BadBaronRudigor

To respond to your two points:

(1) Do a rough survey of any group of wing players and you will find a significant decrease in their rebound rate going from age 21-26 to age 27-32. It is a fact of life, not necessarily an ABA/NBA thing. For that matter watch McGrady's RbR over the next 4 years . . . even though he plays more minutes at 3 and less at 2 than earlier in his career, his RbR will STILL probably go down.

(2) The group of forwards that Erving faced as a three is stronger on the average top to bottom than that faced in the 29-30 team NBA that McGrady has faced. Look at the median year for Erving, 1974. Erving faced a 10 team league. Including Erving, 5 of the 10 SFs could legitimately play in the NBA All-Star game: Billy Cunningham, Willie Wise, Roger Brown, and George Gervin. The others were Warren Jabali, George Carter, Wil Jones all very solid . . . and two weak players in Travis Grant (gunner) and Walt Simon (aging defensive specialist).

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