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Message: [QUOTE="Knicks411, post: 206203, member: 767"] In the 60's or whatever if you had a guy where a player was passing off a lot late in the game, I would bet a vast majority of the people would have had no idea about it, since the game wasn;t on tv, or it was and it was in tape delay, or whatever. If there was coverage of games in the 60's and 70's like there is now, I'm sure you could've found games where guys like Wilt or Jerry West were passing the ball off and not taking shots when they "should have"; and you might even have people killing Russell since he wasn't the type of player who would just demand the ball late in games and score. (To the extent that Lebron did in the finals last year, I have a hard time to believe, and in Russell's case, probably not anyway since they won every year). No player is perfect, so in an era where everything gets analyzed a million times, it's a lot easier to find flaws in people's games. When we think of older players, we don't really remember that, it's more just what they accomplished over their entire career. Hell, there were people in this thread talking about how great Wilt was as one of the top players of all time or whatever, and how he demanded the ball, and he was a guy who has taken a lot of heat for being a choker and always losing to Russell and having Russell in his head. As was Magic Johnson at one point. And I wouldn't be surprised if Kareem was in the late 70's, before Magic showed up. So like I said before, I think as time goes on, you are judged more by your stats and what you accomplished. (And for the record, I think all 3 of those guys are among the 5 or 10 best players of all time). Like i said, I don't want this to be a defense completely of Lebron; how he played in the finals, particularly the last few games, was really weak. He took 20 foul shots in 6 games; that is nearly inconceivable Granted, that is but one way of looking at things, but Dirk took 46 foul shots in 6 games. Definitely. [/QUOTE]

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