Wilt Chamberlain's Faults and Weaknesses

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Wilt's weaknesses according to jlauber:














A list of his faults (when it was his fault his team lost a playoff game or series) according to jlauber:














[COLOR="White"]Will add more if/when he admits to them.[/COLOR]

[Colbertnation64]

Is this one of those things that seem funnier in your head?

[millwad]

According to Jlauber Wilt had no weaknesses, he only had strenghts and everytime he failed in the playoffs it was due HORRIBLE teammates.

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According to Jlauber Wilt had no weaknesses, he only had strenghts and everytime he failed in the playoffs it was due HORRIBLE teammates.

Not true. It wasn't always his teammates fault. Sometimes his coach let Wilt down and failed miserably.

[SourPatchKids]

[millwad]

SourPatchDicks - GOAT POSTER!

[ThunderStruk022]

Just like with Wilt, SourPatch has no weaknesses in his posting game. When he makes a bad post, it's our fault for reading it incorrectly.

[Deuce Bigalow]

Jlauber said that Wilt carried garbage rosters in the playoffs

Turns out that Wilt played with 7 HOFers:
West
Baylor
Arizen
Hal Greer
Billy Cunningham
Goodrich
Thurmond

[ThunderStruk022]

Jlauber said that Wilt carried garbage rosters in the playoffs

Turns out that Wilt played with 7 HOFers:
West
Baylor
Arizen
Hal Greer
Billy Cunningham
Goodrich
Thurmond

Yes, but all of those Hall of Famers either choked, were past their prime, before their prime, or weren't as good as everyone thinks. Everyone knows that when Wilt had HOF teammates and lost in the playoffs, it was their fault, and they were either past their prime, before their prime, or choked.

[jlauber]

Jlauber said that Wilt carried garbage rosters in the playoffs

Turns out that Wilt played with 7 HOFers:
West
Baylor
Arizen
Hal Greer
Billy Cunningham
Goodrich
Thurmond

What a JOKE.

Baylor? ONE FULL season. And in that FULL season, Baylor completely puked all over himself in the playoffs.

Thurmond? Yep...a rookie, who played part-time, out of position (and who BACKED Wilt up for very brief minutes.) This is really laughable.

Cunningham? TWO post-seasons. One in which he WON a title. In the other Cunningham shot .161. (And he missed the ECF's in '68.)

That leaves West, Greer, Arizin, and Goodrich. Aside from West, no more than THREE FULL seasons with each. And, he WON a ring with Greer and Goodrich.

However, Greer was awful in the '66 playoffs. And once again, in '68, the Sixers were DECIMATED by injuries, and STILL lost a game seven to Boston by four points.

Arizin? He played with Wilt in his last three seasons. He generally played well, but even he had TWO horrible playoff's (shooting .375 and .325 in his last two post-seasons.) Of course, while he was paired with Chamberlain, Russell had supporting casts with as much as SEVEN HOFers.

West? First of all, he missed ONE FULL post-season. Secondly, he had ONE brilliant post-season (68-69), in which BAYLOR and VAN BREDA KOLF cost the Lakers a title. He had a great run in the '70 post-season, too, until game seven of the Finals, when Frazier just destroyed him. Once again, he missed the '71 playoffs. And he was AWFUL in the '72 playoffs, shooting .376 (and only .325 in the Finals), and yet, thanks to WILT, he finally won a ring. And he was injured in the '73 post-season, and overall, played poorly.


And, as I previously mentioned, Chamberlain had to battle Russell's Celtics in TEN of his 14 seasons (EIGHT H2H in the post-season.) Russell had anywhere from FOUR to EIGHT HOFers (and much deeper bench's) his ENTIRE career.

Then, in Wilt's last four seasons, he blew out his knee in '70, and still somehow got his 46-36 team to a game seven against the 60-22 Knicks and their FOUR HOFers. In the 70-71 post-season, Wilt had to battle Kareem's 66-16 Bucks, without BOTH West and Baylor. In the 71-72 post-season, Chamberlain chopped down Kareem and his 63-19 Bucks in the WCF's, and then dominated a Knick team that had FIVE HOFers in the Finals. And in his LAST post-season, Chamberlain's injury-riddled Lakers lost four close games in the Finals, against a Knick team that had SIX HOFers.

[jlauber]

Weaknesses?

Of course his FT shooting was a big weakness. However, and as I have stated many times, his IMPACT at the line offset much of it. His TEAM's ROUTINELY LED the NBA in FTAs, and were even more dominant in that regard in his post-seasons.

Furthermore, players like Shaq, Russell, and even Duncan were poor FT shooters. And even players like Hakeem and Kareem were BELOW average FT shooters. BTW, Wilt MADE more FTs than all of them.


Another weakness was his "Goliath Complex."

Had Wilt played like this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ3FXLyNFew

And he would have made a complete mockery of the NBA. However, there is NO WAY that the NBA would have allowed Chamberlain to play that way. They were already creating anti-Wilt RULES in an attempt to curtail his domination. They would never have allowed him to dominate his peers to the point that they would have been carrying them out in body-bags.

