New video on Dominique Wilkins. One of the greatest scoring machines in history.

[TheBigVeto]

You can have:

Nique
Melo
Durant
Pierce
Vince carter
Mcgrady

Nique is one of the greatest scorers of all time.

Out of that list, I'd take Wince last.

[Cali Syndicate]

Love Nique, too bad he played in the most stacked era and had to compete against the Celtics and Pistons. He went to Europe and dominated those scrubs though.

Bird vs Nique

88' ECSF Game 7

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfLjD...eature=related
http://www.basketball-reference.com/...805220BOS.html

Wow...

Edit: Look what i found! Full game!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zZmiHc6I0w

[Round Mound]

He can be seen as Overrated and Underrated.

Scoring Wise he was a Machine...But He Was Never as an Efficiency Scorer as was King Dantley, Aguirre, Michael, Mullin, Bird, Barkley or Malone etc Who Shot Over 50% FG for Much of Their Careers

As a Rebunder he was Good too but NOT GREAT.

His Passing, Creating, Handling and Defense was Not Elite Level at All.

The Dream Team Needed Another Shooter and Fundmentally Sound Player To Ge Others Involved...Which Mullin Was...More Efficient Scorer, Better Shooter, Better Creator, Better Handles and Better Passer etc.

Still Nique Deserved to Be In The Dream Team IMO as McHale was Also Deserving for Historic Senses.

If You Go For Historic Senses: then...

Isiah, Nique and McHale should have made it over Mullin, Collge Kid Latner and Maybe Stockton. That Would Have Been The Bomb cause You Had the Best of The 80s.

[rhythmic]

Wow, you know your basketball history but my god take some English classes. I have such a hard time reading your posts, just the structure and choice of words are so poor.

Sorry, just had to let it out.

[Round Mound]

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[pauk]

1st, Great video as always Kblaze!

I was fortunate to have seen alot of Dominique in the 90s, he was not that great of an outside shooter (inconsistant every season almost), playmaker (but hey thats not so important if you are a specialist) and defense was not his strong side either, but otherwise so potent offensively (everything else you could compare to any perimeter player, midrange game, post game, faceup, finishing etc. he had it all, he was a strict scorer), a very fierce competitor and so more athletic than most of his defenders in every way, that he posed problems for a good team who came into the Omni off their game... He tore his Achilles in 1992 vs Philly while making a first step. How quickly he returned and how well he played afterwards spoke well of his toughness....

I consider him on par with Gervin and Thompson, and he would probably be comparable to McGrady and prime Vince Carter among current players.... They have tons of natural talent and ability, perhaps sometimes too greedy to manifest that into something great, lack of the required intangibles could be another reason to... But he had his chance! I'll tell you what, Atlanta royally F'd up when they traded him mid-season in 1994. I think NY would've been the only team capable of eliminating that year's Hawks in the EC. I saw quite a bit of him when he was temporarily banished to Clipperville aswell. Great player, but just out of the echelon of Bird, Erving, Magic, Jordan, Isiah, Hakeem (you know, like Barkley, Malone, Stockton, Ewing).... statistically he looked just as good, but his intangibles & impact were not the same...

But you have to also consider who he had to go thru... 'Nique's problem was that the Hawks were good when the Celtics were great... There is a whole slew of great players from the 80s and early 90s who don't get the recognition they deserve from having the unfortunate timing of having had their best years during the Lakers, Celtics and Bulls eras. Be it fair or not NBA superstars are by majority judged by rings and since 'Nique never got one he doesn't get nearly the credit that he deserves....

But Dominique Wilkins was extremly talented, i think he was almost every bit as exciting a player to watch as Michael Jordan...

Tracy McGrady & Kevin Durant at their best i think were more closer to Dominiques equals in terms of talent, impact & productions when Dominique was at his best.... Tracy was amazing and Durant is aswell (he has potentially a chance to be even greater than Nique or Tracy), my bias says Nique, but i cant... thats a tough one to pick from and then act like you made the right choice... But i would easily take Dominique over any Paul Pierce, Vince Carter and Carmelo Anthony...

[Jacks3]

Nique
Melo
Durant
Pierce
Vince carter
Mcgrady


At the top of their games. 100% healthy.

t-mac easily. by far the best peak. by far the best passer/play-maker.

and a better defender than all them except maybe pierce.

[bizil]

In terms of a guy like Nique's scoring, at times he took bad shots. He played hero ball on a team that often needed it. WHENEVER Nique was in his primary scoring areas and single covered, he was EPIC! It's when Nique got hot, doubled, or hadn't a shot in a while is when he would force shit. Thus making him more of a victim playing hero ball as opposed to guys like MJ or Bird.

I think of AI in the same cloth as Nique. To me STREAK SCORERS are guys like Maxwell, Starks, etc. Guys who even in their SO CALLED primary scoring areas COULDN'T dominate a guy enough to be multiple time All Stars. Even though at times they could look like one, but not quite enough. Nique and AI were flat out DOMINANT SCORERS who's shooting percentage's were more due to hero ball. As opposed to guys who really didn't dominate their primary scoring areas often enough, even when they had great looks.

Teams designed their defenses to stop Nique. As opposed to streak scorers like Starks, Maxwell, etc. Nique's issue was more shot selection instead of being streaky. With the physical era Nique played in AND his ability, no way in hell a streak scorer puts up his kind of numbers. Bird, MJ, and King were just more efficient and had better shot selection. If Nique is a streaky scorer then Brett Favre is a streaky QB. Calling offensive juggernauts like Nique, AI, and Favre STREAKY is minimizing them. I would rather people call them gamblers or trying to do to much.

[Rake2204]

Alright, I'm usually not that guy, but how many steps did 'Nique take at the 50 second mark (the dunk against Seattle)? Yeesh.

I like the mix though. I'm always a fan of catching some of the rarer clips (like the double pump on Eaton). Sometimes it seems like the NBA Superstars clips get played over and over enough times to convince some of us that's just about all the clips that exist for some of those guys.

Also, folks will say what they will about Vince Carter, but it's always seemed to me he was a student of the game, looking to take a lot of his influences from previous players (not just Michael Jordan) and finding a new way to make things happen. I thought this was true with his dunking, but also things like the 360 layup (of which we see Wilkins pull off a few times in this reel).

Big fan of that reverse tip-dunk at 4:38.

Never been a big fan of the dunk on Lanier though. There's a lot of other slams of his I'd take before that one. It seems to get a lot of publicity for it's story ability though.