Kevin McHale only has two 40 point games

[QUOTE=L.Kizzle;14665163]I actually made a thread on McHale being a bench player the majority of his career.[/QUOTE]

Gotchya. I guess the point is, McHale did what he had to do for his team and proved himself on all ends of the court. He played off the bench most of the time and that impacts anyone's ability to get a rhythm, let alone dominate as far as scoring is concerned.

McHale averaged only 31 MPG for his career. Compare that with KG (34.5), Duncan (34.0), or Malone (37.2). The fact that he only scored 40 points twice is not indicative of his scoring ability. Heck, Duncan only had 5 games according to your research, but anyone who watched Duncan play between 1999-2004 knew that Duncan could get 40 if he wanted.

[QUOTE=L.Kizzle;14665179]My gripe with McHale (not personal I don't know the man, but liked him as our coach here in Houston lol.) He's the only player that can get away with so few accolades and get ranked highly. Literally other players get ranked high because they have many accolades.
He has one All-NBA team.
Now a guy like Willis Reed gets ranked high with only one but he played in the same era as Wilt, Russell and Kareem. Cut the guy some slack.
Om the other end McHale was losing spots to Bernard King, Tom Chambers and Alex English on All-NBA squads[/QUOTE]

So this is what I don't understand. How can you knock McHale for All-NBA selections when you know 60% of the time, he was coming off the bench? Think about the other forwards around at the time:

Bird
Malone
B. Williams
King
Barkley
English
Cummings
Nique
Dr. J
Sampson
Dantley
Chambers

Also, it's a lot harder to get All-NBA selections when there was only All-NBA 1st and All-NBA 2nd Teams. All-NBA 3rd Team doesn't actually happen until [U]1989[/U]. McHale was 31 by then.

When you consider there are less spots, significant talent, and the fact that McHale came off the bench for most of his career, then it becomes apparent why he didn't win more All-NBA selections.

[QUOTE=Xiao Yao You;14665245]He played center and PF. He may have guarded a sf like Dantley who posted up[/QUOTE]

No he guarded SFs for real. He regularly guarded guys like Dominique, Bernard King, Scottie Pippen, Worthy, Orlando Wooldridge, etc.

I've watched him guard Bernard King, Moses Malone, and Manute Bol in the same game. He shut down Dominique in the 1986 ECSF, holding him to 39% FG.

McHale was a certified DPOY-level defender. He never won the award but he was voted by the coaches as the best defender in 1987.

[URL="http://www.insidehoops.com/forum/showthread.php?503000-Kevin-McHale-was-voted-the-best-defender-in-the-NBA-in-1987-by-the-coaches"]Kevin McHale was voted the best defender in the NBA in 1987 by the coaches[/URL]

[QUOTE=HoopsNY;14665250]So this is what I don't understand. How can you knock McHale for All-NBA selections when you know 60% of the time, he was coming off the bench? Think about the other forwards around at the time:

Bird
Malone
B. Williams
King
Barkley
English
Cummings
Nique
Dr. J
Sampson
Dantley
Chambers

Also, it's a lot harder to get All-NBA selections when there was only All-NBA 1st and All-NBA 2nd Teams. All-NBA 3rd Team doesn't actually happen until [U]1989[/U]. McHale was 31 by then.

When you consider there are less spots, significant talent, and the fact that McHale came off the bench for most of his career, then it becomes apparent why he didn't win more All-NBA selections.[/QUOTE]
He was making All-Star and All-Defensive teams at the same time so I don't think that was it.

86 forwards were Bird/Nique and English/Barkley
87 1st team selection
88 forwards were Bird/Barkley and Malone/Wilkins
89 forwards were Barkley/Malone, Mullin/Chambers and Wilkins/Cummings. So he couldn't make it over Terry Cummings. 🤔

WTF who's such a loser they wanna doxx Kevin McHale? What'd he do to you? He's as boring as vanilla ice cream and undoubtedly good at basketball. Weird hill to die on.