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Um..it's not a tough choice and it's a very easy call.
Wake me up when Duncan guards Shaq...
Its a tough choice...whats your call?....
Um..it's not a tough choice and it's a very easy call.
Wake me up when Duncan guards Shaq...
If anyone was a Spurs fan during the early '90s, the answer is all too prevalent.
'nuff said.
^^^yup. plus drob is so much more athletic than td. amare would never have ave 30 pts against drob.
I don't know that it's all about guarding or not guarding Shaq, but I think the answer is pretty clear. Robinson recovered and rotated as quickly as any big man ever has. He was a machine.
Robinson is Top 5 defensive bigman ever, Tim is not.
Tim has yet to win a DPOY and at least a blocks le before any comparisons can be made with DRob
Tim is realy very very good defender but Dave is one of the greatest.
Most people saying that Hakeem was better I'm not so sure.
ps. dave defended Shaq?
no one could (maybe some discussion?)
David relied more on defense than Tim..... and he was better at it.
Robinson of '99 was better than most ctrs will ever be defensively.
Out of the 48 times in their careers that Dave and Hakeem went head-to-head, Dave won his matchup 36 times for a ratio of 3:1 (36-12) all time. To me, that is far more statistically significant than claiming Hakeem owned David because he got the better of him during a 6 game playoff series where Hakeem didn't even guard Dave one-on-one.
If anything, Dave outplayed Hakeem on a far more consistent basis than people remember. And yes, Dave was a significantly better defensive player than Tim is.
Last edited by TwoHandJam; 07-04-2005 at 01:59 PM.
I bolded the important part again in case you missed it. How can you own someone if you don't even guard them? If you want to focus on that one series as defining an entire player's career, you should at least consider the fact that Dave drew double and even triple teams on offense yet Dave guarded Hakeem one-on-one because the Rockets had too many weapons.
Think about it.
So in peoples opinion, Drob was and always will be a better defender then Tim
When it comes to offense, Drob is also clearly ahead (even if tim was needed to be an offensive powerhouse, drob would still be ahead)
So when u take these two factors and combine, then it seems to indicate Drob was a better player then Duncan. That drob is the best player the spurs have had.
Is that wat yall think, cuz i dont
Don't sell Duncan short, because he is one of the League's best defenders at any position.
But Robinson was better overall, no question.
DRob better defensive player. Duncan better overall player. That's how it goes down.
Is this thread intended to be funny?
Duncan couldn't hold the Big Man's jock defensively.
This is like arguing who's more clutch; Parker or Ginobili.
DROB to me in my Generation of watching BBall which was roughly from 1984 -present, was the best Center I ever seen.
Talk about a complete player, this guy did it all. Best athletic BIG man I've seen, he ran like a guard, hops like a kangaroo.
My only knock on DROB was he never had a sweet consistent jumpshot like say a Patrick Ewing did. If DROB had that, he would have been even more unstoppable b/c of his athletic ability he easily blew by people.
As someone stated before, if DROB didn't have those chronic nerve/back injuries he'd still be playing & we'd would have won another le between the Fakerz 3-peat. The Suns Amare would not be going off for the amount of pts he avg against us & the Pistons series would have gone 4-1, maybe 4-2 & the Wallaces would not have been as effective as they were & DET would not have been getting the layups they did against us with DROB there.
TMSKILZ -true
Banks it is not that simple Tim's play is different than Drob's.
In game it is not just indyvidualy comparison. It is a team sport.
Yes, DRob was the better defensive player, and he will be remembered as one of the greatest centers this league has ever seen. Duncan, on the other hand, will be remembered as one of the greatest players this league has ever seen at any position.
Actually, it's Russell, Big Dave, then everyone else. Dave did it all, from being a premier shotblocker, to steals, to bodying up monsters like Shaq.
drob
This is so true, but sadly nobody will remember or bring it up. Everybody will just say Hakeem owned Drob, but if Hill would've doubled like they were doubling Dave it would've been a different story and of course if Rodman would of gone out and guarded Horry, or if Elliot would've hit his freethrows...all of this doesn't matter, because the Spurs would've won the series.
Not a tough call at all, DROB hands down. I've mentioned it a couple of times, you put a prime Drob on this team and nobody scores on them.
offensively n defensively drob IMO
clutch play duncan
but drob didnt had a team of good cast like duncansits ashamed though imagine the rings drob wouldve won.
yes
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