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Speaker 2: every Thursday, we're running the point, running the fast break,
Speaker 2: getting you the stats, getting you caught up with everything
Speaker 2: going on with the San Antonio Spurs and more. And
Speaker 2: this week we have a very special report on the show.
Speaker 2: It's tis the season. We thought we would give back
Speaker 2: at least once a month, and we want to give
Speaker 2: you a throwback Thursday. I want to talk about the
Speaker 2: Admiral David Robinson and what maybe Victor wind bean Yama
Speaker 2: can learn from him. We'll compare their stats, even though
Speaker 2: we're there at a different character right now on the floor.
Speaker 2: He's kind of more like a high bred Victor Is.
Speaker 2: He's a mix between that Tim Duncan, maybe a little
Speaker 2: bit of David Robinson, Tony Parker all rolled into one.
Speaker 2: We'll talk about that coming up here on the show today.
Speaker 2: But we had a very special report and a video
Speaker 2: that was dropped in our dropbox. Thank you to one
Speaker 2: of the listeners who said, hey, check out this YouTube. Guy.
Speaker 2: He put together a really good video on David Robinson.
Speaker 2: And I know how much you loved David Robinson growing up,
Speaker 2: and I did. I absolutely loved David Robinson when I
Speaker 2: first started the Spurs. And this has taken me way
Speaker 2: back here, guys, showing you that I am a fan.
Speaker 2: I was a fan of a Robertson here, Alvin Robertson,
Speaker 2: Alvin Robinson, who almost won Rookie of the Year, He
Speaker 2: won Defensive Player of the Year in the second year
Speaker 2: of his campaign. He was a great point guard on
Speaker 2: the floor. And Alvin Robinson was a major computer to
Speaker 2: the Spurs in the eighties. And now as I grew
Speaker 2: up and we drafted David Robinson. I enjoyed David and
Speaker 2: what's really crazy me being a man of Christ, I
Speaker 2: didn't realize how in dowed and devoted this man was
Speaker 2: to Christ as well in his walk, and I just
Speaker 2: thought it was something special. Later on in my life
Speaker 2: that I've figured out more of a connection that I
Speaker 2: had with David Robinson. But NBA Legends man had a
Speaker 2: lot to say about d rob and we're going to
Speaker 2: get right into that, and when we return, we're going
Speaker 2: to talk about Victor Wimbinyama and what he can learn
Speaker 2: from the Admiral, and we're going to leave it at that.
Speaker 2: If you want to check out the rest of that video,
Speaker 2: it's a fantastic video. Go ahead and google it on
Speaker 2: YouTube tube. NBA lead Legend speak on David Robinson and
Speaker 2: this goes on for another ten minutes. And these are
Speaker 2: Hall of famers. These are players in the nineties that
Speaker 2: were scrappers and fighters in a league at the time
Speaker 2: where defense was very prevalent. David Robinson was a beast
Speaker 2: in the middle. Taking a look at David Robinson's career stats,
Speaker 2: I mean, he was absolutely phenomenal from start to finish.
Speaker 2: He only had one year where he had a down
Speaker 2: year due to injury, and this is something we need
Speaker 2: to expect from some of our younger stars. Keep this
Speaker 2: in mind. This includes Victor wimbin Yama. I would be
Speaker 2: excited to see a player of his talent never have
Speaker 2: an injury. But the problem is about midway in seven
Speaker 2: eight years in even Michael Jordan had a bad injury
Speaker 2: as well. But a lot of people say in today's
Speaker 2: day and age, well, today's technology and medical advancements, you
Speaker 2: might not see that. So we'll have prayers for Victor
Speaker 2: and the young guns of today's team that they don't injured.
Speaker 2: But taking a look at David Robinson, stay and keep
Speaker 2: in mind I was a guard growing up and I
Speaker 2: love d rob I love David Robinson, love the way
Speaker 2: he moved on the floor. He did look like a guard.
Speaker 2: He did look like a wing. He morphed at times.
Speaker 2: If he had to play center, he played center. If
Speaker 2: he had to run the point, which he didn't run
Speaker 2: the point, but he ran fast breaks. He would man.
Speaker 2: David was phenomenal, with the exception of the three point shot.
