I guess it's in the eye of the beholder, I get someone else being higher on them, but I am skeptical. Grant/Ayton both feel like players very open to missing 30+ games a year, have consistently, and I just don't consider them floor raisers. I just don't think Simons is a winning player. Maybe Sharpe and Scoot both really pop this year, but same can be said about George/Kessler/etc.
And the biggest reason is I just think Hardy is a much better coach than Billups. In back to back seasons he's had ragtag "teardowns" playing .500 ball half way through the year. But yeah, you can talk yourself into anything and while they seem clearly worse to me I get the points you can talk yourself into