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Wilt vs. Russell
there was a little debate over on the trading cards side I was just reading about these two. Rather than continue it over there, I thought it might be fun to include the sports talk crew who dont often read that page. who do you think was better: Wilt or Bill Russell? for me, Wilt was just too otherworldly to not be… -
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Not really a better scorer when it was time to play defense in the NBA in the most meaningful games, nor at the end of meaningful close games. I would be hard pressed to find a better teammate than Jerry West. Chamberlain lost championships more because of his deficiencies at the line(all the time) and in the Finals as… -
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Not really. Bill Russell was a better free throw shooter and had better team mates. They were close defensively. Wilt was twice as good a scorer. Not really close as individual basketball players. -
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I don't view those rule changes as anything significant for Wilt's accomplishments and they aren't super accurate. I see offensive goaltending was banned in 1958. Defensive goal tending well before that. The league was young still and rule changes and developing the game based on how team took advantage of things is just a… -
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It's certainly not meant to be taken literally. He didn't shoot 100% so unless he wanted to fail so frequently... sure. I'm paraphrasing something I remember Bill Russell saying on one or more occasions about Wilt Chamberlain. If I'm being honest, I think these types of debates can be interesting so long as no one is… -
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@craig44 is Mike Trout a better hitter or better player than Mookie Betts? Trout .299/.410/.581 in 6,647 PA Betts .294/.373/.524 in 6,237 PA Maybe I'm wrong and you don't view it like I believe you do. However, I do believe that Wilt's abysmal shooting at the line takes him out of the game in key spots. We know that… -
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I didn't look at early years playoff scoring closely, (he averaged 34 1/2 points his first 4 playoffs) but Wilt's last few years, he played with guys like Elgin Bailor and Jerry West, those guys were scoring a lot of points. In his last 2 playoffs, he had the highest rebound average. Maybe he was in a similar situation as… -
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@bgr if Wilt could do what he wanted, he would shoot better than .37% from the line in the Finals...and hs assists did not increase in the playoffs, but his points shrunk dramatically. Whether it is from some made up personal psychological flaw or not, his points and production fell drastically in the playoffs, and I am… -
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@1948_Swell_Robinson "Bill Russell averaged 16.4 in the Finals and played better defense. They were the same in rebounds. Russell shot better from the line. Russell had more assists." how do you know he played better defense? wilt averaged a bit more points, bill averaged a bit more in assists. rebounds a wash. this is… -
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That is the point in this exercise: comparing wilt and bill. not wilt vs wilt or bill vs bill. you said it youself, "even if it is still higher than Russells" so yes, his production did drop off ( as does many players in the playoffs) but even then, he was still better than Bill.
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