Originally Posted by ROYC75
Wilt's team was centered around him, he had to score because he didn't have the better players around him as Russell did, who only had to play D, just get inside Wilts's head. Russell had the better players around him, reason for the championships.
Arguing that Russell was the better player than Wilt is foolish. Russell was great, he played great D and rebounded. He was never called upon to help his team win. To say Russell was better, he didn't play against Wilt's team each night to solidify your argument.
Wilt was, he was a more complete player. Below is the stats to compare the two Hall of Fame players.
Russell
Career
Games * Pts ** TRb's * Assist ** FG % ** FT% ** PER *** WS
*963 **15.1****22.5 *** 4.3 **44.0 ** 56.1 ***18.9 **163.5
Chamberlin
Career
Games * Pts ** TRb's * Assist ** FG % ** FT% ** PER *** WS
1045 **30.1****22.9 *** 4.4 **54.0 ** 51.1 ***26.1 **247.3
Wilt played 82 more games, the equivalent of 1 season
Wilt scored more points per game, twice as many.
Wilt had more rebounds, call this a push!
Wilt had more assist,call this a push!
Wilt shot 10% higher per game than Russell
Russell shot 5% higher on FT's-Somewhere,somebody bitching about FT's
Wilt had a higher PER by 7%, ****Player Efficiency Rating ****
Wilt had a higher WS by 83.8, ***** Win Shares *****
And some of you clowns want to argue who was the better overall player. Both players were Great rebounder's and played defense. Blocked shots were not kept early in there careers, but that would have been an awesome number for both.
Chamberlain was the more dominate player and it shows in these stats. The ultimate separation between the 2 was the PER and the WS. The career head to head stats would Wilt with the advantage if you want take the time to look them up.
Russell won more titles due to the players around him, NOT because he was the more dominate player night in/night out!
Think about this, you want to argue Russell was better because of Tittles?
Larry Bird won 12 titles with the Celtics
Magic Johnson ( 4 ) Lebron James ( 3 ) Michael Jordan( 6 ) It basically takes these 3 players to equal the talent of Larry Bird ? Now come on, it's about titles, titles,and more titles! Right ?
No. You can not, you just can not always use the number of titles won as a gauge on who was the more dominate player in a sport I have shown you above. You simply can not, maybe sometimes,yes,but not always!
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