Can Rudy Gobert average 20 points if he play with a Prime John Stockton?

[Iverson3]

John Stockton along side Magic is the best passing point guard of all time

[BarberSchool]

Yes. If he can shoot at least 67% FT

[Iverson3]

Yes. If he can shoot at least 67% FT

Gobert is getting paid Max money for a guy who only averaged 13.4 ppg

[L.Kizzle]

He can't run the floor like Karl Malone. Malone ran the floor better than smaller, quicker guys.

[GimmeThat]

no, the system falls apart prior to him averaging 20 due to 3 point shots.

[Proctor]

:roll:

[Session]

No way, Rudy Gobert is an extremely limited attacking guy.

Even JaVale McGee has more offensive resources. Deandre Ayton is much looser in attack and with Chris Paul it is rare the day he scores more than twenty.

To score 20 per game it's not enough just to get alley-oops, you have to have certain fundamentals and sometimes be able to generate your own shots.

Karl Malone was light years ahead of Rudy Gobert offensively, it wasn't just that he had an extremely good pure point guard next to him.

[RRR3]

Gobert would be lucky to average 12 PPG if he played in Stockton's era. He scores a decent amount because of the pace and space style of today's league, in a league in which the game was played at a slog and he would be expected to post up he would be pretty rotten offensively.

[iamgine]

It just depends on the coach run plays for him or not. And how long is he left on the floor. Gobert has averaged 16ppg in 32 minutes before. Run a couple more plays and play him 40 minutes a night...not a stretch he'd score 20+ a game.

[Axe]

He'd be a bench warmer if that was the case.

[Im Still Ballin]

He could, but it wouldn't be the optimal way to win. You'd have to force it a bit past a certain point. You can't compare him to guys like prime Dwight or Anthony Davis. They are/were more athletic and had greater verticality in their games. They could access more lobs and rolls. And both could create better, whether through the post or cutting/off the dribble.

[Xiao Yao You]

Stockton never threw a lob so hard to imagine. Stockton, Malone and Gobert would have been tough to beat even with their cheap owner assuming Sloan actually played Gobert over some of the stiffs he always loved. I assume he would have. Sloan liked Gobert when he saw him in Chicago pre-draft and Gobert plays hard. Malone coached the Jazz bigs Gobert's rookie year

[Manny98]

It's harder for bigs to score back then because there's way less spacing so he's not going to get open dunks off pick and rolls as easily so he'd struggle to average above 15 and he doesn't have the ability to create offense for himself

[ArbitraryWater]

:roll:

:lol


is it him or is it an impersonator?

[Axe]

:lol


is it him or is it an impersonator?
Who, op? Does he also speak asian language?

[Xiao Yao You]

It's harder for bigs to score back then because there's way less spacing so he's not going to get open dunks off pick and rolls as easily so he'd struggle to average above 15 and he doesn't have the ability to create offense for himself

why is it back then and not now?