Rodman not being a center is even more reason to question why he, not Shaq was leading the league in rebounds nearly every year.
Shaq in a lot of ways was basically an out of shape Bob Lanier, playing in a league with a few players with (near) center's bodies who wanted to face the basket all the time. Ben Wallace, at 6'9" 245 pushed Shaq around almost at will in the 2004 finals.
I would love to see Shaq at (pick an age: 22, 25, 28) play a few games against the likes of Thurmond, Lanier or Gilmore (great players who few of today's fan have a clue about) at a similar age. Things would turn out a bit differently than what many younger fans would have expected.