The NBA remains in a suspension due to the spread of coronavirus and everybody is looking for their basketball fix. We have started a game of start one, bench one, cut one in the style of the Philadelphia 76ers.
We have done the point guards, shooting guards, and small forwards version of the game and now we are moving on to the power forwards version of the game. The contestants are the three best at the position in Charles Barkley, George McGinnis, and Dolph Schayes. The rules are simple and the era these three need to play in is the current era of today’s basketball.
Start: Charles Barkley
Barkley could play in any era. Despite his size, he was a fairly good athlete, he was strong, he could shoot threes, he could rebound with the best of them, and he was a guy who could take over games. Barkley was just something special and a guy that the Sixers could certainly use right now.
Bench: George McGinnis
This is based more on the fact of a player in today’s era more than anything. Schayes had a bigger impact on Sixers history than McGinnis, but for today’s era, you take McGinnis. He averaged 21.6 points and 11.5 rebounds with 4.1 assists and 2.1 steals and he had some range on his shot. He was an All-Star in 1976 and 1977 and was the leader of some pretty good Sixers teams.
Bench: Dolph Schayes
Schayes has had a much bigger impact in Sixers history than a guy like McGinnis and he has his number retired in the rafters of the Wells Fargo Center, but it’s more all about the athletes and the stretch 4’s of today’s game. I can’t see Schayes being a good defender against a guy like say, Kristaps Porzingis or Nikola Jokic for example, and life would be miserable for him. [lawrence-related id=29365,29350,29357]