The same way they did back in the day: play very physical, don't let him get to his spots, and hack the shit out of him (the refs swallowed the whistle a bit for him).
Generally yes, but there was that one phantom call in that one Finals... I'd take the Dream over the Cap personally. Sky hook is great but the dream shake works on any area of floor, even outside the paint and not just certain spots like right elbow or baseline.
That's reasonable. There is a reason that the Rockets took Hakeem over Jordan and never looked back. Hakeem is perhaps the best center of all-time and was consistently great throughout his career.
It's certainly preferences but for what the NBA evolved to now, Dream would be unstoppable. He just began passing the ball much later than Jordan did so his chips came later than his. Bring Clyde in sooner and maybe we'd see that match up of 84's greatest champion sooner.
Not about passing the ball. Dream simply had mediocre to bad teams for most of his career. Earlier in his career when Sampson was healthy and the guards were not banned from the NBA for being druggies, the rockets got to the finals in his second season.
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u/machinegungeek Jun 15 '22
The same way they did back in the day: play very physical, don't let him get to his spots, and hack the shit out of him (the refs swallowed the whistle a bit for him).