1. Ginobili 2. The suck fat out my ass specialist 3. No Championship help group leader 4. The donkey (who's ass he kissed) 5. The manager at K&G Superstore in Atlanta
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That was a pretty weak effort for one of the kiddies that post here, let alone a pro. Charles Barkley is one of the best players of all time, and would certainly be on my all-time 12 man roster.
Really? Wilt/Shaq/Russell Hakeem/Duncan Bird/Erving Jordan/West/Kobe Johnson/Robertson I'm pretty sure having Hakeem and Duncan at PF is better than Barkley and there have certainly been more deserving centers than PFs.
as much as people here don't like them, it's hard to leave the top 2 scorers of all time off of an all time team.
All these Barkley haters have never seen Chuck play. Its true, I don't need to prove it, they prove it with their posts. True Rocket fans remember this: Grabbed a career-high 33 rebounds and scored 20 points, in his Rockets debut, against the Phoenix Suns on 11/2/96
He became the second player in NBA history, following Wilt Chamberlain, to accumulate 23,000 points, 12,000 rebounds and 4,000 assists in their career.[1]
this is as good as your cheetos joke. oh noes, charles barkley said we suck! he's a hater~! oh wait, we do suck.
Paper: HOUSTON CHRONICLE Date: SUN 11/03/1996 Section: Sports Page: 1 Edition: 4 STAR Rockets 110, Suns 95/Barkley uses 33 boards to thrash Suns/Coming- out is a breakout By EDDIE SEFKO Staff . PHOENIX - When he was playing for Phoenix, Charles Barkley gave Suns fans four years of great memories. Saturday night, he erased them all with one incredible glass-kicking performance as a Rocket. Barkley's belated Rockets debut was spiced with a career rebounding night, and his dominating return to the Valley of the Sun was capped with a smashing 110-95 victory over his former team. A career-best 33 rebounds, three more than the Suns pulled down, made Barkley's return an unqualified success. He also had 20 points and a couple of blocked shots, including one with just more than four minutes left in the game that helped seal the win. His rebounding total fell just shy of the franchise record of 37 by Moses Malone. It was the kind of night Barkley could have only dreamed of having in his first game back in Phoenix. ""I told our guys if they took care of the first game, I'd take care of the second one," said Barkley, who was suspended for Friday's season opener. ""It was an emotional game for me. I was upset because I wanted to win so bad, and that's not really the way I want to play basketball. I don't like to play angry." Imagine how the Suns felt about it. Barkley was ""a man possessed," according to Rockets coach Rudy Tomjanovich. He had 11 rebounds in the first quarter, 17 by halftime and 26 after three quarters. ""When he came to Houston, that's what he was talking about," Tomjanovich said. ""He's so explosive one-on-one. But when you have a team that is rotating its defense, he's going to grab those rebounds up like he's a vacuum cleaner. He was phenomenal." It was as if Barkley wanted to prove a point, which of course he did. He wanted to let everybody know that he would get the last laugh on a Suns franchise that he thinks shopped his services around the NBA this summer ""like a piece of meat." ""If he had a point to make, consider it made," said Phoenix's Chucky Brown, who was one of four players the Rockets traded to acquire Barkley. Barkley had lots of support. All five Rockets starters scored in double figures, led by Hakeem Olajuwon with 24 and Clyde Drexler with 22. Late in the game, when the Suns had a chance for one last rally after trailing by 23 at one point, Barkley made the difference. He rejected Brown on an attempted layup that could have cut the margin to single digits with about four minutes to play. After that, the Rockets were home free. Barkley had said throughout the preseason he expected to be a forceful rebounder because he knew he wouldn't have to do as much scoring. ""He was the freshest guy on the court because he's the only guy who didn't play the night before," said Mario Elie, referring to the suspension. ""He was out here in Phoenix early. We came dragging in at 2 a.m. ""Chuck was phenomenal. If he's not scoring, you know he's rebounding. It was an incredible performance." And when it was over, the Rockets had a 2-0 record to show for the first two games of the season. ""It couldn't have worked out