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Your favourite player (with different criteria)

Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2023 6:11 am
by 70sFan
Since it's the last moments of summer break, I think it would be nice to do something less strict :) Select your favourite players using these criteria:

1. Your favourite player of all-time.
2. Favourite player that retired before you started watching NBA.
3. Favourite player that retired, but you watched him play.
4. Favourite currently active player.
5. Your favourite retired roleplayer (never was selected to all-nba team)
6. Your favourite current roleplayer (never was selected to all-nba team).
7. Your favourite player per position.

Repeating is not allowed, you have to choose one player per category (except in the last point). Enjoy! :D

Re: Your favourite player (with different criteria)

Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2023 6:27 am
by 70sFan
Here is my list:

1. Your favourite player of all-time: Tim Duncan
2. Favourite player that retired before you started watching NBA: Artis Gilmore
3. Favourite player that retired, but you watched him play: Boris Diaw
4. Favourite currently active player: Brook Lopez
5. Your favourite retired roleplayer (never was selected to all-nba team): with cheating - Nate Thurmond, without cheating Paul Pressey
6. Your favourite current roleplayer (never was selected to all-nba team): Steven Adams
7. Your favourite player per position:

All-70sFan First Team:

PG: Walt Frazier
SG: Richie Guerin
SF: Adrian Dantley
PF: Tim Duncan
C: Artis Gilmore

All-70sFan Second Team:

PG: Earl Monroe
SG: George Gervin
SF: Cliff Hagan
PF: Boris Diaw
C: Nate Thurmond

All-70sFan Third Team:

PG: Jrue Holiday
SG: Paul Pressey
SF: Julius Erving
PF: Anthony Mason
C: Wilt Chamberlain

Re: Your favourite player (with different criteria)

Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2023 6:32 am
by Ryoga Hibiki
70sFan wrote:Since it's the last moments of summer break, I think it would be nice to do something less strict :) Select your favourite players using these criteria:

1. Your favourite player of all-time.
2. Favourite player that retired before you started watching NBA.
3. Favourite player that retired, but you watched him play.
4. Favourite currently active player.
5. Your favourite retired roleplayer (never was selected to all-nba team)
6. Your favourite current roleplayer (never was selected to all-nba team).
7. Your favourite player per position.

Repeating is not allowed, you have to choose one player per category (except in the last point). Enjoy! :D


1) Manu Ginobili
2) Bill Walton
3) Steve Nash
4) Nikola Jokic
5) Kurt Thomas
6) Lonzo Ball
7) too complicated

Re: Your favourite player (with different criteria)

Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2023 6:40 am
by Doctor MJ
70sFan wrote:Since it's the last moments of summer break, I think it would be nice to do something less strict :) Select your favourite players using these criteria:

1. Your favourite player of all-time.
2. Favourite player that retired before you started watching NBA.
3. Favourite player that retired, but you watched him play.
4. Favourite currently active player.
5. Your favourite retired roleplayer (never was selected to all-nba team)
6. Your favourite current roleplayer (never was selected to all-nba team).
7. Your favourite player per position.

Repeating is not allowed, you have to choose one player per category (except in the last point). Enjoy! :D


Yay, I like talking about our favorites! Let's see...

1. Steve Nash
2. Bill Russell
3. Magic Johnson
4. Nikola Jokic
5. Michael Cooper
6. Austin Reaves (I refuse to call Jamal Murray a role player)

7:
PG: Steph Curry
SG: Jerry West
SF: Larry Bird
PF: Connie Hawkins
C: Bill Walton

Re: Your favourite player (with different criteria)

Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2023 7:05 am
by ronnymac2
1. Your favourite player of all-time: Shaq
2. Favourite player that retired before you started watching NBA: Julius Erving
3. Favourite player that retired, but you watched him play: Hakeem Olajuwon
4. Favourite currently active player: LeBron James
5. Your favourite retired roleplayer (never was selected to all-nba team): Lamar Odom
6. Your favourite current roleplayer (never was selected to all-nba team): Josh Hart
7. Your favourite player per position: No repeats

Patrick Ewing / Bill Russell / Bismack Biyombo
Dennis Rodman / Amar'e Stoudemire / Anthony Mason
Rick Barry / Jerome Williams / Marques Johnson
John Starks / Dwyane Wade / Allan Houston
Jason Kidd / Pablo Prigioni / Nate Archibald

Re: Your favourite player (with different criteria)

Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2023 8:40 am
by OhayoKD
70sFan wrote:Since it's the last moments of summer break, I think it would be nice to do something less strict :) Select your favourite players using these criteria:

1. Your favourite player of all-time.

MJ (Alt: Giannis)
2. Favourite player that retired before you started watching NBA.

