This thread is such bull . Hakeem was 6'9 he could never compete with true 7 footers like Ewing, Robinson, and Shaq. Oh wait...
I know and that ing idiot Robinson openly admitted he got torched (see the below video at 1:35). What a dumbass! I mean he did shoot 41% that's awesome right! Of course Hakeem shot 55+% and averaged 35 plus with three 40 point games and a 39 point game. Robinson must have not have been paying attention when he admitted Hakeem torched him. ing Noob. Also, screw this dumb main stream press for their pro-Houston bias:
You claiming Kobe + Shaq better than any team that Jordan faced. Hakeem went through the likes of Malone/Stockton, Bird, Magic, Barkley, and others. So, what's your point?
Don't put Duncan in the same class as Ewing or even Robinson. O'Neal, fine, but they were different types of players. I just don't buy this notion that Olajuwon would have "destroyed" Duncan. Maybe he'd have slightly outplayed him, but nobody destroyed Duncan.
Not even prime O'Neal, who was arguably the most dominant player in the history of sports. Nowhere near the best, but in terms of sheer dominance, you could make the argument. Physically, very few players in the entire league could even come close to adequately guarding him straight up.
Excellent post MaNu4Tres.
The worst was the year before when Hakeem won the MVP, Defensive Player of the Year, Finals MVP, and covered Ewing in gasoline and threw a box of lit matches on him in the NBA Finals, and then some people were acting like he was better than D-Rob. Just because he was able to be the dominant player on a championship team, and for the lame reason that he had one of the most successful seasons an NBA player has ever had. Puh-lease what a lame reason to compare him to the incomparable D-Rob.
I agree with Harlem Heat, the true die hards (the true fans not those phony ones) knew that Robinson was better until that 1 series. They weren't fooled by all those phony awards and accolades Hakeem won the year before. The true die hard fans are never fooled, right Harlem?
huh?
Who would win 1-on-1, Prime Hakeem or Prime Shaq?
In reference of the Jordan era, when duhoh says " Put Duncan in Jordan's era, and let's see what happens." It's easy to establish he was talking about the years Jordan won les. Duhoh didn't say the Bird and Johnson era.
On the sunrise of the "Jordan era", Magic and Bird were on the cusp of retirement and their teams were irrelevant once the Pistons won back to back les.
And yes the Shaq/Kobe teams from 1999-2004 were better than any Malone/Stockton, Barkley/Kevin Johnson, and Kemp /Payton team Jordan's team faced.
So for him to say Duncan couldn't have done better during this time is foolish, considering a prime- Duncan had to go through a team made up of the most dominant big man in the past 30 years and the most dominant guard in the NBA at the time.
Last edited by MaNu4Tres; 05-22-2010 at 06:20 PM.
1986 NBA Finals, Celtics beat Rockets 4-2....Larry Bird is who I am referring to
Let's go true Spurs fans, if we can't win this argument let's just turn this into an endurance test. We'll keep posting until people stop responding and then we can pretend we won. Shasta will lead the way! To infinite and beyond!!
You said he went through them.
An Aggie Hoopsfan troll. I thought I had seen it all.
I did, he played in their era, did he not? And he didn't prevail, but that wasn't his fault.
Shaq. Just because Shaq was way too slow for Hakeem before he got obese doesn't mean anything. Fat Shaq by 1,000,000,000 billion million points in a two hour game. The secret to stopping a superquick guy with a thousand moves each faster than the next like Hakeem is to have a very slow very fat guy get on him. The lack of foot speed confuses him. Also, greasy sweat gets in Hakeem's head and grosses him out.
To me, going through someone denotes beating them. Whatever, it doesn't matter.
Shaq was too slow? So what else can you tell us Mr. I Didn't Watch Basketball Before 2000?
Should I just call you Mavs_man_14 so we can do away with the pleasantries?
Too slow for Hakeem in the little known forum for public basketball they play called the NBA Finals (1995 edition) when Hakeeem averaged 33 ppg on him, and outscored him every game (guess you missed that one). If you ever geet a chance to watch that series on ESPN Classic or NBTV Hardwood Classics watch the final humiliating load of man gravy he launches in Shaq's face by way of a contested three when the game is out of reach in game four to put the series away that Had Clyde cracking up laughing.
Shaq was too slow? So what else can you tell us Mr. I Didn't Watch Basketball Before 2000?
If I started watching in 2000 then I watched in Shaq's prime dummy. Even your insults fail.
Shaq was too slow? So what else can you tell us Mr. I Didn't Watch Basketball Before 2000?
The Dream never beat Jordan. Those Rockets teams had some good players but they never beat the Jordan bulls.
Duncan beat the Kobe-Shaq Lakers. That to me is the testimony of greatness. Duncan beat the best.
The real question would be which playoff team would win as Duncan and the Dream would not play one-on-one. I personally would take the 1999, 2005 and 2007 team over the 94/95 Rockets teams.
didnt have to beat the jordan bulls, they got beat by a team we swept in the finals
To be honest, Prime Duncan and Prime Olajuwan would both get worked by Prime Walton.
If injuries were a measure, Blazers centers would be the greatest of all time.
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