2klegend wrote:There is a way to filter out of the pretender and real contender of GOAT peak.
1. Championship year
2. Take both the regular season and playoff in account.
3. Their dominant has to translate well with advance stat.
With those 3 simple criteria, you can then filter out a lot of fake and the real GOAT peak.
I agree with points 2 and 3, but I really don't like point 1. For example - Moses won a championship in 1983, playing 91 games (78 in RS, 13 in playoffs), 2009 LeBron played 95 games (81 RS and 14 in playoffs). LeBron played more games, but didn't even make the finals. I fail to see how it would make sense to argue Moses as superior just because he won a title and LeBron didn't, because individually, LeBron was better in the regular season as well as in the playoffs. Even in the series that his team lost, James was absolutely amazing, averaged 38.5/8/8 on 59% TS. Strong argument can be made that LeBron never had better playoffs than he did in 2009, even in his championship seasons in 2012 and 2013.