Bird (Alt: Hakeem)
3. Favourite player that retired, but you watched him play.

Shaq (Alt: Duncan)
4. Favourite currently active player.

KD (Alt: Westbrook)
6. Your favourite current roleplayer (never was selected to all-nba team):

OG(toronto)
by position

C: KAT
PF: Jaren jackson jr
SF: Giannis
SG: OG
PG: Westbrook

Re: Your favourite player (with different criteria)

Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2023 8:49 am
by -Luke-
1. Dirk Nowitzki
2. Jerry West
3. Reggie Miller
4. Giannis Antetokounmpo
5. Shane Battier
6. If never selected to an All-NBA team is the criteria: Jrue Holiday. But he's probably too good for this category. Alternative: Kentavious Caldwell-Pope

7.
First team: Jerry West / Reggie Miller / Scottie Pippen / Dirk Nowitzki / Hakeem Olajuwon
Second team: Oscar Robertson / Ray Allen / Detlef Schrempf / Giannis Antetokounmpo / Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Third team: Gary Payton / Manu Ginobili / Shawn Marion / Tim Duncan / Nikola Jokic

Re: Your favourite player (with different criteria)

Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2023 1:38 pm
by Texas Chuck
70sFan wrote:Since it's the last moments of summer break, I think it would be nice to do something less strict :) Select your favourite players using these criteria:

1. Your favourite player of all-time.
2. Favourite player that retired before you started watching NBA.
3. Favourite player that retired, but you watched him play.
4. Favourite currently active player.
5. Your favourite retired roleplayer (never was selected to all-nba team)
6. Your favourite current roleplayer (never was selected to all-nba team).
7. Your favourite player per position.

Repeating is not allowed, you have to choose one player per category (except in the last point). Enjoy! :D


1. Dirk duh
2. Bill Russell
3. Scottie Pippen
4. Dorian Finney-Smith
5. JJ Barea
6. Joe Ingles (is he still in the league technically?)
7.
Russell
Dirk
Pippen
Michael Cooper
Barea

Re: Your favourite player (with different criteria)

Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2023 1:43 pm
by 70sFan
OhayoKD wrote:
70sFan wrote:Since it's the last moments of summer break, I think it would be nice to do something less strict :) Select your favourite players using these criteria:

1. Your favourite player of all-time.

MJ (Alt: Giannis)
2. Favourite player that retired before you started watching NBA.

Bird (Alt: Hakeem)
3. Favourite player that retired, but you watched him play.

Shaq (Alt: Duncan)
4. Favourite currently active player.

KD (Alt: Westbrook)
6. Your favourite current roleplayer (never was selected to all-nba team):

OG(toronto)
by position

C: KAT
PF: Jaren jackson jr
SF: Giannis
SG: OG
PG: Westbrook

These are not the names I expected from you :)

Re: Your favourite player (with different criteria)

Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2023 3:22 pm
by MacGill
70sFan wrote:Since it's the last moments of summer break, I think it would be nice to do something less strict :) Select your favourite players using these criteria:

1. Your favourite player of all-time.
2. Favourite player that retired before you started watching NBA.
3. Favourite player that retired, but you watched him play.
4. Favourite currently active player.
5. Your favourite retired roleplayer (never was selected to all-nba team)
6. Your favourite current roleplayer (never was selected to all-nba team).
7. Your favourite player per position.

Repeating is not allowed, you have to choose one player per category (except in the last point). Enjoy! :D


1. Your favourite player of all-time. - Shaq
2. Favourite player that retired before you started watching NBA. - Jerry West
3. Favourite player that retired, but you watched him play. - MJ
4. Favourite currently active player. - Giannis
5. Your favourite retired roleplayer (never was selected to all-nba team) - Matt Bonner (Red Rocket)
6. Your favourite current roleplayer (never was selected to all-nba team). - Won't be role for long - Austin Reaves
7. Your favourite player per position.

