Is Horry Crazy?

Question

robert horry is saying that these san antonio spurs can beat the magic era lakers and the bird era celtics. is he crazy or is he telling the truth?

Answer 1

He might be a little crazy but he is defending his team. the real question is can this spur team beat the 2001 lakers?

Answer 2

Crazy. The Spurs are a good team in a bad league. The NBA has fallen way off since the early '90s. The lack of good teams like in the late 80's, early '90 are almost non-existent. The Blazers, Lakers, Bulls, Celtics, Pistons would have whipped the Spurs.

Answer 3

As many rings as Horry has- there is no way that the Spurs could beat those Lakers. If you went match up by match up:

Kareem vs Oberto: (Advantage Lakers)
AC Green vs Duncan (Advantage Spurs)
Worthy vs Bowen (Advantage Lakers)
Scott vs Finley (Even, although i'd say slight advantage Lakers)
Magic vs Parker (Advantage Lakers)

Bench Players:
San Antonio: Horry, Ginobli, Elson, etc.
Lakers: McAdoo, Cooper, Michael Thompson, ...
(Pretty even... Cooper can neutralize Ginobli because of his defense).

Coaching:
Riley vs Popovich (slight edge to Spurs)

Ultimatley i think you'd have to say the Lakers. The only distinct advantage the Spurs has is Tim Duncan. Duncan would not be able to play as many minutes with the pace the Lakers ran at (esp. with Magic). The Lakers also had Michael Cooper who used to also shut down Bird, so you know he could contain Parker or Ginobli.

The Lakers had enough to beat front courts that included: Parish, McHale and Bird and Moses Malone, Dr. J, and Bobby Jones (much better front courts than what the Spurs have).

The Spurs are good but they could not have competed with the Lakers of the '80s. Some of the teams they beat along the way to win the title could have easily defeated the Spurs.

Kindly,

Nickster

Answer 4

Maybe he is bit crazy, but I think he is partially right, the Spurs have a fair chance against 3 of the big 4 teams of that era. The Celtics, Sixers, and the Pistons. The Spurs could handle the Sixers and Pistons, and potentially beat the Celtics. As far as the Lakers, I don't think so.

Answer 5

No he is not crazy. You would think that your team can beat the pass great teams too. Its just confidence hence the name "Big Shot Rob". But confidence doesn't always win you games, talent does and the 80's lakers or celtics would mop the floor with these spurs. The spurs can't score enough to even put up a fight. The 80's lakers and celtics averaged over 100points even before all the rule changes to the nba did to increase scoring. The old generation are better shooters and the new generation are better dunkers. thats why scoring is down in the nba. Everyone wants to dunk it on someone instead of just puting the ball through the hoop.

Answer 6

The 80's Showtime Lakers were the best team ever put together. Magic, Kareem, Worthy, Coop, Rambis, Scott.

Pat Riley as Coach.

Jerry (Logo) West as GM. No one can top that lineup. NO ONE!

Celtics were incredible too. Bird was sensational.

The Spurs wouldn't beat Jordan's Bulls either.

I would put The Spurs 4th best of all time.

Horry is a great player though. He is about to get a 7th ring.

Answer 7

He's crazy.

And Horry might have the rings, but he got three of those with the Lakers.

As Nickster correctly point out , the Lakers would have a HUGE matchup advantage at every position except power forward...but Mychal Thompson would be able to make Duncan work very, very hard for his points, just as he did with Kevin McHale (he was the only player in the NBA who could guard McHale, other than Kareem, but Kareem was always busy with Robert Parrish).

When Kareem was 39, he was first team all NBA, and he was wiping the floor with guys like Ewing and Olajuwon... how do you think he'd do against Oberto?? LOL

Saying the Spurs would have no chance against those Laker teams is not nearly as crazy as saying the Spurs could beat them.

As far as how they'd do against those Celtics teams...well, Duncan might be the best power forward ever, but Bird was the best forward ever, period. McHale had a better low post game than anyone Duncan has to play against today. The Celtics front line of Parrish, Bird, McHale and Walton (who had his only fully-healthy season with the Celtics in 1986) would crush Duncan and Horry...that's just too good a front line for any team from today to compete with. Bird would foul Horry out by halftime.

Horry can go to the Hall of Fame to see the plaques of Bird, Parrish, McHale, Walton, Jabbar, Magic & Worthy...all he has to do is pay the admission price, because that's the only way he's gettin' in there.

(there are already two players who've won more rings than Horry who have been exlcluded from the HOF...one with 8 rings, one with 7.... so it's not just the rings...Horry's not going to the HOF).

Answer 8

Maybe that Horry guy was just having fun. But the truth is, We will never know if there is a glimpse of truth to that.

Games today are different than that era. There so much more dimensions today. I'm not saying its better though. Good players today find a way to adopt to any defensive systems thrown at them. If the great players of the past era were playing today, can they really adopt to all those defensive tactics opposing teams would throw at them. Not to mention scouting has been prominent in this age. Is the defense before equivalent to that of today. I really don't know if there was a bruce bowen type of player who would specialize in defense (with a Tim duncan caliber type for back-up) back then.

I guess we will never really know for sure....

Answer 9

Com'on Horry does have the rings. He has experience in the subject. The Spurs are very under rated and it's about time they get the recognition they deserve. We won't actually ever know the real answer, but to say the spurs don't stand a chance against them, thats just ridiculous!

Answer 10

Hes just talking to hear himself talk. So I guess that does makes him crazy.
He might be on the same drugs as Whitney and Lindsey.
In the words of Tyler Perrys' Madea, Horry need to "sat down somewhere and shut up"