cheezeburger
Years ago

Greatest Defensive Starting 5 of all-time

C- Dikembe
PF- Rodman
SF- Artest
SG- Dumars
PG- Payton

very unlucky-hakeem,jordan,bill russell.

Thoughts?

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thedoctor  
Years ago

Scottie Pippen was a pretty awesome defensive small forward.

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Bizzy  
Years ago

Nice choices there cheezeburger. But mine would be:

C - Atris Gilmore
PF - Big Ben Wallace
SF - Dennis Rodman
SG - Michael Jordan
PG - Jerry West

Bench - Hakeem and Dikembe.

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Kriss  
Years ago

C- BILL RUSSELL (a must)
PF- BIG BEN
SF- MICHAEL COOPER
SG- MICHAEL JORDAN
PG- GARY PAYTON

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Undersized pf  
Years ago

C - Nate Thurmond
PF - Bill Russel
SF - Michael Cooper
SG - Dennis Johnson
PG - Walt Frazier

Honourable Mentions: Joe Dumars, Michael Jordan, Hakeem Olajuwon, John Havlicek, Jerry West, Dikembe Mutombo, Dennis Rodman, David Robison, Patrick Ewing, Bruce Bowen

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Lloyd Braun  
Years ago

Hakeem
Big Ben
Scottie Pippen
Joe Dumars
John Stockton

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TR  
Years ago

C: Dikembe Mutombo - his finger wave, gotta have the finger wave.

PF: Big Ben Wallace - go the fro

SF: Artest - mental issues, but the best defender in todays NBA.

SG: Jordan - enuff said in the name alone

PG: Payton - any bloke with the nickname 'glove' has to be mentioned.

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Satish Dogra  
Years ago

C - Shaquille O'Neal
PF - Shaquille O'Neal
SF - Shaquille O'Neal
SG - Shaquille O'Neal
PG - Shaquille O'Neal

From the first half of that hilarious Reebok ad all those years ago, when the team of Shaqs takes on the other team of Shaqs and it's scoreless at half-time - only for Shaq to say "fellas, we can't win if we don't score" and the second half turns into a dunkfest.

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thedoctor  
Years ago

Walt Frazier for sure.

Bruce Bowen has to be a chance. He lives for defence.

Ewing, Robinson and Hakeem made West Conference road trips scary for the late 80's and 90's.

Jordan says his toughest battles are with Joe Dumars. Greatest offensive player of all-time gives a guy wraps like that, he automatically makes the team.

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KingJames  
Years ago

Bowen's a Hack

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cheezeburger  
Years ago

steve nash said the person who guarded him the best was earl watson from memphis.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

C- Shaq
PF- Hakeem
SF- Kevin Garnett
SG- Micheal Jordan
PG- Allen Iverson
Sixth man- Larry Bird
That is my greatest defensive and offensive starting five of all time.

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thedoctor  
Years ago

KingJames, Bowen has been All-NBA defensive team 3 years running. That's no hack.

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TR  
Years ago

I read on ESPN that Manu has the sh*ts with his agent cause Manu shares the same agent as Raja Bell who has said he will goto the Suns.

Manu was pissed and told his agent that he helped the Spurs biggest competition in the West, the Suns get the one player that Manu has the most trouble with, Bell.

Raja Bell, now there is an underated and unappreciatged player.

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Kriss  
Years ago

Heres a job for someone with little work to do today on this wet wednesday.

Find out the top 5-6 All Defensive team winners and make a team from that.

Then find the 5-6 best Defenders from before the award was introduced and make a seperate team and then well compile the real team.

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Bizzy  
Years ago

Kriss,

From what I can find since the All-Defensive Team came in, in 1968/69. The top 5 most name players were:

Gary Payton (9 times)
Scottie Pippen (8 times)
Michael Jordan (8 times)
Bobby Jones (6 times)
Dennis Johnson (6 times)
David DeBusschere (6 times)
Hakeem Olajuwon (5 times)
Dennis Rodman (5 times)
Jerry West (5 times)
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (5 times)

Could make 2 MAD defensive teams out of that.

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Panther  
Years ago

Am I remembering right in saying that David Robinson won a couple of defensive player of the year awards???

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Bizzy  
Years ago

Panther,

You're on the right track. DR only won a single DPOY award, however he was named in the All-Defensive Team First Team 4 times.

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thedoctor  
Years ago

What about an NBL and ABL version.

NBL

PG - Darren Lucas
SG - Darnell
SF - Peter Ali
PF - Davis
C - Terry Dozier

ABL

PG - Ah Mat
SG - Rob Rose
SF - ?
PF - Dix
C - Big Willie Simmons

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The Journo  
Years ago

maybe a vandenberg or ben evans at sf doctor?

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Isaac  
Years ago

Or Puddifoot?

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Mott the Hoople  
Years ago

Ray Wood and Phil Smyth

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Wasn't Graham Kubank a defensive juggernaut? And Simon Dwight has to go in as a PF or SF

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thedoctor  
Years ago

true. Dwight gets a spot.

ABL - Puds is pretty good, don't know about an all-time spot though.

Reggie is a possibility.

I tried to put Cioffi in at SG, but my computer kept coming up with an "error" message.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Bizzy,

check your info:

Rodman was All-Defensive 1st team SEVEN times, not five

Bobby Jones EIGHT, not six

For the record, my All-Time NBA All-Defensive Team is

C Bill Russell
F Dennis Rodman
F Scottie Pippen
G Michael Jordan
G Walt Frazier

See how much you can score against that!!

Also, for NBL, can't forget Mike Kelly.

ABL, don't forget Jason Williams, and Dion Grieger

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thedoctor  
Years ago

Good call on the Diesel

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Timberwolf  
Years ago

Darren Breeding has had some big scalps in his time as a defender.

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abhi  
Years ago

Big ben - Afro says it all
Bill Russell - Machine on Defense
Scottie Pippen - Amazing effort on D
Michael Jordan - Do I hafta explain
Gary Payton - He is the Glove

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NJ NETS 15  
Years ago

the real team of all this watachma call it great defense team is clearly.

>mutumbo ( he scares me.. did u c wat he did to Lebron)
> Wallace( he can play PF aswell)
> Jordan ( best player ever)
> Magic Johnson ( too big to be a Pg)
> JKidd he just so damn good

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Starters
C - Bill Russell
PF - Dennis Rodman
SF - Ron Artest
SG - Michael Jordan
PG - Gary Payton

Bench
C - Dikembe Mutumbo
PF - Ben Wallace
SF - Bruce Bowen
SG - Alvin Robertson
PG - Danny Ainge

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Basketball Reference.com gives Ben Wallace the best defensive rating in history. That should be proof of him being the best defensive player, though pure statistical analysis

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Anonymous  
Years ago

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The_Champ33  
Years ago

C- Bill Russell
PF- Charles Oakley
SF- Dennis Rodman
SG- Michael Cooper
PG- Gary Payton

6th Man- Patrick Ewing

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