"borrowed" from ESPN: <form method="post?" action="http://poll.espn.go.com/cgi/sz/poll.dll"><input type=hidden name=goto value="http://espn.go.com/nba/columns/stein_marc/1464078.html"><input type=hidden name=domain value=".go.com"><input type=hidden name=questions value="1"><input type=hidden name=id value="33754"><input type=hidden name=service value="SZ"> <table width=124 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 border=0> <tr><td bgcolor=#cccccc><center><img src="http://espn.go.com/i/sportsnation/poll_sn.gif" width="120" height="47" alt="SportsNation" border="0"></center></td></tr> <tr><td bgcolor=#cccccc><input type=hidden name=qid value="17210"><input type=hidden name=count_0 value="8"><input type=hidden name=expected_0 value="1"><font color=000000 size=1 face=Helvetica>Who is your favorite NBA big man 7 foot 4 or taller?</font><br><table border=0><tr><td valign=top><input type=radio name=vote_0 value=76713></td><td valign=top><font size=1 color=000000 face=Helvetica>Manute Bol</font></td></tr><tr><td valign=top><input type=radio name=vote_0 value=76714></td><td valign=top><font size=1 color=000000 face=Helvetica>Shawn Bradley</font></td></tr><tr><td valign=top><input type=radio name=vote_0 value=76715></td><td valign=top><font size=1 color=000000 face=Helvetica>Mark Eaton</font></td></tr><tr><td valign=top><input type=radio name=vote_0 value=76716></td><td valign=top><font size=1 color=000000 face=Helvetica>Yao Ming</font></td></tr><tr><td valign=top><input type=radio name=vote_0 value=76717></td><td valign=top><font size=1 color=000000 face=Helvetica>Gheorghe Muresan</font></td></tr><tr><td valign=top><input type=radio name=vote_0 value=76718></td><td valign=top><font size=1 color=000000 face=Helvetica>Chuck Nevitt</font></td></tr><tr><td valign=top><input type=radio name=vote_0 value=76719></td><td valign=top><font size=1 color=000000 face=Helvetica>Ralph Sampson</font></td></tr><tr><td valign=top><input type=radio name=vote_0 value=76720></td><td valign=top><font size=1 color=000000 face=Helvetica>Rick Smits</font></td></tr></table><center><input type=submit value="Submit Vote"></center></td></tr> </table></form>
Besides Ming (of course ) Eaton was great. As codell said, he gave Hakeem fits. It was fun watching Hakeem getting a challenge every now and again, since David Robinson proved so inadequate .
He sure did. Akeem would do his spins and fakes and Eaton would just stand there and wait and put his hand up when Akeem finally shot. What was funny was that the times he did try to go after the moves Akeem would spin one way and spin back the other but was so much quicker than him that Eaton would just barely be starting to go after the first move when Akeem was finished with his second, therefore he would end up back in front of him anyway.LOL Akeem did have a few monster games against him when he would change his strategy and just drive past him straight to the hole and dunk or get fouled like the admiral did in his prime. Alas, he would eventually revert back to his familiar style. Akeem was just not a face-up, drive to the basket type player. He still dominated other areas of the game(def.,reb.) but the "Man Mountain" would usually hold him to a sub-par field goal percentage.
Someone has to put a tape on Yao. NBA.COM has a picture of he and Wang talking......and Yao looks 6 or 7 inches taller. I'm pretty sure Wang is 7'1", just by comparing him with Kandi, but Yao is TALL ......and it looks like more than 4" taller than Wang.
