It's sad that Hibbert's career night is an off-night for Shaquille.

[La Frescobaldi]

The point of it was to show how weak Centers are. You can put Shaq on the Bobcats and they would win simply because there is no Center that could contain Shaq. Only a handful of Centers would play decent D on him.

The Bobcats are not winning because they have Shaq. Not happening. That's not just flawed reasoning, that's broke right in two reasoning.

[La Frescobaldi]

They aren't strange though. Blocks are great, obviously, they're just REALLY overrated, people have got to stop trying to quantify defense, you just can't. People that determine a player's defensive value based on nothing but blocks and steals are frankly just ignorant. Watch the games and digest them, look for the shots that aren't even attempted because of guys like Hibbert. Watch how Hibbert's rim protection enables Indy's' defense by almost never having to help in the paint.

But the pick and roll! they say. Fine, that's a weakness. But pick a weakness for a big defensively, you want a dude that denies everything at the rim, or a guy that comes out and hedges too hard just to get blow by? You wanna try and win by shooting 15 foot pull ups all day? Cool, do it, a few guys can. Most can't, those two points aren't worth more than the two points they get at the rim much more effectively. It's just common sense. If you can beat the scheme then do it, but the vast majority of teams can't.

yeah. you said it better than i did

[chips93]

lebron, for pretty much the first time in his career, had to start shooting floaters to score on indiana, when hibbert was in the game. the heat still won, and lebron was still effective, but it says alot about your defense when you can force the best player on the planet, to have to take a pretty rough shot, pretty consistently.

hibbert forced lebron to change his game significantly, not a lot of defenders can say that.

[Myth]

wilt played against skinny short white guys, put shaq in the 60s he would average 80ppg and 50 rpg

You have a lot of faith in Shaq's endurance.

[Doctor Rivers]

NumberSix

is a tool

[Nezty]

The Bobcats are not winning because they have Shaq. Not happening. That's not just flawed reasoning, that's broke right in two reasoning.

Why not, they could have a strong chance of going deep. Shaq would dominate any Center and when he gets doubled he would be kicking it out to Kemba and Gordon. That alone would be dangerous.

[Droid101]

Against the current Knicks, peak Shaq would average 35/15/4/4 easily.

Edit: I like Hibbert and think he is the key to Indy beating the Knicks and the Heat. His +/- numbers pretty much prove it over the past two playoffs. Him in the game means getting leads. Him sitting means losing them.

[iDunk]

Goofy ass mutha****a.