Saturday, July 9, 2011

Top 100 NBA Players: #86


Chris Bosh

(BBR: #106)

Bosh may seem like an unlikely candidate to make this list, especially ahead of contemporaries Ginobili and Parker, who have a much better track record at winning, but even though many were disappointed with his performance during his first season in Miami, it actually wasn't that bad, and the last five years he spent in Toronto were very good. Take a look:

2005-2010 - 22.8 pts, 9.9 reb, 2.5 ast, .500 FG%, .811 FT%

Those would be pretty good averages for a single season, but those were the numbers he posted over the course of five seasons on average. Only 3 men have ever matched those numbers in a single season, and all 3 are players whose all-time ranking hasn't been revealed yet: Bob Lanier, Kevin McHale, and Larry Bird. It's pretty rare to find a big man who can also score and make his free throws, but that's what Bosh brings to the table.

During his first season in Miami, all of those numbers dropped off slightly, most notably his scoring, which was 4 points lower than the average above. Many would say that it was a bad career move for him, but when you look at the bigger picture, he enjoyed more success in one year than in the rest of his career combined, reaching the NBA Finals with the Heat, which was much better than his previous best, which was losing in the first round.

While he was in Toronto, he was the best player on the Raptors for years, but they realized that they couldn't win a title with him as their best player, so he moved to Miami to become a third option, and he adjusted pretty well. In fact, I'm not sure how long it's been since a team's third-best player averaged over 18 points per game.


While Parker has definitely enjoyed much more playoff success than Chris Bosh, there's no denying that Bosh has always been the better player overall, even with the playoffs added in, as they are above. Add to that the fact that Bosh is just hitting his peak in the 8th year of his career, and you may be seeing him make a much bigger move in years to come.

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