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Dirk's gravity as a PF was/is unprecedented but Barkley is the elite of the elite in NBA history when it comes to offense. He's a top-4 talent all-time offensively
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Dirk's gravity as a PF was/is unprecedented but Barkley is the elite of the elite in NBA history when it comes to offense. He's a top-4 talent all-time offensively
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I agree, plus Dirk never through a guy through the window of a bar .
These circle jerk discussions just out people's age and when they started watching basketball.
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Barkley is arguably a top-4 offensive talent in the 80s alone. Jordan, Magic, Bird, and Jabbar.
He was better at scoring than Dirk, way better handling the ball and in transition, and could do more things. But Dirk's best skill, shooting, was way better than Barkley and really opened up the offense to the point that offenses changed to try to mimic him.
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Whoa, whoa. OT was a bad ass. Should have taken out Pistol Pete Chilcutt, Carl Amigo Herrera or Charles Jones if you wanted to go Rockets.
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Just giving a shout out to PFs who made all star once. Kevin Willis too
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T-Rex arms lol
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TBF - late 80s Atlanta was a line up of power forwards and Dominique Wilkins. Tree Rollins, Cliff Levingston, Kevin Willis, John Koncak and Antoine Carr. That was a lot of Beef up front.
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Oakley's the GOAT one-All Star season PF, unless I'm mistaken.
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Tim Duncan was absolutely unstoppable during his prime. That, plus the 5 rings and longevity has him at no. 1 without a doubt.
Dirk could score from all over the court. He was basically a taller, less mobile/athletic, Kevin Durant but with a much better post/mid-range game. In his prime, no one was stopping him. He's at number 2.
Garnett was the best defensive power forward in the game during his prime. True enforcer who was money from mid-range and the post-up, who could get into the head of the opponent by his sheer physicality and trash talking ability. Had he been healthy the Celtics would have repeated in 2009. They came within 5 points of another ring in 2010, and one game within another finals appearance in 2012 when his squad lost to the Heat in game 7 of the ECF. (I believe they would have beaten OKC had they advanced to the finals). Had reality been just a teeny bit different, KG may have had 4 rings right now, as opposed to only one. He's at number 3.
Barkley was a bulldozer and one of the most underrated players in NBA history. He's at number 4.
Malone had a fantastic career. He's at number 5.
Dirk could score from all over the court. He was basically a taller, less mobile/athletic, Kevin Durant but with a much better post/mid-range game. In his prime, no one was stopping him. He's at number 2.
Garnett was the best defensive power forward in the game during his prime. True enforcer who was money from mid-range and the post-up, who could get into the head of the opponent by his sheer physicality and trash talking ability. Had he been healthy the Celtics would have repeated in 2009. They came within 5 points of another ring in 2010, and one game within another finals appearance in 2012 when his squad lost to the Heat in game 7 of the ECF. (I believe they would have beaten OKC had they advanced to the finals). Had reality been just a teeny bit different, KG may have had 4 rings right now, as opposed to only one. He's at number 3.
Barkley was a bulldozer and one of the most underrated players in NBA history. He's at number 4.
Malone had a fantastic career. He's at number 5.
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This is a little random but I was at a Pistons - Timberwolves game in 2000 with my wife and she is watching the game but relatively uninformed about basketball. after the first quarter she turns to me and says, "that guy looks like a man playing against little kids". She was talking about KG clowning everyone on the court. It was a bit surreal.
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DC could've been the GOAT if was so inclined. He could literally do it all from the 4 spot
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I got Duncan #1, but as a guy who likes defense...I got Rodman up higher on my list than most
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Yeah, I should have been clearer. I meant amongst the guys in the running for the #1 spot in this poll who had game on both ends of the court. There were a few defensive specialists who could handle defending Shaq 1-on-1, but they would all be useless on offense (either always or on that night because they had to expend so much energy on defense). Timmeh could defend Shaq reasonably well (nobody, including Rodman, shut him down consistently) and still drop 25 points on decent shooting.
