Wilt vs. Mountain Lion

[QUOTE=G-train]I haven't heard the toe story.
But do you honestly believe he couldn't break a backboard?
I know lauber can seem extreme, but you are more extreme in the opposite direction.[/QUOTE]

No, I never wrote that I didn't believe he could break a backboard. But we have no stories about him doing so and considering how Jlauber and others like to spam about Wilt's amazing strength, it's really odd that he never even teared down the rim.

Hell, the guy supposedly dunked a ball so hard that he broke a guy toe but the same guy never teared down the crappy baskets of the 60's..

[QUOTE=millwad]No, I never wrote that I didn't believe he could break a backboard. But we have no stories about him doing so and considering how Jlauber and others like to spam about Wilt's amazing strength, it's really odd that he never even teared down the rim.

Hell, the guy supposedly dunked a ball so hard that he broke a guy toe but the same guy never teared down the crappy baskets of the 60's..[/QUOTE]

The legendary Gus Johnson (who may have had a higher vertical than MJ) shattered THREE backboards in the 60's with vicious dunks. YET, he tried to dunk on Chamberlain and dislocated his shoulder in a Wilt block at the rim.

Oh it's this thread again. :rolleyes:

jlauber, what is it exactly that makes you different from all these Kobe and Lebron stans? Apart from the humungous wall of texts that you tirelessly copy paste that is. :confusedshrug:

[QUOTE=Asukal]Oh it's this thread again. :rolleyes:

jlauber, what is it exactly that makes you different from all these Kobe and Lebron stans? Apart from the humungous wall of texts that you tirelessly copy paste that is. :confusedshrug:[/QUOTE]
He dick rides a dead guy?

[QUOTE=millwad]No, I never wrote that I didn't believe he could break a backboard. But we have no stories about him doing so and considering how Jlauber and others like to spam about Wilt's amazing strength, it's really odd that he never even teared down the rim.

Hell, the guy supposedly dunked a ball so hard that he broke a guy toe but the same guy never teared down the crappy baskets of the 60's..[/QUOTE]

I have footage of Wilt dunking hard without needing to grab the rim and wrestle with it like you'd think would be necessary. He has very long reach, like 1/4" short of Yao Ming's reach - and that's excluding his greater athleticism so one of the dunks in his repertoir I've seen is throwing a ball through the hoop hard but clean. Think Dwight Howards superman dunk except Wilt does touch the rim a little (and he doesn't need too leap like Dwight did due to said greater reach). When he throws the ball through the hoop, the ball bounces back up over top of the backboard and ever since seeing that clip I personally have looked at how high basketballs tend too bounce after dunks from other players and I've never seen such a high bounce replicated by other players be it Shaq, Blake, Kemp or whatever other power dunker you can think of. I'll look for the footage tonight and gif it - just because he consciously didn't heft his 300lbs on the rim to tear a backboard down doesn't mean he couldnt jam a ball through that metal ring very hard.

[QUOTE=Horatio33]Lovellette (who was 6'11") didn't return for the rest of the series as the Celtics closed out the series in this game and they were blowing out Wilt's team. Which begs the question, why is Wilt still in the game during a blowout? Stat padding.

Look at Big Bad Wilt, saying he will knockout 5'9" Red Auerbach. What a tough guy!

This story is in Terry Pluto's book Tall Tales. This where I got the info to correct JLauber. I seek the facts. Like the fact it was a blowout in a deciding game, which JLauber declined to mention as it would make Wilt look bad.[/QUOTE]
The information is widely available that
a) Wilt didn't like to come out of games because he would get stiff
and
b) Star players of that era all played long minutes, the following stars of the era played at least 40 minutes in at least half of their seasons, Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Russell, Jerry West, Elgin Baylor, Oscar Robertson, Nate Thurmond etc

So whether or not Jlauber has a blind spot regarding Wilt, the stat-padding argument just doesn't stand up.

Presumably you think Russell playing at least 42 minutes a game in the 4 games out of 5 for which we have minute totals in the Eastern Conference Finals of 1967 was Russell stat padding. After all the 76ers wins were by an average of 13.5 points.
[url]https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aoy3YD7IdypTdEpOeFRwY29NRTUtWVlFWVJ5TkFDY3c#gid=0[/url]

Post edited to remove typo.

[QUOTE=CavaliersFTW]I have footage of Wilt dunking hard without needing to grab the rim and wrestle with it like you'd think would be necessary. He has very long reach, like 1/4" short of Yao Ming's reach - and that's excluding his greater athleticism so one of the dunks in his repertoir I've seen is throwing a ball through the hoop hard but clean. Think Dwight Howards superman dunk except Wilt does touch the rim a little (and he doesn't need too leap like Dwight did due to said greater reach). When he throws the ball through the hoop, the ball bounces back up over top of the backboard and ever since seeing that clip I personally have looked at how high basketballs tend too bounce after dunks from other players and I've never seen such a high bounce replicated by other players be it Shaq, Blake, Kemp or whatever other power dunker you can think of. I'll look for the footage tonight and gif it - just because he consciously didn't heft his 300lbs on the rim to tear a backboard down doesn't mean he couldnt jam a ball through that metal ring very hard.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, please, show us.
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[QUOTE=CavaliersFTW]I have footage of Wilt dunking hard without needing to grab the rim and wrestle with it like you'd think would be necessary. He has very long reach, like 1/4" short of Yao Ming's reach - and that's excluding his greater athleticism so one of the dunks in his repertoir I've seen is throwing a ball through the hoop hard but clean. Think Dwight Howards superman dunk except Wilt does touch the rim a little (and he doesn't need too leap like Dwight did due to said greater reach). When he throws the ball through the hoop,[B] the ball bounces back up over top of the backboard [/B]and ever since seeing that clip I personally have looked at how high basketballs tend too bounce after dunks from other players and I've never seen such a high bounce replicated by other players be it Shaq, Blake, Kemp or whatever other power dunker you can think of. I'll look for the footage tonight and gif it - just because he consciously didn't heft his 300lbs on the rim to tear a backboard down doesn't mean he couldnt jam a ball through that metal ring very hard.[/QUOTE]
Well this does not impress me since I've seen Pierce dunking it and ball went as high as the top of the glass. Over the glass is different story, yes, but this feat doesn't seem exclusively Wiltesque. Sorry.

[QUOTE=AirJordan23;4745339]Lets be real here, it was a WEAK era for mountain lions.[/QUOTE]

I actually LMAO

How is grandpa gheylauber doing? Is he dead or still riding wilt's rotten d1ck? :lol