Post Up: Two Dope Boys

Rodman also played against true big men that played closer to the basket, which also helped his rebound positioning. The bigs of today have to defend the pick and roll and the three point line far more often than players from the past.

I used to like when Dennis would take a stray three here or there as a Bull. He made more than he missed it seemed.

Everyone on that second three-peat Bulls squad was a great passer. Rodman, Longley, Kukoc, everyone. It was a perfect team for the triangle offense.

I wonder if Toni could have thrived as a second option on another team and averaged 20, 5 and 7…something like that. His skill set was silly good offensively.

I loved me some Randy Brown back then. He always gave them a spark. Enigmatic, you probably remember the night he banged on the Lakers in that overtime game on a TNT broadcast that changed the momentum of that game. The Lakers were kicking their as*ses and then the Bulls kind of said “fu*k it” and turned it on. It was the same game Scottie and Michael tackled Dennis after a confrontation with one of the Lakers. I can’t think of who it was though.

If you can find that particular game on Youtube or someplace on the internets, find it. You’ll love it. Nick Van Exel was killing that night. Just ran out of bullets at the end.

Eboy – Toni was the second option on that MJ-less Bulls team that made it to the eatern conference finals. he averaged 15, 5, and 5 that year. He was a solid player.

They would start Toni at the 4 and slide Dennis to the 5 in the Playoffs against some teams too. That was a pretty effective lineup.

Hedo is laughing all the way to the bank, then the club, then the pizza place.

Is it just me or did we lose like 5 comments? Maybe after I post this they’ll reappear?
This is only a test…

It worked!
Eboy, when I went to the Illinois High School state title game in 2009, when Marcus Jordan’s Whitney Young HS beat Jereme Richmond’s Waukegan HS (my high school, Dundee-Crown, came in fourth – what up Chargers?! DC what!) I knew MJ was in the building.
I went to get a closer look and got close enough to see the back of his bald head from like 200 feet away before security made me bacdafucup.
But it was like seeing Santa or some sh*t. Like, I had worshipped this dude as a kid all these years, and then at age 25 here I was, beaming at the fact I saw the back of his dome in person.
I’ve met Derrick Rose, R. Lee Ermey, Jesse Jackson, and some other celebs but the only time I ever got nervous around someone else was when I saw the back of MJ’s head. Damn.

Emiddleagedman cried when he was 23 cuz jordan retired? Grow some balls you baby. Ill never understand people who get extremely starstruck. Theyre just people too. You can admire them and their works without worshipping them.

The Knicks are in trouble. I just wanna point that out. Gallinari is hugely important for their spacing, they are a horrendous shooting team without him on the floor

To stay above .500 prolly. But to actually keep what they’ve been doing going, they’re going to need gallo

Oh wow, I didn’t even see that you guys got INTO a conversation about Rodman.
Dude would routinely do the same things Kevin Love does. That’s what great rebounders do. Rodman was probably a little bit better on rotations on the offensive end but god, I remember rewatching some Bulls footage and watching Rodman just let guys run at the basket without getting a hand up, just incase that rebound fell his way.
He was NOT a decent help defender in any stretch of the imagination. The only time he’d help is if Phil designed defenses where Rodman was supposed to help. The proof is in the help stats- the guy had springboard legs, both upwards and side to side… yet never averaged a steal or a block? It’s cause he never tried, just kept getting those rebounds and locking down the man he was supposed to lock down.

McGrady starting to get it going? Wow. About time. Now if he can just put some games together he’ll be alright.

Tarzan- thats Eightball and MJG. Wasn’t Allen reffering to Bun B of UGK?

Enigmatic, yes I know that was 8ball n mjg, and yes allen was talking bout bun on that post. … Cosign times a trillion on ‘one day’. …. ‘Like yesterday’ is the ish too…… ….. .. Rip young pimp aka tony snow aka sweet james jones. ……. ……….. …. These biiches love to talk shtt, im fin to pop the trunk. ………. ……… ….. …. ‘Its sad how quick it went from free to rest in peace pimp c ‘. …….. That last album they put out was a monster, a legend is gone.. ………….. …. …. ….. . ‘i shoot threes like steve jackson, say my name watch a biich reaction’.

The thing that Rodman had way more of than any of these guys today is will. He also had a great basketball IQ. I mean, he’s drawing charges from guys like David Wingate in the Seattle Finals but he’s able to hold his ground and take a beating from Shaq without flailing around? They listed him at 6’8″ and a lot of people will say he wasn’t even that tall. You have to have a great mindset and a will to take the punishment, deal out some of your own, and do whatever it takes to get the rebounds the way Rodman did. He had great hands too, often tipping the ball and keeping it alive until he was able to grasp it. He was actually a decent enough scorer in college but as many have mentioned, there was no need for him to score on those Detroit and Chicago teams. They had enough to go around and it allowed him to focus on defending and rebounding. All that mattered to him were wins, not stats.

Co-sign Enigmatic on “One Day.” I was trying to think of the name of that song when we started this discussion. That’s my favorite track they’ve ever done, with International Players Anthem being second because of the presence of the world’s greatest rapper.

It’s been a while since I’ve drop some knowledge…I’ve been busy watching the good old boys from South Beach raging havoc on the entire league. I think we all know that the road to the NBA title will have to go through the Heatles and C’s. From now on I want everyone to refer to the heat as the “heatles” you haters. The C’s will wear down as the season continues but I do expect the eastern conf. finals between C’s and Heatles to go to 7 games with the heatles winning it…Orlando is a non-factor and the east coast version of the Suns when they had Amare….The Heatles have the championship in the bag…once we get past the C’s in the east then we’ll go and sweep the Spurs in the west for the championship..Now can you dig iiiit!

@ Justin, why don’t u go crawl back under a rock and disappear…u loser…this is a laid back type of forum..not for grumpy old men..yeah the fact that you’re up at 2:27am in the morning responding to me creative skills..emphasize the fact that u have no life..go get a job, u loser..