[Deuce Bigalow]

It was actually 9 HOFers Teammates

Wilt's HOF teammates

'60 - Paul Arizen, Tom Gola
'61 - Paul Arizen, Tom Gola
'62 - Paul Arizen, Tom Gola
'63 - Tom Gola
'64 - Nate Thurmond
'65 - Nate Thurmond, Hal Greer, Chet Walker
'66 - Hal Greer, Billy Cunningham, Chet Walker
'67 - Hal Greer, Billy Cunningham, Chet Walker
'68 - Hal Greer, Billy Cunningham, Chet Walker
'69 - Jerry West, Elgin Baylor
'70 - Jerry West, Elgin Baylor
'71 - Jerry West, Elgin Baylor, Gail Goodrich
'72 - Jerry West, Elgin Baylor, Gail Goodrich
'73 - Jerry West, Gail Goodrich

Wilt's teammates that were All-Stars but NOT HOFers

'62 - Tom Mescherry
'63 - Guy Rodgers
'64 - Guy Rodgers
'65 - Luke Jackson

Wilt had Hall Of Fame teammates on his team every single season of his career. 12/14 seasons he had at least 2 HOF teammates.

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Weaknesses?

Of course his FT shooting was a big weakness. However, and as I have stated many times, his IMPACT at the line offset much of it. His TEAM's ROUTINELY LED the NBA in FTAs, and were even more dominant in that regard in his post-seasons.

Furthermore, players like Shaq, Russell, and even Duncan were poor FT shooters. And even players like Hakeem and Kareem were BELOW average FT shooters. BTW, Wilt MADE more FTs than all of them.


Another weakness was his "Goliath Complex."

Had Wilt played like this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ3FXLyNFew

And he would have made a complete mockery of the NBA. However, there is NO WAY that the NBA would have allowed Chamberlain to play that way. They were already creating anti-Wilt RULES in an attempt to curtail his domination. They would never have allowed him to dominate his peers to the point that they would have been carrying them out in body-bags.

And there you have it. Even when he mans up and tells us both of Wilt's weaknesses, he follows up by making even more excuses for why they actually weren't weaknesses. His horrendous FT shooting wasn't actually a weakness because his teams led the league and playoffs in FTA. And apparently the NBA was doing everything they could in order to keep Wilt down by constantly changing rules in order to hinder Wilt's game.

Yes, Shaq got away with some physical play but he also received a ton of uncalled physical punishment in return. Times change. The early 2000s to the mid-2000s was an extremely physical era. Who cares if Wilt wouldn't have gotten away with that in his era?

[Deuce Bigalow]

And he would have made a complete mockery of the NBA. However, there is NO WAY that the NBA would have allowed Chamberlain to play that way. They were already creating anti-Wilt RULES in an attempt to curtail his domination. They would never have allowed him to dominate his peers to the point that they would have been carrying them out in body-bags.

[jlauber]

It was actually 9 HOFers Teammates

Wilt's HOF teammates

'60 - Paul Arizen, Tom Gola
'61 - Paul Arizen, Tom Gola
'62 - Paul Arizen, Tom Gola
'63 - Tom Gola
'64 - Nate Thurmond
'65 - Nate Thurmond, Hal Greer, Chet Walker
'66 - Hal Greer, Billy Cunningham, Chet Walker
'67 - Hal Greer, Billy Cunningham, Chet Walker
'68 - Hal Greer, Billy Cunningham, Chet Walker
'69 - Jerry West, Elgin Baylor
'70 - Jerry West, Elgin Baylor
'71 - Jerry West, Elgin Baylor, Gail Goodrich
'72 - Jerry West, Elgin Baylor, Gail Goodrich
'73 - Jerry West, Gail Goodrich

Wilt's teammates that were All-Stars but NOT HOFers

'62 - Tom Mescherry
'63 - Guy Rodgers
'64 - Guy Rodgers
'65 - Luke Jackson

Wilt had HOFer(s) teammates on his team every single season of his career. 12/14 seasons he had at least 2 HOF teammates.

Let's make this simple for you. Russell had 71 FULL seasons from his HOF teammates. With the recent addition of Walker to the HOF, Wilt had 27.

Meschery and All-Star? 16 ppg, 9.8 rpg, .425 shooting in 64 games. BTW, it was his ONLY "All-Star" season...

Rodgers? The WORST shooter in NBA HISTORY (compared to league average.) He even had a season of .347 shooting in a league that only shot .446. Had he just PASSED the ball in his career, he might have won more. Instead, he tried to match Wilt's scoring, and ...

Gola a "HOFer?" I guess if KC Jones is in the HOF, Gola has a case as well. The REALITY was, though, that he was a career 13 ppg, 8 rpg, .430 shooter, who may very well have been the WORST post-season shooter (at least by a "HOFer") in NBA history (whether with, or without Wilt.) In his last two post-seasons with Chamberlain, he shot .271 and .206 (once again, he was just as bad earlier in his post-seasob career, too...without Wilt.)

Baylor in '71 and '72? Go head and look up his games played in those two seasons, as well as his post-season play, and get back to me.