Wilt Chamberlain scoring highlights 1960-1968

The '67 season footage I have of him he takes it 2 maybe three times in total despite that season having more coverage than his first couple of seasons... yet nearly all other seasons prior to this he was filmed taking many many fade aways - in fact the overwhelming majority of his career fadeaways captured on film were captured during this time of the least amount of his career being covered. Also, after 67 he is seen taking them as Lazeruss states, but at that point they were still much less frequent than his early seasons - I mean a big percentage based on film. And his fade aways from the right block that he used to release near the high post seem to have all but disappeared.

[QUOTE=fpliii]OT - I actually wasn't originally aware of the injury in 67, so when I read the posts originally I though you guys were referencing him getting hurt in G4 of the 64 Finals (the other in the mix, evidently).

From the Oakland Tribune:





I'm not sure how much it impacted his play, though, so maybe it wasn't a huge deal. He also ripped the flesh off of his hand on some metal in G5, but that's unrelated.

Here are the articles from the Tribune and Globe on the Finals:

[url]http://www61.zippyshare.com/v/91790456/file.html[/url][/QUOTE]

Good stuff. If you really want to check something out...read up on Wilt's '60 EDF's. He was simply awful in game three.

I still think a healthy Wilt takes that rag-tag last place team to a title that season...

I'm adding another category to the video - deep catches, where he's fighting or has fought for deeper position than just his usual left or right block spot

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I still think a healthy Wilt...[/QUOTE]

...let me finish that sentence for you....IS OVERRATED.

more proof you don’t understand bball….the guy was winless in game 7's against russell. yet since he can score 50ppg in the regular season, against scrubs, he gets a pass from you and other wilt fans. but again, you are too FAT to realize these things….you don’t have the mental depth that an epic genius such as myself has….

wilt, while great, was a choker in the playoffs. a documented historical fact which is not up for debate.

[QUOTE=mehyaM24]...let me finish that sentence for you....IS OVERRATED.

more proof you don

[B]Lazeruss knows/mentions every single injury or minor "issue" that Wilt had, even a broken fingernail, yet "forgets" major injuries for a player like Bird. :oldlol:
Calling someone a post-season choker when your biggest idol is Wilt Chamberlain :lol

Seriously, this dude thinks he's doing something "right" yet just makes everyone hate (or hate more) Wilt. Stop it please.

Sorry to have to post this on this thread with a great video like that posted but just had to.[/B]

[QUOTE=SHAQisGOAT][B]Lazeruss knows/mentions every single injury or minor "issue" that Wilt had, even a broken fingernail, yet "forgets" major injuries for a player like Bird. :oldlol:
Calling someone a post-season choker when your biggest idol is Wilt Chamberlain :lol

Seriously, this dude thinks he's doing something "right" yet just makes everyone hate (or hate more) Wilt. Stop it please.

Sorry to have to post this on this thread with a great video like that posted but just had to.[/B][/QUOTE]

Please take your sorry a$$ elsewhere please. You have proven that you have absolutely no knowledge on the subject of basketball, yet you keep coming back and making a complete fool of yourself. Time to move on...

[QUOTE=SHAQisGOAT][B]Lazeruss knows/mentions every single injury or minor "issue" that Wilt had, even a broken fingernail, yet "forgets" major injuries for a player like Bird. :oldlol:
Calling someone a post-season choker when your biggest idol is Wilt Chamberlain :lol

Seriously, this dude thinks he's doing something "right" yet just makes everyone hate (or hate more) Wilt. Stop it please.

Sorry to have to post this on this thread with a great video like that posted but just had to.[/B][/QUOTE]
what's with this ongoing feud you two have in regards to Larry Bird that I always catch wind of :oldlol:

[QUOTE=CavaliersFTW]what's with this ongoing feud you two have in regards to Larry Bird that I always catch wind of :oldlol:[/QUOTE]

[B]Nothing really, just that he hates/underrates the hell out of some players in order to prop-up Wilt along the road.

I've always been a fan of Wilt and praised him here long before I had any "feud" with him, always said that he had a top5 peak and have no beef if you rate him top5 all-time but that dude goes to far while posting ignorant shit to underrate/hate on other players such as Bird or Kareem, in order to "prop-up" Wilt, when there's no need for that.[/B]

[QUOTE=SHAQisGOAT][B]Nothing really, just that he hates/underrates the hell out of some players in order to prop-up Wilt along the road.

I've always been a fan of Wilt and praised him here long before I had any "feud" with him, always said that he had a top5 peak and have no beef if you rate him top5 all-time but that dude goes to far while posting ignorant shit to underrate/hate on other players such as Bird or Kareem, in order to "prop-up" Wilt, when there's no need for that.[/B][/QUOTE]

HUH????

I have Kareem at #5 on my all-time list, and Bird at #10. About right where they belong.

[QUOTE=LAZERUSS]HUH????

