lol why do those old timey hook shots look like your dad playing basketball?
they used to teach a hook shot that was really utilitarian (along with other moves in college) so even all the stars until the 90s use those moves that look extra "old" today even if they probably could easily do more modern moves, I read an older article recently, Wilt stole an idea he got from Bob Pettit which basically eventually became Kareem's skyhook but Wilt was discouraged from it rather than minimizing the amount of effort and distance the ball needed to be away from his hands
one reason was that they were afraid guys would undercut him, teams had started doing this to Elgin Baylor for "being flashy" aka jumping in ways that weren't straight up and down (and also being black didn't help)
Wilt's minutes records have always been his most impressive to me, and LeBron's getting some of that love especially since as noted above his constant Finals runs in this era have been like two to three extra whole seasons at this point, but a lot of that was learning minimization of movements, whereas Bill Russell's whole game early on was more destroying cacs with his absurd athleticism than skills (other than IQ/smarts/etc.) and jumping a hundred times in two seconds if necessary (re: undercutting Russell or similar, the Celtics would fuck you up, Wilt and Baylor didn't really have those teammates many seasons, apparently Big O himself would murder your family for shit plays (main takeaway I got from that Sam Smith book is that his in-game persona has more than triple doubles in common with Westbrook))
