Who is the GOAT Shot Blocker?

[navy]

Who do you guys think is the GOAT shot blocker? For the sake of the argument, let's say only when shots were counted as an official statistic, unless you have reliable info pre 1973.

[moe94]

Dream

[Droid101]

Mark Eaton, I guess?

[GoranDragon]

All time: Hakeem

Current: Ibaka

[Marchesk]

Wilt Chamberlain. Estimates based on blocks counted for various games put his average at 7 per game.

Wilt was a superior shot blocker to Hakeem, being that he was just as athletic, but taller and longer.

[PHILA]

Russell, easy. He is also comfortable blocking shots with either hand.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v9_aiXvoSc&t=12m56s

[Fire Colangelo]

Unless ^ you guys have video evidence of Wilt/Russel games from 1960s counting their blocks it's gonna be Mark Eaton.

[LAZERUSS]

Russell, easy. He is also comfortable blocking shots with either hand.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v9_aiXvoSc&t=12m56s

Although we don't have recorded numbers from the vast majority of their 143 H2H games, in the games in which they were recorded, Russell blocked 86 shots in 13 of those games, or 6.6 bpg, while Wilt blocked 203 in 24, or 8.5 bpg.

[iamgine]

[stanlove1111]

Unless ^ you guys have video evidence of Wilt/Russel games from 1960s counting their blocks it's gonna be Mark Eaton.

Unless you have video proof of Russell's games from the 1960s that he didn't block more shots then Eaton, then I will go with Russell. Seen enough of him and read enough of him to determine that.

[Harison]

Either Wilt or Russell. In "the modern era" - The Dream.

[SexSymbol]

Was it all a dreaaam

[Psileas]

Who do you guys think is the GOAT shot blocker? For the sake of the argument, let's say only when shots were counted as an official statistic, unless you have reliable info pre 1973.

Info is pretty reliable to know that Wilt and Russell should be in the short list anyway. It's been shown, after all, that Wilt's blocked shots had been counted in his 1972-73 season and they pretty much trumped anything that followed, including the few seasons immediately after 1973 - only Elmore Smith's also monstrous 1974 season comes close (but Smith wasn't the rebounder Wilt was).

Wilt-Russell-Bol are my top-3. Hard to give an order, each one has cases.

[OldSchoolBBall]

Manute Bol had 3 seasons over 10.6 BLK%; no one else even has a single season above 9.8. He has 4 of the top 5 seasons by BLK% all time. Dude blocked 5.0 shots in 26 mpg in his prime, and 4.3 bpg in 22 mpg.

Among guys who played 30+ minutes, Eaton's 5.6 bpg in 34 mpg is the high mark. Of course, this is all only from 1980 onward.

[IncarceratedBob]

Dwyane Wade