#224: Who *could* be the GOAT? (Part 3)
Thinking Basketball
Thinking Basketball
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🗓️ 20 September 2023
⏱️ 103 minutes
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In the finale, we list possible GOAT peaks, talk about intricacies in turnovers, decision-making, and on-ball primacy while going deep on Larry Bird, David Robinson, Hakeem Olajuwon and more. We also discuss issues with head-to-head matchups or specific playoff series as dispositive measures of ranking players. With @codyhoudek. Support at www.patreon.com/thinkingbasketball
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| 0:00.0 | thinking basketball podcast my name is Ben welcome back to part three, the final installment. |
| 0:15.1 | We're gonna wrap it up today, Cody. |
| 0:17.5 | We've been talking about the idea of who could possibly |
| 0:21.7 | be the greatest player in NBA history |
| 0:24.0 | when you actually like take a step back and look at the evidence and realize |
| 0:28.0 | that it's not as neat and tidy as it's often presented |
| 0:31.8 | when we talk about great players and the greatest players of all time |
| 0:35.1 | we get into this in episode one if you haven't gone back and listen to that episode one is |
| 0:39.8 | as you said kind of like a prelude where we talk about a lot of theoretical and |
| 0:43.7 | philosophical ideas about evaluating players. |
| 0:46.5 | Episode two we start to get in to the nitty gritty I think last time we talked |
| 0:50.4 | about Shaquille O'Neill and Wilts Chamberlain and Julius Irving and we |
| 0:55.0 | ended on Chris Paul. We talked about Nicoli Yolkich, we've batted around these |
| 1:00.1 | you know you wanted to get right to it with like these Michael Jordan and |
| 1:03.5 | LeBron James conversations that no one has has had if I mentioned that I |
| 1:08.3 | don't I don't love that debate it's not an exciting debate to me. What do you mean? |
| 1:14.0 | Like what about it makes it not exciting? |
| 1:16.0 | The player comparison is not a super juicy player comparison like Bill Russell and Wilts Chamberlain. |
| 1:22.0 | There's very interesting things going on there |
| 1:24.1 | like juxtaposing Steve Nash with other players, |
| 1:26.9 | like a scorer, you know, Adrian Dantley conversations. |
| 1:30.6 | There are, I think, player comparison conversations that are really illustrative or as you like to say illustrative of certain like concepts in basketball that make the Duncan and Garnet, you know know why do we keep coming back to that one |
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