+OnmyRedEye its not weird, I fucking love watching guys like kawhi shutting people down

+OnmyRedEye i wouldnt know cuz lakers havent shut down anyone for 7 years

Nothing like a blocked shot or a stolen pass!!!

Nah agreed. Especially football and basketball

That's not weird at all! I love defense too!!!!

yea pretty much almost nobody could guard shaq 1 on 1 at that time..

@@lyhthegreat Rodman could.

@@mrsky67 nah, rodman guarded the "lean shaq" in 1996 when he was only around 300lbs, he later bulked up and put on hell lot of weight after he went to the lakers(around 340 to 370lbs) which was when he was at his prime..if rodman guarded the lakers shaq he would had been shoved around like a kid in the post..still what rodman did what nothing short of impressive, a man his size shouldn't be able to guard a monster like shaq..

lyhthegreat He held Lakers Shaq to 0 points in the 2nd half. Try again please.

@@mrsky67 opps, yeah you're right.

The greatest defense I have ever seen in my life.

They held most of the teams under 80 points in their prime, that was great defense in early 2000’s I miss that kind of defense.

@@Wowvod You'll never see it again. It was after this series that the NBA locked down on hand checking. 60-80 point games are not as exciting for fans as 130-140 point games that we see today. Casuals and young fans think todays players are that much better but in reality it's the rules that dictates how the game goes.

@@sicnarf6971 lol you’re comparing some of the lowest scoring games back then to some of the highest scoring games now. In 2003-04 average points were 93.4, average points last season (2020-21) was 112.1. Still a big difference but you’re over exaggerating by a lot

@@christophergooding9820 Hand checking and physicality give bigger players the advantage. The league has been making rules to take the big man out of the game. 5 second back to the basket violation. Hand checking removed. 2002 legalizing Zone defense to slow down shaq. Physicality reduced. Rewarding flops for years (supposedly the league is cracking down this year on flops and jumping into the defender). All rules to slow down dominant big men or post players. Dominant big men and post players slow the game down. The league wants to speed things up. More points. Fans don’t want to watch Shaq shoot 26 freethrows a night lol. Young fans want to see dunks, posters, deep 3’s.

zo or zbo? and zo as in alonzo mourning ?

Rodman is already in the Hall of fame

+Trey Jones so is alonzo

I think that's his point tho...

that's wtf he said you fucking mockingbird

Don Elizalde one of the greatest defensive teams ever. 4th qtr 3.38 left laker have only 62 points. CRAZY. wonder how they would fair against golden state with KD

You can make the case. Definitely a top 2 defensive team in NBA history.

yup, they all soft, this days, plus changing so many rules like the stupid freedom of movement inside the paint.

Rudy gobert and Nikolai Jokic has some good battles this year

I loved mid late 90s bastetball, Centers were freaking Titans...

Yeahh.. That's why there's so many flopper's

giannis vs zion, joel embiid

jakethemuss3 even more effective shaq had still good numbers

Yea nobody could stop shaq. only difference vs detroit was he would still get his numbers just 1v1 instead of doubled

Shaq had a bunch of turnovers. Numbers can lie if you only look in the scoring column

Kobe just took bad shots

@@taylorsayliss3815 nah he was getting forced to pass out of shots and pick his dribble up a bunch too. Tayshaun was locking him down, dude.

): real

Plenty of guys were able to, there's highlights on here with Charles Oakley also doing an extremely effective job on him.

6'6 without shoes on.

Paul Cervantes more like 6"8 without shoes

6'3 without hair

Dee Shakur He admitted he's 6'7

he's 6'5 without balls

Don’t forget Yao Ming

David Robinson usually defended him pretty well too.

Kwame brown

Yup he definitely had leg strength for days. All out effort, too.

Not equally strong as Shaq, but strong enough to stop him in many of his attacks. Which is more than what 99% of centers could do. Only Ben Wallace and Dennis Rodman could consistently defend Shaq. Not even Yao could defend him that well as Wallace and Rodman.

Yea but Karl Malone and Payton were average at best TBH and didn't really fit in with the team well

Needs to learn how to shoot tho...

Undersized?

@@boyzaya15 yes no one is really build with mass they are more lanky slim built centers who can move around the floor quick. You don’t see much sluggers power houses type Mfs in today’s game

Just more disrespect on that D.

Facts

exactly. because this shows that great defense fail sometimes but it will succeed more times than it doesn't

He respects the hell out of him.

