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<blockquote data-quote="MikeRafone" data-source="post: 129506613" data-attributes="member: 1482681">Bingo! A buddy of mine dated West' niece back in the mid 70's, about a year or so after he retired. I encountered West a number of times in those days. The guy had arms as long as your average gorilla. Remember that he&nbsp; played small forward when he first went to the Lakers.Rodman over Clyde, Darth? Clyde could do it all, Dennis could rebound and throw the outlet. Rodman was a huge offensive liability, with gimme layups stretching his skill set.I've always admired players that caused the rules to be changed. Wilt and Russell caused the lane to be widened, Kareem got the dunk banned for a decade in college, and Barkley brought about the wholesale change to breakaway rims in the college ranks with his antics at Auburn. I once saw Barkley break two rims in a OOC road game on ESPN. The second time he did it they had to truck in a basket in from an arena across town. That game went hours longer than it was supposed to. I want to say it was against UAB in Birmingham, but that's been over thirty years ago. All those games have run together with time. To top it off, he was a backup linebacker on the Auburn football team that season.The biggest difference in the NBA before roughly 1990-95 and now is the skills the players brought to floor. In those days if you left almost any pro player open within 20 feet of the basket, you could count it. Now the game is a brickfest.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MikeRafone, post: 129506613, member: 1482681"] Bingo! A buddy of mine dated West' niece back in the mid 70's, about a year or so after he retired. I encountered West a number of times in those days. The guy had arms as long as your average gorilla. Remember that he played small forward when he first went to the Lakers. Rodman over Clyde, Darth? Clyde could do it all, Dennis could rebound and throw the outlet. Rodman was a huge offensive liability, with gimme layups stretching his skill set. I've always admired players that caused the rules to be changed. Wilt and Russell caused the lane to be widened, Kareem got the dunk banned for a decade in college, and Barkley brought about the wholesale change to breakaway rims in the college ranks with his antics at Auburn. I once saw Barkley break two rims in a OOC road game on ESPN. The second time he did it they had to truck in a basket in from an arena across town. That game went hours longer than it was supposed to. I want to say it was against UAB in Birmingham, but that's been over thirty years ago. All those games have run together with time. To top it off, he was a backup linebacker on the Auburn football team that season. The biggest difference in the NBA before roughly 1990-95 and now is the skills the players brought to floor. In those days if you left almost any pro player open within 20 feet of the basket, you could count it. Now the game is a brickfest. [/QUOTE]

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