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Message: [QUOTE="diggerfoot, post: 4852901, member: 1673"] Best players begs the question of best at what? Guards will not be best at the same things as posts. Sometimes productivity conflicts with efficiency, or making teammates better. Given that the OP focused on Bueckers and provided the three point shooting percentages, I am treating best in terms of efficiency. This is important to me personally because I like to watch beautiful basketball as much as winning basketball. Efficiency metrics are the ones closest to reflecting the beauty of basketball, players making and executing good decisions. While I expect many to disagree, those players best at efficiency are the best players I want to watch. Bueckers is the most efficient out of the players presented by the OP. Some might point to the higher overall percentages of Charles and Collier, but three point efficiency surpasses two points in eFG%. Also, for a guard the efficiency of A/T is just as important for watching beautiful basketball. I suspect Bueckers is more efficient than the other guards (including Bird) are at passing, or the posts are at rebounding, The two players I wonder about in terms of their metrics are Jefferson and T. Williams. Jefferson might have better guard statistics for her career, I don’t know. The lack of 3-point shooting by T. Williams might be more than compensated by her record setting 70%+ overall. She was also efficient at rebounding, with the putbacks contributing to her stratospheric shooting percentage. I still give the edge to Bueckers because 1) her freshman starting point for efficiency started so high and 2) she currently is trending upwards. [/QUOTE]

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