Hakeem Olajuwon vs. 1990 Detroit Pistons (37 Points, 25 Reb, 5 Blocks)
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- February 27, 1990 - For 43 minutes, Houston Rockets center Hakeem Olajuwon made mincemeat out of James Edwards and Bill Laimbeer, racking up the majority of his 37 points, 25 rebounds, and 5 blocks during that span. However, it was Dennis Rodman's defense and Isiah Thomas' clutch offensive theatrics that would ultimately render Olajuwon's performance null and void. The Pistons wiped away a second half double-digit deficit and ultimately emerged victorious in overtime, 106-102.
Rodman's Defensive Highlights vs. Olajuwon: • Dennis Rodman Shuts Do...
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Olajuwon the low key GOAT
I been saying Olajuwon is the goat since like 2012! I watched him while I was growing up and now TH-cam has all the proof of what I've been saying for years
@@armandodelossantos736
That, we all been saying/thinking. LOL
Takes a lot to dominate 80s Pistons like this
Olajuwon putting big numbers at Detroit.
Oh wow, what a bad call. As usual, refs prove games have been fixed for decades. Why i stopped watching.
Nailed it
@@donphares9006Elaborate please
Sleepy killed the clock, giving it to Dream with one second left....lol. He only needed 2 seconds.
This is the SAME "bad boy Pistons" that had Jordan quitting in the series and resorting to name calling. Lol.
@@whatitdobaby2382 Jordan fans are AMUSING. If you ACTUALLY believe EVERY player on the court, including Bill Laimbeer, was better than Wilt Chamberlain and Bill Russell and Rick Barry and Jerry West, because over time EVERYTHING improves, HOW can you call yourself "recency bias"? You don't think everybody today is better than the slow white boys on the Celtics like Sitching and Ainge and Carlisle Jordan feasted on? You think evolution stopped with Jordan?
Olajuwon walked right through them.
Did Jordan push them to seven games, you mean pippen with the migraine headache.
Another rigged game for Pistons
Yall know his team lost the game right 😂
It’s a team sport, Hakeem couldn’t control dumbass Maxwell getting the offensive foul at the end. Fact is Olajuwon ran through the “bad boys”, complete domination.
Thank you, Ryan!
Hakeem really was The Dream. Unstoppable force to be reckoned with.
Couldn't stop Olajuwon....that was blocking too.
Hakeem dominating the rebounds, 25, wow.
Not surprising. That should have been his 3rd consecutive rebounding title. He got hurt and missed to many game to qualify.
@@torhowell5202 That elbow to the face by Bill cartwright.
@@hectorlopez1069 yes. And people see what he did to Robinson with motivation. 94 of Jordan doesn't retire imagine how he'd destroy them when at half speed he'll dominate. Now he's motivated.
Idc what anyone says, neither Duncan, Shaq, Russell, and especially Kareem is doing it like this. Shaq had Kobe and couldn't handle Rodman or a lesser '04 Bad Boys team; so I know he's not handling Rodman/w The Original Bad Boys. Moses Malone showed how to play Kareem, now imagine what a whole frontcourt of Malones would do. Duncan needed Parker and Ginobili to beat the lesser '05 Bad Boys, and Russell didn't have the offense to beat them. Olajuwon's best teammate on the court was a solid defensive power forward. He wasn't a #2 player, but above average. Now for you Jordan fan boys who say Jordan's 6 over Olajuwon's 2, Jordan and Grant would've gotten massacred without Pippen; and if you swap Jordan and Olajuwon, Jordan and Thorpe isn't getting out the west while Olajuwon and Pippen alone would win Jordan's 6, add in Grant, Rodman, Harper, and Kukoc; you tell Me the results. And Houston also, wouldn't be the team to have Chicago's number. Jordan wouldn't win 1 ring unless Olajuwon took off for a year and a half, and Drexler came to help. Position for position, Jordan is #1 & Olajuwon is #1(Idk enough about Wilt to assess accurately); Jordan just had the better team as did everyone else I named.
