No, he was the most gifted humans physically of modern era and the most dominant basket-ball player ever, but he's not the GOAT because he has lost too many finals against Bill Russell.
What fans don't realize is that Wilt had to score big for his team to have a chance. For that reason, Wilt's teammates didn't begrudge him all those shots. Listen to ex teammate Al Attles talk about Wilt in '61-62 and it's eye opening.
Man could have played like Shaq but faster, stronger, higher jumping, and with amazing stamina. But he almost never did, with like 65% of his attempts coming on fadeaways. He held himself back and still has records so absurd people make excuses for them being so high.
@@dylanolson4600 that's why I don't think it's even close between Wilt and Shaq Wilt could play a power game and a finesse game but Shaq couldn't play a finesse game
That makes no sense. 65% of shots being fades requires jumping ability strength stamina and speed so he could still be all those things with 65% fades especially since there’s 35% left of ways to score, plus a whole 100% effort of rebounding, 100% effort of shot blocking, 100% effort of off the ball movement and lockup defense all areas and positions on the court, 100% effort to get steals including a career high above iverson or Jordan’s career high in steals, a 100% effort to playmake under harder rules to count an assist in the fastest pace ever avg more mjn than there are in a game and never fouling out once and feats of strength that far surpass anything shaq has ever come close to doing etc…. So yes even with rules that made backdown punishment a turnover and finesse game and 65% fades, he was like shaq but much faster, much stronger, jumped much higher, with universes more stamina and that’s how he played as reflected in his stats and impact on winning especially against postseason HOF odds and lack of losses when the postseason HOF odds are even or in his favor which in each of these cases wilt is number 1 all time in. The goat hands down even with holding back aggression
Wilt's '61-62 season is unmatched as far as it being an epic offensive year. Wilt's team needed that scoring output from him to have a chance at winning games. Wilt didn't have the luxury of playing with several Hall of Fame teammates like Bill Russell did.
This disproves the notion that The Big Dipper was great because of his size. What made him was ridiculous athleticism, which no 7-footer has had to this degree before or since. It's stunning to see such a dazzling array of shots. Name one person of any size who could drain a 15-foot fadeaway off the board, a lay-in at the right side of the board starting from the left side, finger roll from 10 feet out, dunk over as many as three guys and beat smaller ones downcourt on a fast break. You can't. #GOAT
@dusty975 there are 9 Wilt post ups against Russell here and only 1 hard double team 🤣 6’9 1/2 230 pounds and doesn’t need a double team against Wilt? Russell was amazing,
Don't forget there weren't commercial breaks for TV commercials back them, later in his career there were. So the new guys coming along got more break time. GOAT PERIOD.
They were counted in over 100 of his games, as an official "team stat". Many teams had it, but it was not an official "NBA stat" Wilt averaged 8.8 Blocks Per Game.
Awesome work as always! Wilt is Incredible! The size, stamina, strength, durability & all round Presence is other worldly! These numbers seem fiction just crazy!!
If you’ve made it here you might be starting to understand why wilt is the only goat of the nba! He saved the league early plus if basketball is a team sport like Russell said wilt is the goat
That fadeaway jumper was unstoppable. He should have used it for his free throws and when they tried to outlaw it he could have said "I'm jumping backwards!"
true , i mean a 43 year old wilt in a pick up game with 4 college freshman beat an NBA magic with 4 other NBA players and he got wilt mad by calling a non goaltnend, played a 2nd game, and wilt blocked every shot. wilt at age 36 after a massive knee surgery blocked kareem's skyhook several times a 57 is year ol dwilt shook shaq's entire body with a mere handshake
@@misterenverd”not kareem no way” he already did kareem was ineffecient asf when he faced wilt. 31 ppg average on wilt for his career but on 30 SHOTS A GAME. also got outrebounded both years they played in playoffs and was a better defensive force
Wilt was Track & Field star, a volleyball star and basketball player ! 600 pounds on the bench! He would dominate any center in NBA history! Nobody, not Shaq, not Hakeem , not Howard could stop him, nobody!
