05.02.1985.- Lakers@Rockets: 37-year-old Abdul-Jabbar vs Olajuwon & Sampson (Young ''Twin Towers'')
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- What a game this was, one of the best regular season games from the golden 80's NBA.
37-year-old Kareem Abdul-Jabbar scored 40 points on 16/29 (amazing skyhook display) against 24-year-old Ralph Sampson and 22-year-old rookie Hakeem Olajuwon.
Sampson finshed the game with 33 points and 15 rebounds (13/22) and Hakeem Olajuwon scored 30 points (14/19 FG).
Lakers won the game 113:104.
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Kareem averaged 35pts/game vs Twin Towers from 1984-1987 in 10 games from the age of 37-40
Kareem With out doubt GOAT . Jordan could do everything except be 7’1
Like Zeke could do everything except be 6’6
@@tellthetruthg or win a title his second year in the league or play for 21 years or play in 18 all star games or be the leading scorer of all time. Jordan watched the playoffs from his sofa in the 80s
I thank you so much for pointing that fact! I tell people Kareem killed everyone in HS NCAA
NBA. He is the GOAT!!!
It's impressive what Kareem is able to do at the age most centers are long retired. This is before private planes and the softening of the league.
In Hakeem defense he was in his prime physically but he didn't have the experience to handle Jabbar. The only way to play him is to deny him position and hope his hook is off.
Again this man was doing it against 2 agile 7 footers....respect!
Kareem was awesome! AWESOME! I'll say it again, AWESOME!
You young guys are missing the point. If Kareem was getting 40 at his age,imagine what he would have done to these guys in his prime!
Exactly!
These "Twin Towers" games are pure gems. Wonder how they would've done against Robinson & Duncan if both duos competed against each other in their primes.
my guess is that the rocket duo will have the edge on the spurs one. sampson has the length and speed that could cancel out d rob ( too bad we never saw that form of sampson) and olajuwan in prime was clearly much better than duncan in his prime imo.
popeyeisgood Hakeem definitely proved that he could embarrass Robinson in the playoffs. So it's really a question of whether Duncan can cancel that out against Sampson. It's hard to gauge the latter's potential given his short career, but it looks like he's the weakest defender out of the four.
***** but match up and playing style wise, i think hakeem should be on duncan and sampson should take robinson, dont you think?
and yes no doubt sampson seems to be lacking some d compared to other 3.
popeyeisgood I guess that makes sense. Even if Sampson struggles against Robinson, it's safe to say that the latter's offensive stats decrease quite a bit in the playoffs anyway. So it really comes down to Hakeem and Duncan. And yes, I think Hakeem would dominate like he always has against other great big men.
Great observation we all know now how Hakeem and Duncan matchup would go, but Sampson and Duncan would've been a great matchup.
People don't see how dominating Kareem put 40 pts at the age 35 on both Ralph and Hakeem and still won the game. Kareem is a beast.
Afuckingmen
ralph miles besides Olajuwon and Ralph, nobody on the Rockets scored more than 9pts! Meanwhile Magic had 18p, 19a, and 4s and the Lakers bench scored 32p and the Rockets bench scored 18p! This was an Olajuwon who just learned basketball 6 years before while living in Nigeria! What happened the next season WCF?!?
Hakeem outscores Kareem for the series. 31 to 27 PPG.
@@Johnkoth Absolutely Akeem was the best player on the court in thar series. He was dominant on the glass and he created havoc defensively because he was playing power forward guarding Kurt Rambis. He could come over and help Sampson when Kareem came into the lane.
Olajawon put the league on notice that he was the next great one. Kareem played a good series also but he couldn't get up with Olajawon. It's a tough ask to have Jabbar deal with those two guys at 39 years of age.
Another reason the Rockets matched up so well against the Lakers is they could completely shut down Worthy. Worthy could only score within 10 feet of the basket, he had nothing vs the Twin Towers.
One of the best era's to be a NBA fan
Love 1980s nba basketball 🏀
The old G.O.A.T. having to prove himself once again, late in his career. He was not one to shy away from a challenge.
