Retro Draft: Winner is Stun704

[LamarMatic7]

My defense just got even better, since my pick is Buck Williams from the Ironman category.



81-82 Rookie of the Year
3-time All-Star
1-time All-NBA 2nd team
4-time All-Defensive team
Tough guy - rarely missed a game, one of the best defensive players of the 80s
Solid 17pts/12rebs/1blk guy during his prime (first seven, eight years in the league)
Wore goggles

BTW - this bothers me so much. I can't come up with any guard that wore goggles during his NBA career. Yet I can go on and on naming forwards/centers. Kareem, Worthy, Hakeem, Buck Williams, Horace Grant, Amare, Bo Outlaw, Moses, Thurl Bailey etc.
It's a conspiracy.

[BigSlam]

What did you do from around Nov of 1984 until around April of 1985?

I can tell you what you DIDN'T do. You didn't average 5.6 blocks a game in the NBA!! You know who did? My next pick:

Mark Eaton = Lockdown.

At the time of his retirement, he ranked second all-time in league history in total blocked shots with 3,064 behind only Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's career total of 3,189 BUT Abdul-Jabbar played 1,560 games to Eaton's 875.

Eaton is currently the NBA's all-time leader in blocks per game, with a career average of 3.50.

2× NBA Defensive Player of the Year (1985, 1989)
NBA All-Star (1989)
3× NBA All-Defensive First Team (1985–1986, 1989)
2× NBA All-Defensive Second Team (1987–1988)
#53 Retired by the Utah Jazz

Best Season:
9.7 points per game
11.3 rebounds per game
1.5 assists per game
5.6 blocks per game

Perfect dude for my team.

[LamarMatic7]

What did you do from around Nov of 1984 until around April of 1985?

I can tell you what you DIDN'T do. You didn't average 5.6 blocks a game in the NBA!! You know who did? My next pick:

I just love the way you set up this pick.

[SWedd523]

BTW - this bothers me so much. I can't come up with any guard that wore goggles during his NBA career.

The closest thing I can think of is Rip Hamilton's mask

Mark Eaton = Lockdown.

I was trying to get him with my Bob Lanier pick but didn't have any cats that fit him.

He's one dimensional as hell, but next to a guy like McAdoo or Webber and he does his role very well

[captaincrunk]

I didn't pick Eaton because he is indeed very 1 dimensional.

[fatlever]

BTW - this bothers me so much. I can't come up with any guard that wore goggles during his NBA career. Yet I can go on and on naming forwards/centers. Kareem, Worthy, Hakeem, Buck Williams, Horace Grant, Amare, Bo Outlaw, Moses, Thurl Bailey etc.
It's a conspiracy.

there is one guard who wore googles that i remember, elliot perry.

[Paydro70]

last night they showed the 1963 finals between the lakers and celtics. that game featured russell, cousey, baylor and west and havlicek as a rookie i think. there was absolutely no defense being played, at that was the finals. mostly guys running up the court making one pass and then a guy would pull up for a mid-range jumper. i can totally see how the league average in points was 118 points per game (at bad percentages). and no wonder guys like wilt could average ridiculous rebound numbers with that many shots going up and most of them jumpers. the few post ups were barely contested. i'd venture to say that the 2012 charlotte bobcats could beat the 1963 celtics by 50 points. i thought jerry west was the most impressive of the bunch. i'll give them this though, most of the guys could stick the mid range jumpers.

comparing this 1976 game vs that 1963 game its very obvious the difference in the quality of basketball with the 1976 looking much much closer to what we saw in the mid 80s.

Racist.

[BigSlam]

I didn't pick Eaton because he is indeed very 1 dimensional.

I'm very ok with 1 dimension - but only if you are the best at the 1 dimension in the history of the game.........which Eaton is! Plus, behind Russell and Bellemy he is perfect as a third string shot blocking C.

On top of that, now my team has SO many dimensions that it can truly go:

up tempo, run and gun small
or
slow, grind it out and large in the half court.

