He was more or less a face up player, and his post game was usually just turning and shooting over smaller, less athletic opponents. Not many could deal with his quickness, so he got to the line a lot, and he finished a lot of alley oops. He could run the floor as well or better than any 7 footer I've seen, but the lack of a great back to the basket game hurt him in the playoffs when defenses were tighter.
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He played guard for the majority of his basketball career before going to Navy. He had a growth spurt at Navy and became a post player.
That and prior to Popovich Spurs coaching was awful.5. David Robinson – 5’9 his junior year of high school and 6’7 his senior year and then 7’1 in Naval Academy. last spurt was at age 21.
He was too thin to be a post up player in the 90s. Small waist and all that, it's been talked about like a million times on this board.
Dude happened to go to the NBA 20 years too early.
In the summers, instead of working on his game with other players at the Fonde Rec center in Houston, David preferred to go to Hawaii and play his saxophone.
How lucky guys like him and Anthony Davis are.
Davis is injury prone, but that's another story.
Slightly more V-frame than A-frame.
True that David learned and developed his post game later in life, but so did Olajuwon. Olajuwon had a somewhat different frame with which to work.
David was still pretty decent in the post toward the end of of his career despite his leverage issue versus players with a thicker base.
David was more of a math and computer skills guy. He played one year of organized basketball - as a high school Senior. Four years later, he was the College Player of the Year.
I think Olajuwon, started playing at age 15. Both were very naturally gifted.
Didnt put the work in.
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Why post up when you can blow past every big in the league? His ppg average plus fgp showed that whatever he was doing was working on a high level.
David's game would translate quite well with today's NBA game.
Blake Griffin / Anthony Davis all rolled up into one taller and faster package.
Anyone ever signed prime DRob to the Spurs in 2k?
David would have been a number one draft pick in fantasy leagues in the 1990s. Remember the NBA's IBM Award?
Yeah, he was a perennial recipient. He led the league in all-time career PER (retroactively, given the anachronistic basis of when PER was developed), up until 1998 when he injured his lower back. I believe he is still in the top 5 all-time career leaders in that category.
Before I say anything, I may be the biggest D Rob homer on this board. What is your basis for "strong" post up game? He was an incredible defender in the post. You say his post game was bad in the post season but I feel like that is colored by the Rockets loss to Hakeem. Hakeem was one of the best post players ever and was better in that area than D Rob no doubt, but compared to today's league there isn't a post player better than David.
I agree, his post offense wasn't what made him a transcendent talent but his defense and athleticism coupled with an amazing ability to shoot and face up allowed him to dominant in the era when center talent was at its peak.
Robinson was and and will always be a pussy. Not even the secobd best spur ever...#Manuisthesecondbest
http://articles.latimes.com/1996-07-...angeles-lakers
At 24, O'Neal is considered one of the game's top centers, along with Olympic teammates Hakeem Olajuwon and David Robinson. In size, he dwarfs them. Olajuwon is actually 6-10. Robinson is a legitimate 7-1 but has a 32-inch waist that makes it hard for him to play under the basket.
You are such a troll, Palisoc.
Didn't have the footwork or technique on the block. Tim never had that level of athleticism, so he needed to put mad work in..
SCARY.......
He was an outstanding post player. You guys keep misunderstanding when people call him a face up player to mean that he was somehow deficient. He could destroy you in the post, but he commanded double and triple teams when he faced the basket because nobody could stay in front of him. The only reason he gave up his spot down low was because he had one of the best post players of all time join him.
Pretty much everybody was smaller and less athletic. Why not play to your strength?
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