Wilt Chamberlain swishes four 3-point range hook shots in a row

[Professor Emeritus]

He’d have 4-5 inches extra height and more athleticism than almost any player in the league if he played today. Thats the point.

Bullshyt, it ain't even close to comparable. First 15 years of the NBA there were only six Black men over 6'9" TOTAL. When Wilt came into the league there hadn't been a new Black player over 6'9" since Russell came three years earlier, and there weren't any new ones the next year either. Not a single player in this photo besides Russell is over 6'7" and this was the most dominant squad in NBA history. You seriously gonna compare that squad to modern talent?

Nowadays even with the foreign talent, you get 10-15 Black ballers 6'10" or taller drafted every fukking year.

He took 28 attempts a game and had 50% fgp while averaging well over 30 ppg

That’s enough facts for me

In an era with basically no defense, few players over 6'7", and an unofficial quota of 3-4 black players per team, he was only shooting 50% from gimme range and would crash and burn in the playoffs every year despite playing with multiple HOFers on every team. Those are all facts too.

#11, #15, and #5 all are in the Hall of Fame.

 

[NYC Rebel]

New nikkas told me Wilt wouldn’t dominate in this era

Who?

 

[ISO]

He’d have 4-5 inches extra height and more athleticism than almost any player in the league if he played today. Thats the point.


He took 28 attempts a game and had 50% fgp while averaging well over 30 ppg


That’s enough facts for me

No, he wouldn’t. Players are taller today on average than in his era

All this Wilt dikk licking. Y’all would have hated on this man. His production would drop off dramatically in the playoffs he didn’t win until the twilight of his career when he joined a “superteam”. The off the court stuff y’all would have hated him for I won’t even get into.

Fake ass Coli

 

[The God Poster]

It’s funny because most posters can see through the Wilt hate . You know exactly why they doing it & it’s shameful

 

[Mad Good Dro]

The same nikkas dikk riding wilt would be calling him a stat padding choker if he played in this era just like y’all do Westbrook and others.

 

[Trojan 24]

It’s funny because most posters can see through the Wilt hate . You know exactly why they doing it & it’s shameful

Disgusting, no tact in they game

 

[Professor Emeritus]

The same nikkas dikk riding wilt would be calling him a stat padding choker if he played in this era just like y’all do Westbrook and others.

They ain't hear to talk basketball, they're here to dikkride players and obsess over other posters. It might as well be WWF or their favorite soap opera. Notice how whenever someone starts talking actual basketball, they fall apart. The ONLY thing they actually want to do is talk about other men.

A random highlight of Wilt doing the same shyt on a practice court that most of us have done one time or another is meaningless. They somehow think making a few hook-shot threes in a row says more about your talent level than shooting 38% from the line for an entire fukking season. They don't understand the problem with only shooting 50% against defenders 4-5" shorter than you when all your shots are inside the key. They don't understand why your ppg dropping by 10 when the postseason starts is a bad look. We've had entire threads on this, breaking down exact seasons and series and matchups and tape, and they have nothing.

They'd rather talk about other men posting than talk about the game.

 

[ISO]

Disgusting, no tact in they game

Infamous LeBron haters are making threads on guys like Wilt and Duncan suddenly when LeBron’s top 5 candidacy is being discussed?

let’s not do that b

We not stupid out here the fact is Wilt is a legend but if his career played out in this era from on to off the court y’all would be his harshest critics.

 

[Oldschooler]

Rick Smits would give Wilt that work though

In all seriousness, when we talk about top players of all time we have to take into account how much dominant they were against their competition. When we start to compare different eras is when we get into trouble and its almost impossible to make a winning argument. With that criteria in mind there's no way you can leave Wilt out of the top 5.

 

[Conscious Pilot]

Why are the Lebron stans shytting on Wilt in here

 

[Miggs]

Only guy from the 50s and 60s who would dominate modern day basketball,he was tossing those up like tennis balls...

 

[Juggalo Fred]

One of a kind
Would dominate in any era

Except when facing Bill Russell

 

[TooLazyToMakeUp1]

Somehow cats gonna claim this tells you more than the fact he shot under 46% from the line in six different seasons including 38% in 1968.

Low-key Wilt was a terribly inefficient shooter away from the basket. In his high-scoring days he hovered around 50% from the field despite having 4-5" extra height and a ton more athleticism than his average defender. With all the dunks and gimmes that he made automatically, think about how many short-range shots he had to have missed for his shooting % to end up so low.

But y'all don't want to hear facts....

He was a big man that played to his strengths

Why would he move away from the post ?

 

[Hey_zeus]

He's the best athlete to ever play basketball and the GOAT 5.

 

[KingJay]

Somehow cats gonna claim this tells you more than the fact he shot under 46% from the line in six different seasons including 38% in 1968.

Low-key Wilt was a terribly inefficient shooter away from the basket. In his high-scoring days he hovered around 50% from the field despite having 4-5" extra height and a ton more athleticism than his average defender. With all the dunks and gimmes that he made automatically, think about how many short-range shots he had to have missed for his shooting % to end up so low.

But y'all don't want to hear facts....

FTs were mental, they are for a lot of players. Wilt had midrange turnaround jumper and fadeaway, and he often refused to dunk so people wouldn't throw that criticism at him. You also have to consider fatigue, and that dudes would hit him so hard and hang on him to the point where he considered saying fukk it and retiring in the middle of his prime