I’ll start. Lowest IQ, Jordan Poole. He constantly takes horrible shots. Has bad clock awareness. Constantly over dribbling resulting in him slipping and falling on the floor.
Highest IQ, Lebron James. Anyone with basketball knowledge should already know this. He is a basketball savant. A prolific passer. See’s the whole floor and gets everyone involved. And he’s done this for over 20 years!
Highest: Wemby
Lowest: Lebron
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Hate the low IQ shit. If Jordan Poole is the lowest IQ guy in the league we’re in a great spot and everyone knows how to play basketball.
I mean pretty much everybody in the NBA knows how to play basketball. It’s not easy to find a worse on court decision maker then Poole though lol
It’s extremely easy. Guys are on the edge of the league can’t find any feel for the game and your telling me a guy like Poole is low IQ? It pisses me off cause saying he’s the lowest IQ guy in the league is a stupider idea than whatever they think he is.
Have you watched his play from last year? I mean he literally played with Steph Curry, Klay and Draymond, one of the best trio of all time and he made heaps of bad decisions. The guy just likes to over dribble and overestimate his shooting ability.
I could name a dozen players with worse game IQ than Poole… Kevin Knox, Josh Smith, Cam Thomas, KPJ…
During that 2022 playoff run, there were a few minutes where Poole was the highest IQ guy on the floor. He’s been poor since that championship but calling him the lowest iq guy ever is just a troll take
Lowest IQ was a core player on a championship team?
There has gotta be a better example
Yeah poor choice, people exaggerate his play because it’s the low hanging fruit. He hasn’t even shown so far poor IQ. That Deni footage was stupid as well, wasn’t even an open pass and Poole made the shot and that blew up like he was being selfish.
It’s probably Jokic for highest. LeBron is close, though. I don’t know who the lowest is, probably some dude on some bench somewhere.
It’s LeBron. You fans have been mindwarped by LeBron’s latter years. He literally knows full playbooks of teams. Jokic couldn’t give two fucks.
Lol you actually couldn’t be more wrong here, “picking up plays easily” is something Jokic called one of his biggest strengths in this Serbian interview original source here at 10:52
“I think it’s a big advantage I have. In a recent conversation I had with Gregg Popovich, I told him I could play for them since I know all their plays. I even know the signs he throws. I think it can really help a player to know what to expect. That has stayed with me since Europe, where our coaches say: ‘This is where we stop their play with a double or deny them.’ It really helps me and makes my job easier offensively and defensively."
Further on in that interview at 13:01
Interviewer - "Does it happen sometimes that you know all of the plays of opposing teams? I’m talking about the top teams not the average teams, just the big games. Do you know all of their plays?
Jokic - "Well maybe for the teams we play often, for example Portland. Now that they have changed their coach we see a big change in their game. They have changed their defence, implementing some zone defence. They have bought in Simons as a second, and sometimes the first option. That shows… Sorry he is the second or third option after Grant. However that shows the difference a coach can make in a team. They’ve had Terry Stotts for five years. I knew the plays then.
Interviewer - “As the back of the hand?”
Jokic - "You play with someone four times a year, twice during preseason, then two times in the playoffs. It’s nearly impossible to forget. Before each game we go through five or six plays, maybe through two or three special situations. I do remember them sometimes. During time-outs I look at what their coach is telling them, showing them. That’s something I like to do. And why not if I can realise what they are going to do.
Then the discuss the golden state lob pass incident and he says he recognised the layout from two months previous. But overall Jokic really is good at picking up plays.
Lowest: Will Barton
Highest: Jokic
There are so many high IQ players out there, it is very hard to pick just one. Bron is of course right at the top amongst those players.
Lowest IQ? Wiseman to me is one of them and Ivey isn’t great. I don’t feel Sharpe is especially high IQ yet. But there aren’t too many just dirt poor IQ guys in the league these days…you can’t survive in this era that way. The days of the athletic no-skill guy are basically over. You’re a liability on the floor, offensively in particular, if you’re unable to process within a team context quickly enough and make good reads and decisions.
Low: Dillon brooks. No self awareness and sees himself as much better than he is on both sides of the floor. Constantly taking on defensive challenges that are above his pay grade and on the other floor has never seen a shot he doesn’t like. He’s not that guy but don’t tell him that.
High: Jokic. He’s not one to force anything ever. The game comes to him like the dinner bells ringing and moms making meatloaf. That boy good.
Highest IQ among non-star players: Derrick White. Lowest IQ among star players: that’s a hard one, unless you consider Ben Simmons a star. Maybe
Highest IQ: Jason Kidd
Lowest IQ: JR Smith when he’s stoned out of his mind
This sub’s obsession with “bball IQ” is really weird. There are multiple posts every day about it.
Ja Morant has pretty low IQ, not sure if he’s the lowest. Especially in the playoffs, when he’s injured and comes back and still trying to jump over people again.
Gotta throw in CP3 for High IQ
Karl-Anthony Towns has one of the lowest Basketball IQs that I’ve ever seen.
Its Joker. But Lebron a close second.
Low: Julius Randle
Lowe: Ayton
Lowes: KAT
Lowest: Russell Westbrook