Scottie Pippen was a pretty awesome defensive small forward.

Nice choices there cheezeburger. But mine would be:

C - Atris Gilmore
PF - Big Ben Wallace
SF - Dennis Rodman
SG - Michael Jordan
PG - Jerry West

Bench - Hakeem and Dikembe.

C- BILL RUSSELL (a must)
PF- BIG BEN
SF- MICHAEL COOPER
SG- MICHAEL JORDAN
PG- GARY PAYTON

C - Nate Thurmond
PF - Bill Russel
SF - Michael Cooper
SG - Dennis Johnson
PG - Walt Frazier

Honourable Mentions: Joe Dumars, Michael Jordan, Hakeem Olajuwon, John Havlicek, Jerry West, Dikembe Mutombo, Dennis Rodman, David Robison, Patrick Ewing, Bruce Bowen

Hakeem
Big Ben
Scottie Pippen
Joe Dumars
John Stockton

C: Dikembe Mutombo - his finger wave, gotta have the finger wave.

PF: Big Ben Wallace - go the fro

SF: Artest - mental issues, but the best defender in todays NBA.

SG: Jordan - enuff said in the name alone

PG: Payton - any bloke with the nickname 'glove' has to be mentioned.

C - Shaquille O'Neal
PF - Shaquille O'Neal
SF - Shaquille O'Neal
SG - Shaquille O'Neal
PG - Shaquille O'Neal

From the first half of that hilarious Reebok ad all those years ago, when the team of Shaqs takes on the other team of Shaqs and it's scoreless at half-time - only for Shaq to say "fellas, we can't win if we don't score" and the second half turns into a dunkfest.

Walt Frazier for sure.

Bruce Bowen has to be a chance. He lives for defence.

Ewing, Robinson and Hakeem made West Conference road trips scary for the late 80's and 90's.

Jordan says his toughest battles are with Joe Dumars. Greatest offensive player of all-time gives a guy wraps like that, he automatically makes the team.

Bowen's a Hack

steve nash said the person who guarded him the best was earl watson from memphis.

KingJames, Bowen has been All-NBA defensive team 3 years running. That's no hack.

I read on ESPN that Manu has the sh*ts with his agent cause Manu shares the same agent as Raja Bell who has said he will goto the Suns.

Manu was pissed and told his agent that he helped the Spurs biggest competition in the West, the Suns get the one player that Manu has the most trouble with, Bell.

Raja Bell, now there is an underated and unappreciatged player.

Heres a job for someone with little work to do today on this wet wednesday.

Find out the top 5-6 All Defensive team winners and make a team from that.

Then find the 5-6 best Defenders from before the award was introduced and make a seperate team and then well compile the real team.

Kriss,

From what I can find since the All-Defensive Team came in, in 1968/69. The top 5 most name players were:

Gary Payton (9 times)
Scottie Pippen (8 times)
Michael Jordan (8 times)
Bobby Jones (6 times)
Dennis Johnson (6 times)
David DeBusschere (6 times)
Hakeem Olajuwon (5 times)
Dennis Rodman (5 times)
Jerry West (5 times)
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (5 times)

Could make 2 MAD defensive teams out of that.

Am I remembering right in saying that David Robinson won a couple of defensive player of the year awards???

Panther,

You're on the right track. DR only won a single DPOY award, however he was named in the All-Defensive Team First Team 4 times.

What about an NBL and ABL version.

NBL

PG - Darren Lucas
SG - Darnell
SF - Peter Ali
PF - Davis
C - Terry Dozier

ABL

PG - Ah Mat
SG - Rob Rose
SF - ?
PF - Dix
C - Big Willie Simmons

maybe a vandenberg or ben evans at sf doctor?

Or Puddifoot?

Ray Wood and Phil Smyth

Wasn't Graham Kubank a defensive juggernaut? And Simon Dwight has to go in as a PF or SF

true. Dwight gets a spot.

ABL - Puds is pretty good, don't know about an all-time spot though.

Reggie is a possibility.

I tried to put Cioffi in at SG, but my computer kept coming up with an "error" message.

Good call on the Diesel

Darren Breeding has had some big scalps in his time as a defender.

Big ben - Afro says it all
Bill Russell - Machine on Defense
Scottie Pippen - Amazing effort on D
Michael Jordan - Do I hafta explain
Gary Payton - He is the Glove

the real team of all this watachma call it great defense team is clearly.

>mutumbo ( he scares me.. did u c wat he did to Lebron)
> Wallace( he can play PF aswell)
> Jordan ( best player ever)
> Magic Johnson ( too big to be a Pg)
> JKidd he just so damn good

C- Bill Russell
PF- Charles Oakley
SF- Dennis Rodman
SG- Michael Cooper
PG- Gary Payton

6th Man- Patrick Ewing