![]() “That kind of a thing makes you want to jump on a guy,” said Smith.Īgree that trash talk has to get inside someone's head, but that's it. Knicks’ forward Charles Smith remembers when Bird barked “Sorry, Charlie,” as he released a long, last-second shot to win a game. “I would be all over him, trying to deny him the ball, and all Larry was doing was yelling at his teammates, I’m open! Hurry up before they notice nobody is guarding me!” then he would stick an elbow in my jaw and stick the jumper in my face, then he would start in on my coach “Coach you better get this guy out and send in somebody who’s going to D me up, because its too easy when I’m wide open like this” He was on fire that night he ended up with 50-plus points. On the last three-pointer, Larry Shot in Kemp’s face and he said, ‘I’m the best damn player from Indiana.’ We ended up hearing this story during the time out and started laughing. “I remember Shawn Kemp was guarding Larry Bird one night, and during the time out, Shawn shared Bird’s comment. ![]() When asked by reporters if he actually wanted to play in the 4th quarter to get the quadruple double, Bird said “What for? I already did enough damage to them.” Bird sat out the fourth quarter, as the Celtics led 90–66 after the third quarter and won the game 110–94. ![]() On February 18, 1985, Bird registered a triple double (30 points, 12 rebounds, 10 assists) and also had 9 steals in three quarters of play against the Utah Jazz. Bird just came right back and hit three three pointers in a row, and said to him “You’re out of your league”. Mark (Aguirre) hit a three pointer on Larry Bird and said ‘take a look at that’. The calm, confident trash talk of a guy that knows he’s better than you and is about to show you is much more demoralising. Anyone can do that and it can often get your opponent fired up and backfire. The best trash talking for me isn’t the blatantly obvious, get in your face and insult you type. Just blabbing on and on about how bad you think someone is, or how good you think you are, but you can't actually prove it - pretty worthless.ġ00%, now Payton wasn’t just all talk but his ability to take over and win a game is nowhere near Birds level. When a guy tells you to your face "I'm going to shoot this ball right over you at this exact spot, and there's nothing you can do to stop me" - and then does it - that's legendary. Real trash talking is getting inside the other player's head. Trash talking without the ability to back it up is pretty much just ranting. The trash talk has to stand alone.Īctually, I couldn't disagree more. The guy just never shut up, it was impressive.īird's stuff.you don't get extra points as a trash talker just because you're that good a player.
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