All-Time NBA Draft: Round One--Hack vs. JoelHodgeJr

[Fabtrey]

The Admiral is easily a better offensive player & better player overall than Yao.

D-Rob averaged 25+ PPG for 4 seasons and Yao did it 1 season.

Yao is 7'6, and never averaged 11+ RPG, while Robinson did it 5 times.

rebounding =/= not offensive skill

we are only talking about yao's prime vs. drob's prime. yao's prime was short lived. only 06-07 season counts for yao. and even that season yao missed 30+ season. had he stayed healthy all season that year, yao would've been 27/10. and that's 33.8 min. his per 36 would've been near 28/10.

 

[Fabtrey]

Damn, that's a lot of excuses.

David Robinson would ear Yao ' s lunch.

yao has better overall offense. drob better overall player. drob a better overall offensive contributer due to his athleticism.


thankfully basketball is 5 on 5.



again, zebo is better offensive player than blake griffin. doesn't mean zebo is better than griffin.

 

[Elizah Huge]

rebounding =/= not offensive skill

we are only talking about yao's prime vs. drob's prime. yao's prime was short lived. only 06-07 season counts for yao. and even that season yao missed 30+ season. he was avg. had he stayed healthy all season that year, yao would've been 27/10. and that's 33.8 min. his per 36 would've been near 28/10.

Lmao! Yao averaged 25 and 9.4 in 33.8 mins in 48 games that year. How would his PPG go up by 2 and his rebounds go up 0.5?

 

[Jeffrey32]

Jordan and Oscar on the same team. Not much else matters.

 

[spycam1]

yao has better overall offense. drob better overall player. drob a better overall offensive contributer due to his athleticism.


thankfully basketball is 5 on 5.



again, zebo is better offensive player than blake griffin. doesn't mean zebo is better than griffin.

So you agree Robinson is better on both ends of the court than Yao.

Glad we got that cleared up.

 

[Fabtrey]

Lmao! Yao averaged 25 and 9.4 in 33.8 mins in 48 games that year. How would his PPG go up by 2 and his rebounds go up 0.5?

yao avged

november - 25.7
december - 26.1

misses january & feb

march - 22.8 (because he missed friggin 2 months)
april - 26.3 (shooting 56.9%)


notice the trend? i remember everybody was saying yao will end up avg 27pts that year. he was just unstoppable. if he didn't miss those games, he would've kept going and going.

and year after he would've entered his true prime. and would've had 5 years of dominant stretch.

i'm just speculating, but yao was that good. he started to realize he was a bad boy. he no longer acted like a humble chinese guy. he started to curse, started to say 'you can't stop me'. he was on a verge of becoming a true elite center offensively.

just too bad what happened to him.


again, i'm sure this draft is only about the peak, not career. yao never even reached his peak. he barely entered his prime and his body just broke apart. 7ft 6 frame was his curse.


skills, skills, skills.

 

[Fabtrey]

yao's problem was his humbleness.

but that season, yao started to realize he was a bad man.

 

[Elizah Huge]

yao's problem was his humbleness.

but that season, yao started to realize he was a bad man.

 

[QuinSnydersHair]

yao's problem was his humbleness.

but that season, yao started to realize he was a bad man.

 

[♪alt13]

Shaq
Kareem
Hakeem
Robinson
Ewing

Which of these five do you think Yao was better than offensively?

Kinda disappointed you named Ewing and not Chamberlain tbh.


I don't like either of these teams at all.

giving it to joel for the jordan oscar combo.

 

[Fabtrey]

You said he had limited touches?

yes. by yao's standard. 17.1 fga was his peak. could've been easily 20-21 fga if tmac wasn't there and played 40 min instead of 33.8 min. so it is limited touches nonetheless. if yao was 3 inches shorter with better stamina, we are talking about kareem like prolific scorer. just too bad he had to be so damn tall. his short reach actually helped him alot. his soft touch was due to his normal sized wingspan and delicate hands.

 

[Fabtrey]

Kinda disappointed you named Ewing and not Chamberlain tbh.


I don't like either of these teams at all.

giving it to joel for the jordan oscar combo.

yao is ahead of wilt in terms of pure offensive skill set. like shaq, wilt was just a pure dominant force. wilt's dominance was finesse+power inside. wilt did have 14-15 ft hook shots, but wilt didn't shoot jumpers. he didn't have to.

wilt didn't need crafty footwork. wilt didn't need to fake anybody. he just came right at you and there is not a thing you could do about it.

maybe i should've said top 5-6 skilled center. wilt with 3 moves is better than yao with 15 different moves. think this way, mchale would teach master class on post moves, footworks, using leverage etc. karl would be his student at best. mchale had no equal in his position when it comes to pure offensive skill.