Wow so you think Chandler. Asik, Ibaka, Garnett, Noah and Duncan (when healthy) are all better than Andrew Bynum? How come.

Have you seen Bynum take control of a team defensively the way all of those guys have? I mean, Bynum is fine, like i said, I have him just a tier below those guys, but he doesn’t dominate on defense like those guys do. There’s a reason why everyone is freaking out over the impact of the addition of Howard to the Lakers’ defense. Partially, yes, it is that Howard is one of the most amazing defenders out there, but also a good chunk is that Bynum is not a dominant defender in the middle so adding a dominant defender greatly improves the Lakers’ D.

The Honorable Cock Jowles:
Tyson Chandler is so obviously our best player that it hurts my brain to think that people think otherwise. There is absolutely no contest between him and Melo.

Agreed..but maybe not our best in the truest sense..but by far our most indispensible.

Brian Cronin: A tier below those guys. I think that the next tier is actually not that big. Guys that can definitely affect a game from a defensive standpoint, but not game-changers like Garnett. Camby likely falls into this category (he used to be a second tier guy but likely not any more).

Wow so you think Chandler. Asik, Ibaka, Garnett, Noah and Duncan (when healthy) are all better than Andrew Bynum? How come.

LeBron has to be on that second tier

Oh, I was just ranking big men defensively. Lebron is so amazing that he can at least passably defend the post, but that’s not his game. He’s a dominant perimeter defender, though. I’d say he’s a top tier perimeter defender (I don’t think there is a single player who dominates the perimeter like Howard dominates the paint, so that top tier has a lot of guys on it, like Allen and Iggy and soon Bradley and Shump).

Wait where does Bynum fall in on your ranking Brian?

A tier below those guys. I think that the next tier is actually not that big. Guys that can definitely affect a game from a defensive standpoint, but not game-changers like Garnett. Camby likely falls into this category (he used to be a second tier guy but likely not any more).

Also, earlier I wasn’t really advocating for WP, but if it is even close to accurate we got a steal with those two and at worse they’re probably average. Its better than basically anyone else available on the market we could have gotten, low risk high reward assuming WP gives us at least some useful information.