Tony Allen Makes My ALL-TIME 1st-Team All-Defensive Team

[live it to the limit]

Love T. A. He reminds me of the old head at the park/gym thats always trying to play a pick up game with the young guys and talks shyt the whole time.

 

[Rigby.]

make new coli threads instead of tweeting

The Coliseum be looking like twitter with the incessant Kobe, LeBron posts

 

[Columbo]

I respect that opinion

Id prob go with MJ at sg, dumars and vernon maxwell gotta be up there too

 

[PhonZhi]

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[The Goodz]

C Alonzo Mourning/Mutombo
PF Ben Wallace
SF Scottie Pippen/Ron Artest
Sg Michael Jordan
Pg Gary Payton

Fixed

 

[MJ Truth]

Honestly it's so close at the guard-small forward position, I can see any of these cats listed with no issue - Jordan, Pippen, Allen, Kawhi, Payton, Blaylock, Bruce Bowen, Kidd, Artest. I could see LeBron or Kobe too if we're talking about when they're truly engaged defensively. Personally I think Jimmy a Butler is/can be as good of andef ne'er as anyone. Surely I'm leaving some guys out but I tried to keep it from the 90s on.

 

[Greenstrings]

Tony Allen is probably one of the best on ball defenders of all time but overall? His lack of court awareness and positional discipline hurts him. His effort level is unmatched but I feel if he had more offensive nous he'd be better at reading plays and wouldn't have to rely on sheer exuberance to put himself where he needs to be. He's a consummate gambler and while that works well in the context of what the Griz are on defense it does occasionally make him a liability, especially against teams that pass the ball well.

He's very good but certainly not in my all time best defense.

 

[Jplaya2023]

GP
Jordan
Pippen
Dream
Drob

 

[PhonZhi]

http://www.thecoli.com/threads/kobe...atured-the-best-defender-i-ever-faced.404852/

 

[dterpsss]

He just passes the eye-test to me as one of the toughest, most relentless and ruthless defenders ive ever seen He would def be one of the 5. Thats all.

 

[Blessings]

C Hakeem Olajuwon
PF Ben Wallace
SF Scottie Pippen
SG Michael Jordan
PG Gary Payton

 

[Columbo]

I dont have a problem with this

They say he shows up everyday in practice with a chip on his shoulder. He stays hungry like Sullinger, what tenacity

Its like hes on Adderall or somethin