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Originally posted by jmaness84
You cant honestly say that the basketball players when Wilt played are better than the basketball players now.
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Dunno if players in general were better, there were fewer teams and talent was concentrated much moreso. However, centers were better in the Sixties. They knew how to play with their backs to the basket, were more fundamentally sound and had no illusions about being small forwards. Your average starting center in '68 averaged 18 ppg. and 10 rpg., in 2002 those numbers are down to 10 ppg. and 5 rpg.
In todays NBA, the center position provides the fewest PPG by a wide margin of any of the five positions and that is with Shaq's superlative numbers factored in. Remove him from the equation and it would look even more horrible.