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Originally Posted by Lancet71
A layup for a 7 footer is nothing and did you ever see his hook shot? One of the ugliest things that I had ever seen and it wasn't that effective. If you want to see a hook shot check out Kareem or Olajuwon some time.
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Seen em. Not the point.
Point is, he doesn't just dunk, yet he makes plenty of baskets.
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Originally Posted by Lancet71
I don't mind him dunking and he was very athletic but don't put him up there as one of the best. If it was based on his defense, I would say so; but how hard is it for a guy who outweighs just about everyone and is about the same height or taller to dunk? Come on!
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No one said he's the BEST. He was the most DOMINANT when he played (after MJ left)
Dominant means, you can throw every guy (or two) in the league at him and they won't stop what he wants to do.
Hard to come up with a list of players who can be that effective.
And height/weight definitely help, but don't count him out based on that.
Where's Eddy Curry these days?
Is Big Baby leading the league in anything?
Has Dwight Howard won any titles yet?
Ilgauskas as 7'3 didn't exactly dunk his way to 30 PPG did he? Or 10 RPG?
Is Hasheem Thabeet playing more than 10 minutes per game yet?
Shaq had a great Bigman body. But he also used it well too. He knew what his strengths were and how to use them. How many 7 footers have come and gone and whose names mean nothing to your average NBA fan?
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Originally Posted by Bobby BK
Chamberlain didn't play against the quality of competition that Shaq did. He was a Pre-Erving-Era player, which is to say, like a baseball player during Ty Cobb's day.
He wouldn't have scored 100 points against a modern team. .
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I agree with this. Shaq played in a time with numerous amount of great bigmen, and teams with good combinations of bigmen
Ewing-Oakley Knicks
Webber-Divac Kings (screwjob I know, but still good battles)
Arvydas-Wallace Blazers
Mourning Heat
Olajuwon Rockets
Robinson-Duncan Spurs
Dikembe multiple teams
Then you had a decent 7 footer on most teams or just good bigman defenders.
Wilt didn't have that kind of competition nightly. No decent bigmen to at least put a body on him. If he did, he'd still be great, just not the way he was. And I disagree with scoring 100 in the modern era. I think it can be done today. It'd have to be a scoring machine though and possibly OT. Today isn't the easiest era to do it in, but it also isn't the hardest.
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