He shoots 53 percent from the line. He has become a rounded player. Wilt had his singular mentality that he had to score. Everybody waited for Wilt. Except for the season he was angry with the writers and decided to lead the league in assists.
Defenses are much more sophisticated today.
Shaq seems more alert to that and looking to get the ball to the weakside and not feeling the urgency to score. That's what Wilt didn't get. In the chain of evolution there was Jabbar, who played a finesse game by comparison. He could have played any position. Cousy acknowledges Patrick Ewing's great career but is disappointed in that Ewing bypassed some of the great tools to dominate a game defensively as Russell did.