And Kareem was Finals MVP this year. He was 38 yrs old.
37 year old Kareem holding his own against two of the most athletic big men to ever play the game. Olajuwon with a 12'6" highest touch from a standing jump and Sampson with a 12'11" highest touch from a standing jump.
37 year old Shaq wouldn't even be able to get 40 points if you have him 80 free throws.
Wow imagine a young prime Kareem !!!! This is a matchup made in heaven !!!! It took a twin towers just to matchup against this Showtime Lakers
Kareem!!!!
It was a different story come playoff time...
@@FuShengAlex correct, young Akeem (later Hakeem) was still feeling his way after coming from Africa
omgoodness cheers for the upload, amazing players, so lanky and long but with a guards touch and man they could even put it on the floor!
This has to be the most amazing display of skill by big men I’ve ever seen. I’d say Kareem Hakeem & Ralph are the most skilled Centers ever. People sleep on Ralph Sampson. If it weren’t for injuries he would’ve been an all time great. Never seen somebody his height move so gracefully and with so much skill. He is the original Victor Wembanyama. Wemby just plays more perimeter oriented and shoots 3’s. Other than that Ralph had all those same skills athleticism & agility. 🔥💯
Even though I'm more of a Wilt fan than Abdul Jabbar, I give Abdul -Jabbar his respect at the level he's at in this game
Wooow what a game, and it's a pleasure with Chick Hearn on the mic'. Thanks for the upload
Awesome and exciting game!!! Jabbar dominating. Akeem and Sampson putting up a tough fight.. 80's basketball
This is later end rookie Hakeem. in 86 WCF when Hakeem was a Sophomore. Went against Older Kareem who Did his thing also, but overall got clapped by 2nd year Olajuwon in the playoffs.
I’m sure A duel between both of them at their peaks would be fun to watch.
Wow Kareem is amazing. He actually scored 40 points or more 3 times against the Twin Towers. At the advanced age of 38.
Cerainly the most skilled low post player history.
Got to love Kareem hook shot
Other than.jabber super great skyhook shot & dunk& Kareem Abdul jabber low post game was journeyman
Dream match up Victor wembanyama or yao ming playing against Kareem Abdul jabber& his skyhook shot, Kareem Abdul jabber would've told pat Riley I got a Victor wembanyama & yao ming migraine headache, take me out the game
Still the most skilled and athletic match up I've ever seen in sports
Glas to see this, thanks LL!
Kareem GOAT . ASK any legend past or present
This is bball at its highest level
Loved seeing the skill sets of these 80's centers. Take some notes, Dwight Howard, Deandre Jordan, Joakim Noah, Nerlens Noel and Tyson Chandler, please!
uh yeah most of those guys actually have Olajuwon teaching them his game. Including LeBron and Kobe! When you have players that are considered to be the greatest of all time asking you for pointers, you might be the greatest ever!
Kareem had such great footwork to maneuver and get His shot. The youngsters had no answer for the cagey vet.
I think Kareem made his point vs. the twin towers.
AGREE💯
BUt the TWIN TOWERS HAD one over THE LEGEND in 86 WCF
@@mrboo3049 correct!
How about still young David Robinson & tim Duncan & 1990s San Antonio spur against early 1980s Kareem Abdul jabber & 🎩 johnson & l.a Lakers, jabber would've had two migraine headache,, laugh,laugh
Wow @ 5:06. Sampson got a legitimate block on a Kareem skyhook. However, it was a lazy, slow left handed-one; not Kareem's deadly patented "swing-left shoot right skyhook." But still, it was a clean block against a very difficult shot to block. Chamberlain's blocks against Kareem's skyhooks were arguably goal-tends, while Sampson's block was clean.
No, Chamberlain's weren't goaltends.
It was a legitimate block shot....however people forget handchecking was allowed back then, Sampson obvsiously put his hand/elbow on Kareem to manipulate his balance, thus the awkward looking "lazy" left hook shot. But no doubt it, that was a blocked shot.
