David Robinson Appreciation Thread
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True but thats the most random name I've seen on this topic.
GoddamnyamanProf
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Laugh now cry laterThat core of Ayton, Book and Jackson
This dude going coast to coast going between his legs at the top of the key with pretty fingerolls and not a single pick.
God this era is so trash!
God this era is so trash!
murksiderock
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Embiid, Joker are definitely the two best. But Gobert is a throwback player who would fit in the older eras, so those guys would have their hands full with him in this era...
Nurkic, Cousins when healthy would work alota those older cats, Aldridge would work alota those older dudes, Porzingis same...
The idea that there aren't quality 5's in the NBA today is vastly overblown. It's not the peak era for the position for sure, but there are a number of guys today who could play with the old school 5...
The_Third_Man
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David Robinson would be the best center outta all 80s/90s centers because of his quickness and mobility.
HandyWithTheSteel
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Too bad he’s retired, whose y’all Center right now? 
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Jesus Is Lord
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Should’ve just made a, “David Robinson Appreciation”, thread.
Oliver Miller would DEFINITELY feast in this era!
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Doobie Doo
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literally
There are a LOT of NBA centers from the 1980s and 1990s who wouldn't even make a squad today.
Vlade and Seikaly would not be hot shyt now.
You did that thing where you pick a bunch of guys who came in the league over a 10-year window and are comparing them to one moment in time right now.
Right now there are WAY more big men getting recruited to play basketball than ever before. The entire world is being scoured for height, and if you got it and you have any kind of athleticism or skill, you are developed from way early. How would a bunch of guys born almost all in America in the 1960s magically be better than a talent pool five times bigger in the 1990s?
The issue is that the game changed. Being a traditional center slowly lost in effectiveness. Since the late 1990s nearly all the tall guys with talent have become forwards instead. Duncan, Dirk, Garnett, Pau, Bosh, Durant, Love, AD, LMA, Giannis, Porzingis, Markkanen, Sabonis - at lot of those taller forwards would have been centers in the old days. They would have developed their bodies in a different way and learned a completely different skill set. Even centers like Embiid, Towns, Jokic, Nurkic, Cousins, Horford, the Lopez brothers, Marc Gasol - they would have learned a different game, came up focusing on their post game much more than their jumper and their back-to-the-basket game much more than facing. Not everyone would adjust (guys like Gobert and DAJ and Whitehead would still be Gobert and DAJ and Whitehead) but the ones with skill and touch and athleticism would have been able to apply it in a different manner.
The only other option is to pretend that 7-footers magically became less skilled, even with a far larger pool of talent and better nutrition and development. That's nonsensical.