Why are so many former Knicks dissing Patrick Ewing?

[Mars]

Seeing that clip recently where Ewing tried to clown Wilt's defense at the NBA Top 50 ceremony back in the day made me look at him slightly differently
Maybe he was high maintenance

I'm sure was just joking
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[Rekkapryde]

Ewing was surrounded by CBA players and was very competitive.

Dream won a chip with Mad Max as his #2 scorer at 14 points a game on 38% shooting.

 

[inndaskKy]

I'm sure was just joking
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He was, but it felt like he didn't really study or care about the history of the game like that.

 

[RubioTheCruel]

Dream won a chip with Mad Max as his #2 scorer at 14 points a game on 38% shooting.

Ewing wasn't as good as Olajuwon, I think we've established that point

If the only thing you can say about him is that he wasn't as good as Jordan or Hakeem, he had a hell of a career.

 

[Rekkapryde]

Ewing wasn't as good as Olajuwon, I think we've established that point

If the only thing you can say about him is that he wasn't as good as Jordan or Hakeem, he had a hell of a career.

no doubt.

 

[RubioTheCruel]

All he had to do was make that layup

He said that when he went to drive it was to dunk but he felt pain in his knee and wasn't going to make it there so he went for the finger roll and..... well you know the rest. Missed layup, Riles faxes his resignation from the yacht and that's the end of the Knicks chapter



Even then - even if he makes that shot - that was only the ECSF, they would've had to beat a young Magic team with Shaq and Penny, that was no gimme; then beat the Rockets which I don't think was going to happen under any set of circumstances.

 

[FishNGrits]

In another time line Bernard king stays healthy and goes on to make the goat one two punch with Ewing

 

[Mars]

Ewing's biggest weakness was his Knees...... And even then he still went out there and gutted it out unlike some of the sissys we have in the league today.

 

[OGBobbyJohnson]

I’m on like the 5th chapter of the Knicks book that just came out about those teams..Really good read

 

[gangreen]

For all Ewing's talent, he just didnt have that killer instinct.

He had the supporting staff to win one chip.

That game 7 against the rockets in 94 was one of those moments. Everyone blames Starks really bad game but a superstar doesn't only score seventeen points in the biggest game of his career.

The championship winning legends carry their teams in those games.

 

[UpAndComing]

Ewing was a true great. What's his demerit, he wasn't as good as Olajuwon? The Knicks were always a good team when he was there and they never really gave him much to work with until it was too late.

The fact that the majority of his prime career John Starks was the Knicks 2nd best player just shows how little the Knicks management cared about winning

Knicks always tell me Xavier Daniels leaving doomed the Knicks and they almost beat the Bulls in 1993 when he was on the team

 

[CHERUB]

Cuz behind the scenes Ewing was bytch and the people that matter know.. He held up the money so the knicks could make any moves to improve in his prime

 

[old pig]

Not exactly who I meant but Ok

right…ppl are forcing the olujawon vs ewing narrative and it makes sense given their positions but jordan and the bulls were the nix main roadblock during that time

 

[mastermind]

This isnt a new critique. I feel people were saying Ewing wasn't leader back then.

 

[King Poetic]

All he had to do was make that layup

And Charles Smith had to do is not get blocked 4 times in a row