Bob Cousy is alive?
The only reason I knew Cousy was alive is because when Kobe passed away, it was said he's only the 3rd NBA MVP to pass away (Kobe, Moses, and Wilt).
Bob Cousy responds to role player JJ Reddikk trashing 1950s NBA players
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The only reason I knew Cousy was alive is because when Kobe passed away, it was said he's only the 3rd NBA MVP to pass away (Kobe, Moses, and Wilt).
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Are YOU slow?
He said this to throw shade AT BOB COUSY. You can't say "of course the superstars are superstars" then ignore HE SAID THIS ABOUT A SUPERSTAR
ndthentherewasx
El Capitan
Had their moments in their time, what else could they have done
These type discussions are bullshyt. Straight up bullshyt.
Wtf anyone from the past supposed to do but take care if what's in front of them
Dudes from now going to get shytted on 20, 30 yrs from now too.
It's all noise : eye roll:
These type discussions are bullshyt. Straight up bullshyt.
Wtf anyone from the past supposed to do but take care if what's in front of them
Dudes from now going to get shytted on 20, 30 yrs from now too.
It's all noise : eye roll:
ndthentherewasx
El Capitan
All these dudes are trolls now
Yap yap yap , all they do fir entertainment purposes
That's not a comparison at all.
Willie Mays and Jim Brown were dominant when baseball and football were well-established for decades, the most popular sports in the country, and loaded with Black athletes.
Cousy entered the league when the NBA wasn't even 5 years old yet, when basketball wasn't yet a popular or mainstream sport in America, and there was a quota on Black folk per team. Cousy's rookie year was the same year the first black player was allowed to play, by the time he retired I'm still not sure there were any teams with more than 3 black players on them (possibly 4).
Hell nah. During Wilt's 50ppg season there were only like 5 Black guys over 6'9" in the entire NBA. I think Russell might have been the only rotation Celtic over 6'5" and Russell himself wasn't even 6'10". And it's not like that's because the game was played outside or shooters were great - there wasn't even a 3pt line, the key was only 12 feet across, and elite guards like Bob Cousy could barely make 36-37% of their shots.
Wilt got to play in a big man's game where he didn't even need to be outside on either end, and he TOWERED over the other big men.
That's not true. Baseball and football were huge sports that played more than enough to live on in the 1950s. Basketball was a brand new fringe sport that wasn't nearly as popular.
How do you know they wouldn't be?
The most athletic person out of a pool of a billion is going to be more athletic than the most athletic person out of a pool of 10 million no matter what era they play in.
Back in that day only a few athletes played basketball - it's nothing like this era where basketball is a popular sport in the USA and across the world too.
It's like saying the best players in Maine would be Hall of Famers if they had been born in New York. Nah, they probably wouldn't even have made the team. They should just thank fate that they were born big fish in a little pond.
Reddikk has the right to say what he wants, that doesn't change the fact that the remarks were disrespectful to the people who paved the way for him to become a millionaire today.The OG thread on this went the totally opposite way, with a lot of the thread actually commending JJ for his rebuttal, only cementing the fact a lot of you cats read the first few replies, take note of what post got the most daps, and run with it.
JJ Reddikk is bringing a different energy to First Take
66 daps and 95% of the thread going at old, out of touch white men and harping on evolution, but a couple weeks later, we're clutching pearls.
You had starters in the league back then that could only go right and dribbled while looking down at the basketball. The game evolves. Thats a fact, but I understand why some would prefer to focus on respect instead.
And discrediting an ex NBA professional ballplayer on the basis of him not being a superstar in the NBA while you log on to TheColi and beat your chest in barbershops when you weren't even good enough to share the same court with JJ during an open run at a YMCA will never not be hilarity. Yeah, bro. He's unqualified because he only had a 10+ year career in the National Basketball Association. You're qualified because you played JV in 11th grade and are really good at 2K. Some of you will be discussing the intangibles on what makes an all time player better than the next and claiming you know basketball, but JJ better stay in his lane. Yall are out of control.
They wouldn't lock shyt up, they played ass defense back then. Bill Russell transformed the game just by giving defensive effort. On the perimeter they rarely pressured guys and didn't know shyt as basic as "shade to their right if they're right-handed and don't know how to go left". I can't remember his name but I remember there was this one player in the early 1970s who caused havoc just because he was one of the first guys to really bulldog a ballhandler and pressure effectively.
NormanConnors
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PortCityProphet
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Dominant players always make their competition look like they dont belong no matter what era they're in is my point. Thats why they're the ummm....greatest
A ridiculous false equivalency.
The entire highlight videos you posted were a single game for Wilt, and he could do it with half the work effort. No one watches Kobe, Shaq, LeBron do that shyt and thinks it looks "effortless". The modern highlight videos you posted are basketball players at the very peak of their game, whereas the Wilt highlight video you're comparing it to was just a guy running around doing whatever he wanted. Any modern big man with hops could have made 90% of the plays that Wilt made in that video against that tissue-paper level resistance.
