David Robinson's 71-point Game (video)

[Horry For 3!]

That was sweet

[DPG21920]

I miss that guy. I always loved how fast he got to the rim off of a pump fake or drive.

[EricB]

and john lucas was the coach.

Don't forget Negele Knight in the PG combo. Tarkanian quit "supposedly" because they wouldn't get a "quality point guard"

The drek that McCombs and Bass put around him was criminal...

But hey, I was young and didn't know any better to be pissed off about it at the time

[whottt]

and john lucas was the coach.

Don't forget Negele Knight in the PG combo. Tarkanian quit "supposedly" because they wouldn't get a "quality point guard"

The drek that McCombs and Bass put around him was criminal...

But hey, I was young and didn't know any better to be pissed off about it at the time

The Spurs brass got away with it because David could cover up any weaknesses...

No rebounding? Dave wins a rebounding le(he needed Rodman to cover that weakness like he needed a hole in the head)


Need scoring? Dave wins a scoring le.

Need D? Dave puts up 4 and a half blocks and 2 and a half steals per game.

No PG? No problem...Dave averages 4.8 assists per game...while he leads the league in scoring.


In fact the only thing David Robinson could not do...was the be the guy knocking down the perimeter shots that pulled the extra defenders off of him while he was simultaneously in the paint. It's physically impossible...even for David Robinson.

[EricB]

The Spurs brass got away with it because David could cover up any weaknesses...

No rebounding? Dave wins a rebounding le(he needed Rodman to cover that weakness like he needed a hole in the head)


Need scoring? Dave wins a scoring le.

Need D? Dave puts up 4 and a half blocks and 2 and a half steals per game.

No PG? No problem...Dave averages 4.8 assists per game...


In fact the only thing David Robinson could not do...was the be the guy knocking down the perimeter shots that pulled the extra defenders off of him while he was simultaneously in the paint. It's physically impossible...even for David Robinson.

Dale Ellis can do it!!! Oh wait, he needs David to set a screen for him to get open.

Person can do it!!! eh....

[Mark in Austin]

Clearly it took some effort to match up all the scouting video with the radio play-by-play. Thanks to the Spurs for doing this. What a treasure.

[whottt]

Dale Ellis can do it!!! Oh wait, he needs David to set a screen for him to get open.

It's a little known fact that Dale Ellis actually died in 1991 and his corpse continued to play basketball for a handful of years afterwards.

Person can do it!!! eh....

Actually, Chuck Person could do it....he's the one guy David played with that actully could, unfortuntely it takes more than one guy.

Other than that...Bruce Bowen was more of a legitimate perimeter threat than Vinny, or AJ or most of the guys Drob played with other than Elliott.

When Kobe tried to double Tim off of Bruce...Bruce dropped 27 points on his ass and it was never attempted again.

[ambchang]

Fantastic find, spursdotcom, I have longing to see this.

BTW, those were some pretty tough shots, long jumpers, drives, turnarounds, David did it all, and was doubled/tripled most of that time.

[Spurs Brazil]

Great video

Thanks!!!!

[duncan228]

Robinson's quad-double game is airing on ESPN Classic at 5pm (CST) and on NBA TV at 7:30pm (CST) today.

Double check the times where you are in case I'm off.

[baseline bum]

Thank you spursdotcom for the single greatest post in the history of Spurstalk.

I have been wanting to see this for 15 years now.

[xellos88330]

Loved the video. Never seen it before and always wondered about it. Props to the fans that were at that game cheering on the Admiral.

[Phenomanul]

Thank you spursdotcom for the single greatest post in the history of Spurstalk.

I have been wanting to see this for 15 years now.

+1,000,000

BTW does anybody know how we can save the video from that link to our hard-drive?

[timvp]

Thank you spursdotcom for the single greatest post in the history of Spurstalk.

I have been wanting to see this for 15 years now.

Exactly. I'm in shock that I can finally watch this game. I listened to it on the radio (it wasn't televised at all) and ever since that day I've tried to find the footage. I gave up a few years ago when I was told that it just didn't exist.

This is like the holy grail of Spurs fandom.

[Spurminator]

Thank you for this. Great stuff. DRob was a freak of nature.

[sa_kid20]

Man this is great! I had only seen a youtube video of this game but it was only like 2:30 long and didn't have any commentary or anything. This really shows just how awesome David was that game and having Jay Howard on the call is also great!

[The Truth #6]

Goosebumps.

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

My list of "things to see before I die" just got another checkmark on it.

Thanks spursdotcom!!

[Brazil]

Great Vid ! Damn.

2 things really amazing for me: 1- he scored 71 points with only 2 dunks it means 67 points on JS, lay ups and FTs and 2- How humble is this guy !! He begun to celebrate a little after his last JS.

[spursdotcom]

Our broadcasting dept. really helped in getting us this footage, we're very happy to be able to bring it to life on the web.

[jrmp317]

55 games...they had a better record than the Jazz did, and the Jazz had Stockton, Malone, Hornacek, Tom Chambers...that's 3 HOF'ers(Chambers is a HOF level player) and an All Star there...not to mention a HOF coach.

Yet David is some kind of weak because he can't beat them when Rodman is more worried about getting into Madonna's pants than showing up for games, TC is playing on one knee, Willie is playing on one foot, and Drob has an all time great PG combo of Sleepy Floyd(in his last season on his absolutely laaaaast legs) and Vinny Del Negro....

And oh yeah...he's got a rookie head coach on top of it.

Like I say...David's crime was not failing to win a le with that team, it was carrying that lump of crap into the post season.

I've seen Hakeem, Shaq and can see Wilt and Kareem, fail to make the playoffs with much much much better teams.

great post, I can't stand when people say DRob didn't care about winning.

That video is awesome, they threw everything at DRob after he scored 30 they were triple teaming him regularly.

[ChumpDumper]

Thanks you so much for posting this piece of NBA history.

A couple of very minor technical quibbles.

Is the original 4:3 aspect ratio is stretched to 16:9 or is it cropped to fit a 16:9 frame? I just don't like it when it's stretched. I call that fattyvision.

I'd like an option to run it fullscreen on my tv so I can tell my girlfriend who all the other people are (she always asks during these vintage games).

Again, thanks to everyone who helped put this together.

[Libri]

DRob narrowly beating Shaq for the scoring le in the last game of the season is similar to how Gervin won the scoring le in the 1977-78 season. Gervin scored 63 points in the last game of the season and beat David Thompson. Gervin won the le by averaging 27.22 ppg. Thompson finished with an average of 27.15 ppg.

[completely deck]

Awesome video

[20Underrated]

I've NEVER heard the home team's fans cheer for a visitor like that before.