[SLAM] Hakeem Olajuwon’s attempt to revive the NBA’s post game

I wonder who taught Dream his moves?

 

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Footwork probably from playing soccer

Didn't he have very intense workouts with Moses Malone?

 

Yao Ming needs to take some lessons from The Dream. I wonder if Yao can do the Dream Shake. I see he has a Shanghai Shake but the Dream shake made players look stupid.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakeem_Olajuwon

After redshirting his freshman year in 1980-81, Olajuwon played sparingly as a redshirt freshman in 1981–82, and the Cougars were eliminated in the Final Four by the eventual NCAA champion, North Carolina Tar Heels. Olajuwon sought advice from the coaching staff about how to increase his playing time, and they advised him to work out with local Houston resident and multiple NBA MVP winner, Moses Malone. Malone, who was then a member of the NBA's Houston Rockets, played games every off season with several NBA players at the Fonde Recreation Center. Olajuwon joined the workouts and went head to head with Malone in several games throughout the summer. Olajuwon credited this experience with rapidly improving his game, saying, "...when you play against a guy like Moses it can't help but make you better."[10]

Olajuwon returned from that summer a different player, and in his sophomore and junior years he helped the Cougars advance to consecutive NCAA championship games, where they lost to North Carolina State on a last second tip-in in 1983 and a Patrick Ewing-led Georgetown team in 1984.[11] Olajuwon won the 1983 NCAA Tournament Player of the Year award,[12] even though he played for the losing team in the final game. He is, to date, the last player from a losing side to be granted this honor. Drexler departed for the NBA in 1983, leaving Olajuwon the lone star on the team.