NBA Topic: The All Boring Team

[Direckshun]

I was thinking today of all the greatest players of all time in the NBA are usually very flashy players -- understandably so.

So let's put together an All Time NBA First Team (and Second Team if the interest is there) full of players who exclusively are not highlight package players, who rarely made announcers scream, who rarely inspired the imagination.

Starting center is probably Tim Duncan.

Starting point guard is absolutely John Stockton -- the best non-flashy player in NBA history.

Who else you got?

[Stanley Nickels]

Grab Kawhi

[Pasta Little Brioni]

The all Loon thread starting team...

[Prison Bitch]

Joe Dumars. Dennis Johnson.

I hate the NBA tho

[oldandslow]

Tim Duncan, Grant Hill.

Love the NBA - can't wait for the season to begin.

[loochy]

Nothing really comes to mind other than the big obvious Tim Duncan
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[CoMoChief]

Tim Duncan

John Stockton

[loochy]

Maybe Dirk at PF?
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[WhiteWhale]

Stockton wasn't flashy.

It's hard to be flashy when you can barely dribble with your left hand.

It's actually kinda stunning a guy with no left hand could accomplish what he did.

[scho63]

Dave Cowens and John Havelichek pretty much defined utilitarian basketball players but I think the current hotdogs and showboating didn't exist back then much.

Oscar Robertson was another along with Wes Unseld

[rico]

When Stockton was in Barcelona doing his thing on the Dream Team, the majority of the players (especially Magic, Barkley, Jordan, etc.) couldn’t go anywhere without being just mobbed by people. Stockton was able to walk down the streets of Barcelona with his family, unnoticed and unrecognized. He even came up to a couple people who were wearing Dream Team t-shirts that had his picture on it and would ask, “hey you like the Dream Team?” They’d be like, “yeah! Love them!” He’d then say, “you ever meet anything be on the team?” And they’d be like, “no” or “I met Charles Barkley the other night.” He would then point at his own picture on their shirt and say, “how about him, you ever meet him?” And they’d be like, “no, never met that guy.” Lol, he actually had to tell them who he was.

That’s boring.

[rico]

Yao Ming
Joe Dumars
Robert Parrish
Ray Allen
David Robinson
Mitch Richmond
Ben Wallace

[Demonpenz]

Stockton flashed them legs. Tim Duncan, Draymon Green, CP3, David Robinson, Reggie Miller.

[Demonpenz]

Rick Berry Chauncey Billups Robert Horry, Dennis Scott

[rico]

I have a difficult time watching any old footage of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar without falling asleep.

[scho63]

Rick Berry Chauncey Billups Robert Horry, Dennis Scott

Not sure I agree with this one :hmmm:

I also met Robert Horry at an NBA charity golf event about 20 years ago in NJ for sports agent Keith Glass. He was pretty boring! ROFL

[rico]

Stockton flashed them legs. Tim Duncan, Draymon Green, CP3, David Robinson, Reggie Miller.

I used to love the way Reggie would troll guys to the point where they’d lose their shit. ROFL

[Demonpenz]

He got that knucklehead John Starks to bite every game it seemed.

[rico]

Carmelo
Dwight Howard

[rico]

He got that knucklehead John Starks to bite every game it seemed.

Lol yeah, and it was awesome. I freaking hated Starks and thought that was hilarious.

Along with talking shit, he would subtly cheap-shot guys and somehow make it appear as if he were the one being cheap-shotted by acting all theatrical and melodramatic about it. Dude was funny as hell.

[vailpass]

Anyone post-MJ.

[New World Order]

Kevin Mchale at PF

[WhiteWhale]

Stockton flashed them legs. Tim Duncan, Draymon Green, CP3, David Robinson, Reggie Miller.

Reggie was a lot of things... but boring?

The guy who gave the choke sign and grabbed his crotch while staring down Spike Lee is boring?

No way.

