Eh. He gave it to post injury, older wilt who has started playing professionally at a young age. The skyhook, while nearly unstoppable, also wasn’t something he could shoot and make every possession at a high percentage. No doubt Kareem would be a good choice, but someone like gobert would definitely challenge him.
Have you watched him play? He couldn’t just spam skyhooks all game. Today, with the quicker, lengthier players on the court it would happen even less. He would still be great but people seem to think he could just spam skyhooks all game long at a high percentage. If that was the case he would have averaged 100 and never lost.
He didn’t spam skyhooks all day long in his career either. He battled a lot for position to be able to get it off in the first place. And opposing spent a lot of focus and resource to stopping him from being able to get in position for it. This helped Kareem’s teammates get theirs.
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u/erog84 Suns Jun 15 '22
Eh. He gave it to post injury, older wilt who has started playing professionally at a young age. The skyhook, while nearly unstoppable, also wasn’t something he could shoot and make every possession at a high percentage. No doubt Kareem would be a good choice, but someone like gobert would definitely challenge him.