Why Moses Malone doesnt get the respect he should?

[Mic-Nificent]

Wait, did somebody just call Wilt a "Ball stopper"?

 

[TheNig]

and im trying to hard

yeah dawg you are. you came in attacking the TS and all he was tryna do was figure out why Moses wasnt talked about like the rest.

 

[mastermind]

dont care... he was a ball stopper. period. thats why he lost.


i'm sorry but i dont put Wilt on the pedestal like we do the rest of the Centers. he and Shaq would be at the bottom of my top 5.

nah, I would say the Celtics had 10 HOFers and one of the 5 GOAT coaches in North American sports while Wilt's teams didnt in Philly.

I get some of the criticism, but you doing too much.

 

[TheNig]

Wait, did somebody just call Wilt a "Ball stopper"?

no... he was the ultimate ball stopper.



i'm not saying he wasnt great. he was extremely athletic for someone his size and actually had a great touch. but what goes unsaid about Wilt is that he never had a real feel for the game. his numbers do a great job of overshadowing that.

Moses Malone was a 3x MVP and the only guy to do it with two different teams in consecutive years. cats in here tryna detract for nothing. all the TS wanted to know is why isnt he talked about like the rest.

 

[TheNig]

nah, I would say the Celtics had 10 HOFers and one of the 5 GOAT coaches in North American sports while Wilt's teams didnt in Philly.

I get some of the criticism, but you doing too much.

until i brought it up, i had never heard about Wilt being criticized before. you usually get the bullshyt "He played against 6-5 cacs". thats a joke. Bob Lanier was 7ft 260 and Wilt stayed abusing him.

 

[RedBull]

TS is correct about Moses, he doesn't get the recognition he deserves. His career was better than Ewing, Robinson, etc. but I think it has to do with his personality too.

Now, Wilt wasn't a ball stopper at all, if anything Moses was (compared to Wilt) because he used to miss lay ups on purpose just to get offensive rebounds to pad his stats.

 

[I.V.]

Wilt might be the greatest big-man athlete in the history of the game, in fact - he probably is. AND he had a great feel for the game. If history has been unkind to any of the big men, I think it's Wilt.

But more to the point, Moses is in the conversation about the top centers. Kareem/Shaq/Wilt/Hakeem and then he and Russell.

I personally think Bill Russell is the most overrated player on that list, bar none. But that's an emotional argument for many.

 

[FAH1223]

Wish the Bullets got Moses Malone a few years earlier...

 

[mastermind]

until i brought it up, i had never heard about Wilt being criticized before. you usually get the bullshyt "He played against 6-5 cacs". thats a joke. Bob Lanier was 7ft 260 and Wilt stayed abusing him.

nah, Wilt got criticized a lot. Mostly for not balling when the pressure was on, which in some cases was fair and others unfair.

But he was the most dominant player to ever play in the league and is the GOAT center and probably player.

 

[Brozay]

no... he was the ultimate ball stopper.



i'm not saying he wasnt great. he was extremely athletic for someone his size and actually had a great touch. but what goes unsaid about Wilt is that he never had a real feel for the game. his numbers do a great job of overshadowing that.

Moses Malone was a 3x MVP and the only guy to do it with two different teams in consecutive years. cats in here tryna detract for nothing. all the TS wanted to know is why isnt he talked about like the rest.

Wilt was the ultimate ball stopper?

Please explain that when dude completely altered his game in '67(the year he won his first title) and dished out 8 AST's a game, 3rd in the whole league. He completely changed his style and was taking about 10 less shots a game.

He was dishing out 9 ASTs a game in the playoffs that season

Ball stopper?

Maybe early in his career, but a lot of that has to do with coaching as well. I mean dude was the most dominant scorer ever, of course he was going to stop the ball. Wilt was the last reason his teams lost early in his career. Dude was battling absolutely stacked Celtic teams.

 

[dennis roadman]

Wish the Bullets got Moses Malone a few years earlier...

and that he fulfilled that LOI to become a terp instead of going pro

 

[dantheman9758]

no... he was the ultimate ball stopper.



i'm not saying he wasnt great. he was extremely athletic for someone his size and actually had a great touch. but what goes unsaid about Wilt is that he never had a real feel for the game. his numbers do a great job of overshadowing that.

Moses Malone was a 3x MVP and the only guy to do it with two different teams in consecutive years. cats in here tryna detract for nothing. all the TS wanted to know is why isnt he talked about like the rest.

Your imagination is a terrible source of information on Wilt Chamberlain. Try to use other sources to form your conclusions, ones that actually exist in real life.

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcIVXtFuobg[/ame]

Looks like he's gotta pretty solid "feel for the game" to me. Disrupted all the patterns of one of the highest bball IQ teams in history.




Anyways back to the topic of Moses. He's #6 on all-time centers for me, behind Wilt/Russell/Kareem/Shaq/Hakeem.

 

[Juven]

i felt he was better than karl malone

 

[BlackFeet]

Two points here

1) Could an argument be made to Malone bein' better than Kazaam?
2) Wasn't Malone considered the modern-day LeBron in his day, for ring-chasing?

No criticisms here, just honest inquiry

 

[mastermind]

and that he fulfilled that LOI to become a terp instead of going pro

that team easily wins the national title.

had an NBA starting 5