I have Kareem at #5 on my all-time list, and Bird at #10. About right where they belong.[/QUOTE]

[B]Yea, where they belong in your ignorant/crazy/biased mind. (Wilt #1 right? please post his case, would love to read that ignorant but funny essay, like you always do, or not, most likely I wouldn't read it lol, I know how it goes, I know the "deal")

Again, most people, or at least knowledgeable people (not people like the writers at SLAM magazine lol), have KAreem in their top3, Bird in their top5 and Wilt out of their top5, plus Bird with a top5 peak/prime and better than Magic's prime/peak. That's how it goes and you know it, that's why you're mad and have 2500 posts all involving Wilt somehow, with your crazy agenda. :lol [/B]

[QUOTE=SHAQisGOAT][B]Yea, where they belong in your ignorant/crazy/biased mind. (Wilt #1 right? please post his case, would love to read that ignorant but funny essay, like you always do, or not, most likely I wouldn't read it lol, I know how it goes, I know the "deal")

Again, most people, or at least knowledgeable people (not people like the writers at SLAM magazine lol), have KAreem in their top3, Bird in their top5 and Wilt out of their top5, plus Bird with a top5 peak/prime and better than Magic's prime/peak. That's how it goes and you know it, that's why you're mad and have 2500 posts all involving Wilt somehow, with your crazy agenda. :lol [/B][/QUOTE]

No they don't and even YOU know it.

Get the hell outta here with that nonsense.

As for Bird-Magic, even the notorious (and idiotic) CELTIC HOMER Bill Simmons has Magic over Bird.

[QUOTE=SHAQisGOAT][B]Yea, where they belong in your ignorant/crazy/biased mind. (Wilt #1 right? please post his case, would love to read that ignorant but funny essay, like you always do, or not, most likely I wouldn't read it lol, I know how it goes, I know the "deal")

Again, most people, or at least knowledgeable people (not people like the writers at SLAM magazine lol), have KAreem in their top3, Bird in their top5 and Wilt out of their top5, plus Bird with a top5 peak/prime and better than Magic's prime/peak. That's how it goes and you know it, that's why you're mad and have 2500 posts all involving Wilt somehow, with your crazy agenda. :lol [/B][/QUOTE]
Come on now whether you agree or not with the final conclusion Wilt does have a case for GOAT as do several players, Kareem himself wrote that open letter to Pippen stating Wilt's case (and Bill Russell's). Sonny Hill says in interviews almost the same words, both towards Wilt and Russell. Rick Barry thinks Wilt is the GOAT... I mean, these guys aren't exactly ignorant on the subject. Wilt does have a case for being GOAT. In short, because of his dominance... more specifically because of his nearly incomprehensible dominance. He's 1 guy who played over 40 years ago and he's still the #1 name in the NBA record book. He's got a case. Everyone's criteria is different.

[QUOTE=LAZERUSS]No they don't and even YOU know it.

Get the hell outta here with that nonsense.

As for Bird-Magic, even the notorious (and idiotic) CELTIC HOMER Bill Simmons has Magic over Bird.[/QUOTE]

[B]:oldlol: You're so mad because you know that's how it goes :oldlol:

Maybe as far as careers yea, on the all-time list, 1 spot higher, I always said I can easily "see it" although I got Bird higher on my list, by 1 spot. Even with a better team overall, on average, throughout the years for their careers (playing alongside a top3 goat, while only being the clear cut alpha in his 6th season, Bird was from the get-go), even with more healthy years, even on a weaker conference, even with 2 more rings... most people never rank Bird 2 spots, or more, lower than Magic. That's because Bird had a better peak as an overall player and for the most part was the better player when they were both healthy (considered in those days too)....

Anyways this thread should focus on that great video and Wilt's amazing talent, not this "silly" discussion so I won't post more, why bother....[/B]

[QUOTE=jongib369]He does seem like he knows a LOT, just don't see a reason to leave out information like this when he posts a highlight of Wilt posting up


"The Rivalry (book documenting Wilt and Russell's Rivalry in the 1960's)

"More significantly, the pain in Chamberlain's knees had grown worse with each game. Now the slightest bend in either knee sent an excruciating jolt through the leg, and he was forced to go up and down stairs sideways, to avoid bending his knees. When he arrived for practice on Friday, he could barely walk. D. Lorber examined him and realized that Chamberlain's knee-joint capsules had become inflamed. Lorber instructed Chamberlain to spend the entire day receiving heat treatment on his knees. He thought that if Chamberlain remained inactive, and received heat treatement that day and the next, the inflammation might subside enough for him to at least start on Sunday. Chamberlain spent several hours each day with his knees under an infrared heat lamp, but by Saturday afternoon, when the team was leaving for Boston (IE the game from which those "highlights" are taken), he was still walking stiff-legged."

"Chamberlain's sore knees had hampered his running and jumping throughout the game"

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