If Shaq maximized his potential, where would he rank all time?

Dick Shitman
Dick Shitman Members Posts: 9,032 ✭✭✭
edited January 2010 in From the Cheap Seats
Never worked on free throws
Never stayed in shape over the summer
Would wait til the regular season to get surgery instead of getting it done in the offseason

Even now, he made 6 finals and won 4 but if he kept himself in shape and hit his ceiling, how great would he have been?

Comments

  • CJ
    CJ Members Posts: 15,312 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 2010
    stop lookin at his flaws and start lookin at his positives...
    1996-2003 GOAT center...
  • 5th Letter
    5th Letter Members, Moderators, Writer Posts: 37,068 Regulator
    edited January 2010
    I think Shaq had potential to be the greatest ever and 2000 was the only time where he really played up to his skills.
  • Dick Shitman
    Dick Shitman Members Posts: 9,032 ✭✭✭
    edited January 2010
    cj012890 wrote: »
    stop lookin at his flaws and start lookin at his positives...
    1996-2003 GOAT center...

    Everybody knows about his positives. Im tryna spark some decent conversation in the cheap seats
  • Dick Shitman
    Dick Shitman Members Posts: 9,032 ✭✭✭
    edited January 2010
    jamacia wrote: »
    I think Shaq had potential to be the greatest ever and 2000 was the only time where he really played up to his skills.

    Exactly. He could have done that every year for 10 years if he would have kept himself out of the studio and in the gym during the summer.
  • spit_fiya
    spit_fiya Members Posts: 2,531 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 2010
    He's already a top 3 Center...but out of all players...i'll say 20
  • Yungin T. Jeezie
    Yungin T. Jeezie Members Posts: 2,362 ✭✭✭
    edited January 2010
    Shaq is the most dominant but Hakeem IS that ?
  • playmaker88
    playmaker88 Members Posts: 67,905 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 2010
    Um he accomplished everything a person.. that plays ball wants to do.. so this is null and void.. because what ifs don't happen and never will.
  • dholt23
    dholt23 Members Posts: 839
    edited January 2010
    ? they had to changed the rules, and the backboard for that ? you tell me how great he his
  • Chef_Taylor
    Chef_Taylor Members Posts: 26,584 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 2010
    Shaq is the most dominant but Hakeem IS that ?

    Hakeem Olajuwon>>>>shaq...thats just me
  • MillzOG
    MillzOG Members, Moderators Posts: 14,508 Regulator
    edited January 2010
    I think hes the single most dominant player of all time....BUT, imagine if he actually had post moves lol

    that ? just overpowered ? and got close 2 da rim to score, imagine if he shot freethrows now the same way he shot freethrows in his last year of Phoenix (2nd half of the season)......he'd be the greatest ever, period


    but even still hes accomplished everythin u could possibly ask for
  • Dick Shitman
    Dick Shitman Members Posts: 9,032 ✭✭✭
    edited January 2010
    I think hes the single most dominant player of all time....BUT, imagine if he actually had post moves lol

    that ? just overpowered ? and got close 2 da rim to score, imagine if he shot freethrows now the same way he shot freethrows in his last year of Phoenix (2nd half of the season)......he'd be the greatest ever, period


    but even still hes accomplished everythin u could possibly ask for

    I agree with all of that but still, he has only one mvp, no defensive first team selections and has been swept 6 times.


    :shrugs, I'll quit reachin now lol


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  • MillzOG
    MillzOG Members, Moderators Posts: 14,508 Regulator
    edited January 2010
    ? Shitman wrote: »
    I agree with all of that but still, he has only one mvp, no defensive first team selections and has been swept 6 times.


    :shrugs, I'll quit reachin now lol


    Reaching_hands.jpg

    lmao word u reachin...
  • af.r.i.c.a.
    af.r.i.c.a. Members Posts: 9,338 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 2010
    This question would be better for a Lamar Odom or Rasheed Wallace
  • Focal Point
    Focal Point Members Posts: 16,307 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 2010
    This question would be better for a Lamar Odom or Rasheed Wallace

    or Derrick Coleman
  • one_manshow
    one_manshow Members Posts: 4,591 ✭✭✭✭
    edited January 2010
    c1up wrote: »
    or Derrick Coleman

    or Shawn Kemp
  • freshb651
    freshb651 Members Posts: 8,240 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 2010
    dholt23 wrote: »
    ? they had to changed the rules, and the backboard for that ? you tell me how great he his

    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    THIS, I love how Shaq plays aggressive in the paint and be trying to dunk on ? all the time,that's how ALL big men should play Tim Duncan's the only finnesse big man i wouldn't mind on my team,these other bigs is soft, get in the weight room and get in the paint. LOL
  • dholt23
    dholt23 Members Posts: 839
    edited January 2010
    or Shawn Kemp

    or stephon marbury
  • joeyfkncrakk
    joeyfkncrakk Members Posts: 2,956 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 2010
    um... what does a niggga gotta do to max their potential nowadays lmao.. he won 4 rings and every MVP award you can grab.. I understand what you are saying though, I was watching the '93 all star game when Shaq was on the magic and he was unbelievable.. he was crazy athletic and outsized every1.. Dwight Howard will never be Shaq but baCK TO THE POINT.. Shaq has done it all probably could've won a couple more titles but what the hell