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Interesting seems like the first sport to really go nation wide. Baseball probably not far behind but most other sports were probably pretty regional. I’ve even heard Russell complain about playing game 7s in Boston at arenas only 2/3 full.
Scoobus’s 00s team easily beats both your teams. Kidd, Allen, Bowen, KG, Shaq.FAKE NEWS YA'LL!! Even Shane Battier's own mother doesn't think he's a great shooter!
2 of the starting 5 aren't scoring threats. AK-47 and The Matrix will double team T-Mac to force Shane to take jumpshots.
The 50s-60s is so odd because you had no shot clock in the 50s and so scoring was really low and then it explodes in the 60s where we get the most fast paced basketball ever played. Makes for an odd combo.
boxing was on tv, baseball on radio and were hugely bigger than anything else growing up in Boston. college b-ball was big, gym by gym, in a Southern HS football kinda way, football invisible except when NYGiants were in the championship.
He was my number two option behind Iggy.
It is unbelievably amazing how awful the last 1/4 of the draft is between my picks. I had my next 4 as...
whew, wasn't looking at the early ages.
elbows are tough that way in all-time drafts, just barely equalized by the occasional jump on tiers of talent
Tim, Louie only played 2 of his 12 years in the 60s. He should definitely be a 70s player.
i'd let the judges decide. Ma. My 60s PG, Pearl, played only 3 of a 13 yr career in the 60s (tho his arrival was almost as big as Alcindor's as a 60s basketball event) but will always be one of the guys who turned the 60s into the 70s. the game was changing then, my friend, and Dampier's three best years were his 1st three.
Yeah I think that’s a stretch too. It’s ok of its close for a players career between decades, but if is a majority of their career is in another decade (and only 2 or 3 where they are being placed), I think those players should be discounted if they’re misplaced. Judges can do what they want, but I’ll try to call out the people in the wrong decades and advise the judges to discount if they choose.
Then you have someone like Luka who hasn't even played 3 full seasons. Wouldn't you want them to have the same type of penalty? Not trying to stir up anything, since I'm not drafting, but these seem logically similar a bit.
I'll take the hit for drafting Luka. I've set an Outlook reminder for 2030 to follow-up this thread with a look at me post.
The difference with Luka is Pearl has a 13 season career that he gets credit for in a decade he only played 3 years in. All of Luka’s seasons are in the correct place.
2/12 or 3/13 aren’t exactly straddling.
I can't think of a solid example, but hypothetically, what if Gayle Sayers best five years straddled the 70s, and what if this were an all-time NFL draft by decade? Does he just fall between the cracks?
. i aint shoehorning, i just aint putting Black Jesus in B.C. time. i'll take the heat.
If we were only counting the peak five years in the judging then Sayers could fit in either decade since it’s pretty even. But if people are factoring in career accomplishments in their rankings, then the players should be placed where most of those accomplishments happened. If it’s close, the player can go in either decade. In my opinion 2 out of 12 or 3 out of 13 isn’t close enough.
It's a rusty memory but I believe there was a moment in an 80s all-star game where Rolando Balckmon had to sink two free throws to clinch the win the win for the West, with the likes of Bird, Magic, Jordan, etc, staring at him - and he sank them both.
