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7/21/2025, 8:50:43 PM
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Your issue here is that thinking that one player having a high number of points is necessarily good for that team. It's not. It's the opposite in fact. If a team is heavily dependent on one player for their scores, it's probably a bad team. Pic related; there are no champions in this image. Jordan didn't win anything until Phil Jackson taught him to pass, and Wilt didn't win anything until Alex Hannum taught him the same thing.
It's obvious why when you think about it. Wilt scoring 50 points per game seems great, until you realize the league averaged 119 points per game that year. His team's offense only scored a couple of more points than second place, so Wilt hogging the ball wasn’t actually generating tons more offense, it was just making the Warriors dependent on him, and he usually choked in the biggest moments.
The players weren't fooled. Bill Russell was voted MVP in 1962 (this was awarded by the players at the time), just as he was in 1961 and 1963. Russell never cared much about stats, he just wanted to win. You can't win if you're not playing team basketball, and it took Wilt years to realize this. When he won his first championship, he only scored 24 points per game, but he was playing team ball.
Your issue here is that thinking that one player having a high number of points is necessarily good for that team. It's not. It's the opposite in fact. If a team is heavily dependent on one player for their scores, it's probably a bad team. Pic related; there are no champions in this image. Jordan didn't win anything until Phil Jackson taught him to pass, and Wilt didn't win anything until Alex Hannum taught him the same thing.
It's obvious why when you think about it. Wilt scoring 50 points per game seems great, until you realize the league averaged 119 points per game that year. His team's offense only scored a couple of more points than second place, so Wilt hogging the ball wasn’t actually generating tons more offense, it was just making the Warriors dependent on him, and he usually choked in the biggest moments.
The players weren't fooled. Bill Russell was voted MVP in 1962 (this was awarded by the players at the time), just as he was in 1961 and 1963. Russell never cared much about stats, he just wanted to win. You can't win if you're not playing team basketball, and it took Wilt years to realize this. When he won his first championship, he only scored 24 points per game, but he was playing team ball.
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