Wilt! Wilt?

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<p>On the defensive side of the ball?</p><p> </p><p>

Hell no.</p><p> </p><p>

Because in the mid 90s the all time record for most threes attempted in a season was somewhere near the average amount made by the average guard in 2013.</p><p> </p><p>

Pick and roll defense is the 100 percent king in terms of defensive scheming, and the existence of the floor spacing big man has throwback players like Kendrick Perkins being increasingly irrelevant. The days of idly standing around while some scrub dribbles up the court one handed with absolutely no change in pace or direction are long gone...for example like the days of Jerry West, who was an AWFUL dribbler...worse than the average high school basketball player.</p><p> </p><p>

In the 60s elbowing someone may have been a common foul but so was breathing on them...the game film and stats don't lie. I acually have had the (mis)fortune of watching 60s games in their entirety...albeit very few(thankfully) and the officiating was even worse than it's been all of my life.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>

Lastly Wilt Chamberlain's turnovers are estimated at over 3 per game. The stone ages of NBA didn't actual record turnovers.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>

Wilt would be lucky to average scoring numbers equivalent to Prime Shaq at this stage of the NBA. Perhaps 28 points per game...he was an even worse free throw shooter so the deliberate fouling tactics would be even greater...and for all the old-timers hyperbole, there's a snowball's chance in hell he would be stronger than Shaq who, while having a slightly smaller wingspan and shorter arms, was a MUCH larger man.</p><p> </p><p>

And Shaq quite frankly was much more efficient and dominate than Wilt. His only downfall was his frame was too big to sustain the rigors of a full nba season most of the time so he had to save himself for the playoffs.</p>