re: How underrated is Oscar Robertson?

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Why is this guy overlooked when people consider the greatest players?

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I don't think he's overlooked at all, he's right up there in most top 5s or top 10s, which would be where he belongs in my opinion, though it's obviously hard having never seen him play.

His numbers are definitely great, averaging the triple doubles, but you really do have to adjust for pace. The game was played at an insanely fast pace then,s omething like 25% or even more possessions for each team.

Haberstroh had a tweet, I forgot exactly the breakdown, but if you adjust the stats per 100 possessions(which is probably the best metric to normalize stats/efficiency), Westbrook's historic February was only matched by Lebron, or something like that. It was something like 40/10/10 for 1 month per 100 possessions, not even Big O had done it, so you can see the difference pace makes if you check out that tweet.