[KCUnited]

Len Bias

[WhiteWhale]

I used to love the way Reggie would troll guys to the point where they’d lose their shit. ROFL

He's the only guy I know of who been punched by Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, and Paul Pierce.

Probably got really obnoxious running through screens all day while reggie would push off with his boney ass elbows.

[New World Order]

Mark Price

[WhiteWhale]

Len Bias

I'd say his brief career was anything but boring.

[New World Order]

He's the only guy I know of who been punched by Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, and Paul Pierce.

Probably got really obnoxious running through screens all day while reggie would push off with his boney ass elbows.

Paul Pierce at SF

[lcarus]

Rick Berry Chauncey Billups Robert Horry, Dennis Scott

Dennis Scott turned out to be a big fat scrub without Shaq drawing double teams.

[New World Order]

We need a shooting guard:

C Duncan

PF Mchale

SF Paul Pierce

SG

PG Stockton

[KCUnited]

The face of New Balance, Chris Mullin.

[New World Order]

The face of New Balance, Chris Mullin.

Excellent

C Duncan

PF Mchale

SF Pierce

SG Mullin

PG Stockton

[rico]

I liked Mullin. Probably just because of the high octane scoring system he was in with Hardaway and Richmond. Run TMC, baby!!!

[rico]

I love listening to Karl Malone in interviews and what not because I find him hilarious... but I dunno, watching him play was boring to me... I’ll probably have people who disagree with me on that.

[rico]

James Harden

[WhiteWhale]

Paul Pierce at SF

I didn't think he was boring. Smooth and incredibly skilled.

[WhiteWhale]

Dennis Scott turned out to be a big fat scrub without Shaq drawing double teams.

Scott mostly got his 3 pointers in transition and legs were shot by the time he was 28.

[rico]

This is not relevant to the topic, but I’m just thinking of all these past basketball players and got stuck on Dominique Wilkins, who I think may be the most underrated basketball player that I know of. Dude was freaking awesome. I wonder how many championships he could have won with a different team. Hell, the Jazz selected him 3rd overall in the draft and traded him off... imagine how good that Jazz team would have been with Wilkins, Malone and Stockton....

[WhiteWhale]

This is not relevant to the topic, but I’m just thinking of all these past basketball players and got stuck on Dominique Wilkins, who I think may be the most underrated basketball player that I know of. Dude was freaking awesome. I wonder how many championships he could have won with a different team. Hell, the Jazz selected him 3rd overall in the draft and traded him off... imagine how good that Jazz team would have been with Wilkins, Malone and Stockton....

Wilkins is very under-rated in the public eye, but not by anyone who played against him.

[rico]

Wilkins is very under-rated in the public eye, but not by anyone who played against him.

I figured so... I remember seeing an interview with Bird where he was talking about how good he thought Wilkins and Chris Webber were.

[WhiteWhale]

I figured so... I remember seeing an interview with Bird where he was talking about how good he thought Wilkins and Chris Webber were.

Well when they did the top 100 Wilkins DID come in 44th, which is great.

So maybe he isn't under-rated, just kinda forgotten.

[rico]

Well when they did the top 100 Wilkins DID come in 44th, which is great.

So maybe he isn't under-rated, just kinda forgotten.

If he were on a different team that accomplished more, I think he’d be higher. Do you think so?

[Jamie]

Those mid-90s Jazz teams might be the boringest of all time. I see Stockton and Malone have been mentioned. Jeff Hornacek, Bryon Russell. Greg Ostertag, but that's almost not fair since most teams in that era had a giant boring white center.

[Deberg_1990]

Steve Nash

[Pitt Gorilla]

Otis Thorpe.

[loochy]

Steve Nash

lol...yeah, that guy was super boring :rolleyes:
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[Sofa King]

Shawn Kemp’s dunks

[Ebolapox]

Shawn Kemp’s paternity suits
FTFY

[Fishpicker]

PF Buck Williams