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RealGM 2020 Top 100 Project: #60 (Paul Arizin) 

Post#1 » by trex_8063 » Sun Feb 21, 2021 3:49 pm

2020 List
1. LeBron James
2. Michael Jordan
3. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
4. Bill Russell
5. Tim Duncan
6. Wilt Chamberlain
7. Magic Johnson
8. Shaquille O'Neal
9. Hakeem Olajuwon
10. Larry Bird
11. Kevin Garnett
12. Kobe Bryant
13. Jerry West
14. Oscar Robertson
15. Dirk Nowitzki
16. Karl Malone
17. David Robinson
18. Julius Erving
19. George Mikan
20. Moses Malone
21. Charles Barkley
22. Kevin Durant
23. Chris Paul
24. Stephen Curry
25. Bob Pettit
26. John Stockton
27. Steve Nash
28. Dwyane Wade
29. Patrick Ewing
30. Walt Frazier
31. James Harden
32. Scottie Pippen
33. Elgin Baylor
34. John Havlicek
35. Rick Barry
36. Jason Kidd
37. George Gervin
38. Clyde Drexler
39. Reggie Miller
40. Artis Gilmore
41. Dolph Schayes
42. Kawhi Leonard
43. Isiah Thomas
44. Russell Westbrook
45. Willis Reed
46. Chauncey Billups
47. Paul Pierce
48. Gary Payton
49. Pau Gasol
50. Ray Allen
51. Dwight Howard
52. Kevin McHale
53. Manu Ginobili
54. Dave Cowens
55. Adrian Dantley
56. Sam Jones
57. Bob Lanier
58. Dikembe Mutombo
59. Elvin Hayes
60. ???

Will look to conclude this one around 10-11am EST on Tuesday.

TWO NEW ANNOUNCEMENTS:
1) I'm sorry to do this, but we're running into so many delays and in danger of not finishing before the conclusion of the 2021 season......so to facilitate fewer unnecessary delays in the project, I am tentatively instituting a rule by which any poster who has [cumulatively] held up the project by 120+ hours (5 days) will be suspended from the voter pool for 5 threads. Upon his return from suspension, if he again holds up the project by >12 hours EVEN ONCE or an additional 24 hours cumulatively, he will be suspended an additional 5 threads. Upon return from the 2nd suspension, any ONE delay of 12+ hours or 24 hours cumulative will be met with a permanent elimination from the voter panel.
I have done a rough audit of all previous threads to see how many hours members of the panel have held things up. Anyone who wishes to know where his total hours is presently may PM me. There are a couple of posters who are dangerously close to the 120-hour threshold.
To avoid being the one who holds things up: just be proactive. Numerous posters are doing so and giving extensive lists including anyone with traction--->anyone voted for last thread is a good bet; anyone with multiple 2nd/3rd votes is also a good one to include; beyond that, just take 2 minutes toward the end of the 48-hour period to see who is gaining traction. It's not a lot being asked.

2) Also to facilitate speedier conclusions to threads [and noting runoff participation is often lacking at this stage]: any runoff that is going for 12 hours with NO runoff votes cast OR has gone 12+ hours and a candidate still maintains a 2+ vote lead over other finalists via Condorcet, will be ended and we will go with the Condorcet leader as the winner.


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Re: RealGM 2020 Top 100 Project: #60 

Post#2 » by trex_8063 » Sun Feb 21, 2021 4:12 pm

1st vote: Robert Parish
So yeah.....I'm a meaningful longevity guy. This is not a secret, nor new. And Parish is actually my clear top pick via my criteria; as my list stands now, there's actually no one left on the table who's even within 5 places of Parish.

But seriously:
Parish was an entirely fine two-way player [and was so for a really damn long time].
While I think he’s somewhat more remembered for his offense, he was also a very capable defender thru much of his career (especially early on).

For example, during his first SEVEN seasons in the league......
*He never averaged less than 2.8 blocks per 100 possessions (and as high as 4.4).
**In both ‘79 and ‘81 he was 4th in the league in bpg despite playing just 31.7 and 28.0 mpg; was 5th in ‘82 while playing just 31.7 mpg, too.
***He had a cumulative 97 DRtg, leading the league in DRtg in ‘79; had a DRtg in the top 8 four times (three times in the top 3).

Offensively, he was a 7-footer who ran the floor pretty well, while being a competent finisher (making him one of the more notable transition threats among the centers of his era). He was a very very good low-post scorer (could utilize a little hook shot, or that crazy high-arcing turnaround of his), and also had a tiny bit of range (out to about 12-14 feet, anyway, he was quite effective).
Was an entirely decent FT-shooter for a big-man (72.1% for his career).
The primary reason he was averaging just 16-20 ppg during his prime was because he was playing on an extremely stacked team thru most of it. I've little doubt prime Parish could have avg ~23-24 ppg for a less talent-laden club.

While I don't think Parish could have been “the man” on a contender, I think we’re well past the point on the list where that is a necessary consideration. Especially when one has the kind of longevity that Parish had: he had a prime that basically lasted 13 years (>1,000 rs games), and five other seasons as decent role player of varying (but certainly relevant) value; only 3 seasons (years 19-21) that were of negligible or nil value.

And while he couldn’t have been #1 on a contender, he certainly could have been the #1 on a 40-45 win playoff participant. I think this was more or less proven in '89 when Bird missed the entire season: Parish was arguably the best player [at worst a "1B"] on a 42-win team.....this was at age 35 (the single-oldest man on the Celtic roster). No Bird to feed him, but old-man Parish still averaged 18.6 ppg @ +7.0% rTS, to go with 12.5 rpg and 1.5 bpg.

And he was clearly capable of being the #2 on a contender. Indeed, he WAS either the 2nd or 3rd best player on MULTIPLE contenders.
He’s got one ring as the clear #2 ('81), another as---at worst---the #2B ('84), a third ring as the clear #3 ('86), and then a 4th ring as a sparsely used limited-value bench player ('97).