better," Tomjanovich said. ""I didn't even have to see Charles to know he was going to be ready for this. I know how passionately committed he is to making this thing work." And so far, it's working just fine. Before the game, Barkley made no bones of the fact he was as fired up as he can be over a regular-season game. The last time he had been in America West Arena, he was a Phoenix Sun and he was getting booted out of the playoffs last season. Now, he was back as a Rocket. And there was a special feeling in the air. ""I'm always pumped up to play, but this is a little different situation," he said. ""Obviously, I want to play well. I've got a lot of pent-up emotion, and I can't wait to unleash it. If I don't play well, it'll be because I'm too hyper." Within minutes after the start, there was no concern about that. Barkley dominated the first quarter as much as any player can, and he didn't even score. His 11 rebounds in the opening quarter were the third-most by a Rocket in a period, behind Malone's 14 and Olajuwon's 12. It took Barkley exactly one game in his Rockets career to join the double-figure rebounding club for a quarter. Barkley outrebounded all of the Suns by four, and his performance sparked the Rockets to a 31-13 lead after 12 minutes. As the stanza ended and the Rockets headed toward their bench, Barkley pumped a fist and yelled: ""Yeah. We're killin' em." The Suns were doing their part to make things easier for the Rockets. Phoenix was 6-for-24 from the field in the period, and even though the Rockets had seven turnovers and the Suns had just one, the incredible 21-7 rebounding gap was why the Rockets had lapped the home team. It was exactly the sort of start Barkley had envisioned. ""We want to come out and jump on teams," he said. ""This game is no different. The main thing is that we win." That goal, which seemed automatic after one quarter, got less certain as the game went along. Sam Cassell wasn't going to let his former team come into Phoenix without a fight. He hit a couple of 3-pointers and had 14 second-quarter points as the Suns crept back into the game. They trailed just 49-40 at halftime, even though Barkley remained an overwhelming force. The Rockets' 3-point shooting, which had been deadly in quarter No. 1, went cold in the second. The bombers made just one of nine tries from beyond the 3-point arc, and the lead shrank because of it. When the third quarter opened, the Rockets watched the nine-point lead ebb and flow. When Phoenix's Rex Chapman fed Danny Manning with a great pass for a fast-break bucket, then hit a 3-pointer, the Rockets still were ahead by nine points. But Olajuwon, who had a quiet start to the season by his standards Friday night with 17 points, came alive on the offensive end. ... Rating the stars Grading how Houston's big three performed Saturday: Hakeem Olajuwon - 3 stars. 24 points. 8 rebounds. 3 assists. 0 blocks. 4 turnovers. Comment: Began working his jump hook in the second half just to keep the Rockets in the clear. Clyde Drexler - 3 stars. 22 points. 7 rebounds. 10 assists. 1 block. 2 turnovers. Comment: Followed up his triple double by almost posting another one. Charles Barkley - 4 stars. 20 points. 33 rebounds. 2 assists. 2 blocks. 3 turnovers. Comment: He came, he saw, he conquered everyone on the backboards. Rating system: 4 stars - NBA Finals material; 3 stars - Ticket to Seattle; 2 stars - First-round fodder; 1 star - Lottery material. ... Inside the numbers Matt Maloney established a Rockets rookie record for 3-pointers made in a game. Maloney made four treys in the first quarter. ... Charles Barkley's 25 defensive rebounds broke Hakeem Olajuwon's team record of 22. ... Quotable "They're still my friends. I didn't die. I just moved to another city." - Charles Barkley on inviting most of the Phoenix Suns to his postgame party at Planet Hollywood in Phoenix.
I'm waiting for someone on this team to grab 33 boards. Maybe Yao can do it against the Warriors or Bucks.
Oh I have definitely seen him play and gained the utmost respect for the way he battled Jordan and the Bulls in the 92/93 Finals. The PF position is just not particularly strong at the top historically and he wasn't very good on defense. That is why he is not on my all-time team. Now if the team were expanded to 15 then I would have a hard time choosing between him and Karl Malone. However, I would probably just move Bill Russell to PF and add Kareem at C.
