Orlando Woolridge Chimes in on the Isiah Thomas Dream Team Situation (1991)
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- Опубликовано: 5 авг 2021
- November 15, 1991 - Following just his eighth game with the Detroit Pistons, Orlando Woolridge shared his thoughts on new teammate Isiah Thomas, the latter of whom was in the news at the time for his controversial absence from the USA Olympic basketball roster. Thomas was left off the roster despite being the lead all-star point guard on two of the NBA's previous three NBA champions (including a Finals MVP nod in 1990). Woolridge, ever so eloquently, stated his peace in defense of Thomas while acknowledging the greatness of Thomas' presumed replacement, John Stockton.
Moments earlier, Woolridge had finished with 15 points and 7 rebounds in a 123-115 win over the Utah Jazz. Thomas, facing Stockton for the first time since his perceived snub, lit up the Jazz for 44 points on 15-of-22 shooting from the field.
Woolridge's highlight vs. Utah: • Orlando Woolridge (Pis...
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RIP Orlando Woolridge…🙏🙏🙏…
Damn bro I didn't know he had died 😔 😪 and that long ago ....he was good and what a dunker
Yes absolutely….years before he passed he was coaching a aba team in 2008-2009 and then vanished for a couple of years and didn’t know he was sick for some time..
The whole thing was so contrived, Zeke didn’t freeze him out whatsoever in the all star game. Just all around unfair.
This had nothing to do with the Freeze-Out game. It had to do with the Pistons being a dirty team, and showing no class in defeat in 1991, even though some previous champs had not shaken hands either.
@@JK-br1mu that is a lie.
1. The Pistons actually averaged fewer fouls than most teams at the time… Laimbeer was dirty, not Isiah
2.I would say that Michael Jordan calling the Pisoton’s undeserving champions BEFORE the refused to shake his hand, was pretty classless. Also having rules changed so he could beat the pistons was pretty classless.
Michael Jordan is quote possibly the best to ever play the game, but he was also a bad sport, a ball hog, and a jackass. But he brought in the money, so he got his way.
@@louurich9087 The late 80s Pistons were the dirtiest team in NBA history by far, it's not even a debate. Go back to Bad Boy Cult Land.
@@louurich9087 Most the dirty plays by the Pistons were never called, but even so, in 1989, their first championship year, they got fined $29,000 as a team, and the 2nd highest fined team, Portland, only had $10,000.
More than twice as much as the next closest team. In the most physical era of the NBA.
That year, Laimbeer, Mahorn and Rodman combined paid more in fines than any other entire NBA team.
Good dude.
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That was a classy statement from Orlando. Isiah should have been on the Dream Team. Pippen was the one who hadn't earned it at that point. In the summer of 1991 (when the Dream Team was selected), Pippen had only been to one All Star game and was a role player on one championship team. Isiah on the other hand, was 12 months out from being the NBA finals MVP. IT was the leader on two championship teams, a 10x all star, five All-NBA, 1x assist champ, 2x AS game MVP, etc. Pippen was added as a favor to MJ so he could develop a teammate. Pippen didn't earn that dream team slot. Isiah did.
Orlando Woolridge was just a solid role play for Detroit but he didn't belong there during that time.... Aguirre should have started and Woolridge should not have been there--the team should have kept Vinnie Johnson and James Edwards.
The man ole Mikey snitched on #travelingcocainecircus
People who call others snitches are usually the ones who snitch under pressure.
NOT a real "Dream Team" without the best pound for pound player in NBA history ! Zeke should have been the 4th player picked Just behind Magic,. Jordan and Bird.. PERIOD !!!!!!!!!
A lot of people on that dream team didn’t like him…plain and simple. When they were the bad boys, they left a lot of negative sentiments in many players with how they played…over the top hard fouls, even for that era. Even Rick Mahorn , who brought Bill Laimbeer on as his rookie wasn’t immune to it when he played against his former team.
Yup and those guy would have quit if he got selected. Then maybe Woolridge would have been selected lol
laughable. this dude would’ve hurt the team chemistry, and NOT represented the country well at all.
@UCgeAW1u9mQAcWPT8kOZFkWA ahh.. I see.. you’re just some weird guy hating on Zeke. Trying to stir the pot because you need attention..Arguably on of the top PG’s in his era, put up 20 & 12 seasons like it was nobody’s business, the best pound for pound player ever, brought quickness and handles to a different level for the PG position, completely changed the Pistons franchise around to make it one of the great franchises in basketball.. no need to counter I know you just don’t like him because you want this back and fourth and have no real reasoning behind your dumb ass comment
Stockton was better. Isiah was too streaky a shooter, and Stockton had way more assists......Isiah never made the All-NBA team later in his career, not even 3rd team. Tragic and Stockton were both ranked ahead of him by the late 80s......if you look at the stats, Isiah's heyday was in the mid 80s. Isiah made the All Star game all the time, but wasn't All-NBA as a point guard in his later years...........if you look at it closely, he wasn't as good as the other great point guards. He had some great performances, but was not a great shooter, only good, at certain times. His last five years in the league, he shot 43% overall in 1990, 43% in 1991, 45% in 1992, 41% in 1993 and 41% in 1994.
Hmm, Jordan said his early teammates were cokeheads and Orlando Woolridge was basically the top star on the Bulls other than Mike at the time....
NY Times, later that decade, in 1988 "Woolridge admits to Cocaine Problem"
Yes, Woolridge admitted to having a drug problem early in his second year with the New Jersey Nets. After being suspended by the NBA for violating its substance-abuse policy, he entered rehab then signed with the Los Angeles Lakers the following summer (where he'd face off against the Detroit Pistons in the 1989 NBA Finals).
Woolridge was indeed one of many Bulls from the mid-80's to struggle through drug abuse. Quentin Dailey, Mitchell Wiggins, and Ennis Whatley are among others from that era in Chicago who battled through addiction themselves.
John Stockton *did not* deserve that spot on the dream team. That spot belonged to the *much more talented* Isaiah Thomas!
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stop this nonsense - stockton absolutely deserved to be there. thomas was a tool & nobody wanted to play with him
@@javiperez1578 *Isiah gracias lol
@@dominicfischio851 morning No
@@gamelove100 😂😂😂
Isiah burned way to many bridges
100%. There is playing hard, and then there is playing with the intent to hurt/injure others. He did it to Bird and the Celtics; he did it to Magic and the Lakers; he did it to Michael and the Bulls. Most importantly, he did it to the entire league. Isiah not being selected has become a life lesson story.
dude made his bed, never accepted hos role in all that bad boy stuff and is still cryin about it. eff him. respect to woolridge for sticking up for his boy though
Dream team was coached by chuck Daley the pistons coach and Jordan/Pippen had no problem teaming with Rodman and John Sally after that, they hated Isaiah because he didn’t bow to the MJ throne
he was hated bcuz he was, is and always will be a phony, back stabbing sore loser & dirty snake. and not ONE person on that dream team wanted to play with him