Who would ACTUALLY stop prime (99-03) SHAQ in the history of basketball, in his and THEIR peak

[Erratic415]

Do offensive players like Shaq really got stopped? It’s extremely rare.

He would most likely put up good numbers against anyone. You just hope to make him work harder for his points and be less efficient than usual.

Sabonis does come to mind. He did do a good job on Shaq on the 00’ WCF. Him fouling out in game 7 was very costly.

Good point. Championship Dream is one of my GOATs but Shaq got his. He actually had better stats except for points, steals and FT%.

People just like to match up the star players and think one person got badly outplayed.

Shaq did much better against Olajuwon than Ewing the previous year and Robinson in the prior series, but his team did the worst.

The biggest issue in that series was the lack of a 3rd offensive threat after each team’s big 2 (Hakeem/Clyde and Shaq/Penny). Houston constantly had other guys stepping up, while Orlando didn’t. Dennis Scott was supposed to be their sharpshooter and he had a horrendous series. Nick Anderson’s confidence probably got shattered after those 4 FTs and was a non-factor.

 

[get these nets]

Do offensive players like Shaq really got stopped? It’s extremely rare.

He would most likely put up good numbers against anyone. You just hope to make him work harder for his points and be less efficient than usual.

Sabonis does come to mind. He did do a good job on Shaq on the 00’ WCF. Him fouling out in game 7 was very costly.



People just like to match up the star players and think one person got badly outplayed.

Shaq did much better against Olajuwon than Ewing the previous year and Robinson in the prior series, but his team did the worst.

The biggest issue in that series was the lack of a 3rd offensive threat after each team’s big 2 (Hakeem/Clyde and Shaq/Penny). Houston constantly had other guys stepping up, while Orlando didn’t. Dennis Scott was supposed to be their sharpshooter and he had a horrendous series. Nick Anderson’s confidence probably got shattered after those 4 FTs and was a non-factor.

Good post

Have to remember that Shaq was a dominant player for 3 1/2 periods. His inability to hit free throws at a decent % , and down the stretch was a problem for good stretches of his career.

Spoiler

Affected how teams defended him at the end of games.
Just looked up that he was 24 for 42 or 57% for that Finals.

"Most dominant ever" and all that bullshyt always leaves out his Achilles Heel in real life games.

 

[Killer Instinct]

Draymond Green.

 

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[nieman]

B.Grant & Malik Rose are getting propped up but y’all turning ya nose at Draymond lol

The only problem with Draymond is that he's nowhere near as bulky as those guys though. Malik Rose & Brian Grant were practically body builders, especially compared to Draymond. Could Draymond move Shaq off the blocks? And then he's too short. Even Rodman wasn't coming close to shutting down Shaq. He would just try to get into his head to make him frustrated.