Seasons Over: Top 25 Centers in the NBA.

paul · Post #21 » by **paul** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 6:35 am

He's not forgotten, he just only played 35 games. With such a small sample he can't be included on a list like this, or he drops a long way down it anyway.

Post #22 » by **BBallFreak** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 11:11 am

ponder276 wrote:How does Yao play 55 games, and still get ranked #4, while Wade plays 51 games, and drops all the way to 18th on your SG list (below guys like Jamal Crawford, Mike Dunleavy and Mike Miller)???

Do you really need to ask?

Not to mention Shaq, who plays 61 games, gets ranked relatively well in spite of having paltry numbers, and spent most of the season giving up on his previous team (which also happens to be Wade's team). I find it ironic that the justification for dropping Wade is the fact that he didn't play enough games and that he played on the worst team in the league. Well, Shaq deserves the same criticisms, yet has miraculously drawn a solid ranking.

Hypocrisy much?

UDRIH14 · Post #23 » by **UDRIH14** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 12:16 pm

this thread fails when rasho is not number 1

Dr Octagon · Post #24 » by **Dr Octagon** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 1:26 pm

1. Rasho

Scalabrine · Post #25 » by **Scalabrine** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 4:46 pm

As already explained Duncan has been the Spurs Center this season, I know the league and the Spurs want him to be a PF because that puts him at the top of the greatest of all time discussion and over his career he has been the PF but calling him our starting PF and Kurt Thomas your starting C is a reach. They dont play any other player that could be considered a Center(Oberto is the only one on the team right now) for any long periods of time so Duncan is playing Center over half of the games, is Mike Finley or Ime Udoka playing Center and Duncan PF?

Ill agree that at the end of his career he will be a Center but had he came into the league not on the Spurs next to David Robinson he would likely be playing Center for most teams in the league, but since he is considered the best PF of all time many fans/analysts will continue to keep him there and the Spurs and David Stern like it as well. If you disagree tell me why you think Kurt Thomas is a Center but tim Duncan is not, better yet tell me why Ime Udoka is a Center and Tim Duncan is not.

DrunkOnMystery · Post #26 » by **DrunkOnMystery** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 5:06 pm

I think it's more accurate just to say that the Spurs, like most NBA teams nowadays, often don't have a center in the lineup at given times.

Scalabrine · Post #27 » by **Scalabrine** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 5:26 pm

What position would Duncan play if he were on the Warriors, Pistons, Knicks, Mavs, Wolves, Hornets, Raptors, Jazz, Wizards, just about every team in the league? Hes listed at PF so he can be in the greatest of All Time talk so why cant we call Pat Ewing a Power Forward, or Hakeem Olajuwan? If were going by what players call themselves then the list would change but I am going by what position they play the most on there team, and Duncan would play Center on almost every team, its not debatable.