Parker and Ginobili were role players in 2003, Parker couldn’t have a beer yet, and Manu was a rookie. 2003 Duncan has the second highest % of a championship team’s playoff win shares, at just under 35%. 2000 Shaq is #1.
@@Cotswolds1913 It's a well established objective fact that Olajuwon had the least help of anyone to ever win an NBA championship. There isn't any point in debating whether or not the sun is yellow. Now whether or not this constitutes the foundation for a debate that so and so is better than so and so is just a lot of blah blah blah. There were certainly other players with better careers than Olajuwon. However, Hakeem probably did have the greatest peak of any basketball player in history.
@@Justs99171 I can't take Hakeem's peak over 88-91 Jordan.
@@Justs99171 There's also a video by an excellent video series looking at "who had the greatest three year peak", and then ordering them in a top 10. Hakeem was #4.
@@Justs99171 th-cam.com/video/FzzlvnncLOQ/w-d-xo.html
Hakeem taking care of the bad boys.
Hakeem the center with the most wonderful movements ever seen.... Amazing the Dream.... True legend
gotta love how Laimbeer pays for his flopping bullshit by giving Hakeem the opening to score at 4:19
Dream was great...too good Hakeem, had all the moves and could get it done at ANY level vs. ANY competition, he was unstoppable, you really had to make sure he didn't have the ball and when he had the ball, do anything to either get him out of his spot or make him uncomfortable while hoping he missed. HAHAHA!
Jesus Christ
“... Had dreads so shake em! I ain’t got none but I’m plannin on growin some.”
- Bay Area orator
Of course Rodman is guarding Dream at the end.
Not very good at it.
@@pickzkickz He stopped him when it mattered to send the game in OT.
@@tylerhingleton8493
Rodman stopped him, or Floyds pass with less than 2 secs?
@@msl5253 That's still more than enough time for Hakeem to make a literal lay-up to win the game. Rodman prevented that. Great defensive play.
@@Riles3152
I hear what you're trying to say. However, I disagree with that assessment. When you wait that long to pass the ball with the clock running out, all you can do is shoot immediately. You know that. He didn't have time to make a power or skill move. All you can do is shoot the ball as quickly as possible, or risk time elapsing. Now, if you wanna argue, he had the time. That's something different. But Rodman wasn't the issue on that shot (as we can see), time was. But I hear ya, you wanna big up Rodman.
Haha We still won despite a hall of fame performance by the Dream.
0:44 I just saw a video saying how Hakeem used to fight all the time, not even a minute into this game he swings at somebody lol
Olajuwan wore my pistons out
Love the emotion from Rodman at the end of regulation.
Yeah but we won the chip that year
You wouldn't have if you faced this guy
That's just like saying David Robinson won the MVP fake s***
In the interest of full disclosure, Dennis Rodman switched onto Olajuwon late in the fourth and ended up giving him fits. Most of Hakeem's work came prior to that point in time. Rodman's defensive highlights from that night: th-cam.com/video/p9mZIPjefMQ/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=RyanVanDusen
Yes in total full disclosure Rodman had 1 point and 10 boards in the entire game and way more help from his teammates than Olajuwon did.
Rodman with Robinson helping couldn't stop Olajuwon....stop with the lies.
I like how you credit the little success Rodman had guarding Olajuwon LATE IN THE GAME on Rodman's defense, and not Olajuwon's fatigue after being triple teamed all night!
They had the refs what else
@Ryan
Yeah, after being banged around and pummeled by the Bad Boys, etc., Sure. LOL
embiid is trash compared to Hakeem dude had mental toughness
Hakeem was a gamer. Even when he was 23 and fresh out of college dude was balling hard against the peak Lakers and Celtics giving them fits. I laugh whenever someone compares Embiid to him.