David Robinson's take on the after playoffs award ceremony

Everybody likes to dismiss the fact that Hakeem is muslim and took part in ramadan that year which probably cost the Rockets some wins and Hakeem the MVP. That said, nothing David Robinson says can change the fact that he was simply outmatched when he faced Hakeem in the 95 playoffs. MVP or not, Hakeem's skill level was simply too much for Robinson to match and he got clowned pretty hard.

There's no shame in it though. Hakeem was the best center of all time.

 

Robinson is lucky Jordan did not play in 95 playoffs of else Jordan would have stolen his well deserved MVP trophy.

 

Mr. Robinson remains mentally 'bamboozled'.

Scarred for life, poor fella.

 

we had a shitty year and were a long way behind, robinson deserved that mvp, but it's much like many years, this one included where winning mvp doesn't make you the best player.

 

Sissies step down when men step up. Dream is all man. Robinson is like Dwight Howard, soft even though they look ripped.

 

Robinson did deserve the MVP. The Spurs won 62 games to the Rockets' 47. And Dream did miss a lot of time that year. That being said, Robinson didn't play like an MVP in that series aside from Game 4.

 

D-Rob deserved MVP that year. He was not a sissy. He was not scarred.

One of the reasons Hakeem torched him so badly is Hakeem had fresh legs because of the games he missed late in the season.

 

I remember hearing that excuse from Jazzholes after the Rockets upset Utah, but that's BS with regard to Robinson. Dream had to play all 5 games in the first round and all 7 games in the second round just to reach the WCF. Meanwhile, Robinson's Spurs coasted to an easy sweep of the Nuggets in the first round and defeated the Lakers in 6 in the second round(it would've been 5 had Van Exel not made a 3-point prayer for the ages).

And that's to say nothing of the Rockets' short-handed rotation which lost Maxwell after Game 1 vs Utah and never had Herrera save for about 2 minutes in Game 4 of that series.

 

To clarify, I'm saying DRob is 'scarred' now (as in he carries scars from Dream in that series). Not 'scared' then.

I'd never say he was scared. He was an All-Time great and deserving of that regular season MVP.

That being said, Dream having fresh legs had little to do with it. Historically, Dream always took his game to stratospheric heights in the postseason.

Robinson? Not so much.

 

David Stern, "where did he TOUCH you, David?"

That's how bad of a dismantling it was.

 

LOL! I laughed so hard my stomach hurts.