Why is Patrick Ewing never considered soft?

[dbreiden83080]

I live in NY so trust me when i tell you during Ewings heyday he was called SOFT along with many other things by both the fans and the media. When Ewing came out of school he was supposed to be better than Jordan and Hakeem. He ended up falling more into the Barkley and Malone category. I don't think the NY fans ever forgave him for not being this almighty immortal player than he was billed as. It is a lot like what A-Rod is going through with the Yanks right now. He is great but the fans want him to be everything to everyone, it is never enough.

[ambchang]

Are you even reading what you are posting?

Hakeem won 2 les in 94 and 95 without an all star alongside him. This helps your argument?!

It all boils down to this: If you think David Robinson was a better Center than Shaq or Hakeem, you may as well call Robinson the best basketball player ever or the best pro athlete in the history of time, because each statement is as utterly ludicrous.

Robinson can not hold a candle to those 2 or Kareem, Wilt, etc. THere's a clear cut distinction between him and the truly elite centers of all time. Any all time Center list shows this. None have Robinson in the top 7 or 8.

I am pretty sure you weren't reading what I was posting, show me where I said Robinson > Hakeem or Shaq. In fact, I think Hakeem > Robinson.
What I wanted to show is that a team's makeup has much more to do with the overall success than the presence of one single dominant player. The list also showed that without an All-Star teammate, Robinson has NEVER missed the playoffs, something Hakeem or Shaq cannot claim.
You can argue until your face turns blue, but the simple fact is that the Spurs didn't underachieve in the playoffs, they simple overachieved in the regular season.
A team with Robinson, Terry mings and Rod Strickland did very well in the playoffs. A team with Robinson, Sean Elliott and Rodman went to the WCF and lost in 6 games. A team with Robinson, Vinny Del Negro, Avery Johnson, JR Reid, Sean Elliott, Dale Ellis and Antoine Carr could even go to the second round is a semi-miracle, this team shouldn't even make the playoffs with Jerry Tarkanian and John Lucas at the helm. Speaking of which, what has Lucas and Tark done since they left the Spurs? And Lucas was the best coach outside of Larry Brown and Pop Robinson EVER had.
To call Robinson soft because the FO sucked is no way to appreciate a player to gave his all to his team every single time he stepped on the court.