super difficult to pick top tier , there are more, all so close to elite

Oh there's an old school name. Did you ever watch Michael Ray Richardson (pre cocaine)?

[Gougou]

Hmm lots of good defensive players, if I go the best ones...

Center PF - AD, KG, Ben Wallace, Serge Ibaka, Dwight Howard.

SF - Kawhi (He was the reason why 2014 finals Wade is doing terribly)

[Overdrive]

Not mentioned yet AK47 and Tayshaun.

[Im Still Ballin]

A lot of Kawhi mentions. He really was a menace, wasn't he?

[Johnny32]

12 years old confirmed

i'm the only one bringing facts to this shitopic.

Ultra-aggressive help defense is really hard work. Replay that clip and watch how far DeRozan's ghost has to move as the Knicks swing the ball. That's brutal, and it's not a coincidence that the only team that consistently mirrors the help defense of its ghosts is Miami, Rucker says. The Heat have three of the best wing defenders in the league in Shane Battier, LeBron James, and Dwyane Wade, and the latter two are among the NBA's most gifted pure athletes. James can mimic DeRozan's hyperactive ghost in a way no other player can, Rucker says. "LeBron basically messes up the system and the ghosts," Rucker says. "He does things that are just unsustainable for most players."

keep crying, fat tranny

[Jasper]

Oh there's an old school name. Did you ever watch Michael Ray Richardson (pre cocaine)?

like I said , it could appear only a handful of players ... but they didn't get to the NBA just shooting the rock .. lol

[paksat]

ben wallace