Sir Charles will have a stat somewhere on basketball reference, that shows Barkley has a championship or would have if he played with the Spurs.
Does anybody even realize that Sir Charles is just talking about Barkley in his prime? If being dominant only your prime means everything then that would mean that Grant Hill could be a Top 5 small forward of all-time and Penny Hardaway could be a Top 5 guard of all-time.
I will say this though as a Rocket fan, Hakeem never had trouble checking Barkley, while Malone would usually end up giving Hakeem trouble. That is one of the few reasons why we got Barkley in Houston, we wanted to win it all and have Karl Malone contained. We failed year after year sadly.
You should check out Barkley before he went to Houston before his knee injuries and back injures of 1994-95 (he was set to retire that season). He forced Robinson and Hakeem out of the center position many times to guard him.
Malone was owned by Barkley every time from 1985 to 1995...Malone rarely wanted to even guard him before 1996 to difficult to stop: ballhandling, potence, quickness, spins, speed and leap for Rebounds....infact mostly afraid of fouling out every time. Most teams had to put 3 players (SFs-PFs-Cs) rotating on guarding Charles those days.
As Walton said in 1997 : "Isn`t Strange to see Malone outplaying Barkley? Just a couple of years ago and back in 1993, Barkley would Dominate Malone Ever Time"
Get Real Barkley owned everyone in his Prime...Unmatched of any PF when healthy.
Last edited by Sir Charles : 05-29-2009 at 07:45 PM.