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Re: Evaluating Great Big Men: Prime Hakeem and Shaq and others
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Originally Posted by jericho
You're pretty quick to be dismissive of the most decorated power forward ever,
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Sure i am.
From the early 80's till now the only player to have reached, IMHO, the plateau of excelence Bird and Magic played upon was Jordan. Not anyone else. that includes Shaq. And it surely includes Tim duncan.
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and a guy who a few months ago turned in one of the most dominant Finals performances ever.
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I wouldn't say "ever2, be he did have a monster series...
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You can say that a guy like Wade isn't far enough along in his career to be assessed in the category of all-time greats. You could say that he needs to keep up that level of performance for X number of years to convince you. But don't act like he's a penguin who got lost on his way back to the zoo. The guy is a great player.
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If i gave a crap about a player's ONE season, i would be wetting myself thinking of T-Mac a couple of years ago and Kobe last year. Yup, i don't give a crap. Untill Wade has at the very least 5 great seasonns, i will never dream of putting him in the same sentence as the guy who, in 19 seasons, delivered a 25-10-3 average.
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