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As in, people don't rate him highly enough and why he should be ranked higher. I'm seeing you say those things, not really seeing the case being made for them.
This idea that rings don't matter is nonsense; it's a convenient argument for your premise and nothing more. This is even more egregious when you bring Dream into the conversation, calling it "just an argument". In the end, the two are actually pretty similar, statistically speaking. Dream still has an edge to win this battle though.
Listen to Dream himself tell you about his skills (pulledfrom wiki):
Olajuwon has referred to basketball as a science, and described his signature move in vivid detail: "When the point guard throws me the ball, I jump to get the ball. But this jump is the set-up for the second move, the baseline move. I call it the 'touch landing.' The defender is waiting for me to come down because I jumped but I’m gone before I land. Defenders say 'Wow, he’s quick,' but they don’t know that where I’m going is predetermined. He’s basing it on quickness, but the jump is to set him up. Before I come down, I make my move. When you jump, you turn as you land. Boom! The defender can’t react because he’s waiting for you to come down to defend you. Now, the first time when you showed that quickness, he has to react to that quickness, so you can fake baseline and go the other way with your jump hook. All this is part of the Dream Shake. The Dream Shake is you dribble and then you jump; now you don’t have a pivot foot. When I dribble I move it so when I come here, I jump. By jumping, I don’t have a pivot foot now. I dribble so now I can use either foot. I can go this way or this way. So he’s frozen, he doesn’t know which way I’m going to go. That is the shake. You put him in the mix and you jump stop and now you have choice of pivot foot. He doesn’t know where you’re gonna turn and when."
No, that doesn't "prove" Dream is the better player. That's a hell of an insight into how he approaches the game though. This sort of understanding of the game is precisely why he's so highly sought. It's not as though he's some coach from Indiana with great insight; he actually beasted off these techniques.
When Dream retired, he was top ten in scoring, rebounding, blocks, and steals. He was also the only person to ever do that.
He's also the only player to win MVP, Finals MVP, and DPOY in the same season. He's either first, second, or tied in blocked shots in a 4/5/7 game series, blocks in a half, blocks in a quarter. Where he is second or tied, he initially held the record before it was broken. He's got the highest career blocks average of any other player, not to mention he owns the blocks record overall. He's one of 5 people to lead the league in blocks and rebounds in the same season. He's one of 7 players to ever score 30 points in every game of a playoff series.
Comparitavely, Robinson was the only player to be top 5 in rebounds, blocks, and steals in the same season and the only player to be top 7 in 5 statistical categories.
Dream has more DPOY (by 1) and 1st team All NBA/ALL Defense selections, by 2 I believe.
Dreams career point, block, and rebound averages are higher than Admirals. Admiral leads in FG% and FT%. None of these numbers are all that far apart, usually within a few points. Admiral gets PER and WS by fair margins.
So, we can see that while they are statistically similar and both have some incredible feats to their credit, Dream still maintains that overall edge. He also won two titles at the peak of his career and won those two Finals MVP's. Those, sorry to say, do seperate the men from the boys at this level. They just do.
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