At 5:33....they tried to do the same thing, push Kareem off with the handcheck to get him off balance when he does his Skyhook thing....but the referee called fouled that time. You are not allowed to handcheck in today's NBA, nor be in the shooter's vicinity while he attempts a shot, automatic foul now. Back then it was rarely called
The Lakers had been so dominant for so long that when Ralph blocked KAJ skyhook it shocked the town of Houston for Days!
@@redace6649 Plus they were higher skyhooks then the one Sampson blocked Wilt was not human.
Geesh didn't no Ralph Sampson was that tuff he could play in today's game
"Boy are these guys going to be tough around april" very prophetic.
That KAJ was a bad man, more than held his own against those 2 young lions...
I love watching these old Twin Tower videos my first thought is always, what if?
What if Ralph hadn't blown out his knee.
What if Bill Fitch hadn't moved Olajuwon back to Center were Parish outplayed him during 86 finals
In 81, LA took Mike McGee 1 pick ahead of Larry Nance Sr. That makes me sad. If they had Larry Sr, you can pencil in the 84 Finals for sure. That would've been flat unfair to the league. AND they still would've had the 1st overall pick in 82. Probably still would've gone with a SF, but who knows whether Worthy or Nique in that situation. Either way, Larry Nance Sr. Look him up. Check his stats. Check for vids. 6'10", retired the all time leader for all forwards in blocks, good scorer, like his son -- don't try to block his dunks or you'll get postered.
Damn I didn't know that. Always loved Nance's game. A true Skywalker at 6-10. With Magic at point Nance would have been a first ballot HOF and the Lakers might have never lost a game.
Sampson would’ve been a HOF if not for the injuries.
He still made the HOF...but couldve had a much better NBA career
Dammm the deo in insane!!!!!
5:05 sampson blocks kareems skyhook
God such a crazy front court. If only Robinson was younger when he played with Duncan... It would have kinda looked like this. Anyways Kareem would have killed those to including my fav Olajuwon if he was in his bucks days
+Thomas Le Whoa right?! Kareem was unstoppable on offense. But he was playing against a *rookie* Akeem Olajuwon who only had about 3 years of total basketball knowledge to Kareem's 30 years of knowledge. Plus Kareem was 7'2-1/2 compared to Hakeem being only 6'10. Dream didn't know how to play Kareem in just his second meeting(who could). But the Milwaukee Bucks Kareem( his name was Lew Alcindor) would've gotten his ass kicked by the 93'-96' Olajuwon as well.
+Mytown Trill thank you for saying that. I just watched several games from the Bucks in the 70's and Olajuwon would've averaged a quadruple double in that era easily.
LOL a Milwaukee Kareem would have destroyed Akeem.
There's was no such thing as a "Milwaukee Kareem", dumb ass. And no man created by GOD could've stopped the 90's (H)akeem.
the dude, You are on drugs
What exactly was Ralph Sampson's injury that short cut his career?
This is 1 of at least 3 times Kareem put 40+ on the Twin Towers. Akeem at this stage of his career couldn't guard Jabbar. He was lucky this wasn't the 27 year old version that put 50 on Bill Walton a couple of times. Or the 25 year old that dropped 50 on Wilt Chamberlain
NOW THIS IS BASKETBALL!!!!
Is this may 5 1984
That fadeaway jump shot Sampson made at 0:19 would have been blocked if it was almost any other center taking it.
I think only a young Wilt or Young Sabonis would have been able to get that shot off.
Shaq, Ewing, etc would all have gotten blocked.
+Sal Amander Sabonis??? Hahahahahhaa, he wasn't a great jumper.
th-cam.com/video/06usV6451ik/w-d-xo.html number 11...
@@alfie01 who knows what "supplements" those "Eastern Bloc" athletes were on back then.
@@mytowntrill5441 Young Arvidas before breaking both tendons was a great leaper and runner.
ralf sampson so fun to watch!
Actually Kareem was 38
Makes no damn difference he had over 10 years and a helluva lot more miles up and down the court than those two younguns
Wilt blocked Kareem sky hook 2x in a row, when he was old and Kareem was in his prime
What is all this shit about you people being carried away by Kareem getting blocked . They didn't block him enough because he's the all time leading scorer in the NBA. and none of you people will be alive to see him number 2 all time
No it was because the SkyHook is and was the most unstoppable shot in NBA history. It went in the basket so many times over and over with players playing tough D so whenever it got blocked whole arena's would erupt announcers would erupt because it was shocking to see.
