jazz74 wrote:i think this years team is more talented but ewing is the best player of the two teams. i think ewing is so underrated in terms of his worth. it is amazing he took a team like that and lead them to the finals. hakeem's team wasnt that much better but on paper they were. and we took them to game 7 and had a 3-2 lead against them! you can throw stones on how ewing performed during the finals but he had the record for most bloack shots in the series and was rebounding like crazy. his impact was felt even though he didnt score like we are used to him doing. hakeem, to be honest, was the best center in that generation and probably the top five center of all time because he dominated in an era where there were a girth of great centers. so to say ewing should be embarrassed because he was beat by the dream isnt fair. ask robinson, shaq and daugherty how they did against him.

I feel like people sometimes forget how good Hakeem was, because he played at the same time as Jordan, who was Jordan, and Shaq, who had an outsized personality which the media loved. Also, he played for Houston which doesn't carry the same cachet as playing for NY, LA, Chicago, and Boston. He's easily a top-5 center all time, ranked behind Wilt, Kareem, and Russell, and there hasn't been another center, maybe another big man, who was as good as him.

jazz74 wrote:i think this years team is more talented but ewing is the best player of the two teams. i think ewing is so underrated in terms of his worth. it is amazing he took a team like that and lead them to the finals. hakeem's team wasnt that much better but on paper they were. and we took them to game 7 and had a 3-2 lead against them! you can throw stones on how ewing performed during the finals but he had the record for most bloack shots in the series and was rebounding like crazy. his impact was felt even though he didnt score like we are used to him doing. hakeem, to be honest, was the best center in that generation and probably the top five center of all time because he dominated in an era where there were a girth of great centers. so to say ewing should be embarrassed because he was beat by the dream isnt fair. ask robinson, shaq and daugherty how they did against him.

This is why I was mainly upset with Starks. Ewing had his hands full!! Starks don't chuck at the end of game 6 and doesn't miss 16 shots, we win the chip!!