#2 NBA Defender Of All-Time According to InsideHoops

[sd3035]

KG is a skinny wimp, he gets abused in the post. He's like a black Shawn Bradley

[sammichoffate]

Kareem is an underrated defender

[Hamtaro CP3KDKG]

Kareem is an underrated defender

So what he has no business being in #2 Not even top 10 for his position defensively
I rank Kareem overall as GOAT BTW

[Big#50]

Duncan
Pippen
Robinson
Hakeem
Bowen
In that order.

[Yankstar]

Kobe Bryant

[Harison]

Russell (I have him as a GOAT defender)

[russwest0]

Michael Jeffrey Jordan.

[christian1923]

Kobe

[aboss4real24]

[COLOR="Magenta"]Ewing [/COLOR]

[kaiteng]

Bill Russell.

Because he was better than KG.

[LAZERUSS]

Russell was the greatest, and Chamberlain was #2.

http://www.basketball-reference.com/...ws_season.html

And keep in mind that Wilt was voted first team all-defense in his last two seasons, and would have won a couple more in the 60's has the award existed.

The same Wilt who outshot Russell from the field in every one of their eight H2H series, and some by margins of .500 - .399, .517 - .386, .555 to .447; and even .556 to .358.

The same Chamberlain who battled Nate Thurmond in three playoff series, and outshot him by margins of .500 to .392; .611 to .373, and a Finals of .560 to .343.

Or Walt Bellamy shooting .541 in his regular season, and then being outscored, outrebounded, and outshot from the field by a .584 to .421 margin, by Chamberlain in the '68 playoffs.

Or Kareem shooting .577 and .574 in his '71 and '72 regular seasons, and then shooting .481 and .457 against Wilt in his two post-seasons.

Or Chamberlain averaging 5.42 bpg in his last season (and certainly by far, the lowest of his career.) A Wilt who blocked a known 33 shots in just four games against Kareem's Bucks in '72, 15 of which were Kareem's. And then Chamberlain averaged 7.4 bpg in the Finals that year.

Or Wilt having a RECORDED game of 23 blocked shots, and several other games of estimated block totals of 25-30+. And having educated estimates of 10+ bpg seasons.

And just crushing Russell in blocked shots in their known H2H games.

Russell, then Wilt, and then arguably Nate Thurmond (just ask Kareem about Nate.)

[Brizzly]

Not a lot of seriousness in this thread, I think we'll wrap this shit up. Thought we could make something fun.

But can't be done

Great post Laz and to all who took this with a little bit of seriousness.

[LAZERUSS]

Aside from Deuce's take on Russell (and using Fpliii's information BTW), I am the only one here who has actually backed up his claims.

[Brizzly]

Russell was the greatest, and Chamberlain was #2.

http://www.basketball-reference.com/...ws_season.html

And keep in mind that Wilt was voted first team all-defense in his last two seasons, and would have won a couple more in the 60's has the award existed.

The same Wilt who outshot Russell from the field in every one of their eight H2H series, and some by margins of .500 - .399, .517 - .386, .555 to .447; and even .556 to .358.

The same Chamberlain who battled Nate Thurmond in three playoff series, and outshot him by margins of .500 to .392; .611 to .373, and a Finals of .560 to .343.

Or Walt Bellamy shooting .541 in his regular season, and then being outscored, outrebounded, and outshot from the field by a .584 to .421 margin, by Chamberlain in the '68 playoffs.

Or Kareem shooting .577 and .574 in his '71 and '72 regular seasons, and then shooting .481 and .457 against Wilt in his two post-seasons.

Or Chamberlain averaging 5.42 bpg in his last season (and certainly by far, the lowest of his career.) A Wilt who blocked a known 33 shots in just four games against Kareem's Bucks in '72, 15 of which were Kareem's. And then Chamberlain averaged 7.4 bpg in the Finals that year.

Or Wilt having a RECORDED game of 23 blocked shots, and several other games of estimated block totals of 25-30+. And having educated estimates of 10+ bpg seasons.

And just crushing Russell in blocked shots in their known H2H games.

Russell, then Wilt, and then arguably Nate Thurmond (just ask Kareem about Nate.)

Good post but never seen any real footage from them myself and they all played long time ago.

Who would you say is the best defender in modern NBA?

If you have time do this.

Best post defender
Best help defender
Best perm defender

And best all around defender.

[IncarceratedBob]

Not a lot of seriousness in this thread, I think we'll wrap this shit up. Thought we could make something fun.

But can't be done

Great post Laz and to all who took this with a little bit of seriousness.

Don't allow troll votes, seriously KG at the GOAT defender? He was above average at his best.

Obviously Russ is the consensus defensive GOAT on here, just look at the quality of posters who voted for him vs those who voted for KG.

The effort is appreciated buddy.