List of players over 7 foot, 230 pounds in Wilt's time

[QUOTE=Clippersfan86]Ming, Wallace, Big Z, Sabonis, Camby, Mutumbo, Ratliff, Divac were all good centers in 2000-2006. Even in 00-06 the center crop was superior to the 60's.[/QUOTE]
What do you mean by the sixty's in any case? Early sixties? Yeah of course racial quotas were still in effect. Late sixties? With Willis Reed, Walt Bellamy, Nate Thurmond, Wes Unseld, Elvin Hayes, Wilt, Russell and briefly Abdul-Jabbar. Versus defensive specialists, injury prone bigs and skilled Europeans past their prime.

[QUOTE=Owl]What do you mean by the sixty's in any case? Early sixties? Yeah of course racial quotas were still in effect. Late sixties? With Willis Reed, Walt Bellamy, Nate Thurmond, Wes Unseld, Elvin Hayes, Wilt, Russell and briefly Abdul-Jabbar. Versus defensive specialists, injury prone bigs and skilled Europeans past their prime.[/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE=Clippersfan86][B]Shaq said he considers Yao a top 5 center of all time[/B][/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE=Clippersfan86]Actually I wasn't going by size. I was naming two elite centers from the 2000-2006 era. In terms of size... Sabonis, Z, Smits, Yao and a few others had the bulk to match Shaq... something Wilt didn't face in his era.[/QUOTE]


NONE of those dudes had the bulk to match Shaq, LOL!!!! That's a joke right?? Again, i can count guys on 3 fingers who were within Shaq's 50-pound mark, LOL....

Get a clue.

[QUOTE=bwink23]NONE of those dudes had the bulk to match Shaq, LOL!!!! That's a joke right?? Again, i can count guys on 3 fingers who were within Shaq's 50-pound mark, LOL....

Get a clue.[/QUOTE]

Haha, nice try, Brian.

[QUOTE=bwink23]NONE of those dudes had the bulk to match Shaq, LOL!!!! That's a joke right?? Again, i can count guys on 3 fingers who were within Shaq's 50-pound mark, LOL....

Get a clue.[/QUOTE]
Are they the returning Oliver Miller (Circa 03-04), Thomas Hamilton (Circa 99-00) and Jahidi White?

Because they were awesome.

[QUOTE=bwink23]NONE of those dudes had the bulk to match Shaq, LOL!!!! That's a joke right?? Again, i can count guys on 3 fingers who were within Shaq's 50-pound mark, LOL....

Get a clue.[/QUOTE]

Sabonis- 7'3 290 pounds (was probably more heavy too).
Yao- 7'6 305 pounds.
Smits- 7'3 260 pounds.
Big Z- 7'3 265 pounds.

Obviously they are still a lot smaller than Shaq but they were big/strong enough to put up more of a challenge than Wilt had. As I said.... a few of these centers did indeed have their moments against Shaq.

Who is 7 foot today and plays good??? Not one of them can outscore or outrebound 6-9 Kevin Love. There are no 20 and 10 guys. The best are all in LA and Kobe has to save the team from mediocrity. DH outplays Gasol and Bynum together even when his game is off. DMC got potential. I know what you are sayin but look around, it ain't happenin. The beast are 6'10 ish today.


Who was within 25lbs of Shaq and could play??? And Jordan had length on almost all shooting guards too. Advantages don't mean anything if you can't play.

[QUOTE=millwad]All those guys were scrubs minus Bellamy and Russell.[/QUOTE]









Clyde Lovellette is in the Hall of Fame, dumbass, how the hell was he a scrub? :facepalm
Walter Dukes was a two-time All-Star, Ray Felix was an All-Star and won ROY, and Red Kerr was a 3-time all-star. Stop making up crap.

[QUOTE=Deuce Bigalow]Tex Winter said that the League changed the rules so Counts had to actually shoot his freethrows instead of dunking them like he did in high school.[/QUOTE]
Someone please tell me.....

How do you dunk a FT? Were they ble to stand at the ft line and just leap? Did they get a running start?

Even if you took off 10 points and 5 rebounds off of his prime, which is just crazy, for not having a lot of 7 footers hes still around 30ppg and 18 rebounds per game. Which is better than anybody any other great centers.

Wilt's matchups in 1967 playoffs (with their 1967 playoffs #s);
Jerry Lucas(13/19/2) and Connie Dierking (18/13/4)
Bill Russell (11/22/6)
Nate Thurmond (16/23/3)
Pretty select company to beat them. Wilt dominated them with 22/29/9.

[QUOTE=97 bulls]Someone please tell me.....

How do you dunk a FT? Were they ble to stand at the ft line and just leap? Did they get a running start?[/QUOTE]
In college, Tex Winters saw Wilt could take three steps and dunk from the freethow line.

By OP's "logic" Roy Hibbert (7'2 280) should be DOMINATING today's NBA. Why isn't he????

[QUOTE=Pointguard]In college, Tex Winters saw Wilt could take three steps and dunk from the freethow line.[/QUOTE]
Remind you this was 7 years before his athletic prime.