Russell-Wilt Missed FGAs in Post-Season H2H's

[LAZERUSS]

Interesting stat...thanks to Julizaver...

In their 49 post-season games Wilt shot 502 from 982 attempts, Russell shot 296 from 710 attempts. Wilt missed 480 shots, while Russell missed 414, which means that Russell missed 86 % of the shots Wilt missed.

So, Russell missed nearly the same amount of FGAs as Chamberlain did in their 49 career playoff H2H's.

[Gileraracer]

Damn that era was weak

[ISHGoat]

Damn that era was weak

Damn youre a bad poster

[DavisIsMyUniBro]

Interesting stat...thanks to Julizaver...




So, Russell missed nearly the same amount of FGAs as Chamberlain did in their 49 career playoff H2H's.

That's 41.7%, and Russell is a career 44% shooter though

(Though that is counting his earlier years)

[LAZERUSS]

That's 41.7%, and Russell is a career 44% shooter though

(Though that is counting his earlier years)

In their 10 years in the league together, Russell shot .439 against the entire NBA, while Wilt shot .520.

In their post-season H2H's, Russell shot .417 to Wilt's .513..

BTW, in his "scoring" prime years, Wilt averaged 39.6 ppg on a .515 FG% against the entire NBA (in leagues that shot about .420 in that same span), and he averaged 31 ppg on a .507 FG% against Russell in their 30 playoff H2H's..

Overall, in their known 143 career H2H's, which is almost all of them now, Chamberlain outshot Russell by a .497 to .382 margin.

[LAZERUSS]

That's 41.7%, and Russell is a career 44% shooter though

(Though that is counting his earlier years)

But again...what is interesting, though, is that Russell missed nearly as many shots as Wilt did. Think about that. Chamberlain took considerably more shots, and made FAR more...and yet, they both missed about the same number.

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But again...what is interesting, though, is that Russell missed nearly as many shots as Wilt did. Think about that. Chamberlain took considerably more shots, and made FAR more...and yet, they both missed about the same number.

WOW

[LAZERUSS]

WOW

Wilt the "Ball Hog" vs Russell the "Team Player"...and they essentially missed the same number of FGAs.

Evidently Russell's misses were more "clutch" though.

[Dresta]

What about missed FTAs?

[Dr Hawk]

Russell is clutch, has the intangibles and

[AnaheimLakers24]

Shaq would go 500-500 in that shit era

[aj1987]

Interesting stat...thanks to Julizaver...




So, Russell missed nearly the same amount of FGAs as Chamberlain did in their 49 career playoff H2H's.

What you're saying is that a shitty scorer missed nearly the same amount of shots as the "GOAT" (as you claim) scorer?

No wonder Russell is top 5 and Wilt is barely top 10.

Shaq would go 500-500 in that shit era

Dude has a career average of 24/11 in a strong AF era. He'd averaged 40/20 on 80% in that garbage ass janitor era.

[ClipperRevival]

It's well documented how Wilt was all about his personal stats. Chick Hearn said that Wilt would come over to the scorers tables at halftime and look over his stat sheet and regularly argue over the amount of points/rebounds he had.

Cousy said if Wilt had 1/3 of the determination of Russell, he would unquestionably be the GOAT.

Wali Jones said that the team was too dependent on Wilt and that it wasn't optimal basketball whereas Russell did whatever it took to win.

Face it, Wilt was a transcendent talent and truly special but the guy wasn't completely right in the head. He wasn't a killer. He didn't want it as bad as Russell and simply didn't maximize his talents.

And history is judging him accordingly.

[ClipperRevival]

Here's a stat for you:

Russell won 7 of 8 playoff series against Wilt.
Russell is 4-0 in game 7s against Wilt.

Funny part about all this is that Wilt could've made this much more respectable with his two infamous game 7 loses in 1968 and 1969 to Russell. He wins those two, he has 2 more rings, is 2-2 in game 7s and is 3-5 against Russell in playoff matchups. Pretty much a wash.

But again, it is what it is. For Wilt to give away the 1968 and 1969 playoffs is what really hurts his legacy.

[ClipperRevival]

Check out the first 2 minutes or so of this documentary and what they say about Wilt. That saids it all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ5nG8lOn_Y