Mark Eaton

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I never played against Wemby, but Mark Eden, Alonzo Mourning, Dikembe Mutombo, no matter, wherever you're going with a basketball, you're looking for those guys.

Like when you play against the Spurs, you have to look at Wemby.

You have to look for Wimby, because you know he's coming.

I might not even recognize him.

Who is that? Is that Mark Eaton? Two pounds.

Look at that.

Buddha in San Francisco.

He was

Mark Eaton pointing out to the – Three second line, old

school.

The guards of Memphis pick up full court.

Yep.

The days of the statues and Mark Eaton and Thurrell and those guys playing 82-

Not walking through that door

...

Okay, so...

So do you value more of the guy who has the mobility? Or do you think if the guy who can just park himself under the hoop? Because the examples I was thinking of are from the olden days, like Mark Eaton, he could just hang out under the hoop.

Or Taco Fall, he'd be pretty good if he could just hang out under the hoop.

But when you have to... account for eight foot shots 12 foot shots or just actions just team actions there are guys that you know you go back to the early 2000s and reggie miller and rip hamilton are running off curls steph curry's running off screens these days as a big are you coming out you helping your team are you going like i gotta get my i gotta get my shot blocks you know i gotta get i gotta stay near the basket because i'm not really comfortable roaming out how do you balance that

Okay, so...

So do you value more of the guy who has the mobility? Or do you think if the guy who can just park himself under the hoop, because the examples I was thinking of are from the olden days, like Mark Eaton, he could just hang out under the hoop or, you know, Taco Fall, he'd be pretty good if he could just hang out under the hoop.

But when you have to... account for eight foot shots 12 foot shots or just actions just team actions there are guys that you know you go back to the early 2000s and reggie miller and rip hamilton are running off curls steph curry's running off screens these days as a big are you coming out you helping your team are you going like i gotta get my i gotta get my shot blocks you know i gotta get i gotta stay near the basket because i'm not really comfortable roaming out how do you balance that

I want a player that can step out a little bit, right? I'm not extending it necessarily all the way to the perimeter, but I think the way that I'm thinking about it is when this guy's on the court, the other team should probably be shooting their shots just a little bit farther away than they want to.

He's a generational defender." In essence, not really.

'Cause I mean, we've seen guys like Mark Eaton or Dikembe Mutombo block tons of shots and lead the league in blocks before on multiple occasions.

Now, they couldn't guard guys in the perimeter, uh, for obvious reasons.

But if you wanna say he's generational in that sense 'cause he can guard guys on the perimeter, yeah, you wanna say he's generational because he's 7'5" with guard instincts, okay.

And she'd put the phone on the TV, and I'd be sitting there in some, like, you know, fleabag hotel in, you know, Bielefeld, Germany, in the middle of the winter tour, listening to Chick call a game, you know? Like, them playing Utah, you know, in the playoffs.

Mark Eaton.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Eaton?

Mark Eaton.

Mark Eaton.

Greg Ostertag.

Ostertag.