You have to choose one person to guard prime Dirk w/ 3 secs. left in the game

[Ca$H]

Peak Pippen

[RicksPlace]

Nick Collison

Good choice. He always gave him problems.

[DCL]

I believe rodman would had defended dirk pretty well. dirk mostly had trouble with smaller and physical defenders. the game plan is to not even let him get the ball. Kg didn't defend him like that. and dirk just shot over him all day.

[ArbitraryWater]

KG?

Raped in playoffs, and here, scenario OP is talking about:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKiON_H9ra0

[Pointguard]

Dirk has absolutely raped peak KG time after time.

Especially 01-02. Dirk swept KG and dropped 33.3/15.7 on 53/73/90

but okay, he wouldn't have gotten a shot off.. sure.

KG wasn't guarding him. And KG held Dirk down the majority of his prime when he did guard him.

[Droid101]

Probably prime Artest.

[warriorfan]

Stephen Jackson

[Pointguard]

Tmac really gave Dirk problems in the playoffs. I don't understand how Bowen didn't do a better job given the problems Tmac and Stephen Jackson gave him.

Pippen in his prime would have been the best.

[CavaliersFTW]

Bill Russell.

I've got footage of him Blocking Wilt's fade-away face up without any help defense. Wilt faded further and released his shot from higher up even than Dirk's. It's a shot that is not going to be blocked in most situations, even if a small guard shoots it let alone a big. But if there's one guy that had a fighting chance to smother that shot one on one, it's definitely Russell. He's the only player I've seen block that shot on more than one occasion and one of those times like I said, was against Wilt so he's probably got the best shot at pushing that ball back in Dirks face.

[Solefade]

a fully committed to defense LeBron

[scm5]

Rodman would get under his skin i think.

[TheMarkMadsen]

KG wasn't guarding him. And KG held Dirk down the majority of his prime when he did guard him.

came here to post this after reading TLP's post.. surprised it took so long for somebody to speak up on this

[T_L_P]

came here to post this after reading TLP's post.. surprised it took so long for somebody to speak up on this

Only seen games 1 and 3 of the series, but Garnett guarded Dirk on a number of possessions

The other times he was pitched between the elbow and the three-point line, or guarding Finley (who shot a 50/50/93 himself).

Garnett was in his athletic prime in 02. I've seen a lot people excuse his defense on Dirk and Finley that series because "he had to guard everyone", but he should have started by trying to shut down the guy who'd end up averaging 33/16/.689 TS% on his team.

If you want to stop Dirk for one shot, you pick an athletic SF/PF bruiser, ala Artest or Rodman.

[raiderfan19]

Tmac really gave Dirk problems in the playoffs. I don't understand how Bowen didn't do a better job given the problems Tmac and Stephen Jackson gave him.

Pippen in his prime would have been the best.

Tmac didn't give dirk any more problems than Jackson did. The truth is no one player has ever bothered dirk much. Like most great scorers it takes a team defense to guard dirk.

The person Iv seen give him the most problems is honestly thiago splitter. Dirk she obviously been older since he's been in the league but dirk has consistently struggled against splitter.

Dirk owned kg.

[Teanett]

Stephen Jackson of course