He was 7th in MVP voting in ‘81, 4th in MVP voting in ‘82.

A look at his prime production…….
Robert Parish (‘79-’91) (13 years: 1022 rs games!)
Per 100 (rs): 25.8 pts, 15.6 reb, 2.5 ast, 1.3 stl, 2.5 blk with 3.6 tov @ 58.4% TS
PER 20.2, .168 WS/48, +2.2 BPM, 113 ORtg/102 DRtg (+11) in 32.4 mpg
Playoffs Per 100: 22.9 pts, 13.9 reb, 1.9 ast, 1.2 stl, 2.5 blk, 3.2 tov @ .551 TS%
PER 16.5, .121 WS/48, +1.1 BPM, 109 ORtg/105 DRtg (+4) in 34.9 mpg

Robert Parish (full career)
Per 100 (rs): 24.6 pts, 15.5 reb, 2.3 ast, 1.3 stl, 2.5 blk, 3.5 tov @ .571 TS%
PER 19.2, .154 WS/48, +1.5 BPM, 111 ORtg/102 DRtg (+9) in 28.4 mpg
**And note this is over 21 years, 1611 rs games (more than any other player in history)
Per 100 (playoffs): 22.6 pts, 14.2 reb, 1.9 ast, 1.2 stl, 2.5 blk, 3.1 tov @ .547 TS%
PER 16.6, .121 WS/48, +1.1 BPM, 109 ORtg/105 DRtg (+4) in 33.6 mpg

Career rs WS: 147.0 (#26 all-time)
Career playoff WS: 15.6 (#39 all-time)
9-Time NBA All-Star
2-Time All-NBA (1x 2nd, 1x 3rd)

That’s an awful lot of career value, imo.


2nd vote: Anthony Davis
I think AD is arguably the best peak left on the board [imo it's between him, Giannis, and TMac, for that distinction]. Whereas TMac has a clear [almost outlier] peak season ('03), I think AD actually has a couple years of similar value (I think quite highly of his '15 campaign, which I think gets slept on).
Hell, even in '19 he was playing at an amazing level. I frowned a bit at how he stayed out [or was kept out] of games after he made it clear he wanted a trade. But you know, it's his prerogative to want to be somewhere where he can actually contend [and frankly anyone who uses '19 against him should be extra generous to Kevin Garnett for sticking it out for 12 fruitless years in Minnesota]; and once the decision was more or less set, the Pels too sort of WANTED to keep him out (to protect their trade asset). It's hardly any use if they play him too much in a dead-end season [ceiling is a 1st round exit at best] and risk him getting injured, at which point his stock goes way down.

Anyway.....
He's a proven good floor-raiser, and fit nicely next to Lebron to be the best 1-2 punch in the league on what ultimately was the championship team.
Came into the league as pretty much a borderline All-Star as a rookie [and as mentioned was (imo) at least weak MVP tier by his 3rd season], so though he's got only 8 seasons, he's packed a considerable amount of value in there.


3rd vote (holds nose): Allen Iverson
I'm not a fan of Iverson at all. He's got some major flaws as a player and no doubt is overrated in the mainstream. But I [somewhat grudgingly??] must acknowledge that his body of work makes him a decent candidate at this stage. I will try to find the time to post more extensively about him later.

Could really see going with Bob Cousy for my 3rd vote, too (sort of similar player and career-arc in a number of ways).
Vince Carter is another I think needs some discussion here. Unseld as well.


For the record....
Among those with traction, I'm presently going with this order:
Parish > Davis > Iverson > Cousy > Mourning > Thurmond > McGrady > Giannis > Arizin > English > Walton
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Re: RealGM 2020 Top 100 Project: #60 

Post#3 » by Odinn21 » Sun Feb 21, 2021 4:19 pm

Man, I was used to have my 1st pick player get in. Now that it's such a rare occurrence that makes me stumble a little bit when it happens. :lol:

60. Alonzo Mourning
It's quite insane that we as a group have forgotten about Mourning. He had Walton-Reed like career in a way but the unlucky injury hit him much later. He had 8 good prime seasons with very very good peak. Still a prime longer than A. Davis and also arguably better. He still had 4 seasons of regular games after the injury, his overall longevity isn't great but it's there. His intangibles were great.

61. Tony Parker
His peak is underrated, also how long his peak lasted is underrated. I'd personally pick 2013 as his peak but I definitely see someone going for 2009 which was only to be disrupted by injury in 2010 in the future. In 2009, he was in the top 10% percentile in impact numbers. In 2012 and 2013 he was in the very top 1%. He usually is considered as not so great impact player but he really was at his best. His prime duration beyond peak duration was also good. He had 9 seasons of actual prime with 4 seasons worthy of peak. Even before going into extended prime which I usually refer as just prime, he was a force for a decade and a half. Yeah, his overall longevity is worse than Parish without a doubt but I think edges going in his favour for peak and prime are more than that.
Some of us in here usually look at WS or VORP but in Parker's case, sheer numbers are more telling.
He's #10* in total points and #5 in total assists in the pro playoff history. It's very likely that Durant will surpass Parker for that #10 spot in 2021 playoffs but the point stands still. Parker is the only player in top 20 to make the list yet it's obvious that his peak/prime/longevity stack more than enough at this point in the list.
(*He's #9 in the NBA playoff history. Erving's ABA career.)

62. Robert Parish
I'm reaching to a point that my more prime oriented vision won't be able to favour anyone else over Parish's massive longevity. Right now, I have him as a placeholder and I might change this pick because I have some thoughts I'm yet to unfold properly (about Arizin, Davis, McGrady, Iverson, English, Thurmond and McAdoo).

BTW, in the previous project it looks like Rasheed Wallace made the top 85 just barely but I feel like I might consider him in the near future.

