uh, wrong!
#1 -- MAKE A FREE THROW
that way your guy would at least be in the game at the end.
#2 -- You can't measure heart. The heart of a champion. The heart of a winner. 32 teams, all 32 of them, said the same thing you're saying (about Russell -- so many other guys are better) about Tom Brady. Not once, not twice, not three, not four .... even The Patriots passed on him 5 times before picking him in the 6th. Not a good arm, can't move, can't throw spirals, etc. etc. etc. But he had the heart of a champion.
#3 -- a basketball player has one job only. Just win, baby! Any all-time great list has Bill Russell. Add to Russell's 11 in the NBA that only ONE all-time great has led a mid-major college program to back-to-back NCAA titles. Wilt the brick couldn't do that at almighty Kansas!
#4 -- look at what happened. Chamberlain is an all-time great. Literally, he's the Scott Stokely to Russell's Climo. Watching it happening, live, it appears that one guy has the most skill. But somehow he just can't beat him. It's called greatness.
#5 -- and if I were picking him, I'd pick Kareem 1st. Already said that.
Russell shot like you post from the free throw line. I hope that's not your argument why he's better than Wilt.
Quit comparing a team sport to an individual sport. Climo isn't Russell, and that's an insult to Ken to even compare him to Russell. There was never a single day when Russell was the best basketball player in the world. Ken went years without anyone even questioning it. Russell would routinely get dominated by Wilt. Ken never got repeatedly dominated by Stokely. In their matchups, Wilt doubled Russell's points, and snagged five more rebounds per game. In 94 games, Wilt outscored Russell in 89 of them.
Quit comparing Ken to Russell, Russell doesn't deserve that kind of praise. He won fewer championships in a team sport with only six teams, on by far the most stacked team in the league, than Ken won solo world titles.
Championships mean so much less in a team sport. No one is passing over John Stockton or Karl Malone in an all time NBA draft to pick Dwayne Wade. Wade is a hall of famer with three titles, but he's clearly not as good as those two guys without one.
They had to change the rules of basketball because Wilt was so dominant. There's no question that he's the most dominating player to ever play.
I'm sure you think Horry is no where near Michael, but he just won, baby. That's the number one thing he's gotta do right? Move over, Michael, big shot Bob has seven.
LT, the real LT, not that second rate RB, was the best football player ever. Tom, like Russell, benefited from being on the best team in the league, with the best coach, and the team that got away most with cheating. Tom's great, but Gronk is a more dominant tight end than Tom is a quarterback.
Plug in a healthy, youthful Peyton, Brees, Montana, or more after Bledsoe goes down, and Belichick still has six rings as a head coach. But again, a team sport does not compare to disc golf.
Ken dominated the game in a way that we'll never see again. Ken is much more comparable to LT than Tom. Tom won, but he didn't do anything that the other top three quarterbacks couldn't have done. LT changed the game forever by being so dominant.
No one will ever touch Ken's 95 season. 26 events 23 wins. Finished top three in the three he didn't win.
