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[Fox Sports] Charles Barkley not ranked among best all-time power forwards

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by Yaowaming, Jul 17, 2005.

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  1. PitydaFoo

    PitydaFoo Member

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    Barkley is 6'6", shorter than some guards, yet once led the league in rebounding with 14.6 a game, not to mention his career average of 22 ppg. There is no way this guy is outside of the top 5 PFs.
     
    #41 PitydaFoo, Jul 17, 2005
  2. l3igballer23

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    they're still around, i think you just forgot the hyphen

    http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/p/pippesc01.html
     
    #42 l3igballer23, Jul 18, 2005
  3. London'sBurning

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    Pettit should be #1. 26/16 average? Wasn't he also on one of the teams that actually dethroned the Celtics in their 11 rings in 13 years run? His shooting % is poor but everything else stacks up quite nicely.

    #2 to #7 is a toss up to me. I suppose Duncan could go #2 though his stats aren't as great compared to other HoF PFs. Personally I'd put Barkley ahead of him since he accomplished more with much less (though some of those Suns teams were pretty damn scary). Much like the Jazz, Barkley had the unfortunate venue of facing Jordan and the Bulls. However Malone can attribute alot of his points thanks to Stockton had a great teammate in Jeff Hornacek. The guy was lights out from the perimeter and was a good passer. Malone was talented, but he wouldn't be half the player he was if Stockton wasn't there to lead the charge.
     
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  4. themocitydon

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    lmao too true. and the black players he did list are uncle toms. (malone, duncan) lol. he only put rodman on that list because he played with jordan. :rolleyes: this list is crap. :mad:
     
    #44 themocitydon, Jul 18, 2005
  5. pgabriel

    pgabriel Educated Negro

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    I've heard a few older sports writer claim Pettit is one of the most underrated players in league history.


    The Malone-Stockton debabte is like the chicken and the egg debate. It's hard to say either one of them is more responsible for the others success. Malone was pretty good with the Lakers playing third fiddle, remember what he did to Mo Taylor in the playoffs.
     
    #45 pgabriel, Jul 18, 2005
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    Who is gonna buy that rank except TD being No.1?
     
    #46 cenbo416, Jul 18, 2005
  7. Icehouse

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    Okay. Role players don't finish 3rd in MVP voting either.
     
    #47 Icehouse, Jul 18, 2005
  8. YallMean

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    Charile who? Oh, that CBA assclown. Nuff said.
     
    #48 YallMean, Jul 18, 2005
  9. No Worries

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    No.2 KEVIN McHALE

    Great player, but didn't McHale come off the bench for the majority of his career?

    Big E and Malone (the punk) were the two best I have seen. Duncan needs his own category since he is a starting center on all but 2 or 3 NBA teams. If I had to include Duncan as a PF, he obviously a step ahead of both E and Karla.
     
    #49 No Worries, Jul 18, 2005
  10. francis 4 prez

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    weird, apparently there was basketballreference.com and basketball-reference.com, and they aren't the exact same site. and i had always gone to the unhyphenated one and it was now under a different name (though it looked the same) and didn't have that info. the hyphenated one has a different home page but has the same player profile look as the one i've always gone to. i always wondered why the baseball site was hyphenated and basketball wasn't. thanks for the find. now i don't have to kill anyone.
     
    #50 francis 4 prez, Jul 18, 2005
  11. busta_cap

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    Charles was 6'4-1/2". For chrissake, he was the size of a average point guard!!! And, given his height, Charles was the most ferocious defensive rebounder of all time. I know it's not a real stat, but in rebounds-per-inch-in-height there was never anyone better than Charles Barkley. And that's even completely discounting his considerable offensive abilities.

    There will never again in NBA history be a forward below 6'7" as dominant as CB was at 6'4.5".

    Plus, he's perhaps the funniest man in sports today. As Charles himself said, ""Sooner or later, I'll probably get what i deserve. I'll probably be dead and gone, but people will say, 'That mother was awesome.'"

    True words, Chuck.
     
    #51 busta_cap, Jul 19, 2005
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