@@misterenverd Kareem 1971 season: 31.7 points on 57.7% shooting. 25.0 points and 48.1% vs Wilt in playoffs. Kareem 1972 season: 34.8 points on 57.4% shooting. 33.7 points on 45.7% vs Wilt in playoffs. Kareem took 8 shots per game more to get his points. Wilt blocked Kareem 17 times in this series on top of that. 1971 and 1972 were Kareem's absolute peak years statistically. Wilt played him evenly in the 1971 playoffs. In the 1972 playoffs, it looks like Kareem out played him but being blocked 17 times is quite a lot. No other player has come close to defending Kareem like that, even when he was old. Playoffs vs Wilt(1971): Kareem: 25.0/17.2/4.2/.481 Wilt : 22.0/18.8/2.0/.489
@@FoobasSports NO PROBLEM SIR PLEASE KEEP BRINGING THE FREAKING HEAT!!!! AS ALWAYS.....THESE STUPID A**B*****S ALWAYS TALKING ABOUT AS THEY SAY MODERN NBA PLAYERS ARE BETTER TODAY.....!!!! WITCH IS A F*****G LIE!!!! THERE IS NO PROOF.....AT ALL....ON THAT KEEP IT UP....AS ALWAYS.....
What's Amazing is another forgotten great player averaged that same season ( Wilt's averaged 50 Points 25 Rebounds ), Elgin Baylor 38 Points & 18 Rebounds. Jordan averaged 37, but Rebounds ?.
Walt Bellamy had his rookie season that year, where he scored 31.6 PPG and grabbed 19.0 RPG. Possibly the second greatest rookie season ever, after Wilt's. Though personally, I give the edge (for second greatest, that is) to Oscar Robertson's 30.5 PPG / 10.1 RPG / 9.7 APG rookie season. Honorable mention to Elvin Hayes, who led the league with 28.4 PPG while grabbing 17.1 RPG as a rookie.
While wilts 1962 season scoring an average of 50.4 per game with 23 rebounds, numerous unrecorded blocks and steals under the pressure of some pretty unsportsmanlike conduct.... Celtics forward Heinsohn said, "Half the fouls against him were hard fouls ... he took the most brutal pounding of any player ever". The 1960s might have had the fastest pace but under the nba, referees decided Wilt was fair game to even out his skill-sets they allowed him to be brutalised.... He had his teeth smashed through his gum line leading to an infection that damaged his heart, according to accounts by his family.... Jerry West the nba logo had his nose broken nine times in his career and he didnt have one tenth the pounding.... that Wilt suffered in his first year as a rookie and that beat this so called KobeBryant year.... Do you think any player including the MJ's Kobe Bryant would have scored fifty a game in whatever time under this referees allowed brutality.... What did magic say, "you got within two feet of MJ and it was a foul called!" Imagine that being applied to Wilt, he argued 60, 70 points a game in the season in MJ'S era of one on one....he never had a problem one on one it was the guy running in front of him when he didnt have the ball to slow him down or once he got past Bill Russell the two or three player slinging elbows and holding him while he tried to make a shot....he didnt like.... Yet what did he do, he gained fifty pounds in weight and in 1962 was the greatest year in basketball history and he all-but had the title in his hands when a shot from a Celtics player thrown in despair bounced several feet in the air and dropped in to the basket.... You think the celtics won on merit, the best team in the world in the 1962 season only contained Wilt with dodgy brutal basketball, the referees support and the nba setting up no space for Wilt to be rested before the final....yet the Boston Celtics still needed a slice of good fortune to be the champions again.... Thats the realities of wilt the only true anomaly in basketball history not being beaten by his peers but by a system that couldn't allow him to dominate.... Whats Kobe Bryant list of the greats....Wilt, MJ and himself.... Whats Rick Barry's take on Wilt after he himself averaged 35 per game, "scoring another 15 points a game was unimaginable!" If a scorer like Barry had been a teammate to Wilt in 1962....the celtics would have lost.... Even Wilts manager said, "if they had, had a big man who could score on the team it would have taken the pressure of Wilt in the playoffs and made it highly unlikely the Boston Celtics would win"....
Jim Loscutoff, "Celtics hatchet man," was one of many players assigned to EGRIGIOUSLY foul Chamberlain. These fouls were sanctioned by NBA referees and owners. No one in NBA history is EGRIOUSLY fouled!
