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Titles are overrated
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Bear Chested Da Brawn
Re: The lesser known aspects of all time great players games.
Kobe is actually a great passer, most assists at the shooting guard position. But it goes beyond the stats, he wasn't someone who was gonna drive in and kick out for the generic cheesy assist but he had the ability to make truly imaginative passes and a great court vision. A true maestro of the court. doesn't get talked about as much.
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Lol
Re: The lesser known aspects of all time great players games.
LeBron: Scoring.
Unlike Magic, though, LeBron does score at an all-time great rate, but you'd never think he did given the way people talk about him.
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Titles are overrated
Re: The lesser known aspects of all time great players games.
I assumed Kobes Passing, Birds athletic ability, and Jordans *insert whatever someone pretends people dont know about Jordan* would come up rather quickly. And thats all well and good. But for now im gonna stick with some I rarely if ever see come up. Like Charles Barkleys suprising shot blocking...he didnt block that many...but he had some of the most spectacular blocks of all time....and nobody mentions it. I may go into that later...
And Duncans early career athletic ability:
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Re: The lesser known aspects of all time great players games.
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Coach
Re: The lesser known aspects of all time great players games.
For Barkley I was actually going to say his surprising and often forgot about three point shooting ability. People usually just think of him as a low block scorer but he had a long ball as well as decent handle for his position type.
Because of his ability to shoot the 3, I think he had like 56 in 3 quarters in a playoff game on Webber's Warriors. It's a forgotten abilities for Barkley because he was an odd SG - SF - PF combo hybrid.
And yes, Kobe and MJs passing ability is severely underrated.
Pippen and Penny's post up games are lesser known as well.
Or when people say Iverson had the ball in his hands a lot. He actually was a very good off the ball player with a tremendous motor who was always going and moving. Much like Rip, Reggie or Ray. Decent catch and shoot player too. He was just really undersized for his position of SG.
Bird's early career athletic ability and defensive capabilities are slept on aspects to his arsenal.
Last edited by SamuraiSWISH; 08-09-2015 at 12:10 PM.
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NBA Legend
Re: The lesser known aspects of all time great players games.
Magic could easily have been a 30 ppg scorer. That was proven in his very first year, and in the clinching game six of the Finals.
Later on in his career, he would put together strings of games in which he would routinely hang 30+ point games (and right in the middle of them, he would have a 4 point game on a couple of shots.) In the '90 playoffs, when his team was down 2-1 to the Suns, and no one else was doing anything, he hung back-to-back games of 43 points.
BTW, an interesting side-note... In his long rivalry with Larry Bird, guess which player had the highest scoring H2H game? Yep...Magic, and he had the TWO highest, with games of 39 and 37 points.
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Titles are overrated
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Titles are overrated
Re: The lesser known aspects of all time great players games.
Anyone wondering about the Barkley blocks...I meant things like this:
Not many could just go bully young Hakeem with the full extension like that.
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truth serum
Re: The lesser known aspects of all time great players games.
Lots of people forget Charles was only like 6'3 in reality cause he played so big. I always loved the one man fastbreaks.
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NBA sixth man of the year
Re: The lesser known aspects of all time great players games.
Pippen's athleticism in 1992. Everybody recognizes Pip as a great athlete, but nobody really considers him Tier 1. But having been binge-watching a lot of '92 Bulls games recently, not only is he a superior athlete than MJ that season, but the only SF I would dare consider better than that version of Pip is peak LeBron. Physically, everything just came together for him that year(like 2003 for Kobe). Just check out this alley oop from that season. And he was making freak plays like that in every single game. His motor was relentless.
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Titles are overrated
Re: The lesser known aspects of all time great players games.
not only is he a superior athlete than MJ that season
I dont think thats how it works...
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NBA sixth man of the year
Re: The lesser known aspects of all time great players games.
Originally Posted by Kblaze8855
I dont think thats how it works...
I know what you mean, but '92 Pippen IS a better athlete than '92 MJ, who was still a great athlete.
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NBA Legend and Hall of Famer
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