Speaker 2: The three point shot wasn't very prevalent in the nineties. However,
Speaker 2: the inside game was and he took it to some
Speaker 2: of the major stars a kim Olajuwan Patrick Ewing, Jack Sikma,
Speaker 2: Moses Malone. The list goes on and onto the break
Speaker 2: of Dawn. Props to David Robinson of Court. Now. David
Speaker 2: stats even as a rookie. He won Rookie of the
Speaker 2: Year just like Victor women Yama. A lot of comparisons
Speaker 2: are between him and Victor. This is why we're going
Speaker 2: to break down David's game with Victor's game today. A
Speaker 2: lot of you out there like to say he's more
Speaker 2: of a Tim Duncan. I disagree. Tim Duncan was more
Speaker 2: of a finesse Mister Fundamental Wemby likes to try to
Speaker 2: do everything like David Robinson did. In Robinson's rookie campaign,
Speaker 2: he put up twenty four points a game, fifty three
Speaker 2: percent from the field, twelve rebounds, two assists, and close
Speaker 2: to three blocks. Victor win Beinyama last year, of course,
Speaker 2: was three blocks a game, twenty one points and producing
Speaker 2: ten point three rebounds. These stats are very very similar.
Speaker 2: David Robinson won Defensive Player of the Year one MVP,
Speaker 2: won two NBA titles. I believe Victor's Defensive Player of
Speaker 2: the Year. He will win it more. I believe he
Speaker 2: will also win more NBA titles and d Rob I
Speaker 2: think he'll put together three or four here in San Antonio.
Speaker 2: I know you guys are saying five, six, eight, nine, ten,
Speaker 2: But it all depends on the management in which direction
Speaker 2: the management wants to go. If they want to continue
Speaker 2: to build around this star and put good players with him,
Speaker 2: then yes, this will be a dynasty for years to come.
Speaker 2: But David's stats were phenomenal. If you boost all the
Speaker 2: way up to nineteen ninety three, he averaged almost thirty
Speaker 2: points a game. I want you young bucks to understand
Speaker 2: that thirty points a game. As a center, you won't
Speaker 2: see that in this game unless it's Victor win Binyama,
Speaker 2: and he's not a true center. He's not a true
Speaker 2: center because we don't utilize him as a true center
Speaker 2: getting down low, making post moves. And I believe this
Speaker 2: is where Victor win Binyama can learn how to play
Speaker 2: like David Robinson. Can you imagine if he puts together
Speaker 2: a little bit more muscle over the years and has
Speaker 2: that game of d Rob doesn't lose. The three point
Speaker 2: shot is able to shoot thirty or forty percent from
Speaker 2: three point range. Knock down two or three three is
Speaker 2: a game. That's all he.
Speaker 1: Needs to do.
Speaker 2: If he knocks down two or three threes a game,
Speaker 2: this man is going from averaging twenty three points a
Speaker 2: game aimed at easily thirty for his career. But what
Speaker 2: astonishes me the most about the Admiral he had one
Speaker 2: year in his career where he averaged under fifty percent
Speaker 2: shooting from the field, and that was forty eight point
Speaker 2: six at the end of his career in two thousand
Speaker 2: and two thousand and one. He wasn't getting the shots
Speaker 2: because of Tim Duncan, Monogynobli Parker and the crews that
Speaker 2: made those runs in the late nineties early two thousands.
Speaker 2: And that's understandable now. Of course, he picked up his
Speaker 2: ring in ninety nine and picked it up in two
Speaker 2: And you know what, David Robinson is the class actor
Speaker 2: of the city really is. And if this is something
Speaker 2: that Victor Winbinyama wants to live up to, this is
Speaker 2: a guy he shouldn't have the measuring stick in San
Speaker 2: Antonio to be. Don't worry about being Michael Jordan, don't
Speaker 2: worry about the hype of trying to be the next Lebron.
Speaker 2: Don't even worry about being Yannis, don't worry wry about
Speaker 2: being Luca. I think that's what going on in Victor's
Speaker 2: game right now. When you're twenty years old, you just
Speaker 2: want to be like them, Victor, be like you. If
Speaker 2: there's anybody to look up to, David Robinson the class
Speaker 2: act of this city, and you're on your way, young man,
Speaker 2: you absolutely are. At the beginning of this audio we
Speaker 2: shared with you today, which is very interesting to me,
Speaker 2: they started off talking about the defense of David Robinson,
Speaker 2: something where he would switch on guards and wings at
Speaker 2: any given moment and guard them one on one. This
Speaker 2: is something Victor wen Binyama needs to learn to do.