I was just old enough to catch the tail end of his NBA career. When I was growing up, there was no debate about who was the greatest ever. He was completely in his own category, like some kind of alien, like it almost didn't count. Look at him here, guys are playing great defense on him, just painting themselves onto him, and he's scoring all over them without breaking a sweat. People saying he wouldn't be so hot in today's NBA, just stop it. Who would guard him today? With all due respect to Rudy... Not him. 😂
Wilts fade away shot influence players from decades after he retired yet nobody has been as dominant or been able to match his single season high output
If you don’t think this was the best season statistically by a single player, then tell us who had a better one. I can already answer this by saying no one even comes close other than some other season from Wilt!
I’m sorry but I’m just not seeing the Shaq comparison statistically, physically, or even metaphorically & literally speaking. In terms of actual physique - Wilt has always seemed to be more akin to a David Robinson. Lean, Long, athletic. Not Bulky, round, and unathletic But the difference is even at this stage Wilt was stronger than Shaq until Shaq officially ballooned astronomically in weight during his 3 peat ( and 2 years following). Wilt was like a David Robinson on steroids in the 60’s. His fading bank shot is like an amalgamation of Dirk & Duncan’s signature shots. He was pretty nimble & mobile. Though at times his post work was stiff but that was the era of little to no footwork.
There are certain "analysts" who try to say that Wilt's 1962 season isn't even a Top 100 season, lmao Here's a comparison between Wilt's 1962 season and Jordan's 1987 season. These guys LOVE the PER until you show them this. Personally, I don't think the PER is a very good analytic myself. Wilt had 50.4 ppg, second in FG% and the second highest PER for a season ever. Wilt had 23.11 Win Shares. MJ had 37.1 ppg, 63rd in FG% and 36th best season for PER ever. MJ had 21.23 Win Shares.
@@nonamewillbegiven1217 Wilt was 2nd in FG%. MJ was 63rd in FG%. Wilt had more WS. Wilt's 1962 season was 4th best ever. Jordan only had 16.89 WS and was the 61st best season ever. I was actually wrong and gave MJ too many WS for his 1987 season. lmao
How could Wilt be so soft on the fadeaway and toss up bricks from the line? As he said, "I went to a sports psychologist for 2 weeks, and the result was, the psychologist shoots better free throws than me."
Wilt the right idea to shoot free throws underhanded. His execution was the problem. If he had been taught the correct fundamentals and practiced them regularly, I bet he would have shot at least 70 percent at the line.
Fantastic work Foobas ! Atleast those plumbers and firemens hold Wilt to just 35pts average .Btw anybody who was watching that game 7 in 1962 can explain me why Chamberlain took just 15 shot attempts ? Did Celtics triple team him all game?
Much appreciated 🙏🙏 By looking at various newspaper accounts and film.. yes he was triple teamed. Also, Tom Meschery had the hot hand that night. Wilt took the 3rd most shots for his team that night which allowed him to focus on defense more and he got 14 blocks. Cousy even praised Wilts defense after the game and he had always been critical of Wilt.
The fatal flaw in Wilt's early teams was that they lacked guards who could hit open perimeter shots consistently. So teams sagged on him and dared teammates to shoot from the outside, especially in the playoffs. The biggest offender was point guard Guy Rodgers, who was a great ball-hander/distributor but couldn't shoot worth a lick. If only he had a Sam Jones or John Havlicek on his side . . .
It was a gruelling season for Wilt in 1962. The physical prowess he showed was extraordinary, the punishment he took was unbelievable, his teammates where in awe that he could be mauled by opposing sides and still come out and score impossible numbers and that's without his defensive skills.... In the end Wilt Chamberlain suffered defeat but he went down fighting and his coach said, " if only Wilt had another reliable big to take the pressure of Wilt and put the stress back on the opposing teams he would have beaten the Boston Celtics".... You might also add there were so many questionable calls by referees that didn't help....
@@allistermcginlay6476 Red Auerbach was the mastermind of the Celtics dynasty. Without him, there is none. His most overlooked skill was an ability to intimidate referees and league officials. Did the Celtics ever lose a big game because of a bad call?
