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Originally Posted by orlandojumpoff
You can't say healthy yao because he's never healthy. This isn't fantasy land.
Yao is too brittle; being injury prone is a huge negative for a contending team. Dwight is built like a truck and you never question whether he can make it through a season or post season. With Yao, you always question it. If a player can't physically play, his offensive skills don’t mean anything. Those who would rather have Yao on their team than Dwight, your team would never make it to the finals because your “best center in the league” would most likely be on the bench in a suit when it matters most. He’s the new grant hill; highly skilled, but always injured so it doesn’t matter.
Dwight may be inferior away from the basket right now, but he still scored slightly more than Yao and at a higher percentage this season. I like Yao a lot for his offensive skills, but defense is what you want out of your center. Where Dwight lacks in offensive skills, he makes up with his speed and athleticism. Plus, Dwight averages 4 more rebounds and 1 more blk on average than Yao, which is huge. You simply can’t ignore those numbers. People can knock Dwight for his lack of offensive moves all they want, Yao is slow and can't jump off the ground which hurts his game just as much. He's 7'6 and only averages 10 rebounds. When a star center is on a contending team, he should be blocking shots and grabbing rebounds. Well not only is Dwight grabbing those rebounds and blocking shots, he’s scoring 21pts per game too. With the way people focus on his lack of moves, you’d think he was scoring as little as Dennis Rodman.
I would've picked Yao maybe up until 2008, but after that I say Dwight for sure.
Defensively minded & durable 21pts 14reb 3blk > Offensively minded injury prone 20pts 10reb 2 blk
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Um actually you would rather have an offensive minded big man who is JUST good defensively than a defensive minded Big man who is JUST good offensively.
The only defensive minded big man that has actually won the championship and the Finals MVP would be Bill Russell and it ends from there.