Facts wtf is that

He's Black so he can jump higher even with his big size. Genetics don't lie

Lol Shaq averaged 26 ppg shooting better than 60% that series. So no, Ben couldn’t guard Shaq lol. Maybe you should watch the entire series instead of a highlight reel. You’ll see that Shaq actually played well and Kobe was awful. Let’s not spread tall tales

The Pistons had a very strong defensive frontline in general they alternated in guarding Shaq and wearing him down.

Russell don't belong in this conversation. The guy said himself that his body structure is similar to Trevor Ariza, He played a different game, unfair for both sides to compare him with modern players.

Rafael Teles You're presuming off of the hypothetical/theoretical; all we have is reality, and the reality is that no one in his era had as many blocks or steals per game as he did...that's without even mentioning the offensive and defensive rebounds. How many years have people said this: "Oscar Robertson averaged a triple double in a season b/c of the pace; and it can't be duplicated in today's league." Yet Russell Westbrook is doing it now...it should really stop the general undervaluing of older era players of the 60's and 70's and 80's.

No compliance I might be late but you have no number 4 and you missed dikembe mutombo

No compliance This is not about undervalue, this is about common sense. The own players says otherwise, there are multiple Jerry West interviews that he admits his era was so drastically different, it's impossible to compare with modern players. Wilt is the only well know jurassic player who bragged about his era, all the others admited they played a totally different sport. You will deny the own people who actually played back there? WestBrook is averaging a td on his own way, it will be extremely disrespectful if people ended up comparing his season with Oscar Robertson's season. I can see the own Oscar debulking this at the end of the season. Jordan undervalued Kobe, saying West is a better guard than him. West himself said otherwise, not because he is humble, it's because this is only rational.

No compliance How is Bill Russel on there, and not Duncan!?!

I remember Mike Tyson in an old video game.

Shaq wasn't as dominant of a scorer by this point because he had more stars on the team with him. He still got his numbers the problem he had was really on the defensive end, he often had to go further out and defend most of the teams he played against he was usually able to stay inside and roam around.

You seem to forget he was the driving force behind Miami winning on 06.

Kind of patch - work team this year too with Payton and Malone joining the scene.

+dropapi it wouldnt have been 4 in a row it would have been 4 in 5 years, they lost in 2002-2003 to spurs

+TheTVChannel still greatness

Real Rap i know, i agree, im a laker fan, thats why i was being a stickler on the years, i remember them dearly, it was 8th grade and i had a hot girlfriend

+TheTVChannel 😂😂😂 Man it must've been nice for ya at the time

Real Rap thats why they say it's the greatest years of our lives

The Lakers got to the finals in the first place because of luck. First Fisher's .04 shot against the Spurs and then Cassell being hurt in the wcf. They were clearly beatable Pistons taking them down convincingly wasn't all that surprising.

he was shut down by big ben already

because as i recall the pistons had there own set of kobe rules

He was off like Mj vs the sonics and its hard as a perimeter player going against the whole team scheme set for u Kobe Not Top 100 Mamba Wiggins

D-Wade did much better than Kobe vs the same Pistons team in 2005. After 2005 Larry Brown left so 2006 team wasn't the same

Correct Kobe Not Top 100 I give u that

+ucialum exactly

You're missing the point, the Pistons gameplan was to tire him down the stretch so he would be less effective in the 4th. Shaq also had to go out to the perimeter a lot to defend and was having difficulty keeping up with the more athletic Pistons frontline in transition. Duncan was able to adjust better against the Pistons defense the following year because he was a more versatile player overall compared to Shaq, plus he had Horry who could stretch the defense out.

@@ChrisM07 wut lol

@@LeStephanie69 What I'm saying is Shaq was gonna score points regardless, however the Pistons had tough frontline defenders with help from the perimeter players at times to throw Shaq off and force him into rushing some shots or turning it over to go along with the problems they also gave him on defense. Ben wasn't always guarding Shaq there was also Elden Campbell and Mehmet Okur who played pretty solid defense on him as well.

@@ChrisM07 wut

@@LeStephanie69 You know "wut".

Peter Skotta Tayshaun Prince happened! He was a nightmare wing defender for guys like Kobe & Tracy McGrady!

Peter Skotta and shaq the big man walked onto the court with ben the strong man

Belize2787 💯

This isn't the 1960s lol you are allowed to do this

+Tony Gambino you are allowed to back down your damn opponent if you cant do that what the hell is left

+Tony Gambino shaq wouldn't be nowhere close to how he was with the soft league today

+Tony Gambino the league wasnt soft back then

+SHANE DEMARS backing someone down is not an offensive foul or they wouldn't need the 5 second back to basket rule.