Edit;
Cousy > Arizin > McGrady > Davis > English > Giannis > Jokic > Walton > Iverson > Penny
The issue with per75 numbers;
36pts on 27 fga/9 fta in 36 mins, does this mean he'd keep up the efficiency to get 48pts on 36fga/12fta in 48 mins?
The answer; NO. He's human, not a linearly working machine.
Per75 is efficiency rate, not actual production.
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Re: RealGM 2020 Top 100 Project: #60 

Post#4 » by Dutchball97 » Sun Feb 21, 2021 4:25 pm

1. Paul Arizin - Arizin has been included in the last two run-offs now and he's incredibly close to getting in so I hope #60 is the one. Some of his achievements include leading the league in WS in 1952 (ahead of prime George Mikan), leading his team to a title in 56 while also leading the league in play-off WS, being a consistent play-off performer and being one of the top players in the league throughout the 50s and the first years of the 60s. Arizin is the last player left on the board that won a ring as the clear best player on his team, not many guys around that have 2 top 3 MVP finishes either.

2. Anthony Davis - In terms of regular season longevity AD is no lightweight. Davis 86 WS in the regular season falls short of most of the candidates with full careers but to put it into context it is already higher than the likes of Cowens, IT, Kawhi and Reed. His 5 years of 10+ WS match Arizin and is more than enough to prove to me AD's peak isn't an outlier. I'd have liked to have seen AD gotten a bit deeper in the play-offs as a first option as I don't think those Pelicans were that bad necessarily and even his great 2020 play-off run came as the clear second option but at this point his strong peak and decent longevity is enough for me to vote him here.

3. Robert Parish - Still a lot of guys I'm looking at here but Parish is the guy with the most support out of everyone else I'm considering and it's probably for a good reason. There are a couple very good peaks still left on the table but in most cases it's only 1 or 2 really good seasons and sometimes with questionable play-off runs as well. Parish might not have peaked as high as most of the other candidates at this point but at his best he was still a top 10 player imo, that paired with his incredible longevity and many deep post-season campaigns gets it done.


Allen Iverson > Giannis Antetokounmpo > Tracy McGrady > Nikola Jokic > Bob Cousy > Alonzo Mourning > Alex English > Tony Parker > Nate Thurmond > Bill Walton
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Post#5 » by penbeast0 » Sun Feb 21, 2021 4:45 pm

1. Alex English -- Versatility, consistency, and character put English over the likes of Dantley, Nique, Tmac, etc. English played many roles and always made his teams better no matter what role Denver played him in. He was a solid 35-30ppg scorer at above average efficiency for a full decade. In the 1980s he scored more points than Larry Bird, Dominique Wilkens, Adrian Dantley, Isiah Thomas, Moses Malone, or well, anyone. And he did it while generally guarding the better of the opponents starting forwards in the era of the great scoring forwards. From watching him, I have him as the only above average defender among the killer lineup of great scoring fowards of his era (Bird, Gervin, Nique, AD, King, Aquirre). One of the most underrated players in history. Also won numerous citizenship awards, one of the great people to play the game.

2. Anthony Davis -- last season pushed his totals for me quite a bit. 8 year career, great peak/playoff run. Two way player, very versatile.

3. Paul Arizin -- MVP who led his team to a title, albeit in the weak 1950s. When he left for the military, the team was badly hurt; when the team's other big name star, Neil Johnston, was out for a year, the team was only affected in a minor way. If you are going to put a 50s star in, it makes more sense to vote for Arizin, who made his team a champion, than Cousy, a flashy spectacular player that fans loved but a poor defender and less efficient a scorer. One of the Cousy supporters talks about his rings but Cousy was actually a playoff detriment to the team in those title seasons (except possibly 1957), his scoring efficiency was truly awful -- Russell Westbrook in Washington bad -- and yet he kept shooting at high volumes. He should go in as a 50s star but his play from 58 on, particularly in the playoffs, was not HOF level or even close.

Then: Bobby Jones, another English type player with super consistency and versatility though a defensive star instead of an offensive one, then maybe Parish. Note that Jones has more 1st team All-Defense teams than any other player in history. I see someone has Wes Unseld added . . . unlike the above he was a good passer but not the scorer or rim protector as those above.

Guys that I love but whose primes are too short to be top 5 right now: Giannis, Hawkins, Moncrief, Lever, Walton . . . convince me they have played long enough to go ahead of an Anthony Davis (short but not AS short) or Bobby Jones type player. I'd have the first three over the likes of Penny Hardaway who has been mentioned. Lever may not make my top 100, Walton almost definitely won't. 1.5 seasons as a star and 1 as a top reserve does not make up for 10 as a highly paid injury; it's a shame because he's probably top 20 all-time with more seasons, maybe top 10. I also see Tony Parker getting traction, interesting.

After Jones and Parish, call it Giannis, then Unseld, Mourning, Thurmond, Parker, Nique, Cousy, Hawkins, Tmac, Moncrief. Those are subject to change, I haven't though deeply about the ranking past my top 4.
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Re: RealGM 2020 Top 100 Project: #60 

Post#6 » by DQuinn1575 » Sun Feb 21, 2021 5:27 pm

I appreciate the rules, can you do one more thing and at the beginning of each thread list everyone who got a vote last time, and tell all voters to rank all of them, with only the top 3 being completely ordered? That might help some in the runoffs so you aren’t looking for someone’s comparison of guys they don’t have ranked in their top 3.
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Post#7 » by Odinn21 » Sun Feb 21, 2021 6:03 pm

DQuinn1575 wrote:I appreciate the rules, can you do one more thing and at the beginning of each thread list everyone who got a vote last time, and tell all voters to rank all of them, with only the top 3 being completely ordered? That might help some in the runoffs so you aren’t looking for someone’s comparison of guys they don’t have ranked in their top 3.

