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To: NYC GOP Chick

Nope, it won't. Those teams had personality. Nasty and vicious. The present ones don't. I'll always remember Chuck Daly, sitting on the bench, always miserable, even when he was kicking the other team's @$$. Who could blame him? He had to deal with Laimbeer, Thomas, Rodman, Salley, Aguirre, and other impossible egos, anchored by reasonable people like Vinny Johnson, and make them all into winners. LOL. Doesn't seem like that any more, anyways.


26 posted on 06/01/2004 8:25:15 PM PDT by FlyVet
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To: FlyVet
He had to deal with Laimbeer, Thomas, Rodman, Salley, Aguirre, and other impossible egos, anchored by reasonable people like Vinny Johnson, and make them all into winners.

The anchors of that team were Laimbeer and Thomas, they were team first, win first all the way, no me first ego problem from either of them. That's why Rodman and Aguirre were rarely ever a problem in Detroit, because they knew that Laimbeer and Thomas wouldn't tolerate it.

34 posted on 06/01/2004 8:29:14 PM PDT by Numbers Guy
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That's why I have to consider Daly to be one of the best coaches of all time.

He was able to keep stars like Isiah, Laimbeer, Mahorn, Aguirre, Dantley(before him), and Dumars(although he had no ego) in check. He also got VJ, Salley, and James Edwards - starters in most places, to come off the bench.

And Dennis Rodman wasn't a nut when Daly was here. That's what's most amazing. Contrast that to the Ron Rothstein/Rodman battles afterward.

43 posted on 06/01/2004 8:34:48 PM PDT by Dan from Michigan ("Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America being passive. They were wrong.” - Reagan)
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To: FlyVet
Nope, it won't. Those teams had personality. Nasty and vicious. The present ones don't. I'll always remember Chuck Daly, sitting on the bench, always miserable, even when he was kicking the other team's @$$. Who could blame him? He had to deal with Laimbeer, Thomas, Rodman, Salley, Aguirre, and other impossible egos, anchored by reasonable people like Vinny Johnson, and make them all into winners. LOL. Doesn't seem like that any more, anyways.

I always loved how Chuck Daly could deal with those major headcases, but the Nets drove him around the bend and out of the game for some time.

I'll never forget the time I got Armon Gilliam to trade Derrick Coleman jokes with me at a college game back in '95 or so. :D

54 posted on 06/01/2004 8:51:03 PM PDT by NYC GOP Chick (It all looks fine to the naked eye, but it don't really happen that way at all.)
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