Comments on: Sports Sunday - A Reminder of The Best http://www.uncoached.com/2008/06/15/sports-sunday-a-reminder-of-the-best/ Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:46:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: ken http://www.uncoached.com/2008/06/15/sports-sunday-a-reminder-of-the-best/#comment-1032 ken Mon, 16 Jun 2008 05:14:53 +0000 http://www.uncoached.com/2008/06/15/sports-sunday-a-reminder-of-the-best/#comment-1032 I would agree with you, but I was in Houston the three seasons that Hakeem Olajuwon was healthy. He put on a clinic on how the center position is to be played, schooling Shaq and Ewing on how it should be done. And at the risk of making Jazz fans mad, made Karl Malone look like the wimp he was. Hakeem never got the soft calls that Malone routinely did. Refs didn't buy that he could still make a basket after getting hacked, mugged, and/or raped in the paint. Yet he did. Eh... Houston's championships are tainted by the lack of MJ in the league, which in no small part was due to Hakeem's dominance. It's one of those "disagree with me all you want, but I was lucky enough to see the definition of a position" while it was being done. I would agree with you, but I was in Houston the three seasons that Hakeem Olajuwon was healthy. He put on a clinic on how the center position is to be played, schooling Shaq and Ewing on how it should be done. And at the risk of making Jazz fans mad, made Karl Malone look like the wimp he was. Hakeem never got the soft calls that Malone routinely did. Refs didn’t buy that he could still make a basket after getting hacked, mugged, and/or raped in the paint. Yet he did.

Eh… Houston’s championships are tainted by the lack of MJ in the league, which in no small part was due to Hakeem’s dominance. It’s one of those “disagree with me all you want, but I was lucky enough to see the definition of a position” while it was being done.

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