And once playoffs start, anything can happen. We know whose side of the MJ-Isiah Thomas beef Charles Oakley is on. They’re doing the same thing Cincinnati did to get to the Super Bowl. They’re not beating the big teams but they’re winning games. A lot of teams are not as good as their records say they are, and a lot of teams with bad records live up to the moment. That said, what he’s doing now - you can’t knock the hustle.Ī: They need a power forward. Would he have started back in the ‘80s or ‘90s? No, I don’t think he would. You didn’t get three years.Ī: Well, Giannis is doing it every night right now, and you have to give it up for the guys doing it every night. But back then, you weren’t drafted on your potential, you were drafted because they knew you could already play.
Anybody given three years to work on something, they should get better. No one likes to be forced to play second fiddle to someone else, but when that person in question is arguably the most talented. The legendary big man shared why he thinks Pippen may never talk to His Airness again while chatting with Bill Simmons. You could ask: Giannis, in this era, would he have been better than Kevin McHale in the ‘80s? Or a Derrick Coleman? Back then, you didn’t have two or three years to develop your game. Charles Oakley claims Scottie Pippen’s relationship with Michael Jordan is beyond repair. I mean, all these (contemporary) guys could have played then but how effective could they have been? That’s all I’m saying. In this age, yeah, Giannis is everything. You said it’s a softer game and that the Buck’s Giannis Antetokounmpo would have come off the bench then.Ī: It was a style of play (then) where everybody had a role. Q: But Isaiah was responding to your comment on a podcast about how players now would have handled the NBA in the ‘80s and ‘90s. For a team to win, you need different instruments. I choose to be the guy inside, who set down the paint, played tough, set the tone. I was just happy to be there, and to have been drafted, to be playing with Mike. But I wasn’t trying to get 20 (in the NBA), through maybe 10 or 15 rebounds. In my college career, I averaged 20 in my last year. Coming to that team, they had like three or four guys who would get 20 points a game. Q: But did it limit how you were seen within the game - as a supporting man and never a leading man? Though I suppose when you are playing alongside Jordan. Which was exactly like my grandmother back in Alabama. And my mom, who moved us to Cleveland, had to find a job and provide for six kids - but on holidays, she found a way to cook not only for us but other families in the neighborhood. I conduct myself the way my grandfather did. That kept me a leader on the court and in life - people look at you as the guy who will speak up. I understood I could protect people with my size and physicality, so I should never back down. Q: What’s the difference between, say, how you saw your role in the NBA and what an enforcer in the NHL does?Ī: I always just saw my place on a team as closer to the way my grandfather was to my family.
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