Loved his length and his penetration.
Could've been a top 75 player ever had he not had bad knees
Could've been a top 75 player ever had he not had bad knees
I know we love penny hardaway but........
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I once saw him dunk from half court
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he may not have ended up kobe/lebron great, but he would have been great. that last year with shaq he shot 57.3 pct from 2 pt land, theres a very short list of perimeter players who have shot a pct that high from 2 while avg 20+ ppg.
the 1997 1st round series vs the 61 win heat was the last glimpse of what could have been. the series went to a deciding game, penny and pf derek strong started all 5 games, 5 other players had starts in that series and the highest shooting pct from any of them for the series was 39.1%. 31ppg 6reb 3.4ast 2.4stl 1.4blk 46.8 fg% 36.7 3pt%. only had 9 turnovers in the series. again probably another short list of guys who averaged over 30ppg in a playoff series with less than 2 turnovers per game.
the 1997 1st round series vs the 61 win heat was the last glimpse of what could have been. the series went to a deciding game, penny and pf derek strong started all 5 games, 5 other players had starts in that series and the highest shooting pct from any of them for the series was 39.1%. 31ppg 6reb 3.4ast 2.4stl 1.4blk 46.8 fg% 36.7 3pt%. only had 9 turnovers in the series. again probably another short list of guys who averaged over 30ppg in a playoff series with less than 2 turnovers per game.
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The criteria for assists has relaxed greatly.
Edit- the first response was "he was a point guard"
So he was a point guard who couldn't average more than 7 assist
Thread and he deferred to shaq with no problem. He had some out of this world numbers when shaq was out of the lineup and the team was still ballin.
I believ that was the series they were down 0-2 and penny dropped back to back 40 point games to send it to a game 5, they lost but he still had 30+.
Also in his two prime seasons he was the only player to average 20+ 5+ asst and over 50% from the field. He also averaged 25, 8, 5 while shooting 50% in the finals series against the Rockets.
This is all in his first 3-4 seasons in the league.
I meant saying as of today he's a top 10 player ever or something.
I can always tell who didn't pay attention to Penny when they bring up his averages and say it wasn't anything impressive. Your eyes would tell you anything but. He is arguably the best inside scorer that has ever played the position, 57% from 2 is what he shot in his best campaign. That's mindblowing
Of course his volume would be relatively low playing next to Shaq, but what happened in '96 when Shaq got hurt and missed the first 22 games of the season?
-Penny drops 26/5/7 on 50% (62% TS) maintaining his efficiency while increasing his volume
-Magic have a top 5 offense WITHOUT Shaq
-Magic go 17-5
The great tragedy is that he was never able to follow up this season b/c of the injuries that would follow in '97. But for a short window in that postseason even despite all the ailments, he drops b2b 40 point games against the #1 ranked defense Miami Heat
and averages 31 for the series. There is no doubt in my mind he would've been an all time great with better health. On par with Kobe and Jordan? Probably not, but one of the greats nevertheless. There's no room for calling him overrated when most don't fully understand how good he actually was
Of course his volume would be relatively low playing next to Shaq, but what happened in '96 when Shaq got hurt and missed the first 22 games of the season?
-Penny drops 26/5/7 on 50% (62% TS) maintaining his efficiency while increasing his volume
-Magic have a top 5 offense WITHOUT Shaq
-Magic go 17-5
The great tragedy is that he was never able to follow up this season b/c of the injuries that would follow in '97. But for a short window in that postseason even despite all the ailments, he drops b2b 40 point games against the #1 ranked defense Miami Heat
and averages 31 for the series. There is no doubt in my mind he would've been an all time great with better health. On par with Kobe and Jordan? Probably not, but one of the greats nevertheless. There's no room for calling him overrated when most don't fully understand how good he actually was
He makes awful threads like this all the time.
