I love Oak but he gots to chill...
Charles Oakley: Ewing "never put us on his back like he should have"
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Damn right
Just to set the record straight?
1993 Eastern Conference Finals
Jordan made ONE MORE BASKET than Ewing
JORDAN took FORTY MORE SHOTS.
1993 Eastern Conference Finals
Jordan made ONE MORE BASKET than Ewing
JORDAN took FORTY MORE SHOTS.
Yea Oak say he aint givin out no more coon passes. You getting the truth unfiltered from here on out.
Dude is making 90s Knicks fans choose sides and he is not going to win that battle.
Remember how Charles Barkley said Draymond was "the worst member of the boy band who doesn’t realize he’s standing next to Timberlake. When the girls are throwing panties at his head, he’s going to get hit by some drive-by panties, but they’re really meant for Timberlake”?
Oakley, who was nowhere near as talented as Draymond is, has the audacity to beef with Justin Timberlake and shit all over him for not being Michael Jackson. It's absurd.
Oakley is simply telling the truth. Jordan and the Bulls had weak competition in the 90s. Everybody was afraid of Stern and MJ. Ewing was golf buddies with him and they shared the same agent Falk. That shit was a cakewalk facing your boys in the playoffs every year. Hell even Oak is boys with him. NY Knicks have sucked so bad so long that NYers look at those as "glory" years. So the nostalgia is thick. But the reality is no one ever really believed they could beat MJ. Oak saying guys shyed away from the moment doesnt scream "tough" and is a direct shot at the Knicks brand.
Oh, so basically he just doesn't like EwingThe attention tour continues. Nothing but a bitch. Like Canibus to LL, I'm officially an ex-fan.
Charles Oakley blames Patrick Ewing for Knicks’ failure to conquer Michael Jordan
Charles Oakley says Patrick Ewing’s inability to step up more in the 1993 playoff war versus the Bulls and Michael Jordan cost the Knicks a trip to The Finals — not Charles Smith. Oakley, the forme…nypost.com
Oakley says he still talks to Jordan, his former teammate, about the series. The former Knicks power forward won’t pin it on Smith, who blew all those last-second putbacks in the critical Game 5 heartbreaker, which would have given the Knicks a 3-2 series lead as they tried to keep the Bulls from their first three-peat.
“Patrick, at the end of the game, he’d get double-teamed,’’ Oakley told The Post. “He’d shoot fadeaways on double-teams and that hurt us as a team.”
“My thing with [Jordan] is, ‘It’s not like you beat us by 20,’ ” Oakley added. “Most games went down to two, three possessions. Y’all made shots. We didn’t. The best player won. Michael was a better player than Patrick hands down.”
Ewing averaged 25.8 points and 11.2 rebounds and shot 53 percent in the six-game series — all in line with his regular-season numbers. In the series-turning Game 5, Ewing had 33 points on 12-of-23 shooting and nine rebounds.
In the documentary, Ewing says, “It was extremely physical. It wasn’t really a foul until you drew blood.”
Asked about the remark, Oakley sniffed, “A lot of guys who talk now didn’t say that stuff when they played basketball.’’
Oakley, then in his defensive prime, also believed Phil Jackson outmaneuvered then-Knicks coach Pat Riley.
“Pat Riley never adjusted to the situation,’’ Oakley said. “At halftime we did the same thing. They trapped us full-court. We never did nothing like that to trap them and make them think about the game.
“We didn’t make shots and played into their hands. With defense, they played a zone and built a wall. They knew Patrick wasn’t going to pass out of the double team. Phil watched a lot of film. We watched a lot of film, but we were playing checkers and they were playing chess.”
During the broadcast, it’s mentioned the Knicks were similar in style to “The Bad Boys’’ of Detroit, who used to batter Jordan’s Bulls before they finally broke through.
“Everyone says Detroit was more physical,’’ Oakley said. “I don’t think so. Detroit just played more dirty than us. We didn’t play dirty basketball.’’
Jeff Van Gundy, then a Knicks assistant to Riley, told The Post the 1993 team was the best team he’d ever been part of. The Knicks won 60 games that season and Riley told “Garden Glory” the Knicks had built “a championship team.’’
It’s why Oakley is still frustrated it didn’t go the Knicks’ way.
“We should’ve beaten them and we didn’t beat them,’’ Oakley said. “The Bulls got a lot of calls. I tell that to Michael to this day. The league’s best player will get all the calls when he needed to. But Michael made shots. It wasn’t like he was getting to the rim and dunking on us. He had a couple of dunks. But that was only two dunks he had in the half-court offense.
“I took the ball from Michael in that series and they called a foul and I didn’t even touch him,” Oakley added. “The one thing I didn’t like about Phil’s Bulls is they complained about the officials, about physicality. We were playing hard. If you complained to me, you’re soft.
“Phil Jackson always planted stories in the paper when they lost: ‘Look at the fouls.’ Pat Riley was a psychologist, but Phil was the doctor. They played mind games with one another.”
Jordan’s trek to Atlantic City after a Game 1 Bulls loss turned into a firestorm. But ultimately it motivated Jordan.
“When you’re off, you can do whatever you want to do,’’ Oakley said. “Danny Ainge said [he and Jordan] played golf 36 holes before a playoff game. I never thought he’d do that, but he’s incredible. When things go your way, you can take a chance of doing things. A lot of guys can’t do that. They don’t have that drive. Patrick would never do it like that — because he doesn’t have it inside of him.”
Ewing was fourth in the MVP voting in 1993, but in recent months Oakley has aimed darts at “The Big Fella” as much as feuding partner James Dolan, the Knicks owner. Oakley recently called Ewing “one of the most difficult guys I’ve played with.’’
