His IQ was high from time he entered the league being groomed under Smith at UNC, to even have a punchers chance in those early playoffs the Bulls needed him to score/shoot/soar, it's not like he was drafted to a 50 win team and did a bunch of volume shooting winning doesn't mean you have high IQ, it means you have the proper support cast of talent (and real good to elite coaching staff/ownership), which is what happened after they took their lumps and all those other powerhouses got old/injured, and Jordan/Bulls had next after 76ers/Celtics/Pistons fell off when Jordan first was drafted by the Bulls he didn't have dead eye shooters like Paxson/Armstrong/Hodges/Kerr etc his rookie year if Jordan didn't have high IQ then he would have shunned the triangle offense because he had the clout to do just that, but since he learned those fundamentals at a high level college it carried over with him to next level, now did he become wiser with age/experience, of course he was just more reckless abandon as a spring chicken, but still had high IQ similar to how B Russell talks about Wilt being unstoppable one on one but was also smart (high IQ) on the hardwood.
we shall remain in disagreement on both. Wilt was something else but spent all but forever believing he was the ‘center’ of the basketball universe.
I voted Nix for lulz. That said, with some of the threads I've seen popping up, it does feel like someone is on a smear campaign trip for a certain player.
Well, I'm not forcing people how to vote. Just surfacing what the fans really want. When you have two guys like DD and bobbythesmall posting nonstop, there are as many pro KPJ/anti-Green/anti-Sengun posts as the other way around. They are volume shooters, just like their idol, the honcho. That can distort the picture. Asking simple poll questions gives the less verbose posters a vote.
Nothing wrong with have diff views, that's what a healthy back n forth convo is all about Wilt was something else, and basically saved the NBA with that 62' season, he was said to be making a salary to what teams were worth back then, so its more like the NBA made him the center of their universe, plus he most the most dominant Center of his time and arguably all time
Underlying intelligence can be subtle, but it's a real thing. It's different from discrete bits of knowledge you can pick up from game film. One of the tragedies of the CP-Westbrook deal was that we traded one of the league's smartest players for one of the dumbest.
