David Robinson - "Isiah Thomas shouldn't have been surprised by snub"

[Taadow]

Different between multiple and everybody

Zeke is a GOAT and deserved to a spot, but this is apt.
Truth is,

1. damn near everybody on Dream Team didn’t like either Isaiah or the Pistons.
2. Isaiah’s playing style wouldn’t have meshed well with anybody else’s

 

[Taadow]

If larry was black, he'd be just another good player, so beating him in his prime doesn't mean shyt.

1. No - if Larry was Black, niccas would say he was GOAT.

2. Isaiah actually said this chit to TV reporters in real time, which is one reason Larry
didn’t like him and would explain why Larry might not wanna play with him on DT.

 

[YoungMoneyCashMoneyBoy]

1. No - if Larry was Black, niccas would say he was GOAT.

2. Isaiah actually said this chit to TV reporters in real time, which is one reason Larry
didn’t like him and would explain why Larry might not wanna play with him on DT.

Why are you quoting me?

 

[Taadow]

Why are you quoting me?

Because I had a reply for something you said. Lol

 

[YoungMoneyCashMoneyBoy]

Because I had a reply for something you said. Lol

You replied to something Isiah said that I repeated.

So do you have an issue with what Isiah said?

 

[FukyourFort]

Naw its bytch made. The players shouldn't have a vote on that and they come off as weak. Karl Malone is a piece of shyt and he was on there. I really fukked with that team back then but the way they act when it comes to Zeke...they come off as bytches. nikkas all of a sudden have to like who they play with? Fuk outta here

 

[tuckgod]

David Robinson: Isiah Thomas Shouldn't Have Been Surprised by Dream Team Snub

"If you have a reputation and you take pride in your reputation as a 'Bad Boy,' it kind of means people aren't going to like you," Robinson said. "Can you be that surprised when people say 'I don't really want to play with the 'Bad Boys?'"



He added: "When you talk about putting together a team, chemistry matters. It does. You can't act like it doesn't matter, and for that team, it was clear that was a consideration for all the people involved."



He admitted there would have been a different vibe around the team if Thomas was involved, though.



"The Dream Team, based on the environment and the camaraderie that happened on that team, it was the best harmony," the two-time Olympic gold medalist said. "Would Isiah have made a different feeling on that team? Yes."

They ain’t have a problem using the coach of the Bad Boys.

All them nikkas is some hoes.

 

[Kami]

players didn’t like kobe either you dont snub great players.

 

[jwinfield]

Naw its bytch made. The players shouldn't have a vote on that and they come off as weak.

There wasn’t a vote. Selection committee knew they wouldn’t want him on the team, several players made it clear they didn’t want him on the team.

You can’t force players to play in the Olympics. First time you send pros to the Olympics you don't want to send your B/C team because the A team didn't fukk with one guy.

nikkas all of a sudden have to like who they play with?

There's a difference between not being cool with someone and have not fukking with a person at all.

players didn’t like kobe either you dont snub great players.

Kobe may not have been friendly, but who didn't fukk with him in the way people didn't/don't fukk with Zeke?

 

[GOAT]

Stockton was CLEARLY the better player in '92. Clearly

 

[BXKingPin82]

The Coli rwady to risk it all for Zeke.

 

[blankstairz]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e8KycyU47rs

Dennis Rodman Says David Robinson 'Couldn't Stop Shaking' After Being Asked To Guard Hakeem Olajuwon

Where was David Robinson in the Houston series (1995 Western Conference Finals)? He got eaten alive by Hakeem Olajuwon that whole series. They asked me to guard Olajuwon, and I refused. Bob Hill came up to me and asked if I would take Hakeem in the first half, and I said no. I would have taken him in the second half, but not the first. Any coach will tell you you don’t put your best defensive player on the other team’s best offensive player in the first half. You put it all on the line in the second half. That’s how it worked with Chuck Daly in Detroit, and I know that’s how Phil Jackson feels in Chicago.

What you try to do is contain the guy in the first half and make sure your best defensive player doesn’t get into foul trouble early. You’ve got be physical with Hakeem, and I’m no good if I’ve got three or four fouls in the first half. Then every time I touch somebody, it’s a foul. Against Los Angeles in the semifinals I couldn’t touch Elden Campbell without being called for a foul, and Elden Campbell doesn’t get the breaks from the refs like Hakeem does. So if you want me to guard him in the second, half, fine

David got into foul trouble against Hakeem just by falling down. David asked me for help, and I told him right to his fukking face, “I am not going down there.” I was not going to help him. He didn’t say anything to me, because there was nothing he could say. Before those games, he looked so f**king scared in the locker room, he couldn’t stop shaking.

They asked me to double-team Olajuwon, and I refused. The way the defense was drawn up, there was no way I was going to be able to get back down inside when my man was at the top of the key or way out on the baseline. The defense didn’t make sense, and I told Bob Hill this. He just looked at me and said, “This is the defense we’re going to run.”

In practice every day Coach Hill would say “David, you think you can play Olajuwon straight up?” David would just shrug and say, “You all can come down and help if you want.” Never once did he say he could take him by himself. This guy was the MVP of the league, and they were paying him $8 million a year. He needed to step up and at least say he could do it by himself. He was supposed to be the one leading this team.”

 

[jwinfield]

In which case I still don’t see a VALID argument for leaving Isaiah off the Dream Team.

Isiah being on the dream team means MJ/Magic/Pip/Bird/Barkley/Robinson/Malone and others likely aren't going.

They ain’t have a problem using the coach of the Bad Boys.

An Oral History of the 1992 US Olympic Basketball Dream Team on the 20th Anniversary

Jan Hubbard (NBA columnist for Newsday): Stockton broke a bone in his leg, and it healed very quickly. But initially they were going to replace him, and it was going to be Joe Dumars. So Isiah wasn’t even going to be the first substitute.

Players seemed to like Chuck and Joe.

Zeke was one of the ones they didn't fukk with.

 

[Max Power]

When even the NBA's Ned Flanders hates you, it's time to call it a day.

 

[jwinfield]

When even the NBA's Ned Flanders hates you, it's time to call it a day.

Can't be proud of being the Joker then be surprised when the Justice League don't want to deal with you.