Wilt never blocked Kareem right handed bread and butter skyhook unless it was goaltending. Jabbar did block several of Wilt's dunks and fingerolls though.
Sampson blocked Jabars skyhook. I didn't know it had ever been blocked. Jabars the Goat, but had Sampson stayed healthy, his name would be mentioned a lot in the who's the goat arguments.
Wilt blocked it many times .
100%
Look up stats of Kareem vs Hakeem h 2 h and Kareem still outscore him in his entire career. It wasn't even close until Kareem got really old
Man E Mr. J Olajuwon DOMINATED Kareem and the entire Showtime Lakers the next season WCF! A 22yr old soccer player from Nigeria who just learned basketball 6 years before beat the defending champ Showtime Lakers with 5 hall of fame players! Kareem is over hyped
El Tigre yeah and one of the MVP Kareem had was just given to him by the NBA cuz he didn't even lead his team to the playoffs that year. Kareem needed 7 hall of fame players to get his rings and if it wasn't for magic or worthy he would only have one ring. Olajuwon was by himself
Armando De Los Santos
what kids dont bring up is more than half of kareem's points came off of assists from his teammates,. magic had 19 assists on this game, kareem shot 52%,. ROOKIE hakeem nailed jumpshot after jumphot on Kareem's face, piling up 30pts on 73%fg shooting,. imagine if he had someone like magic to feed him the ball..
Kareem is an overrated coattail rider
@@armandodelossantos736 You mean Hakeem played one against five?
@@realitybites629 Most centers rely heavily on passes from teammates to score.
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I wonder what would have taken place if a young Wilt Chamberlain and a Young Kareem would have done vs Olajuwon and Sampson?????
Wow, Ralph Sampson was Wembanyama before Wembanyama
5:50 🐐
I tip my hat to those young bucks for going at Kareem,but at 37 years old Kareem is giving it to them.Just think if Kareem was 24-25 years old playing against Hakeem and Ralph.Kareem is the greatest ever.He did the same thing to a young Patrick Ewing.The only guys Kareem never faced in his career that really matter were Bill Russell,Shaq,and David Robinson.
+Bobby Linning Kareem would've turned some of his sky-hooks into sky-dunks on top of people's heads, LOL. Kareem was a great athlete and STAYED at his game weight his whole career thus the 20 year career. But this is a Olajuwon who wasn't even close to his defensive or offensive prime EITHER and would've gave Kareem just as many problems as he would've received. Olajuwon from 93-96 was UNSTOPPABLE, no one stops that guy
+Mytown Trill imo this is the top2 Cs ever. Kareem the GOAT Center, Hakeem 2. Hakeem was my favorite though. I think Jabbars performances vs the Twin Towers are incredibly underrated in the media given his age.
the difference is that Olajuwon was getting doubled and triple teamed while Kareem didn't get that kind of attention because of his stacked team. Olajuwon was truly dominant amongst other TEAMS, not just other centers. I watched footage of Kareem from the 70's against Willis Reed and other great centers of that time, and Olajuwon would've ran circles around them. I held my tongue for years out of respect for the all time greats, but none of them were ever the raw talent Olajuwon was and still had the kind of skill he did with the best footwork. hands down.
Yep, this game(and the rest of the Olajuwon vs Jabbar games) were pre ESPN and Fox Sports(let alone NBATV or NBA and TNT talk shows and web sites). But hey, WE GOT TH-cam baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
100% agree.
25 yr old Jabbar it’s no contest on who’s better
7 foot 5 inches Yao ming vs jabber skyhook shot::: ?? David Robinson 7 foot 1 inches vs jabber & his skyr dhook shot,,late 1980s David Robinson lefty & 7 foot bill Russell;; vs jabber skyhook shot;;; slaughter for David Robinson
Steph Curry would get blocked like a bug. Even Magic looked small against the giants.