That would defeat the purpose of making this project though. Random looking votes give some traction or insight about the players outside of the scope.
The issue with per75 numbers;
36pts on 27 fga/9 fta in 36 mins, does this mean he'd keep up the efficiency to get 48pts on 36fga/12fta in 48 mins?
The answer; NO. He's human, not a linearly working machine.
Per75 is efficiency rate, not actual production.
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Post#8 » by Hal14 » Sun Feb 21, 2021 6:08 pm

Hal14 wrote:1. Bob Cousy
2. Nate Thurmond
3. Allen Iverson

Bob Cousy - Very underrated on this board. When you look at the players from his era, Mikan and Pettit were better than Cousy. But Cousy has a strong argument for being better than any other player from his era. You could argue that Cousy was better than Schayes and Schayes got voted in a long time ago in the no. 41 spot.

Cousy - 13x all star, 10x all NBA 1st team, 1 MVP, 6x NBA title
Schayes - 12x all star, 6x all NBA 1st team, 0 MVP, 1x NBA title

Cousy has a clear edge in awards and titles over Schayes plus had greater impact on the game - decades later, Cousy was the guy all point guards modeled their game after. Did Schayes do that? Of course not - he was a PF and the guy back then all PFs modeled their game after was Pettit.

What about Arizin? He was a SF and he didn't have as much impact as Cousy either - Baylor was the guy back then all SFs would model their game after - not Arizin.

And as for awards and titles, we have:

Cousy - 13x all star, 10x all NBA 1st team, 2x all NBA 2nd team, 1 MVP, 6x NBA title
Arizin - 10x all star, 3x all NBA 1st team, 1x all NBA 2nd team, 0 MVP, 1x NBA title

Not to mention the impact Cousy had on the game and his legacy. We simply had never before seen a guy who could make the kind of passes that Cousy could. It's like he had eyes in the back of his head - able to see 2 steps ahead of the opposition, able to anticipate where his teammates would be, hit teammates perfectly in stride for transition layups. Some of the plays he made - you might watch them today in 2021 and think they are routine plays - but a) many of the plays he made were truly outstanding and not routine at all and b) He was so far ahead of his time - to make the types of plays he did back in the 50s was pretty amazing. Keep in mind back then there was much more strict rules in regards to dribbling. The way players dribble the ball in today's game - they would get called for a carry, palming or travel pretty much every time down the floor. Cousy was called the hardwood Houdini for a reason. And it's not like he was all flash and no substance (like Maravich, Jason Williams, etc.), Cousy was all about winning. That's all he cared about - winning. Scoring the basketball, making great passes to teammates to get them baskets. Hell, he was even a good rebounder for his size. He did whatever it takes to win. He became the player that all point guards who would come later on would model their games after.

Not for another 2 decades when Frazier came along would we see a player as good as Cousy at both scoring and setting up teammates for scores. Frazier was obviously a better defender, but he also had the advantage of coming along decades later, when more players were lifting weights, rules weren't as strict on palming/carrying/traveling, the ball was easier to shoot and easier to dribble than the one Cousy played with, etc. Frazier was voted in at the no. 30 spot in this poll. Is he really 26 spots better than Cousy? No way.



Cousy led the NBA in assists 8 years in a row.

Cousy was hands down the best player at his position for an entire decade, was considered the best scorer and best passer at his position for an entire decade, and completely ignore all of the awards (which were voted on be people who actually were alive back then and followed the game very closely LIVE and based their voting off not just stats but also intangibles, eye test and impact the player had on the game, reputation around the league, etc. and also completely ignoring contributing the more titles than any PG ever, a huge part of the greatest dynasty in NBA history, the guy who was the one leading the famous Celtics fast break which changed the way the game would be played from then on since up until then no one else was playing that type of push the tempo, run run run, get quick shots up before the defense is set type of style. Let's also ignore that during his career Cousy made more high degree of difficulty shots - shots that literally no one had ever even attempted, let alone made, he was also the league's best ball handler and passer for his entire career - in an era where they played with a ball that was MUCH more difficult to dribble, pass and shoot than the ball they have the advantage of playing with today.

Nate Thurmond - right in that same tier with Reed, Gilmore and Ewing. I see those four centers as pretty debatable. Ewing, Gilmore and Reed all got voted in already - it's Thurmond's time now. Thurmond has a strong case for being better than all 3 of them (probably the best defender of the group, but Gilmore has the longevity and ABA Finals MVP, Reed has 2 Finals MVPs so I've got Thurmond just barely ranked behind those other guys).

Article here:
https://www.nba.com/history/legends/profiles/nate-thurmond

Excerpt:
Both Abdul-Jabbar and Chamberlain have gone on record saying they felt Thurmond was their toughest adversary. “He plays me better than anybody ever has,” Abdul-Jabbar told Basketball Digest when he was in his prime. “He’s tall, has real long arms, and most of all he’s agile and strong.” In an article in Sport, Abdul-Jabbar also said, “When I score on Nate, I know I’ve done something. He sweats and he wants you to sweat, too.”

"Some basketball observers have suggested that the 6-11 Thurmond provided the best mix of offense and defense in basketball history. Many say that his defense was better than Chamberlain’s, and that his offense was better than Bill Russell’s. With quickness and long hands, a smooth outside shooting touch, tenacious rebounding, classic shot blocking ability, and a total team attitude, Thurmond offered a perfectly balanced package."

