Also, I think I saw someone ask 'if Dwight Howard were in the Draft with Wiggins, who would go #1?' ... it'd be Dwight. In my opinion anyway.
Big men with that kind of dominating gameplay don't come along very often; certainly less frequently than a freakishly athletic 6'7"/6'8" Guard/Forward.
And Oden was absolutely in that mould.
Noel, Drummond, or even Anthony Davis (even though he did go #1), were never viewed as having that 2-way dominance potential, like Shaq, Dwight and Oden.
Big men with that kind of dominating gameplay don't come along very often; certainly less frequently than a freakishly athletic 6'7"/6'8" Guard/Forward.
And Oden was absolutely in that mould.
Noel, Drummond, or even Anthony Davis (even though he did go #1), were never viewed as having that 2-way dominance potential, like Shaq, Dwight and Oden.
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