Why is Oscar Robertson not a lock for top 10?????

[Marchesk]

How is that the indication of stats being inflated or not?

What a terrible argument... if anything it would seem that could be used as argument FOR them being inflated...

Point is that nobody else did it, even in the 60s. And if by "it", we adjust to just averaging a triple double, nobody has every done "it" for a season, but Oscar.

So it doesn't have to be a 30 point triple double, it could just be 10/10/10. But nobody else put that up (Wilt and maybe Russell being the only unofficial exception if blocks had been counted).

And that includes the ABA, btw. If you go search for 10/10/10 on BR, Oscar is the only one to come up.

[INDI]

First I would like to say that it's nice to not have really been on here for the last year, only to come back and see my 2 year old post at the top of the list!

Secondly I would like to add that I talked with a old head last week that said he saw Oscar play in his prime. His assessment was the closest player he ever saw to what Oscars game looked like is James Harden. I asked him why so, and he said Oscar use to size people up the same way and blow by his defender Every time. He also said what's not talked about is the fact that Oscar was also a lockdown defender.

[Straight_Ballin]

He is top 10 on most lists

[Cold soul]

Oscar just right outside top 10 in last decade Shaq, Kobe, Duncan, and Lebron overtook him.

[houston]

overrated he didn't impact on winning like that

[WillC]

I actually think he's the most underrated legend of all-time.

Back at the turn of the century, he was voted the 2nd greatest player of all-time (behind only MJ).

Fast forward a decade or so, any people whine about things like "didn't win enough championships" and "the pace was faster back then so the triple-double doesn't count" and nonsense like that.

Fact is, he had no weakness. He's definitely a top 10 player of all-time.

[kshutts1]

I actually think he's the most underrated legend of all-time.

Back at the turn of the century, he was voted the 2nd greatest player of all-time (behind only MJ).

Fast forward a decade or so, any people whine about things like "didn't win enough championships" and "the pace was faster back then so the triple-double doesn't count" and nonsense like that.

Fact is, he had no weakness. He's definitely a top 10 player of all-time.

Citation?

Because I have this....
http://www.nabc.org/awards/century_celebration
...showing him as THE player of the century (aka all time when it was voted upon). And the voting was done in 2000, which means it included Jordan.