Thurmond is one of the most underrated players of all time and is top 50, no question in my mind.

https://www.nbcsports.com/bayarea/warriors/defensive-dominator-thurmond-one-nbas-most-underrated-all-time

Thurmond went against Wilt, Russell, Chamberlain, Kareem, Unseld, Bellamy, Beaty, Cowens, Reed - all in their prime. Yet he still managed:

-7 all star games in 14 seasons

-2 times all defensive 1st team, 3 times all defensive 2nd team...despite the fact that all defense awards didn't exist until his 6th season! Clearly one of the best defensive players of all time and one of the best rebounders of all time

-Did not make a 1st or 2nd team all NBA (obviously those usually went to Wilt/Kareem/Russell) but there's very little question he would have made quite a few all NBA 3rd team selections if it existed back when he played

-Finished 2nd in MVP voting in 66-67, finishing ahead of Russell, Robertson and Barry - Thurmond finished no. 2 behind Wilt who was no. 1. Finished 11th in 69-70, 8th in 70-7, 8th in 71-72, 9th in 72-73 and 8th in 73-74

-Helped his team to NBA Finals in 67, where they lost to arguably the greatest team of all time, the 67 Sixers. That series Thurmond averaged 14 PPG and 26.7 RPG while playing 47 MPG, going head to head vs Wilt. Thurmond's Warriors fell in 6 games to Wilt's Sixers. Let's compare that to the Eastern Division Finals - Russell (while also going against Wilt) averaged less PPG (11) and less RPG (23) than Thurmond, and Russell's Celtics lost in 5 games to Wilt's Sixers. How did Wilt do in each series? His numbers. were better in the Eastern Division Finals, going against Russell than they were in the NBA finals vs Thurmond. Wilt went from 21 PPG, 32 RPG and 10 APG vs Russell down to 17 PPG, 28 RPG and 6 APG vs Thurmond.
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Re: RealGM 2020 Top 100 Project: #60 

Post#9 » by euroleague » Sun Feb 21, 2021 6:11 pm

1. Bob Cousy
2. Bill Walton
3. Elvin hayes

1. Cousy was a revolutionary player in the NBA, and he was a huge contributor on many championship teams. His stats may not have been good, but as a PG, much of his impact wasn't in his scoring stats. His elite playmaking set the stage for Russell's passing to develop, and his transition offense helped the defense by tiring out opponents. It's no coincidence that the Celtics were consistently first in ppg - his offense also allowed for offensive rebounding to be more effective.

Many people hating on Cousy never actually watched these games. I myself haven't watched enough of them to be an expert, but what I have seen of Cousy has him as an elite floor general whose impact went far beyond his stats.

2. Bill Walton - This may be a lot higher than most have him, but his run at his best was so elite, both in the regular and post-season, i feel comfortable putting him this high. MVP, FMVP, would've won DPOOY, 6MOY with the Celtics on a GOAT level team. McHale had a bigger role on those teams, and will probably be my next selection, but Walton's brief period of being arguably the best player in the league, and winning Portland's only title, put him this high for me.

3. Elvin Hayes - Long, high prime, with great achievments and two-way play. Unseld gets a lot of credit for these teams, but there aren't very many championship level first options with huge longevity available at this stage in the game.

Other players Im considering: Unseld, Penny, Mourning, Arizin

Penny Hardaway > Arizin > Mourning > Unseld > Alex English
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Re: RealGM 2020 Top 100 Project: #60 

Post#10 » by Hal14 » Sun Feb 21, 2021 6:18 pm

euroleague wrote:1. Bob Cousy
2. Bill Walton
3. Elvin hayes

1. Cousy was a revolutionary player in the NBA, and he was a huge contributor on many championship teams. His stats may not have been good, but as a PG, much of his impact wasn't in his scoring stats. His elite playmaking set the stage for Russell's passing to develop, and his transition offense helped the defense by tiring out opponents. It's no coincidence that the Celtics were consistently first in ppg - his offense also allowed for offensive rebounding to be more effective.

Many people hating on Cousy never actually watched these games. I myself haven't watched enough of them to be an expert, but what I have seen of Cousy has him as an elite floor general whose impact went far beyond his stats.

2. Bill Walton - This may be a lot higher than most have him, but his run at his best was so elite, both in the regular and post-season, i feel comfortable putting him this high. MVP, FMVP, would've won DPOOY, 6MOY with the Celtics on a GOAT level team. McHale had a bigger role on those teams, and will probably be my next selection, but Walton's brief period of being arguably the best player in the league, and winning Portland's only title, put him this high for me.

3. Elvin Hayes - Long, high prime, with great achievments and two-way play. Unseld gets a lot of credit for these teams, but there aren't very many championship level first options with huge longevity available at this stage in the game.

Other players Im considering: Unseld, Penny, Mourning, Arizin

Penny Hardaway > Arizin > Mourning > Unseld > Alex English

Hayes is off the board
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Re: RealGM 2020 Top 100 Project: #60 

Post#11 » by euroleague » Sun Feb 21, 2021 9:53 pm

Hal14 wrote:
euroleague wrote:1. Bob Cousy
2. Bill Walton
3. Elvin hayes

1. Cousy was a revolutionary player in the NBA, and he was a huge contributor on many championship teams. His stats may not have been good, but as a PG, much of his impact wasn't in his scoring stats. His elite playmaking set the stage for Russell's passing to develop, and his transition offense helped the defense by tiring out opponents. It's no coincidence that the Celtics were consistently first in ppg - his offense also allowed for offensive rebounding to be more effective.

Many people hating on Cousy never actually watched these games. I myself haven't watched enough of them to be an expert, but what I have seen of Cousy has him as an elite floor general whose impact went far beyond his stats.

2. Bill Walton - This may be a lot higher than most have him, but his run at his best was so elite, both in the regular and post-season, i feel comfortable putting him this high. MVP, FMVP, would've won DPOOY, 6MOY with the Celtics on a GOAT level team. McHale had a bigger role on those teams, and will probably be my next selection, but Walton's brief period of being arguably the best player in the league, and winning Portland's only title, put him this high for me.

3. Elvin Hayes - Long, high prime, with great achievments and two-way play. Unseld gets a lot of credit for these teams, but there aren't very many championship level first options with huge longevity available at this stage in the game.