There were 8 total teams in the league... Outside of Russell there was no one really capable of guarding this dude... So why did he not win more? Why was he not more successful in his peak years.. These are fair questions that even the biggest Wilt fans could never answer to my satisfaction... For me it sucks that he was decades ahead of his time I'm not so sure he would handle the likes of Hakeem or Shaq as he surely didn't fair too well against peak Jabbar in the 70's... The answer is that if you can't make the free ones then your team can't count on you in the clutch... It was that big of a weakness...
and on those 8 teams he had to play HOF's every night every nigh, every night. and none of this 1 and done BS. no three point line. in converse chuck taylors, without modern training and doctors etc.. . however wilt in the first 8 years of his career was always on crappy teams with crapy coaches. the cetls won becasue even though the rest of the tames other than 1 or 2 were pretty good, this team was so stacked from top to bottom that evne their bench players were HOF"s and the best coaching ever. and wilte literally tok them to game 7s 4 times and lost them all by a total of 9. none of them being his fault either. hard for 1 man t beat an entire team
@@EternalJuggernaut_TheFinalBosswilt did not have a any trouble with peak kareem. if ur just looking at how kareem avg 31 on wilt and not giving context of how he avg 30 SHOTS then ur dumb
Celtics forward Heinsohn said, "Half the fouls against him were hard fouls ... he took the most brutal pounding of any player ever". The 1960s might have had the fastest pace but under the nba, referees decided Wilt was fair game to even out his skill-sets they allowed him to be brutalised.... He had his teeth smashed through his gum line leading to an infection that damaged his heart, according to accounts by his family.... Jerry West the nba logo had his nose broken nine times in his career and he didnt have one tenth the pounding.... that Wilt suffered in his first year as a rookie and that beat this so called KobeBryant year.... Do you think any player including the MJ's Kobe Bryant would have scored fifty a game in whatever time under this referees allowed brutality.... What did magic say, "you got within two feet of MJ and it was a foul called!" Imagine that being applied to Wilt, he argued 60, 70 points a game in the season in MJ'S era of one on one....he never had a problem one on one it was the guy running in front of him when he didnt have the ball to slow him down or once he got past Bill Russell the two or three player slinging elbows and holding him while he tried to make a shot....he didnt like.... Yet what did he do, he gained fifty pounds in weight and in 1962 was the greatest year in basketball history and he all-but had the title in his hands when a shot from a Celtics player thrown in despair bounced several feet in the air and dropped in to the basket.... You think the celtics won on merit, the best team in the world in the 1962 season only contained Wilt with dodgy brutal basketball, the referees support and the nba setting up no space for Wilt to be rested before the final....yet the Boston Celtics still needed a slice of good fortune to be the champions again.... Thats the realities of wilt the only true anomaly in basketball history not being beaten by his peers but by a system that couldn't allow him to dominate.... Whats Kobe Bryant list of the greats....Wilt, MJ and himself.... Whats Rick Barry's take on Wilt after he himself averaged 35 per game, "scoring another 15 points a game was unimaginable!" If a scorer like Barry had been a teammate to Wilt in 1962....the celtics would have lost.... Even Wilts manager said, "if they had, had a big man who could score on the team it would have taken the pressure of Wilt in the playoffs and made it highly unlikely the Boston Celtics would win"....
I just checked who won most rings. It's gotta be MJ....No !!! What !!! He only won 6. Robert who Horry got 7. MJ was no good. Bill Russell got 11 Well there you go. So I checked NFL too and wtf the second best LB ever didn't win a damn thing LOL What a bum. Somethings wrong. Seems teams that were loaded won all the championships.
He didn't have to chase them down he was already at the other end most of the time when everybody else was still running down the court he could outrun everyone! The guy was a freaking track star he played more minutes than there was in the game he would play double and triple overtime with no rest 0!!! No one but possibly Russell could run with Wilt Chamberlain!! They were track stars!!!
I feel like I am watching a horse drawn buggy. Look, I understand this was the fastest horse-drawn buggy of the era; but don’t tell me that it could speed by a bmw (olajuwon) or push around a Ford F150 (shaq).
You understate Wilts' capacity. He was a freight train in the nba, stopping off in every city and drawing thousands to watch him and the only reason he lost against the Boston Celtics was they had all the rails (hof's), and even a train can not be forced to run on nothing.... In the modern game, he would still be a freight train, and he would be celebrated from coast to coast, and he wouldn't have too much difficulty in getting good teams to support him....
