I loved him as part of The Bad Boys.
Not really, he was a great rebounder here like most said but he did give up pretty much in that 95 series and most blamed D Rob for it. Hakeem went off for sure, but Rodman shooting stupid threes and missing FT's like I don't care during that series rubbed me the wrong way. I loved him in Detroit though, he helped them out alot.
Rodman was o.k. till he started wearing a dress and acting like David Lee Roth.
The 95 playoffs was a meltdown all around. Hill had lost whatever little control of the team he had. Rodman quit on the team, but I'm not sure that was the only reason we lost. Hill had not prepared the team very well for the playoffs and didn't have much of a defensive system if I remember correctly. Also, Pop would now be better able to handle different personalities, though that might mean he just doesn't sign them.
'95 isn't all on Rodman, as Robinson got outplayed soundly by Olajuwon and their guards got hot. Still, that was a winnable series if Rodman showed up and played hard. That Rockets team wasn't that strong on the glass after trading Otis Thorpe, and a Rodman playing to half his potential could have caused serious matchup problems for Houston.
I do. Everyone ran him out of town thinking he was doing nothing for the team when he really was. He opened up DRob on D.
What happened when Dennis left? Oh yeah...part of that Bulls championship run. He by far was my favorite Spurs player in the 90's.
Rodman is a disease.
He was a great rebounder here in SA as he was anywhere, he lead the league both years right? Dude was just a freak on the boards. He was your fave by far over David or Sean in their primes? Wow you must have really liked dude. He helped out the team no doubt, but seriously the headache he brought was probably not worth it.
BTW the Bulls had a three peat before him as well, with MJ and Pippen almost anything around them would do
Watch game 2 of the 95 WCF and tell me how he helped the team in that series.
As much as I HATE Houston, Hakeem was too much to handle even for D Rob.
Rodman brings headaches, yes. However he made players around him better. How'd you think D Rob won MVP that year.
He was a great rebounder here in SA as he was anywhere, he lead the league both years right? Dude was just a freak on the boards. He was your fave by far over David or Sean in their primes? Wow you must have really liked dude. He helped out the team no doubt, but seriously the headache he brought was probably not worth it.
BTW the Bulls had a three peat before him as well, with MJ and Pippen almost anything around them would do
It's pretty obvious you don't have an accurate recollection of his act in games 2 and 5 of that series.As much as I HATE Houston, Hakeem was too much to handle even for D Rob.
Rodman brings headaches, yes. However he made players around him better. How'd you think D Rob won MVP that year.
Just yesterday I happened to see a few minutes of the action-adventure movie they made with Rodman as the hero. Quite possibly the worst movie I've ever seen. If I knew, for absolute certain, that it was intended to be a comedy, then it might slip to 3rd or 4th worst movie. But I'm pretty sure the producer and Rodman both intended it to be serious.
No doubt he had skills. But he was a circus freak. That Chicago team was good enough to bail water a little faster than the leaks he caused. But I have to agree that he was a big part of sinking the 95 Spurs. The refs and the league were tired of his by then, and the team didn't have the star-power of Michael Jordan, so they didn't mind kicking his ass openly.
I miss Dennis Rodman about the same way I miss Liberace. As long as I only had to look at them about once a year, I could laugh and say, "What freakin' planet is he from?" Anything more than that was too much.
I miss Dennis Rodman's Pizza Hut commercials with DRob....but that's about it...
This is a ed up truth but whatever...I couldn't pass the ball to Rodman because I'd never know where he was. It'd be too hard to look at him in the first place.
Rodman was a trip,a cancer,and a head case but he was a badass on the court. I miss his game but i don't miss the man...er woman...er... whatever.
Rodman still averaged 15 rebounds a game that series.
In game 2, he only played 17 minutes. He can't really sabotage the game from the bench.
In game 5, he still had 12 rebounds, and the Spurs lost by over 20 points. Hard to pin the blame on Rodman for that loss.
In game one in San Antonio, he pulled down 20 rebounds and the Spurs still lost.
In the deciding game 6, Rodman not only pulled down 17 rebounds, but he went 7-for-9 from the field scoring 14 points.
He still wanted to win.
You can point to game 2 and game 5, but there's no guarantee that the Spurs win the series anyway. And, it's not like Rodman didn't do anything. It may have made a difference. I might not have. If Robinson wasn't Hakeem's back then, it wouldn't have mattered if Rodman "sabotaged" them or not.
Stop being bitter.
Just let it go.
Last edited by MiamiHeat; 08-29-2008 at 10:26 AM.
Rodman was actually in the news the other day, it was one of yahoo's top sports stories. Phil Jackson was asked who was the greatest athlete he had ever coached and while everyone waited for him to pick between Jordan and Kobe, he said that was easy...Dennis Rodman. He went on to say Rodman could play a whole game and be just as strong at minute 48 as he was when the game started.
I don't miss Dennis Rodman, but I don't dislike him.
So what happened when Carl and Dennis were falling all over each other? It seemed to me that Malone started most of it, but how did the refs call it?
No.
Good player but damn rood and all of what he did..
You ever think there was a reason he only played 17 minutes in game 2? In the first quarter he started jacking up threes (3 times) and wasn't getting back in transition. Please explain to me how him taking 3 threes in a quarter is anything but treating a must-win game 2 as a big ing joke. If Rodman wanted to win so badly, why did he skip the beginning of practice for game 5? If he gave a about winning, you'd think he'd be ecstatic about coming back from an 0-2 hole to even it at 2-2 with the next game at home. It's ludicrous how 99% of NBA fans put the blame for 95 all on Robinson and completely ignore how much of a cancer Rodman was in that series. Getting in a pissing match with the coach (who was an equal bag) was priority #1 for Rodman, not winning a le.
Watch the series dude. Rodman jacked up 3 after 3 in the series, left Horry wide open so that he could snatch rebounds to pad his stats throughout the whole series. He didn't play an ounce of defense or offense, and allowed the Rockets to double, and sometimes triple Robinson, while making Robinson handle both Hakeem AND man the middle, which is impossible for anyone to do.
The Spurs won 19 of 21 when Rodman got hurt, and it was hardly a coincidence.
Last edited by ambchang; 08-29-2008 at 04:21 PM.
For whatever its worth I don't miss him.
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