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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So.... about that.

The taller guy (7'7) played in the NBA for about 12 years. Scored over [b]1,599[/b] points.
That little guy (5'6) played in the NBA for about 12 years. Scored over [b]8,072[/b] points. 
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So . . . about that.

The taller guy played in the NBA for about 12 years.  Blocked [b]2086[/b] shots, plus another 77 in the playoffs.
That little guy played in the NBA for about 12 years.  Blocked [b]111[/b] shots, plus just two more in the playoffs.

Scoring points is a nice metric, but it's not always the best gauge for evaluating talent.  There's only one basketball in a game at any given moment.  A team with five shooters isn't going to be a very good team.  Someone has to be a good defender.  The taller guy was a pretty good defender.  Excellent, in fact.  Considered by all credible basketball authorities to be one of the best shot blockers in the history of the game.  Only player to block more shots than score points in an NBA career.  If I'm an NBA general manager and have the choice between a generational shot blocker or a pretty good shooter, I'm drafting the former -- every single time.

Hey, that's kinda like college admissions!  Wanna attend a school that's all STEM majors?  Lovely, there's MIT over there.  But the thing is, most schools don't want a student body of nothing but future biologists and computer programmers.  Someone has to study in the philosophy department.  Someone else has to major in history.  So, yeah, if the choice is between a very good future dermatologist and a future Pulitzer prize winner in fiction writing, I'm leaning toward the English concentrator on this one -- SAT math scores be damned.  And you know what?  MIT would make the same choice.  If not, how do you explain the MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences?[/quote]

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