...whom do you pick?
the only theme is that these players are all clearly past their primes, all players of 'this' generation or still playing, and are not locks for the hof obviously
You can select ONE NBA player for the HOF...
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godamn playoff performances really make a difference. but i can't hate on that like eternalbot. shit overwhelms my memory bank too.
long-winded rzn basketball reason:
but i'm leaning towards sheed instead of manu or chauncey. the man who never gave a 100% effort in the offseason and gave 80% during the regular season was still better than 90% of the players in the whole league and had the combination of shooting/length/size/ballhandling/defense/toughness that is seriously unparalleled. despite his mental shortcomings, i can't think of one player who combined all those traits. kg didn't have 3pt range. c-webb didn't either plus his defense wasn't as baller. dirk doesn't play d anywhere close to that. etc. the fact that last year he could be, by all accounts, completely overweight and out of shape, but then decide to just start trying hard and immediately reestablish himself as a top defender by turning on a switch? he's got HOF blood. chauncey had a three year run at all-nba like play but that's it. manu is hard to judge b/c he played alongside a top 10 player ever and tony parker and other clutch wonders. maybe if he has his own team he's a HOF caliber beast. but just judging his career and what he's done, it's harder to make a case for him because of all the shooting guards/guards that rival his career/stats/achievements. sheed has little competition in terms of comparing him to the jermaine o'neals of the world
to clarify, i mean ginobili has to face the carters/t-macs/etc. so other non-hof or borderline-hof players whereas the borderline power forward/center types don't really fuck with rasheed wallace.
i also consider ginobili can't stay on the court for 82 games consistently.
long-winded rzn basketball reason:
but i'm leaning towards sheed instead of manu or chauncey. the man who never gave a 100% effort in the offseason and gave 80% during the regular season was still better than 90% of the players in the whole league and had the combination of shooting/length/size/ballhandling/defense/toughness that is seriously unparalleled. despite his mental shortcomings, i can't think of one player who combined all those traits. kg didn't have 3pt range. c-webb didn't either plus his defense wasn't as baller. dirk doesn't play d anywhere close to that. etc. the fact that last year he could be, by all accounts, completely overweight and out of shape, but then decide to just start trying hard and immediately reestablish himself as a top defender by turning on a switch? he's got HOF blood. chauncey had a three year run at all-nba like play but that's it. manu is hard to judge b/c he played alongside a top 10 player ever and tony parker and other clutch wonders. maybe if he has his own team he's a HOF caliber beast. but just judging his career and what he's done, it's harder to make a case for him because of all the shooting guards/guards that rival his career/stats/achievements. sheed has little competition in terms of comparing him to the jermaine o'neals of the world
to clarify, i mean ginobili has to face the carters/t-macs/etc. so other non-hof or borderline-hof players whereas the borderline power forward/center types don't really fuck with rasheed wallace.
i also consider ginobili can't stay on the court for 82 games consistently.
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