(04-14-2021, 02:54 PM)SleepingHero Wrote: I think Gobert is probably the best rim protector the NBA has seen in the last 22 years. Would love him on the Mavs though a Gobert/KP pairing seems a little wonky on paper.
I'm not sure I can go there. You look at blocks per game, for me, on rim protection and he's 18th, in the meat of his career, and there are guys that are ahead of him, having to add in their over-the-hill stats into that blocks per game number.
He is OUTSTANDING, but I'm not putting him in the best ever or best of this millennium list yet. This year is the most blocks per game that Rudy has ever had in a season at 2.8...and Alonzo Mourning put up 2.7 per game...at age 35 in 2005-06 (painful year) in 2/3 the minutes per game, btw. He's just one on the list ahead of Rudy.
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