Shaquille O'Neal vs Alonzo Mourning / 1995 NBA Season / Magic vs Hornets

[@ziziizi2784]

these jerseys, this court, ,this atmosphere , damn this era 🤩

[@Cccc-ky4vq]

Agree bring it back 💯💯💯

[@timhoward5]

Two of the best jerseys.

[@peterdixon2035]

Still have my 95 zo and shaq jerseys some where at my mums house

[@edmondlau511]

Signing Horace Grant was such a score for the Magic in the '94-'95 season. It enabled Shaq to not have to guard the quicker and smaller centers because Grant could. Grant made at least 2-3 all defense teams, he was a good defender, good rebounder and could hit the 17' jumper consistently. I always thought 'Zo was the more skilled player than Shaq. 'Zo had the baby hook, shot FTs better and could hit a 17'-20' jumper pretty consistently. 'Zo also wasn't afraid to challenge shots and let the results speak for themselves whereas Shaq had (still has) such a fragile ego he'd hack the shit out of someone instead of trying to make a clean play and get dunked on. Shaq always had a thing against the Georgetown boys: Ewing, Mutombo and 'Zo.

[@swissbeats2k]

How could Alonzo Morning be more skilled than Shaquille when Shaq has a song called "I know I got skills"?

[@sheldoneasy8602]

@@swissbeats2kwell, the song might be that, but Shaq doesn’t

[@swissbeats2k]

@sheldoneasy8602 have you ever seen Alonzo dribble the ball full court before?

[@yellowduck-2024]

Zo was a power forward playing center

[@edmondlau511]

I read he was closer to 6'10" than he was to 7'. Is that true?

[@L92185]

@@edmondlau511 6'9 exactly but have built of a center couldnt match shaq tho

[@BrooklynBalla]

Yea he was about 6’10 tops but had an incredible 7’6 wingspan and was athletic so he could hold his own against big centers.

[@kazman_6899]

Looked like a C to me

[@josevasquez4080]

Dwight is the same height

[@gbelly88]

Those ol school Hornet’s jerseys were fire 🔥

[@BrooklynBalla]

The most impressive part of this video is seeing Robert Parish still playing quality minutes at 41+ yrs old.

[@timhoward5]

Yea, after losing by them he join them.

[@timhoward5]

*They did them reverse jersey shyt back then, smh, didn't remember.*

[@DrMjenno]

I was thinking the same thing, I didn’t realise it started this early.

[@timhoward5]

@@DrMjenno Right, lol.

[@swissbeats2k]

That reverse jersey shit needs to go away.

[@dwightlove3704]

Why was Charlotte wearing the away jersey's and Orlando wearing the home jerseys.

[@snappyhappy3461]

Miss 90s nba heavy weight centers. Zo would remind me of colossus and Shaq would be juggernaut! Love Zo but “nobody stops the juggernaut….”

[@dwightlove3704]

They were the CHAMBERLAIN AND RUSSELL OF the '90s

[@chishingmui9340]

Different size, like baby challenge the big man O'Neal

[@ohyeamoe8430]

Dam had no idea these hornets had an old Robert Parish! 😮

[@damienkirksey7026]

I did

[@peterdixon2035]

Still have my 95 zo and shaq jerseys at my mums house

[@kwonli6890]

BACK THEN, ONLY HAKEEM CAN REALLY MATCHED O'NEAL

[@CHAMPDOGZ]

No Patrick Ewing & Rodman played Shaq harder then came Barkley but Hakeem always got the best of everyone the goat

[@reynaldoflores4522]

What would you expect? Shaq is 7'2" and Mourning only 6'10".

[@rafa7622]

ONLY 6'10? 😂😂

[@koko6908]

Shaq 7"1"

[@shyboyfso]

What a disappointing time for the Magic yeah good during regular season get all the way to NBA Finals where they were swept. If Nick Anderson had made a free throw Magic may had still lost to Rockets but anything would had been better than sweep. Even Shaq made free throws game 1 vs Rockets. Every Magic player who went to foul line in game 1 vs Rockets made free throws except for Nick Anderson.

[@nonyobussiness3440]

Magic didn’t show up besides shaq

[@SergeobeeLovedoneOLIC]

T. Bogues

[@JayLEE-b9r]

와. 진짜 요즘 느바랑 완전히 다르네 골대 밑이 무슨 패싸움 하는 거 같네. 수비가 골을 안먹겟다가 아니라 너를 찍어 누르겟다 마인드네. MJ 샤크 그들은 대체.

[@timhoward5]

*33 gives to 00.*

[@swissbeats2k]

Alonzo travels everytime he touches the ball.

[@Shinobi33]

What? You're just not used to seeing centers take people to the basket

[@troymac4143]

Shaq was certainly the better center of the two but don’t dismiss mourning. If it wasn’t for Jokic he’d be the best center today. He’s certainly better than Dwight Howard before he had kidney failure.

[@robbdelgadillo6554]

U high if think Shaq was ever better than Zo

[@robbdelgadillo6554]

He was just bigger and yet still hed l his own minus 50lbs. Shut up

[@Daewonnni]

Shaq better than Zo when they were young and it wasn’t even close. All this and to the think the league tried to promote them as a legitimate rivalry when they were drafted.

[@Riles3152]

Shaq was certainly the more dominant force, and was the more valuable player overall, but lets not look at it as if Shaq was being compared to some guy. Morning in his prime before his Kidney Issue, was basically a 20 and 10 player and one of the best 2 way centers in the league.

[@frankherman9434]

@@Riles3152 Absolutely, but let's be fair here, Zo is undersized center.Shaq's size (both height and weight ) over Zo is so obvious! It is very difficult to wrestle with someone that has 27 kg more than you.And on top of that, Shaq is very quick for his size.So the only advantage that Zo had over Shaq is his quickness, but it doesn't seem like a huge factor anyway.

[@BeefPapa]

How many DPOYs does Shaq have?

[@nonyobussiness3440]

They wanted to promote the expansion teams and both played in Florida in 1995. Zo was a great center and great player. He was defensively awesome and he was undersized. Also, obviously Shaq was better but in order to market and showcase Shaq’s greatness, the league wanted to fans to aware of how great Zo was. Shaq out playing Zo is no small feat, and should highlight how great he was

[@Joshua-xg7pg]

I think mourning was seen as a player with a Bill Rusell like game because he was a great defensive player and scoring, so in a way they thought that they would be the 90's version of rusell & wilt .

[@time2chill121]

This Zo could have taken Shaq if they were in the Finals because Shaq didn't have the touch on his shot yet