Other players Im considering: Unseld, Penny, Mourning, Arizin

Penny Hardaway > Arizin > Mourning > Unseld > Alex English

Hayes is off the board

Next up is Penny then.

3. Penny Hardaway - elite superstar peak that co-Led a title contender. Him and Shaq beat MJ/Pippen in 95. Was a breed of PG that the league had never seen and has never seen since, a 6’7 freakishly fast playmaker with elite vision and finishing ability. The closest thing to him was Grant Hill, but that was a forward playing point, not a true point guard.
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Re: RealGM 2020 Top 100 Project: #60 

Post#12 » by trex_8063 » Sun Feb 21, 2021 10:36 pm

DQuinn1575 wrote:I appreciate the rules, can you do one more thing and at the beginning of each thread list everyone who got a vote last time, and tell all voters to rank all of them, with only the top 3 being completely ordered? That might help some in the runoffs so you aren’t looking for someone’s comparison of guys they don’t have ranked in their top 3.


wrt the bolded:
Most threads I HAVE been doing that---if not in the OP, then at a later point [like when I cite the vote-count with 24(ish) hours left], or when I quote specific individuals and state something like "I need to know your order on Players A, B, and C". EDIT: for some individuals I was both notifying them in the thread AND sending a PM with the same question [because it seemed in-thread notifications were being ignored].

Nonetheless, the problem we keep running into is some individuals are still failing to inform me of these things in a timely manner [and doing so on a repeated basis].


As to who had votes last thread, I'll write them below, but I'm not going to do so each thread.....especially when it's easy to reference:
I have all previous threads linked in the OP of each and every new one. The list of players who received votes will likely be one of the very last posts in the last thread [in very visible red print].
Figuring out any addition names that might be worth including requires only that one take a quick scroll thru the vote posts [which doesn't take long at this point, as most threads anymore are a mere two pages]; or alternately just check in on the current thread sometime during Day 2.
One can keep a copy of his player order in a Google doc or similar, periodically editing in a new name as needed [or deleting those that are taken off the table]......and then just copy/paste this listing into his vote post.

And one doesn't necessarily even have to do this every thread, if nothing much has changed from one to the next (because I am keeping a record of the most recent listing offered, which I will use unless someone provides a new one).

It's literally like 2-3 minutes effort [maybe less, depending on how quickly the page loads on your browser], required perhaps 2-3 times/week.

Anyway, the players on the table who received first-place votes last round [and are thus likely to again], or have already received votes in this one are:
Parish
Arizin
Cousy
English
Walton
Mourning

With noted traction from prior threads:
Davis (he's even received a 1st vote once or twice)
Thurmond

Iverson, Giannis, Wilkins, Parker, and Jokic have all had at least minimal buzz, too.
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Post#13 » by sansterre » Sun Feb 21, 2021 10:57 pm

1. Tracy McGrady. It's time to talk about T-Mac. I teased him earlier and got no traction. But by my stuff McGrady is the #1 player on the board right now (of the 15 names that are being discussed). Of the six metrics I use he ranks:

BackPicks (my personal CORP conversion): 1st of 15
PIPM CORP (personal CORP conversion): 3rd of 13
CORP (ElGee's numbers): 3rd of 11
Win Share CORP (personal formula): 8th of 15
VORP CORP (personal formula): 1st of 12
WOWYR (ElGee's numbers): tied 5th of 12

Look, I realize that these are all formulas. None of these are visually verified. And I'm leery of arguing hard for a player purely based on formulas. But that's pretty good representation (especially since many of these formulas value different things). You know who the WSCORP and VORPCORP formulas love love love? Dominique Wilkins and Allen Iverson. But BackPicks BPM, CORP, PIPM and WOWYR all range from disinterest to *hate* for those two. Because different formulas like different things. But T-Mac shows up pretty well in all of them. The only one he struggles with (Win Share CORP) is the stat I think least of. And he seems to have gotten even better in the playoffs. Here are some regular season vs. playoff comparisons from some of his best years (I'm not using the 'P' word because if I do Odinn will yell at me about how I chose the wrong years and he'll probably be right):

RS '01-'07: 32.9% Usage, 52.8% TS, 9.6% Reb, 28.6% Ast, 9.4% TO, +6.6 OBPM
PO '01-07: 35.1% Usage, 52.7% TS, 8.9% Reb, 34.4% Ast, 10.2% TO, +7.7 BPM

So in the playoffs his usage went up by 2.2%, and between the usage increase and going against playoff defenses (where his team was *always* the lower seed) his efficiency didn't budge. Do you realize how nuts that is? We praise Kobe for his inelastic offense, but T-Mac's statistical resume on that front is superior to Kobe's (granted, we only have five series to look at, so this could be a sample size issue, but still). Are we sure that we aren't just hating on T-Mac because he couldn't get out of the first round? How different is T-Mac's situation from Kobe in '05-'07? Except that a) we'd seen Kobe play with Shaq and it was awesome and b) we got to see Kobe play with Gasol and it was awesome. We never got to see that with T-Mac except for with Yao, and Yao was injured a lot. Here's Kobe from '06-07:

RS '06-'07: 36.2% Usage, 56.8% TS, 7.9% Reb, 24.8% Ast, 9.8% TO, +6.9 OBPM
PO '06-'07: 30.9% Usage, 57.5% TS, 8.1% Reb, 20.9% Ast, 15.0% TO, +4.2 OBPM

Kobe's usage plummets in the playoffs, but he gains little in terms of scoring (though his efficiency is still notably higher than McGrady), his assists fall, his turnovers spike . . . I'm not kidding. Are we sure that T-Mac wasn't a seriously inelastic scoring monster that never got enough support? His Heliocentrism scores, from '01 to '07 (again, VORP is only so good at stuff, but it's something):

'01: 67% RS, 80% PO
'02: 56% RS, 80% PO
'03: 97% RS, 143% PO
'04: 407% RS
'05: 45% RS, 56% PO
'06: 40% RS (missed half the season)
'07: 32% RS, 36% PO

Compare this with Kobe:

'06: 60% RS, 25% PO
'07: 58% RS, 67% PO

Look. I've gone on a while here. I'm just saying. It's pretty clear to me that McGrady's supporting cast in Orland ranged from pretty bad to flaming dumpster fire. And when he moved to Houston he started missing games and wasn't quite himself. I don't know what to make of it. But few players have his resume of stepping his performance in the playoffs, even when acting as the first option on a weak team. The second McGrady gets *any* support he'll have my vote. But until then I'm just going to push him where I can.

