Quite possibly the greatest NBA "hustler"; as in giving maximum effort 100% of the time, of all time. He's ALSO fucking insane. On the court though? He was terrifying... and that's BEFORE you put him with Jordan and Pippen. If I were to ever have a defensive dream team, I'm putting Russell at C, Rodman at PF, Kobe at SF, Jordan at SG, and I'm going to let Pippen run PG.
Then I'm going to run a 3-2 base defense with a back-up man to man that switches into an amoeba when the shotclock hits 10. That doesn't matter though, as I'm also going to be running a full-court press and the ball will rarely cross half-court.
As for running an offense with that team? Pippen give the ball to the weak side wing, if they miss... who the fuck cares? Rodman or Russell will get the ball back again. All Pippen has to do is wait until the defense opens and then just dunk on somebody. The opponents defense, at that point... HAS to force the ball to Rodman and foul him if he's within 4 feet of the basket, because if he's 4 feet from the basket... well Rodman can dunk on anybody. So do you double team him? Now he's kicking it out to either MJ, Kobe, or Pippen... and they'll drive and you'll still get dunked on or murdered on a step back from the FT line or baseline. The only option is to start fouling the shit out of Rodman, as he sucked at shooting FT's. In all fairness, they were outside of 4ft.
Sorry I rambled, I just sometimes contemplate greatest defensive teams vs greatest offensive teams in a match. It's funny, my greatest offensive team is 3 PG's, a SG and Wilt. Nash, Kerr (SG), Curry, and Pistol Pete, along with Wilt. As great as a PG Stockton was, he never had the creativity of Nash. He ran a system that really... went against his own creativity... plus he had a predictable jump shot and tended to pass himself open. Nash played soccer, which just re-enforced his ability to adapt on the fly. Stockton (and Kidd, but Kidd couldn't shoot until he was old) defensively better than Nash, but this is an offensive list.
Ramble ramble... Magic is off the list because he has always been way to selfish. Bird is off the list because as hilarious as it was for him to actually call out his shots before doing exactly what he said he'd do (he did this, multiple times. He once did it for an entire fourth quarter... and he called a few daggers in the finals)... I don't want the offense to slow. With that offense, the defensive strategy becomes to either 1) just run them to death and pull away at the end because they are so exhausted, 2) Obliterate and demoralize them in the 1st quarter, and 3) just foul the fuck out of Rodman. As for the first option, by playing no defense, you basically force at least two of them to run down, a dunker and a wingman, as the ball also has to be inbounded. You then proceed to run circles and make them all chase the ball for 20 seconds before finding a wide-open 3 that was being setup the whole time (KERR), or a crafty layup, or the oop to Wilt.
Just youtube his NBA highlights... and then after that, do the same for Pistol Pete. What Pistol did is, to this day, fucking bonkers. He's the Godfather. Guess who Magic emulated?
He used to ride around in a car dribbling the ball out the window; like.. onto the pavement, back to his outstretched hand. It basically became more than a subconscious behavior.
My inbounder would be Pistol and I would let cherry pick if they tried to press. Pistol would be able to throw an oop the full length of the floor, on target, to Wilt. That's part of HOW he scored 100 in a game... I digress.
Andthat's basically how you force them to start playing the running game and then playing keep away before the sniper shot. It really doesn't matter though, defense always shows up with hard work, offense doesn't, even with hard work. The defense wins 5.2/10.
I'm sorry to hijack the thread, this month is supposed to be the greatest month in basketball and this fucking virus fucked it all up; gotta get my fix somehow. There's a 30 for 30 on Rodman... and it reads like a.. I don't know how old you are, but there used to be a show on E! called "True Hollywood Story"... and it reads like that, except the whole story is on peyote.
Don't feel bad, I once tried to explain what a full-court press, both man and zone, to my "speech professor" (really public communications), and she failed me because she couldn't understand it. Everyone else did, and it was relatively easy. The idea was to give a speech on something you were good at and this ol' Cruela De'Ville (she looked like a fat one, but at least she wasn't murdering puppies, so that's a give and take)... and instead of cupcakes I went "coach" and drew it all in X's and O's on the whiteboard. She gave me an F. It was worth it because dudeman in the back yelled "yo, coach!" and I knew exactly what he meant by it.
Then I'm going to run a 3-2 base defense with a back-up man to man that switches into an amoeba when the shotclock hits 10. That doesn't matter though, as I'm also going to be running a full-court press and the ball will rarely cross half-court.
But I think he started as a basketball player. I don’t think he did a lot of movies.
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Although 2. That's way more information than my tired brain can process right now haha