"Only Father Time Could Guard Shaq" | Kenyon Martin Breaks Down His Toughest Defensive Assignments

Who was the guy you knew every night you were going to face him? It was going to be a tough night and you had to put on your best effort. Two types. Of course, God rest his soul. Colby. I saw a clip like. Someone posted a clip when we played him in the Western Conference Finals like he drive to stop boom bop boom don't go away I'm done fade away I'm a contest point he bock next clip they run something over there, he. I won't know him, I'm excited about the loot, so like I'm one of them, you know what I'm saying, but it was always a chess match between me and him, like he knew and that's why I like him better. years like it's like that, well, really good, I say that because most guys like me, I can stop you I b like I'm going to cd and I say once you get back home you should run a little game launch they throw it and gun basically they give it back they run pilsey give it back we used to change it of course with me we change he came out of our body and boom boom he came out he's getting ready to shoot, I'm on top, you shoot that thing out of the glass with his left hand.

I was like, hey, man, don't do that anymore, no more, man, well, we'll run back, hey, man, don't do that again, dude. laugh, you're like yeah, I'm like it was one of those situations, man, where I was, it was very competitive, but it was fun at the same

time

and it was a mutual respect for each other for their offensive ability and my ability to defend. people um and then tim duncan um most people can speed up you know I can make you do what I want you to do um create shots that I want you to take but not with tim because he just played at his own pace all the

time

like No matter what I did, he just stayed on this course like that, but I didn't leave it as an opportunity, I wouldn't give him the opportunity to bank like that, I'm like you're not doing that to me.

I'm saying you can do it, you can get to everything else, you're not shooting me that, I'm saying everyone do it, so therefore I do it because I know you need the space to do it because therefore I do it. do. cramming time in the air so you have to go to your hook to run, cross the lane like all that kind of stuff, so I made him do other things and he likes me to protect him as much as I did and he made me a best defender. because I like to have to do my job early and meet him at the free throw line and hold him off so he doesn't catch the ball on the block because everyone I played against a lot more than me, basically I mean in my position. at four like I played 2 25 2 in a big on a good day it

could

be 2 30 and we played the game and I'm 222 I didn't lose seven eight pounds because I sweat a lot and I say it right Yeah, no, it was just little things like that man the ones that made me a better player and I think I challenged them the best I

could

, I say it this way, I just tried to impose my style, but these two.

The guys were masters of their craft, you said you could

guard

one through five and in your air, what was it like having to

guard

a guy like Shaq? Impossible of course, to be honest at this point, I never liked that they probably executed something or him. he was in transition or something, I had to pick him up now, it wasn't even once when we went out and I was like can you catch him? like no, like he was the

only

one, probably one of the

only

guys that didn't come out of a timeout where it was like can you play at the five and get shot?

Yes, as I play, listen because yes, people, yes, it can be a year. No, I'm not, I'm someone like in Jersey, even in Jersey, but in Denver also like us. I'm on emcee Nate protecting him like we heard, you know, Birdman, what was it, anything else, know, hey, I'm the double, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm the double and get out, he gets it. I can go wherever he wants him to be. the floor I raise my hand I can bend it I can get out I can tell you where to go in the back like I'm that guy with him like no, he's like just uh what no, there's no guard here man like

father

guarded time check yeah so trust me, as if there was nothing that could stop that dog man.

Just no, the only player who never shot at anything outside of the paint and dominated it. Just think, think about it, they put a zone, they put rules not only in zones like this. What do you call evicting the rules like everyone's fault? Man, like the back off rule like it was Charles Bartlett who started it, but it was for him because if he gets you to a certain point physically, then you