Joker
Giannis
Butler
Curry
Luka

Re: Your favourite player (with different criteria)

Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2023 4:39 pm
by rk2023
70sFan wrote:Since it's the last moments of summer break, I think it would be nice to do something less strict :) Select your favourite players using these criteria:

1. Your favourite player of all-time.
2. Favourite player that retired before you started watching NBA.
3. Favourite player that retired, but you watched him play.
4. Favourite currently active player.
5. Your favourite retired roleplayer (never was selected to all-nba team)
6. Your favourite current roleplayer (never was selected to all-nba team).
7. Your favourite player per position.

Repeating is not allowed, you have to choose one player per category (except in the last point). Enjoy! :D


Trying to do the whole thing without repeats, just for fun

1. Chauncey Billups
2. Bill Russell
3. Dirk Nowitzki
4. LeBron James
5. Bob Lanier (it’s a travesty he wasn’t, this could be cheating)
6. Austin Reaves
7. Steve Nash - Jerry West - LeBron James - Giannis - Hakeem Olajuwon

Re: Your favourite player (with different criteria)

Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2023 4:53 pm
by wojoaderge
1. Joe Barry Carroll
2. George McGinnis
3. World B. Free
4. DeMar DeRozan
5. Jeff Wilkins
6. Jonas Valanciunas but I hesitate to call him a roleplayer. I would say Jose Alvarado
7. First team:
Eric Money/World B. Free/Adrian Dantley/George McGinnis/Joe Barry Carroll (hence my username)
Second team:
Kevin Porter/Fred Brown/Chuck Person/Jeff Wilkins/Benoit Benjamin
Third team:
Sherman Douglas/Johnny Neumann/Purvis Short/Larry Smith/Arvydas Sabonis

Re: Your favourite player (with different criteria)

Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2023 5:55 pm
by Ben AN
1. Wade
2. Dream
3. Dirk
4. LeBron
5. Battier
6. Capela
7. Steph/DWade/LeBron/Dirk/Dream

Re: Your favourite player (with different criteria)

Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2023 7:04 pm
by 70sFan
wojoaderge wrote:1. Joe Barry Carroll
2. George McGinnis
3. World B. Free
4. DeMar DeRozan
5. Jeff Wilkins
6. Jonas Valanciunas but I hesitate to call him a roleplayer. I would say Jose Alvarado
7. First team:
Eric Money/World B. Free/Adrian Dantley/George McGinnis/Joe Barry Carroll (hence my username)
Second team:
Kevin Porter/Fred Brown/Chuck Person/Jeff Wilkins/Benoit Benjamin
Third team:
Sherman Douglas/Johnny Neumann/Purvis Short/Larry Smith/Arvydas Sabonis

I just love your choices :D

Where would you have Artis Gilmore among most favourite centers?

Re: Your favourite player (with different criteria)

Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2023 7:58 pm
by prolific passer
1. Shawn Kemp
2. Magic Johnson
3. Hakeem
4. Jokic
5. Ben Gordon
6. Monte Morris
7.
PG: Tiny Archibald
SG: Michael Jordan
SF: Nique
PF: Kemp
C: Parish

PG: Magic
SG: BG7
SF: Pippen
PF: Pettit
C: Hakeem

PG: Lenny Wilkens
SG: Maravich
SF: Cliff Hagan
PF: Barkley
C: Patrick Chewing

Also fond of Cowens and Unseld.

Re: Your favourite player (with different criteria)

Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2023 8:09 pm
by wojoaderge
70sFan wrote:
wojoaderge wrote:1. Joe Barry Carroll
2. George McGinnis
3. World B. Free
4. DeMar DeRozan
5. Jeff Wilkins
6. Jonas Valanciunas but I hesitate to call him a role player. I would say Jose Alvarado
7. First team:
Eric Money/World B. Free/Adrian Dantley/George McGinnis/Joe Barry Carroll (hence my username)
Second team:
Kevin Porter/Fred Brown/Chuck Person/Jeff Wilkins/Benoit Benjamin
Third team:
Sherman Douglas/Johnny Neumann/Purvis Short/Larry Smith/Arvydas Sabonis

I just love your choices :D

Where would you have Artis Gilmore among most favourite centers?