Anyhow, on with the list:

2. Anthony Davis - Davis is amazing. I think it's impossible not to really, really like him. He's the modern Garnett/Robinson in the sense that he is INSANE as a second option. He's insane going to the rim, really hard to defend in a pick and roll and can nail threes if undefended. He can make *any* shot the defense gives him, which makes him a matchup nightmare. He's a skilled passer (for a big) and has low turnovers (for a big). And on defense he's a great shot blocker, super long and athletic to generate steals *and* quick enough to defend wings (like Jimmy Butler in the '20 Finals). I'm serious, there may not be a player better suited to the modern game than Anthony Davis. And you know what's crazy? When he played as the first option on weak teams, his scoring and efficiency generally went *up* in the playoffs. So he could absolutely play as a first option successfully, even if it was a better use of his skills to play as the 2nd. Now I'll back up for a bit. I mentioned him in the same breath as Garnett or Robinson. Is/was he at that level? Probably not. Both guys were absurd needle-movers on the defensive end, while AD (for all his gaudy box-score stats) doesn't seem to do the same. But his peak years (which is pretty much every year since 20) have been at a level nearly unmatched at this point. The knocks against him? That he misses a lot of regular season time compared to other players here. Totally fair point. But let the record show that AD's WS->CORP and VORP->CORP numbers are both pretty strong (about average in both of the 15 players under consideration now). Average may not sound great, but those are volume-driven numbers and despite a comparably short career and missing regular season time he holds his own. Him being this high on my rankings is driven by two things: ElGee's hand-calculated CORP numbers have him pretty high, and his playoff performance is consistently superior to his regular season performance (something not a lot of players can say). At the intersection of high peak + getting even better in the playoffs . . . I'm not so worried about his regular season durability.

3. Robert Parish - Parish is done a disservice by the fact that his most memorable years ('86 specifically) were well past his prime. The knock on Parish is that he was never *great*. He had many iterations as a scorer, from higher usage and sufficient efficiency to lower usage and more efficiency. But he was never a particularly good scorer. He *was* a really good rebounder, but never dominant. He had eight different years in the top 10 of rebounds, but only one in the Top 5. He was never a dominant defender, but he was strong on that end for a very long time. And for all of McHale getting flack for being a black hole, Parish's Shots per Assist was around 10 for most of his career (compared to 7 for McHale). Parish was never a good passer and turned the ball over a fair amount. Put all this together and Parish was never dominant. He was never close to dominant. At his best he was only quite good. But here's the thing. He did that crap FOR EVER. He's 2nd all time in offensive boards, 4th in defensive boards, 10th in blocks, Top 30 in points and so on. To be clear, I don't care about those career counting stats. But I want to be clear that, in contrast to, say, Giannis, who has several ATG seasons but little else, Parish has maybe 15 All-Star (or close) seasons. In career value, Parish makes up the difference in sheer longevity.

McGrady > AD > Parish > Arizin > Thurmond > Iverson > Mourning > Parker > Giannis > Cousy > English > Jokic > Penny > Dominique > Walton
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Re: RealGM 2020 Top 100 Project: #60 

Post#14 » by DQuinn1575 » Mon Feb 22, 2021 3:46 am

1. Arizin
2. Parish
3. Cousy

Arizin peaked very high, as one of the best players in the league, was key player in a championship. Longevity impacted by military service.

Parish - really good for really long. Peak wasnt as high as others, but provided value for a long time.

Cousy - Arizin was better, Parish played longer - but pretty good for his time




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Re: RealGM 2020 Top 100 Project: #60 

Post#15 » by sansterre » Mon Feb 22, 2021 12:44 pm

I've tweaked all of my composite player ratings to reflect the improvement/struggling of all the different players with their regular season numbers to the playoffs (of my six metrics that go into the composite, only 2ish include playoff performance, so it wasn't heavily integrated). I used about 25% WS/48, 25% BPM and 50% BPBPM for the estimates. This has resulted in my top 3 being reordered slightly, and my overall > > > list being changed some. For whatever it's worth.
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Re: RealGM 2020 Top 100 Project: #60 

Post#16 » by HeartBreakKid » Mon Feb 22, 2021 12:48 pm

Criteria

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I'm a pretty big peak guy, I'm not that interested in value of total seasons. The value of multiple seasons to me is to give me a greater sample size to understanding how good they were on the court, not necessarily the totality of their impact through out the years.

I also value impact over all else, and I define impact as the ability to help a team win games. Boxscore stats, team accolades and individual accolades (unless I agree with them personally) have very little baring on my voting so some names will look a bit wonky. The reason why I ignore accolades and winningness is because basketball is a team game and the players are largely not in control of the quality of their teammates or the health f their team (or their own personal health in key moments), thus I don't see the value of rating players based on xx has this many MVPs versus this guy has this many rings. In addition, I simply find this type of analysis boring because it's quite easy to simply look at who has a bigger laundry list of accomplishments.



1) Bill Walton. He is the best player by far here. He was probably a top 3 player in the world during his last couple years in college as well, though I believe this is NBA only. I am quite certain that Bill Walton is a top 20 peak ever. He is a top ten defensive anchor which alone adds more value than anyone left, and his offensive passing can generate very efficient offenses without him needing to score.