Sampson blocked the sky hook at 5:06 while he was guarding Kareem. There are guys who can get a running start and block the sky hook from the weak side, but there are only about three guys in the history of the planet that would ever be able to block the sky hook while guarding Kareem.
+Sal Amander Interesting. Can you name the three guys though?
Ralph Sampson, Wilt Chamberlain, and Young Pre Injury Sabonis.
+Sal Amander Ralph Sampson=yes. Chamberlian=yes. Sabonis? Hahahahahaha, hell no boy!! Sabonis wasn't a high flyer or a good shotblocker. Sabonis struggled against a 20 year old David Robinson(still in college) and never blocked a shot against THAT David Robinson. I'd realistically say that other than Wilt and Ralph that in their defensive Primes that Olajuwon(88-91), David Robinson(92-94), Dwight Howard(08'-10'), Mutombo(92-95), and Shaq(99-01) would've blocked at least one of those Skyhooks. But Sabonis ,hahahah, hell no. I'd nominate JaVale McGee as a candidate before Sabonis.
+Sal Amander Manute Bol also blocked the skyhook straight up defending Jabbar, but 7 foot 7 inch tall guys don't exactly grow on trees,lol.
Looked like a lazy, left handed sky hook though...
KAREEM GOAT
He was 42 yrs old. . Given kids Hesitation shots . Greatest ever over Wilt too .
No way in hell number 2 at best or 3rd best centers ever. Wilt was on another level even as a old man with a bad knee he shut Kareem down in the playoffs half the time when they played against each other. If Kareem faced a 50 goals per game prime Wilt Kareem would have retired lol.
@@chonasimpson6487 that’s such cap 🤣🤣🤣 Kareem outplayed him in both WCF in 71’ & 72’. Bro he put 50 on his head one time. Kareem is the better scorer and playmaker, and their defense is a scratch to me. And you know who has the bigger weakness between the two 🤷🏾♂️
@@tyjohnson3111 No crap Wilt job then was defense you can not say he was better cause he scored more wilt dominated him when the Lakers won in 72 and in his prime he would have schooled him. Kareem never had the records Wilt had Wilt will always be the goat. All Kareem had was the skyhook and a old knee injury Wilt blocked it many times. You must have forgot Wilts roll was on defense he was told not to score but when the reporters said he could not score like you think he went on to score 60 58 and 48 look it up. The last 7 years of his career he focused on defense and if they counted blocked shoots he would have that record also .Did Kareem average over 50 points and 25 rebounds for a entire season well Wilt did .Did Kareem score 100 points in a game well we know who did that lmao. Kareem was good but he was no Wilt the Stilt Chamberlain the best that every played.
@@erics9754
⏺️Wilt v. Kareem RS: 16/18/4 on 57% TS (+7)
6/11 FG (56%) & 4/7 FT (53%) per game
Wilt v. Kareem PS: 16/19/3 on 48% TS (-1)
6/12 FG (48%) & 4/9 FT (44%) per game
⏺️KAJ vs. Wilt RS: 32/16/4 on 49% TS (-1)
14/30 FG (46%) & 4/6 FT (73%) per game
KAJ vs. Wilt PS: 30/17/5 on 49% TS (+0)
13/28 FG (47%) & 4/6 FT (69%) per game
Wilt’s TSA increased way more than Kareem from regular to postseason and he became WAY less efficient…especially from the field.
(-8% FG% & -9% FT%)
Kareem essentially maintained his PPG, his volume, and TS% from regular to postseason when facing Wilt.
@@erics9754
I see he scored 66 once in 69’ with no West, and 60 with West in the lineup.
I also see he scored 58 in 67’ with Chet & Hal in the lineup.
What’s your point?
203 woo weeeeee
lew took 34 shots lol why houston nto let ralf n akeem have 40 each? guards jokers on houston mis caoched
325 lew travelling his ass off as usuasll no call lol scmamer
lew given all titel by refs, same as steroid jordan and diet jordans.....endles ward off travel and no fouls called on his hakkin
300 houston ball fuk off
ervin has AIDS