Gheorghe Manute Bradley

Laimbeer · Post #1 » by **Laimbeer** » Thu Mar 10, 2022 8:51 pm

How good would a combination of these three giants be, taking the best attributes of each?

henshao · Post #2 » by **henshao** » Thu Mar 10, 2022 9:53 pm

at some point this mutant begins blocking the shots of his own damn team and has to be benched

Post #3 » by **nate33** » Thu Mar 10, 2022 9:58 pm

Laimbeer wrote:How good would a combination of these three giants be, taking the best attributes of each?

He would probably be one of the best big men of all time. Muresan was extremely strong and had great touch. If you take that strength and skill and combine it with the half-decent agility and endurance of Bradley and the length of Manute, you would have the best defensive player of all time - basically Rudy Gobert, only longer, just as agile, and much stronger. Offensively, Muresan with more agility would be Shaq-like, but with good free throws too.

The one question is whether or not he could be played off the court with 5-out smallball like Gobert sometimes can. It's possible that he could be partially negated in today's game with the way the rules are now. He would dominate all other eras.

Post #4 » by **penbeast0** » Fri Mar 11, 2022 2:18 am

nate33 wrote:
Laimbeer wrote:How good would a combination of these three giants be, taking the best attributes of each?

He would probably be one of the best big men of all time. Muresan was extremely strong and had great touch. If you take that strength and skill and combine it with the half-decent agility and endurance of Bradley and the length of Manute, you would have the best defensive player of all time - basically Rudy Gobert, only longer, just as agile, and much stronger. Offensively, Muresan with more agility would be Shaq-like, but with good free throws too.

The one question is whether or not he could be played off the court with 5-out smallball like Gobert sometimes can. It's possible that he could be partially negated in today's game with the way the rules are now. He would dominate all other eras.

I don't know about "great touch," I would say "fundamentally sound offensive game." Gheorghe had been extremely well coached at some point, you could use his post game in a training video . . . you wouldn't even have to use the slo-mo to bring it down to a teaching level.

Manute also had great timing on his blocks in addition to unfolding himself to a ridiculous length, another former soccer goalie like Mutombo if I remember right. He couldn't do anything else but he was the greatest shotblocker in NBA history and that includes Bill Russell.