It's Official: 2025 Spurs New Big 3 has ARRIVED

[ambchang]

This is a stupid post. You don't know what the you're talking about, as usual. Lmao you blame Robinson's post game for the team losing in the postseason. Jesus.

Your bull might work for someone who wasn't an adult living in San Antonio from Robinson's rookie year. Take it to someone else.

This is the most convincing post I’ve ever read on spurstalk, full of backup arguments and well thought out points. I’m convinced.

I will just ignore years of watching Robinson and how he was routinely doubled and tripled and can’t score in the post over those. Or how it was basically common knowledge that robinsons game was based on his super human athelticism, but he was criticized for years for not developing a post game, or even himself saying he couldn’t do it well enough.

Your emotional lash out like a whiney little 4 year old is so convincing I will yield and admit Robison was a superb post player.

Edit: also, the amazing arguments you made will make me rethink my own post that has nothing to do with robinsons lack of post game causing the spurs to lose in the post season.

Edit 2: you must be the only adult living in San Antonio since robinsons rookie year, because it’s about the first time I’ve ever heard of someone saying robinsons post game being elite.

[cutewizard]

[QUOTE=ambchang;11206993]I’m probably the biggest Robinson fan but he was known not to have a good back to basket game, he spent a summer trying to put a hook shot in but that never really worked. He had a nice spin for a loo catch because of his speed and athleticism , he had a semi reliable turnaround jumper but his post up game was lacking. His main thing was high post, pivot, face the basket for either a jump shot or drive o the basket for a foul. His lack of post game was a main reason his stats fall off a cliff in the postseason because he was constantly getting doubled and tripled so he can’t drive to the basket at all and when he faces Utah the refs won’t call anything on pedo (like robinson was called for a foul while getting a concussion by getting elbowed in the head).

Hakeem, Ewing, rik smits, even Brad Dougherty and Ring seikaly had a better post game. Can’t say the same about mourning or mutombo because those guys don’t have much offensive game to begin with.


I recalled robinson admitting to not getting the feel for post game himself. He’s really a SF playing centre his entire career.[/QUOTE

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In that sense, Robinson is a more muscular Wemby.....

Or Wemby is David with the three point shot?

[Gagnrath]

This is a stupid post. You don't know what the you're talking about, as usual. Lmao you blame Robinson's post game for the team losing in the postseason. Jesus.

Your bull might work for someone who wasn't an adult living in San Antonio from Robinson's rookie year. Take it to someone else.

I was very young for most of the Robinson Spurs and the lack of supporting cast was more of an issue than Robinson's post game, that said other High end bigs of the Era were better at back to the basket backing people down. Robinson wasn't bad at it, but he wasn't an all time great at that either. What he had was great speed for his size pretty good handles, (for his size and era very good) and good strength. His back issues were a major limiting factor in his later career. It would have been really interesting seeing a different era Robinson, but in a lot of ways game wise Robinson was very comparable to Garnett in that he would and could be effective in the post and backing people down but his natural preference was to face up.

[Obstructed_View]

I was very young for most of the Robinson Spurs and the lack of supporting cast was more of an issue than Robinson's post game, that said other High end bigs of the Era were better at back to the basket backing people down. Robinson wasn't bad at it, but he wasn't an all time great at that either. What he had was great speed for his size pretty good handles, (for his size and era very good) and good strength. His back issues were a major limiting factor in his later career. It would have been really interesting seeing a different era Robinson, but in a lot of ways game wise Robinson was very comparable to Garnett in that he would and could be effective in the post and backing people down but his natural preference was to face up.

I agree almost completely with your points. My recollection is similar to yours.

Once more, I'm unsure how Robinson not being the greatest post player of all time or among the great centers of his era means he's a poor post player. I watched him post up great defenders. He was very good. He just did most of his damage facing up or on the fast break. He is one thousand times the back to basket player that Victor is.

It's a testament to the greatness of Victor that he puts up the numbers he does without a face up or post game. The league should be terrified of how dominant he is as a young raw player.

[cutewizard]

Spurs Classical Universe >>>

1) Duncan, Anchor
2) Manu, Heart and Soul
3) Parker, Motor



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1) Wemby, Air Force/ICBM
2) Fox, Swift Cavalry Strike Force
3) Castle, Heavy Infantry

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