Exactly. If you're ahead? You dribble out the time remaining. Behind? You don't stop trying to score. That's just how the game is played.
If I had to choose one or the other, I would much rather have the 6 game winning streak than Harden's record breaking streak.
This was the first terrible game of 4 bad quarters since the Thunder game. Before this game they have been playing pretty well. Ball movement was decent tonight, the shots just didn't go in. Turnovers were the worst problem. I think you are letting your initial reaction get the best of you. Because over the span of the past 8 or 9 games multiple players have step up to help Harden. He has been doing very well but has had help from the whole team. Am very happy with the players we are building around Harden. Only one that needs to get out of his slump is Parsons.
It's like that Korean fencer in the Olympics getting a consolation prize after getting jobbed out of the gold medal.
First of all, he wasn't 275 pounds. The most he weighed was 275, and that was in his last years of playing basketball. And he wasn't scoring monster numbers in his last years. Most of his career he was only around 250-260 pounds. In college he only weighed about 240. He was a bean pole. And not a chance in hell did Chamberlain have a 48" vertical. That is a candyland statistic. I know it says that all over the internet when you type it into google, but it is a myth. I mean, do you honestly think a guy who is 7'1" has a higher vertical than somebody like Michael Jordan? Or any of the best dunkers of all-time? In photos, he would have to have his entire head and maybe even shoulders above the rim. And not a chance Wilt would dominate today's game. Wilt wouldn't have dominated in the 90's or today. Shaq was a monster and Wilt wouldn't have been physical enough to stop him. If you look at his points per 36 minutes, Jordan's points per game are more impressive, save for 1 year. And Jordan wasn't a physical specimen compared to his peers when he played. Chamberlain's stats are purely the result of being the only truly athletic player over 7 feet tall at the time.
lol, Wilt is the most overrated guy ever. It's like Roy Hibbert playing among high schoolers in front of nobody but scorekeepers. Then years later people look at the sheets and deem him GOAT. It's really funny.
Anyone that thinks Wilt is overrated hasn't watched Wilt play basketball. Wilt Chamberlain could contend against a prime Kareem as an old man. Kareem could contend with a prime Olajuwon as an old man. Olajuwon could contend with a prime Shaq as an old man. Shaq could contend with a prime Yao/Dwight as an old man. It is all connected. Wilt would be truly great today, just like he was back then.
When the opposition is at best 6'9 and you're 7'1 with a serviceable post game you can basically look like Shaq+Olajuwon+Yao+Kareem combined.
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I'm not saying Wilt is a scrub but he's definitely nowhere near the centers who played real opposition and put up amazing career numbers despite the fact.
He looked great AGAINST Kareem, as an old man. Go watch the film. He would compete with (and likely destroy) 6-9 Dwight Howard right now. His hands were otherworldy. So soft for catching and finishing. He could shoot the hook, or nail a 5 foot finger roll over the top of the defense. Turnaround jumpers rolling off his right shoulder. Truly unbelievable skill...