2)) Nikola Jokic. #2 vote I'll give to the only guy who is large and passes better than Walton. I'm not a longevity guy but Jokic has actually been a star caliber player for longer than people think. He was greatly underplayed in his 2nd season and Malone was criticized for that even back then. He has 4 seasons of all-star impact and two seasons where I had him as the 2nd best player in the league. I do think his offense is so special from his position that it causes an imbalance that makes him more valuable than two way bigs. His scoring ability might be the best among all the bigs left, and what's great about him is that he doesn't need to score a lot to have impact. Walton's defense is so intense that I can't imagine taking Jokic over that, but everyone else left is a tier or 2 down from either Walton's offense or his defense.


3) Giannis Antetokounmpo - I can see why he isn't getting much traction as he's still young. Though he has 6 seasons of being a good player and 5/6 of them he was all-nba caliber I think. Two well deserved MVP's is nothing to scoff at and even though he is slammed for his playoff failures he still did make the conference finals. I am fairly convinced that his crazy ability to finish in the paint as well as have the handles to get into there produces so much gravity that if he played with another real star you wouldn't be able to just "stay back and let Giannis shoot". As he is now he still requires 3-4 guys jumping in the paint - what if you replaced Khris Middleton with Curry, Bryant, Durant, Pierce etc - these are all guys who were 2nd options or co-anchors of teams. Seems like a lot of players who do not have MVP caliber teammates are held to the same standards as guys with them which does not make sense to me. I can see why me picking Jokic would be controversial, but Giannis seems pretty primed for this type of competition - I don't think he is any less valuable than Anthony Davis, and I am still not sure how Davis winning a title with LBJ convinces people that he is a much better post season player than Giannis.



Anthony Davis. I think he is kind of like a better version of Karl Malone. His ability to play off others seems more effective than Karl Malone - certainly comparable as a finisher. Defense he is a couple years above Karl. That should mean he goes pretty high up here.



Alonzo Mourning. He's not much worse than Dwight Howard who I think is comfortably a top 40 player. I think Alonzo is not as good of a defender as his reputation suggest but his verticality is still very intimidating. His flawed offensive game is well documented in this section so I don't see a reason to dog him, but he is still a legitimate two way player with massive defensive impact. I just remembered Giannis existed so he bumps Alonzo out.



Arizin is my 6th place guy. I put Mutumbo over Arizin because I think Mutumbo's top ten defense is enough to over shadow Arizin's co-anchor ability to score. . I also think Arizin is the 2nd best player of the 50s (behind Petitt, 3rd if we include Bill Russell of course), in a vacuum I think he is even better than Mikan. While the NBA was not truly major league in the 1950s, basketball as a sport was still incredibly popular, so there has to be some value in being the 2nd best player on the planet.



Davis> Mourning> Arizin> Mourning> Arizin>Thurmond>McGrady>English>Parish>Cousy
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Re: RealGM 2020 Top 100 Project: #60 

Post#17 » by trex_8063 » Mon Feb 22, 2021 3:25 pm

Thru post #16:

Paul Arizin - 2 (DQuinn1575, Dutchball97)
Bob Cousy - 2 (euroleague, Hal14)
Robert Parish - 1 (trex_8063)
Alonzo Mourning - 1 (Odinn21)
Alex English - 1 (penbeast0)
Tracy McGrady - 1 (sansterre)
Bill Walton - 1 (HeartBreakKid)


Probably about 24 hours left for this one.
Just a reminder to everyone to provide ordered listings of all players gaining traction, as it may prove required in order to conclude in a timely fashion. Delays can result in the culprits having their voter eligibility suspended.
euroleague, I don't know where Parish sits in relation to Mourning and English on your listing; also don't know where McGrady or Anthony Davis would come in among them all. And again, additional inclusions are encouraged.
DQuinn1575, I don't know who you have ahead between Davis and Walton.

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Re: RealGM 2020 Top 100 Project: #60 

Post#18 » by sansterre » Mon Feb 22, 2021 3:56 pm

trex_8063 wrote:Thru post #16:

Paul Arizin - 2 (DQuinn1575, Dutchball97)
Bob Cousy - 2 (euroleague, Hal14)
Robert Parish - 1 (trex_8063)
Alonzo Mourning - 1 (Odinn21)
Alex English - 1 (penbeast0)
Bill Walton - 1 (HeartBreakKid)


You may not think that T-Mac deserves to be voted #1 here, but that's no reason not to count my vote :P
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Re: RealGM 2020 Top 100 Project: #60 

Post#19 » by DQuinn1575 » Mon Feb 22, 2021 4:01 pm

sansterre wrote:
trex_8063 wrote:Thru post #16:

Paul Arizin - 2 (DQuinn1575, Dutchball97)
Bob Cousy - 2 (euroleague, Hal14)
Robert Parish - 1 (trex_8063)
Alonzo Mourning - 1 (Odinn21)
Alex English - 1 (penbeast0)
Bill Walton - 1 (HeartBreakKid)


You may not think that T-Mac deserves to be voted #1 here, but that's no reason not to count my vote :P



my order after my votes
Mourning-Walton-English>Davis>McGrady
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Re: RealGM 2020 Top 100 Project: #60 

Post#20 » by trex_8063 » Mon Feb 22, 2021 4:31 pm

DQuinn1575 wrote:
sansterre wrote:
trex_8063 wrote:Thru post #16:

Paul Arizin - 2 (DQuinn1575, Dutchball97)
Bob Cousy - 2 (euroleague, Hal14)
Robert Parish - 1 (trex_8063)
Alonzo Mourning - 1 (Odinn21)
Alex English - 1 (penbeast0)
Bill Walton - 1 (HeartBreakKid)


You may not think that T-Mac deserves to be voted #1 here, but that's no reason not to count my vote :P



my order after my votes
Mourning-Walton-English>Davis>McGrady


And where does English fall?
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