Many of you have seen this picture on one of our pre-game motivational papers, but it wasn’t just a fluke picture. This was the way this guy played the game…every night!
Came across this article this morning and thought it was worth mentioning.
When asked recently about similarities between his Lakers team this season and the Bulls teams he coached in the 1990s, Phil Jackson had this to say:
"I don't know if we have the same ruggedness that we had, that was brought to the team by Dennis Rodman. He had that character where he was going to . . . lay his body on the line, dying to get the ball back, dying to defend. It just wasn't in their makeup to lighten up. They wanted to work. They liked to work. . . . This team is learning how to do that every-night action it takes in the NBA to win."
For those of you that never had a chance to see Rodman play, it wasn’t unusual for him to get 20 to 25 rebounds in a game due to his aggressiveness going after a rebound. He truly believed that EVERY rebound was his. On defense, he would routinely taunt offensive players…daring them to get past him.
When a team has a tough player like that, a player that "refuses to lose" it ignites a fire that quickly spreads to the rest of the team and makes an average team into a legendary team.
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