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In other news, Isiah Thomas informed Mavericks management that he does not wish to play for them. Dallas brass will probably take DePaul forward Mark Aguirre with their top pick in the 1981 NBA Draft.
Oh wait, should've posted this in the 1988 forum. My bad.
In other news, Isiah Thomas informed Mavericks management that he does not wish to play for them. Dallas brass will probably take DePaul forward Mark Aguirre with their top pick in the 1981 NBA Draft.
I recall a hot trade proposal involving the Lakers/Mavs back then: Worthy for Tarpley. Anybody else remember the particulars of that?
Aguirre and Tarpley for Worthy. I believe Dallas turned it down, not LA.
Yep, that was it, Fin. Thank you. And yer right, it was Dallas who turned it down. I hate to admit it, but, Magic was hot for Aguirre, they'd been friends like forever and he was tryin' to sell Worthy out. Yikes.
interesting.
Tarpley was a wonderment. A true physical specimen. Just a protypical power forward, reincarnated in Dwight Howard. Only Tarpley was very accomplished in all phases of the game. And he looked spectacular in that "MGM Grand Hotel & Casino Green" that the Mavs used then.
Good memories.
Fantastic unis
He was a very difficult matchup for the Lakers. Dealt us fits in '88. Donaldson just wore Jabbar out. He was like an oak tree. We had no suitable match for Tarpley. None. We were at his mercy. That was a series for the ages. The Mavs refused to get hosed and so it went the 7. It was extremely nerve racking.
Great photo, Fin. See as where Howard is "shaped" in a V, Tarpley was not as carved and was shaped more in a () therefore he could not be moved easily.
looks like dwight minus the steroids
But, the Mavs would not feed Tarpley consistently in that series. I remember it now. But, I God's, they had a ton of offensive weapons.
And Carter sitting mid court about 6 rows up with that cream color cowboy hat on.
Man, that is over 20 years ago and it seems like yesterday. Weird.
One of the near-misses. They had the lead in the 4th Quarter at the Forum in Game 7 and couldn't hang on.
Indeed they had a lot of firepower: Aguirre, Blackman, Harper, Perkins, Tarpley, Schrempf.
Ro Blackman used to be my favorite non-Spur. I really liked those Mav teams back then.
I remember in that 2nd season (playoffs) every team was sick & fed up with Magic plowin' thru the lane and getting that bogus call and marching to the line for two fts. Oh, , Utah about went out of their minds when we played them ahead of you guys. Motta wasn't as adamant about it (it wasn't their strategy) as was Layden and the Jazz. They made a great issue out of it hoping to get thru, but, it didn't work.
Aguirre was just a scoring machine then. Magic wanted him so bad for the Lakers. Years later he had to settle for gettin' Vincent, but, by then Vincent couldn't play anymore. That's when players got on the low block. That little square close to the basket and end line. Now-a-days anytime a player is below the foul line, sideline-to-sideline its the low block. Ugh.
pat riley wrote in one of his books that tarpley was the only player he didn't know how to defend.
but he didn't write about dallas passing on the stockton feed.
Oh man
Tarpley was a heck of a player
Too bad
Roy Tarpley, Richard Dumas.........the " what ifs "
As great as Tarpley was, the Mavs would've been better off taking Ron Harper, John Salley, Mark Price, Dennis Rodman or Jeff Hornacek.
That ain't right, Fin. They took the right guy, it just ended heartrendingly. Do overs in life are few & far between.
They did take the biggest talent, that's for sure. And I never thought Tarp was a bad guy, he just couldn't handle his demons.
He was a blue chipper. He just lost his soul.
I've always wanted to try that stuff just once to just see wtf is so attractive about it, but, when I broach the subject with the wife she just says: "Dale, you have your Lakers, and your 'Nemo' Cakes. That's enough."
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