Around the back of my Top 10. Center is my favorite position. I know I also have at least Paultz, Kelley, Walk, Nater, and Bol ahead of him. He's in the tier with Mel Turpin and Bill Walton (first two seasons).

Re: Your favourite player (with different criteria)

Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2023 8:15 pm
by 70sFan
wojoaderge wrote:
70sFan wrote:
wojoaderge wrote:1. Joe Barry Carroll
2. George McGinnis
3. World B. Free
4. DeMar DeRozan
5. Jeff Wilkins
6. Jonas Valanciunas but I hesitate to call him a role player. I would say Jose Alvarado
7. First team:
Eric Money/World B. Free/Adrian Dantley/George McGinnis/Joe Barry Carroll (hence my username)
Second team:
Kevin Porter/Fred Brown/Chuck Person/Jeff Wilkins/Benoit Benjamin
Third team:
Sherman Douglas/Johnny Neumann/Purvis Short/Larry Smith/Arvydas Sabonis

I just love your choices :D

Where would you have Artis Gilmore among most favourite centers?

Around the back of my Top 10. Center is my favorite position. I know I also have at least Paultz, Kelley, Walk, Nater, and Bol ahead of him. He's in the tier with Mel Turpin and Bill Walton (first two seasons).

Center is also the most favourite position of mine. I think I can have like 8-9 centers in my top 20 favourite players ever.

Re: Your favourite player (with different criteria)

Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2023 8:22 pm
by wojoaderge
70sFan wrote:
wojoaderge wrote:
70sFan wrote:I just love your choices :D

Where would you have Artis Gilmore among most favourite centers?

Around the back of my Top 10. Center is my favorite position. I know I also have at least Paultz, Kelley, Walk, Nater, and Bol ahead of him. He's in the tier with Mel Turpin and Bill Walton (first two seasons).

Center is also the most favourite position of mine. I think I can have like 8-9 centers in my top 20 favourite players ever.

Who are those other centers?

Re: Your favourite player (with different criteria)

Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2023 8:26 pm
by prolific passer
70sFan wrote:
wojoaderge wrote:
70sFan wrote:I just love your choices :D

Where would you have Artis Gilmore among most favourite centers?

Around the back of my Top 10. Center is my favorite position. I know I also have at least Paultz, Kelley, Walk, Nater, and Bol ahead of him. He's in the tier with Mel Turpin and Bill Walton (first two seasons).

Center is also the most favourite position of mine. I think I can have like 8-9 centers in my top 20 favourite players ever.

I don't think any position in the history of the NBA had more good to great players play it than the center. Pretty easy position to fall in love with because of that.

Re: Your favourite player (with different criteria)

Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2023 8:26 pm
by HeartBreakKid
1. Your favourite player of all-time. I think Chris Paul might be number 1, but it's close between 3 players. I like watching him dissect defenses.
2. Favourite player that retired before you started watching NBA. I started in the 90s. Bill Russell, who might be my favorite overall. I like the idea of a player dominating using his IQ essentially, plus it's interesting reading about the racism he had to endure.
3. Favourite player that retired, but you watched him play. Paul Pierce. He's why I became a Celtic fan (I'm not from Boston). Media was quite different pre 08 and Pierce was a guy that most people were indifferent too. I loved how versatile he was and how he didn't rely on athleticism as much. He kind of felt like my own secret until he got a ring then he became overrated and all over the media.
4. Favourite currently active player. Nikola Jokic. Loved watching him since day 1, it's rather obvious why.
5. Your favourite retired roleplayer (never was selected to all-nba team) Frank Ramsey. He seems bad ass, like a Manu Ginobili of his day except this guy was an even more pure bench player.
6. Your favourite current roleplayer (never was selected to all-nba team) Marcus Smart. Might like him even more than Joker. Watched him play in college for two years and wanted the Celtics to draft him at #6, which is exactly what happened. Ended up being a better defensive player than advertised which is saying much. For a player with limitations he is not nearly as one dimensional as people make him out to be, he does a lot of things.
7. Your favourite player per position. Can't think of a favorite, but shooting guard is probably my least favorite, they just seem like they're not that impactful but are glorified none the less.


Only 4 Celtic selections, not bad ;)