Hakeem or Duncan who would you rather have?

[mystargtr34]

Sorry bout the grammar i sounded like Kill Bill in that last post

[robbie380]

And Hakeem scoring average is about 50th in career history... does that mean hes 50th best offensive player of all time?

Hakeem's Rockets played at a much faster pace than Duncan's Spurs... more shots = more points to get = more rebounds to be had = more asists blocks etc..

Spurs crawling pace for the first half of Duncans career gave his numbers a beating compared to other greats... yet he still put up Hakeem number ... 25.5 - 12.7 - 3.7 - 2.7.

yes, the spurs offense was more plodding than the rockets. also duncan has always had more talent on his teams so you wonder how much his numbers would be altered if he was always the primary offensive option. you have to think his stats would "look" better.


For what they are worth... here are Hakeem's playoff numbers versus Duncan's playoff numbers up to the age of 31 aka this year for Duncan.

Hakeem in 85 games averaged

40.74 mpg
27.04 ppg
12.29 rpg
4.01 Orpg
3.05 apg
3.87 bpg
1.81 spg
3.01 TO/g
53.06% FG%
72.35% FT%

Duncan in 155 games averaged

40.01 mpg
23.39 ppg
12.74 rpg
3.48 Orpg
3.52 apg
2.68 bpg
.7 spg
3.08 TO/g
50.06% FG%
69.08% FT%

[Danny B]

Give me STAT over these floppers any day.

[Leetonidas]

Give me STAT over these floppers any day.

Ah, nevermind. I didn't realize you were a troll.

[DaDakota]

And Hakeem scoring average is about 50th in career history... does that mean hes 50th best offensive player of all time?

Hakeem's Rockets played at a much faster pace than Duncan's Spurs... more shots = more points to get = more rebounds to be had = more asists blocks etc..

Spurs crawling pace for the first half of Duncans career gave his numbers a beating compared to other greats... yet he still put up Hakeem number ... 25.5 - 12.7 - 3.7 - 2.7.

Faster pace? Are you high? The Rockets were a pound it in to Dream and pass it out to the 3 point line team.

They played with about the same pace as the current Spurs do....

Inside/out and tough defense.

Same same.

Dream and Duncan are both great players, but give me the guy who was dominant on BOTH ends of the floor every day of the week and twice on Sundays.

DD

[mystargtr34]

Faster pace? Are you high? The Rockets were a pound it in to Dream and pass it out to the 3 point line team.

They played with about the same pace as the current Spurs do....

Inside/out and tough defense.

Same same.

Dream and Duncan are both great players, but give me the guy who was dominant on BOTH ends of the floor every day of the week and twice on Sundays.

DD

In Hakeems two championship years... the years he put up his best statistics.... his Rockets had a Pace Factor of 95 and 94.2... or about middle of the pack for those seasons.

During Duncan's 99 championship season... The Spurs had a Pace Factor of 88.6

Pace Factor basically = the number of possessions per game

During Duncan's MVP seasons the Spurs had a Pace Factor of 90

And during the 05 championship year the Pace Factor was 88.9

All of these are considerably lower than Hakeems Rockets during his best years statisically.

[lefty]

I would take both of them on my team

Hakeem as a C, and Timmy as the PF.

Scary

[robbie380]

I would take both of them on my team

Hakeem as a C, and Timmy as the PF.

Scary

no joke...how insane would that be?