2nd Best Player Ever

[YB85]

Hasn't this been done on Jazzfanz like 8 times??

At least that many times and that many times it stalls after about the 5th round.

 

[Former Member]

I'm in for this. What is it? A foreign players draft? Can someone please state the rules to me? And can we start this asap?

Foreign Player draft would be interesting as well...

I think Dirk would go #1, however, you could make an argument for Nash/Sabonis as well.

 

[YB85]

Foreign Player draft would be interesting as well...

I think Dirk would go #1, however, you could make an argument for Nash/Sabonis as well.

*cough* Hakeem *cough*

 

[franklin]

Going by stats alone is very misguided. If that was the case, then I would have to put Oscar as the best player ever (averaged a triple double as a rookie). Wilt was a physical freak, but his greatness heavily came from the time he was playing in. He was the only 7 footer at the time, playing in a league without a 3 pointer, and more importantly, NO GOAL-TENDING. For those of you who haven't actually watched Wilt play, he would sit under the basket, wait for one of his teammates to shoot the ball, then while it was on its downward arc, grab it in mid-air, and dunk it. I remember seeing one of his teammates shoot a bank shot, but after it hit the backboard, Wilt just grabbed it and put it in, himself. Hell, if I was playing with a bunch of 5th graders on an 8 foot hoop, without goal-tending, I'd average 50 ppg too.

Having said that, Wilt was one of the most physically gifted players of all time. If he had been born into today's age, I'd say he would be something along the lines of a Dwight Howard; a physically gifted beast, but raw offensively.

Not to mention no one was allowed to defend him in the post. That was the softest era of basketball, bar none. It was weaker than Euros sticking there hands up and paralyze everything else from the nipples down. I'd take Shawn Bradley over Wilt.

 

[franklin]

I really hate the guy, but Kobe Bryant has the rings, the stats, and the competitive drive. Plus, he's a defensive glove, a bitch, a rapists, and has hit more big shots than Robert Horry. If he's not second to Jordan, I don't know who is.

Archie, why do you take him over Shaq? Shaq's 2 MVP seasons are arguably the most dominating single seasons ever. He only has one less ring, won 2 for Kobe, & never had that third cog in Miami. Kobe has had complete 5 man teams for rings 4 & 5, & didn't have a respectable Eastern Conference competitor for the 4th one.

 

[Gyp Rosetti]

I don't wanna do a Jazz one. I did it last summer and doing again so soon is not appealing to me. Let's just do a foreign draft.

 

[Former Member]

I don't wanna do a Jazz one. I did it last summer and doing again so soon is not appealing to me. Let's just do a foreign draft.

I thought we were plotting to do a draft involving every nba player EVER (Any generation etc.?)

 

[freakazoid]

I still say Kobe though. Just saying.

Negged. Multiple. Just sayin'.

 

[Hotdog]

Negged. Multiple. Just sayin'.

I'm just messing around. I say Shaq now.

 

[freakazoid]

I'm just messing around. I say Shaq now.

Ok. That's just one then.

 

[Scorpjazz]

Wilt's winning, as he should be. Cry more bitches...

 

[Hotdog]

Wilt's winning, as he should be. Cry more bitches...

Why Wilt?

Hell, why not Wilt first, if you are just going to ignore who he was playing against?


Shouldn't class of competition matter somewhat?

If you say Wilt then you are saying basketball was just as good back then, than it is now.

My eyes tell me players weren't nearly as good as they are now. I don't think Wilt would have averaged his numbers in present day basketball