[Paydro70]

Eaton wasn't the best shot blocker ever. He was a great one who played on a high-paced team in a high-paced era.
http://www.basketball-reference.com/lea ... eason.html

[fatlever]

celtics vs sixers 1981 eastern finals on right now. bird, parish, archibald, mchale, dr j, cheeks, bobby jones

[fatlever]

can i just state the obvious....... larry bird is **** ridiculously awesome. sometimes i forget how awesome he is until i watch him from the early 80s before he was slowed by back problems. he is by far the best player on the floor in this game (which has like 6 hall of famers).

[BigSlam]

Eaton wasn't the best shot blocker ever. He was a great one who played on a high-paced team in a high-paced era.
http://www.basketball-reference.com/lea ... eason.html

Block % in a SINGLE SEASON???? Blah block % in a single season. What in the hell is that any ways?

NBA & ABA Career Leaders and Records for Blocks Per Game:
http://www.basketball-reference.com/lea ... areer.html

Mark "I be" Eaton "them blocks"

[LamarMatic7]

BTW - this bothers me so much. I can't come up with any guard that wore goggles during his NBA career. Yet I can go on and on naming forwards/centers. Kareem, Worthy, Hakeem, Buck Williams, Horace Grant, Amare, Bo Outlaw, Moses, Thurl Bailey etc.
It's a conspiracy.

there is one guard who wore googles that i remember, elliot perry.

I knew that he wore those long socks, which look ridiculous in a 90s NBA game, yet this is the first time I see him wearing goggles. Nice one, Fats.

[LamarMatic7]

can i just state the obvious....... larry bird is **** ridiculously awesome. sometimes i forget how awesome he is until i watch him from the early 80s before he was slowed by back problems. he is by far the best player on the floor in this game (which has like 6 hall of famers).

I love that the fact that he stands out while supposedly being the slowest and most unathletic guy on the floor, however Larry Legend was always the first one to a loose ball, was an amazing rebounder and just seemed to know how everything is going to happen seconds before it actually occurred. Also stating the obvious...

That's why I love Mully. He sometimes seems to be even slower than Bird, yet he made scoring look so easy. I just love those slow drives to the basket after which he makes a layup that seems to have no chance of going in, yet he makes it over some athletic big.

[LamarMatic7]

Eaton wasn't the best shot blocker ever. He was a great one who played on a high-paced team in a high-paced era.
http://www.basketball-reference.com/lea ... eason.html

Block % in a SINGLE SEASON???? Blah block % in a single season.

NBA & ABA Career Leaders and Records for Blocks Per Game:
http://www.basketball-reference.com/lea ... areer.html

Mark "I be" Eaton "them blocks"

As a Manute Bol fan I have to point out, that Manute owns not only the block % category, but also the blocks per 36 minutes category. The numbers he has per 36 are just sick.

[BigSlam]

Eaton wasn't the best shot blocker ever. He was a great one who played on a high-paced team in a high-paced era.
http://www.basketball-reference.com/lea ... eason.html

Block % in a SINGLE SEASON???? Blah block % in a single season.

NBA & ABA Career Leaders and Records for Blocks Per Game:
http://www.basketball-reference.com/lea ... areer.html

Mark "I be" Eaton "them blocks"

As a Manute Bol fan I have to point out, that Manute owns not only the block % category, but also the blocks per 36 minutes category. The numbers he has per 36 are just sick.

I started reading your post Lamar but then I had to stop because half way through because Mark Eaton blocked it.

[LamarMatic7]

I started reading your post Lamar but then I had to stop because half way through because Mark Eaton blocked it.

Come on, man, Manute never steps in to the paint. I'd say that there was no blocked shot, since Bol made the three over Eaton.

[BigSlam]

I started reading your post Lamar but then I had to stop because half way through because Mark Eaton blocked it.

Come on, man, Manute........................

Blocked again.

Dang that Eaton boy is goooooooooooooooooooooood.

[LamarMatic7]

I started reading your post Lamar but then I had to stop because half way through because Mark Eaton blocked it.

Come on, man, Manute........................

Blocked again.

Dang that Eaton boy is goooooooooooooooooooooood.

Well played.

[captaincrunk]

MAnute Bol has 7 out of the top 10 BLK% in a season. That's pretty **** cool.