Speaker 2: We're seeing him kind of lay back from the free
Speaker 2: throw line and he's not jumping out on these screens
Speaker 2: when he gets beat. I paused there for a minute
Speaker 2: because the wings spanned of Victor wen Binyama. We saw
Speaker 2: it last year in a preseason game against Golden State
Speaker 2: where his wing he jumped all the way out and
Speaker 2: affected a shot. Keep in mind, these guards, these forwards
Speaker 2: are gonna have to shoot a rainbow jumper to get
Speaker 2: it in the hoop. Victor this year hasn't contested that
Speaker 2: perimeter as much as he did at the beginning of
Speaker 2: last year. We'd like to see that change. I don't
Speaker 2: mind if he gets burned on a pump fake. I
Speaker 2: don't mind if he doesn't block the shot. I think
Speaker 2: he's more concerned about block shots, so he sits back
Speaker 2: in the middle. But even when there is kind of
Speaker 2: rotations happening in the middle, a pick around the free
Speaker 2: throw line, what ends up happening is he doesn't pick
Speaker 2: up that pick. Or his court vision I like to
Speaker 2: call it the Chris Paul court vision isn't fully there
Speaker 2: yet either. It's getting there. But to have court vision
Speaker 2: on offense is one thing. To have it on defense
Speaker 2: as another. And that's what David Robinson had. He could
Speaker 2: see the play develop, he could come around two or
Speaker 2: three guys and get that block shot. This is what
Speaker 2: Victor needs to work on. If you watch the Spurs
Speaker 2: every game like I have since Victor Winmbiniama's gotten here,
Speaker 2: Victor tends to lay off his guy a little bit,
Speaker 2: and when his guy goes around on a pick and
Speaker 2: maybe dishes to a wing that's cutting, he stops on
Speaker 2: the play he stops. I don't think he realized how
Speaker 2: long he really is. That he doesn't have to run
Speaker 2: very far. One or two steps with your hand up
Speaker 2: is going to alter that shot or alter the play
Speaker 2: for that team. Once Victor figures that out, he is
Speaker 2: going to be even more of a defensive menace, and
Speaker 2: that is scary. This is the upside of Victor Winmbaniama
Speaker 2: that people don't realize, not just his scoring. All the
Speaker 2: fans out there are frustrated with his scoring. Well, pump
Speaker 2: the brakes. He started slow last year. He'll finish strong
Speaker 2: this year. Just like I said at the beginning of
Speaker 2: the year, I was a little nervous, but I think
Speaker 2: I was more nervous because it looked like he was
Speaker 2: taking on more. It looked like he was trying to
Speaker 2: do more when he doesn't have to do that. He
Speaker 2: really doesn't. David Robinson was the same way. He had
Speaker 2: talent around him such as Maurice Cheeks Terry Cummings who
Speaker 2: were at the end of their careers but also taught
Speaker 2: David Robinson, Chris Paul Harrison Barnes. You're seeing the Spurs
Speaker 2: start to do that again for Victor when Binyama and
Speaker 2: the young guns on this team. I want to see
Speaker 2: more contesting on that perimeter like David Robinson did. More
Speaker 2: contesting and closing out on the wings and the guards.
Speaker 2: Allow the rest of your defense and team to back
Speaker 2: you up in the paint, especially when you have a
Speaker 2: mom who in there, when you have a Zach Collins
Speaker 2: in there that can get down there and do the
Speaker 2: dirty work. Even Kelvin Johnson at times when he wants
Speaker 2: to body up, can get in that lane and back
Speaker 2: up Victor. We have enough bigs right now to play
Speaker 2: with Victor that we need to readjust and help Victor
Speaker 2: be a menat us on the wings. Then, earlier in
Speaker 2: this audio that we shared with you on offense, David
Speaker 2: Robinson didn't shoot threes Wemby does. That's scary and also
Speaker 2: Wemby really needs to trust his mid range jumper. David Robinson.
Speaker 2: His mid range jumper was gold. As we just said
Speaker 2: to you, his career, he shot over fifty percent. There
Speaker 2: was only one season he shot forty eight point six.
Speaker 2: That is redonculous to shoot fifty percent or better from
Speaker 2: the field for your career. He knew his game, stuck
Speaker 2: to it, played the paint did it better than any
Speaker 2: other and we want to commend mister David Robinson. Now
Speaker 2: as we get ready to close out the show here
Speaker 2: today with our Throwback Thursday, we will be doing more
Speaker 2: comparisons of former Spurs with our young guns that are
Speaker 2: in the lineup now. Devin Visell maybe with a Willie Anderson,
Speaker 2: maybe a Sean Elliott compared to like a Harrison Bonds type. Nah,
Speaker 2: I compare him a little bit more to almost like
Speaker 2: Devin the Cell. Shawn Elliott throwback, Dennis Rodman throwback not
Speaker 2: just because of the hair of Jeremy Sohan, but the
Speaker 2: grit and toughness and more. We'll talk more throwbacks and
Speaker 2: future every month right here on the San Antonio Spurs
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