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Originally Posted by Mastashake
That's why I said at pure talent. Not in actual production, but in talent, he was one of the best.
And AI had NO help on that team at all. It was isolation basketball, because who was he going to give the ball to to score... Aaron McKie?
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I understand the pure talent thing, but I just get tired of that because the fact is it's a big man's game. Not that his production was lacking though, the dude could score.
And I understand he didn't have much in Philly, but I honestly don't know if he would have changed his game even if he had more. I just can't see him playing all that differently. And for whatever reason it just wasn't a lot of fun to watch back then. And that maybe was a product of the NBA back then. There was a lot of that isolation basketball going on back then it seems, league wide. So we'll never know what could have happened if he had been on a quality team that ran up and down.
Don't get me wrong, he's a great player. A definite hall of famer, a top 50 player, just not that fun to watch for me.