As for failing to topple the Bulls in 1993, Oakley put it simply in his inimitable way.
“The Bulls had Michael and we had Patrick,’’ Oakley said. “It’s like seeing Beyoncé and going to see someone trying to be Beyoncé. If Beyoncé is in town, everyone’s going to see Beyoncé. If Michael and Patrick are in town, everyone is going to see Michael. They had ‘The Show.’ We tried to stop them and we couldn’t stop them.”
THANK YOU.
What hurts is even after all the years and ups and downs?
Bulls stick together Jazz, Cavs, Sonics especially Pacers stick together
So my knicks lose on the court off the court court of public opinion in the stands and in ACTUAL court
Dolanavirus
My doctor been telling me too much MSG was bad for me...
They were right.
They were right.
Grandmama- best years was in Charlotte, he was never the same after his injury.
Spree- best years was in golden state
Allan Houston- best at the university of Tennessee because he stayed healthy lol. He was solid when healthy tho
Camby - he was solid but, I feel like Ewing was past his being able to carry the team.
Mase - solid role player.
Xma - goon, best years was in Seattle
Harper - solid but best years was in Dallas.
The knick teams in the 90's were deep in talent some seasons. Some seasons they were 10 deep in solid role players.
"Hell even Oak is boys with him" invalidates all your other bullshit.
@playahaitian
Patrick Ewing apparently isn't interested in rehashing what went wrong for the 1990s-era Knicks.
Ewing, now coaching Georgetown, chose diplomacy over hostility on Thursday in response to a barrage of recent criticism from former Knicks teammate Charles Oakley.
“I have nothing to say about what Charles has to say,” Ewing said on SN590 The FAN in Toronto on Thursday. “He’s one of my best teammates. We went into a lot of wars -- and a lot of wars against the Bulls. So everyone is entitled to their own opinion.”
Oakley has made headlines in recent weeks, blasting Ewing last month for what he said was a lack of leadership in their playing days. He's subsequently attacked Ewing in appearances in the hit ESPN documentary "The Last Dance."
“I love Charles Oakley,’’ Ewing said. “I still consider him a friend, but everybody is entitled to think or say what they want.”
Oakley's jabs appear to be at least partly motivated by his public rift with the Knicks and owner James Dolan, who famously had Oakley ejected and arrested after an incident at Madison Square Garden in 2017.
Oakley, ever the tough-as-nails glue guy, has criticized several other former prominent Knicks players who he says have cozied up to Dolan despite Oakley's shabby treatment.
"I protected them, from Patrick on down," Oakley said in April. "Patrick just spoke up two weeks ago about this. But I could have gotten sentenced in jail for 20 years. Three years later, it’s over with really. It’s a PR stunt.”
The schism between Oakley and his teammates is another sad chapter for a team haunted by its disappointment, CBS Sports' Damon Amendolara poignantly wrote.
https://wfan.radio.com/articles/new...-zob8EIwifbFHHe25TnE5eyjw2u7DorT91TNXHjUqseG4
Patrick Ewing apparently isn't interested in rehashing what went wrong for the 1990s-era Knicks.
Ewing, now coaching Georgetown, chose diplomacy over hostility on Thursday in response to a barrage of recent criticism from former Knicks teammate Charles Oakley.
“I have nothing to say about what Charles has to say,” Ewing said on SN590 The FAN in Toronto on Thursday. “He’s one of my best teammates. We went into a lot of wars -- and a lot of wars against the Bulls. So everyone is entitled to their own opinion.”
Oakley has made headlines in recent weeks, blasting Ewing last month for what he said was a lack of leadership in their playing days. He's subsequently attacked Ewing in appearances in the hit ESPN documentary "The Last Dance."
“I love Charles Oakley,’’ Ewing said. “I still consider him a friend, but everybody is entitled to think or say what they want.”
Oakley's jabs appear to be at least partly motivated by his public rift with the Knicks and owner James Dolan, who famously had Oakley ejected and arrested after an incident at Madison Square Garden in 2017.
Oakley, ever the tough-as-nails glue guy, has criticized several other former prominent Knicks players who he says have cozied up to Dolan despite Oakley's shabby treatment.
"I protected them, from Patrick on down," Oakley said in April. "Patrick just spoke up two weeks ago about this. But I could have gotten sentenced in jail for 20 years. Three years later, it’s over with really. It’s a PR stunt.”
The schism between Oakley and his teammates is another sad chapter for a team haunted by its disappointment, CBS Sports' Damon Amendolara poignantly wrote.
https://wfan.radio.com/articles/new...-zob8EIwifbFHHe25TnE5eyjw2u7DorT91TNXHjUqseG4
Oak i love you and i know you would crack my sternum while i was saying this to your face...
You fcked up with that and you look like a disloyal asshole. Dolan right there
Just go at him.
You far from perfect on and off the court
You would NEVER EVER fix your face to say anything at all negative about Michael
Never
I don't respect it.
Ewing >
faggit u still mad about '93
Charles Oakley Questions Steve Nash Hire, Plenty of Qualified Black Guys!
Charles Oakley is straight-up confused about why the Brooklyn Nets hired Steve Nash as their new head coach ... when there are so many other qualified coaches with actual coaching experience!
www.tmz.com
Dont forget Doc Rivers... Herb Williams... And Herbert Davis.
nics.
Didn't they do some funny style shit to spike Lee a while back?This is a DISGRACE...
Like he was using a special entrance forever, than all of sudden security said he couldn't.
Yes those muthafukas did.
It's a clown show over there
Charles Oakley is such an asshole. A disloyal ungrateful bitch.
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