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

[iamduval]

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 average height of an nba center in the 1960s was 6’9-10. The average height of NBA centers today is 6’11


The average of height of today’s NBA player is 6’7. Wilt chamberlain is 7’1


You nikkas love to pick and choose when to use facts for your arguments. Like I fukkin said nikka: Wilt would still have a height advantage in today’s league, being 4-5 inches taller than the average nba player. At least 2-3 full inches taller than the Average center and certainly more athletic.


I never once mentioned lebron and yall still got emotional

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

I was told Dray could lock him down. Someone make sense of this for me

 

[Johnny Kilroy]

Mike 6 for 6. Never lost. Never missed a shot.

 

[Primetime21]

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

 

[The God Poster]

The average height of an nba center in the 1960s was 6’9-10. The average height of NBA centers today is 6’11


The average of height of today’s NBA player is 6’7. Wilt chamberlain is 7’1


You nikkas love to pick and choose when to use facts for your arguments. Like I fukkin said nikka: Wilt would still have a height advantage in today’s league, being 4-5 inches taller than the average nba player. At least 2-3 full inches taller than the Average center and certainly more athletic.


I never once mentioned lebron and yall still got emotional

@ISO appears to be on the ropes . Will he make a comeback or tag @Rhakim in to turn this around.......

 

[Jordan>>LeFrozen]

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.

Most of made a couple of hook threes in a row at 7 feet tall?

 

[Pacni99a12]

Yet he couldn't make free throws

 

[Edub]

Bettin 5 dollas....the good ol days

 

[Jesus Is Lord]

Meanwhile Bill Russel NEVER shot 50% from the field (44%) and shot 56% from the line. He was efficiently worse than Wilt.

But, but, but he has the most rings. Yeah, on the most stacked team in the NBA, but that’s another story.

 

[JoseLuisGotcha]

My man Wilt The Stilt scored with ease on and off the court

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Can't agree with this. I think there is an Iverson effect where the offense was designed for him to shoot everything and (in his case) get his own rebs. There was often noone else in a position to put up better shots in his teams.

Bullshyt revisionism.

On the Warriors he was playing with Paul Arizin (a HOF forward giving 20+ppg), Tom Gola (a HOF swing putting up 15-5-6) and Guy Rodgers (a HOF point guard putting in 13-6-8). And there were 2-3 high scoring HOF perimeter players on his Sixers and Lakers teams too.

There was a LOT of talent on those teams. It's not like he was forced to shoot fadeaways 20 feet from the hoop under triple coverage. He was getting his touches in the paint and he was getting them with inferior defenders on him the vast majority of the time. And he still didn't score at an efficient clip for a dominant center.

Got to account for the era, the pacing, the rules, etc. Wilt was the league leader in FG% 9x in his career. Can't do a lot more than be the best
And other players from that era attested to what they did to Wilt throughout his career - it wasn't just Wilt bytchin.

The rules back then were EASIER for centers to score, not harder. When Wilt was having those huge scoring seasons the lane was only 12 feet wide. He could set up outside the lane and still be just 5' from the hoop, was just one stride from dunking the ball. They widened the lane from 12' to 16' in 1964 and he only led the league in scoring once more.

What was stopping players from making a higher % of their shots? The defense certainly wasn't very tight, nor were defenders tall, athletic, or skilled. The only shyt that kept FG% low was rushed shots and terrible form. The jump shot hadn't even been used really until the mid-1950s and was still in its infancy (Bob Cousy was an All-NBA and champion during the early 1960s and he said the jump shot was a bad shot).

Everyone threw up crap shots in that era. I already posted the game tape - why can you use the tape to prove your point?

 

[Cyber]

Why are the Lebron stans shytting on Wilt in here

It's strange because if people want an idea of how LeBron could have looked back then, it's ironically from an even bigger/stronger and more athletic/skilled player in Wilt. Check his stats, team hopping, forming big 3s, Wilt set the precedent, was more talented, and despite all that he wasn't even the most successful (and arguably not even the best) of his own era



I will say this, Wilt's game 7s were abysmal. They were actually as bad if not worse than 2011 but obviously they've been lost though time

 

[Professor Emeritus]

It's strange because if people want an idea of how LeBron could have looked back then, it's ironically from an even bigger/stronger and more athletic/skilled player in Wilt. Check his stats, team hopping, forming big 3s, Wilt set the precedent, was more talented, and despite all that he wasn't even the most successful (and arguably not even the best) of his own era

The claim that Wilt is more skilled than LeBron just shows idiotic y'all are trying to take hot takes rather than watching actual basketball.





