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I agree with David Robinson tbh. That is, if he doesn't count Hakeem as an international player.
Why bring Parker into this discussion? This is about David praising Dirk.. What has it got to do with Parker? The whole world has a million things happening without Parker.. How come you forever turn every thread into a Parker bashing thread?
I agree with David Robinson tbh. That is, if he doesn't count Hakeem as an international player.
Because he is a got on top of being re ed
Haters gonna hate. Simple as that.
most international fans dont consider timmy, hakeem and nash to be true internationals, mainly because they played college ball. They didnt arrive to the NBA as pros (i agree personally).
Also, most international fans I know dont consider dirk to be the best ever. Hes obviously great, but his lack of accomplishments outside the NBA and one dimensional play dont give him the legendary repuation of someone like sabonis or even manu. a lot of spurs fans love to harp on manu and tony's playoff failures (very few remember timmy's in 10 and 11), but dirk is responsible for some big stinkers of his own.
to me dirk is a really tall SG with legendary shooting and great rebounding, but poor d, playmaking and ballhandling. he creates mismatches for the other team but also for his own, thus the difficulty in building around him. i dont think that a team with him and duncan plus 5-6 minimum players would necessarily dominate, they would at the very least need gaurds capable of getting them the ball and close out tight games.
still, i can see why people say he is closer to duncan than manu/parker are, they never really had that role in terms of minutes and because duncan even on his last legs is still the GOATPF; though IMO 2010-2011 spurs were manu's team and he lead them to similar finishes as nowitzki mavs, just like 2012-2014 are parkers team and he too is leading them to similar finishes, dirk's just been doing it longer. IMO theyre much much closer than most fans rate them, duncan is the one that is on another level.
Not really being that they can compete in Int'l compe ions as a separate country, just like Puerto Rico. They are commonwealths but they still technically aren't the United States.
And Hakeem was born in Nigeria. Didn't come to the US until his college days. Didn't get his US citizenship until 1993. You can easily say he was an international player.
Drazen Petrovic clearly was on his way to being of the best international players the NBA had ever seen; to bad he died as his career was really taking off ...
In term of overall skills, Kukoc was better; could pass, shoot (not as well as Dirk, but he was a clutch mofo), rebound, handle the ball
But he never led a team like Dirk
Although most of the dallas fanbase are a bunch of suckers, no one can deny they got screwed royally in '06
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