#55: Hakeem vs. Robinson vs. Russell | Andre Snellings, Great Debates

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🗓️ 19 May 2020

⏱️ 85 minutes

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In the 5th episode of the Great Debates series, ESPN's Andre Snellings helps me size up three of the greatest defenders in NBA history, all with distinctly different offensive games. How successful were these players on both ends? Was Robinson better off playing more like Russell? And how would each of them look today? Follow Andre at @ProfessorDrz and support at www.patreon.com/thinkingbasketball --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinking-basketball/support

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0:00.0	Thank you ask for it.
0:03.0	Thinky Basketball Podcast,
0:07.0	Welcome back to another episode and today, I mean you asked for it so we're coming back with yet
0:16.1	another installment in the Great Debate Series for me spien to help me wade through
0:22.4	some very tall people who used to play basketball, Mr.
0:26.3	Andre Snellings.
0:27.3	Andre.
0:28.3	Yes, sir.
0:29.3	How you doing?
0:30.3	Thanks for coming back.
0:31.3	I'm doing good.
0:32.3	I'm excited to be back.
0:33.4	The last time I was here we had fun.
0:35.0	So I'm looking forward to it.
0:36.0	We did.
0:36.4	We thought we would make it even more complicated today, 50% more player to discuss. And the you know that I wanted to do which is a
0:46.0	classic debate it's one of my favorites it's talked about all the time was
0:50.4	Hakeem versus David, but in laying out the great debate series, we have this issue
0:57.9	of what to do with other players and who they go with, and I didn't really want to do Russell versus Wilt and so given the defensive
1:05.4	fortitude of these guys we're gonna mix things up and add from the 1960s
1:10.7	Bill Russell and now we're talking about you know arguably the three greatest
1:15.4	defensive players in NBA history so I like how you introduced that like yeah
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