On the actual court, Wilt couldn't shoot, pass, dribble, or do anything else NEARLY as well as LeBron. They're not even in the same universe skill-wise. He wasn't nearly as fast, didn't jump nearly as high on the actual court. I just posted 15 minutes of basketball, find ONE place in that clip where you see Wilt demonstrating more skill or athleticism than LeBron.

Y'all take the random musings of old heads and the fact that Wilt ran the 400m or did a high jump in high school, or lifted with Arnold in his later years. NONE of that translates to the basketball court like that, you don't see anyone today doing the 400m or the high jump to train for bball. Show me ONE game clip, not highlights, just ONE game clip with even 5 minutes of basketball that shows Wilt playing at anywhere near LeBron's athleticism/skill level.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

The average height of an nba center in the 1960s was 6’9-10. The average height of NBA centers today is 6’11

Let me repeat. In the first 15 years of NBA history they only drafted six Black players over 6'9". Only SIX in 15 years. The year that Wilt was drafted, he was the ONLY Black player over 6'9" who was drafted. None at all was drafted the year before him. None at all the year before that either. None at all was drafted the year after him either.

Compare that to today, where you have 12 Black players 6'10" or taller drafted in 2017 alone. You acting like it's compareable is straight ignorant. There is FAR more talent and athleticism at height today than there was back then.

The NBA would put up one random 6'9" White stiff on each team and you think that's somehow comparable to now? Here are the centers that Wilt faced in the PLAYOFFS during the first half of his career when he put up big scoring numbers:

Connie Dierking. 6'9" 220lbs. #20 in this picture, the one who is nowhere near even reaching the rim. Wilt faced him in the '60 and '67 playoffs

Swede Halbrook, a 7'3" 235lb alcoholic with mental issues who only lasted two years. Wilt was famously fazed while playing against him cause he was the only player his height. After getting released he became a circus clown. Wilt faced him in the '61 playoffs (where Wilt got swept in the 1st round without breaking 50% shooting in a single game) and the '62 playoffs.

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Zelmo Beaty. 6'9" 225lbs. Beaty actually had some athleticism, unlike the first two guys on this list, but he simply didn't have modern center size. In fact, he ended up switching to power forward in the 1970s. Wilt faced him in the '64 playoffs.

Wayne Embry. At 6'8" 240lbs, Embry was even shorter than Beaty, and looked it. Wilt faced him in the '65 playoffs

Then of course....Bill Russell. At 6'10" and 215lbs, Russell was nowhere near Wilt's size. But he was the only athletic player over 6'8" when Wilt came into the league and he gave Wilt fits, beating him every playoff series they played 1960-1966.

And just to be fair, here were the rest of the starting centers when Wilt came into the league.

Charlie Tyra: 6'8", 230lbs

Clyde Lovellette, 6'9" 234lbs

Walter Dukes, 7' 220lbs

Jim Krebs, 6'8" 230lbs

Phil Jordon, 6'10" 205lbs

Those are ALL the starting centers when Wilt came in. You got three skinny-ass tall guys with zero muscle or skill, five little guys who were just 6'8" or 6'9", and Russell. THAT is who Wilt was building up huge stats against.

Anyone coming into this thread trying to claim these guys would be starting centers in the NBA today is full of shyt.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Oh, and here's the elephant in the room that '60s stans don't want to talk about.

The 2nd-tallest guy on Wilt's team was #17, who is listed as 6'9", 220lb Joe Rutlick. Rutlick had zero skill or athleticism and basically sucked at basketball. So why the fukk was he in the NBA? Because he was tall and White.

These are Rutlick's own words:

"I was 23 years old and having fun, but sitting the bench wasn't fun," he said. "He said, 'We need you next year. Fans won't buy tickets if you have too many Negroes.' I went and told my wife. She said, 'You mean you're on this team because you're white?' 'Well, yeah.' So I went to New York to look for a job (outside of basketball)."


THAT is the level of the era y'all are stanning.