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  • sarktastic
    sarktastic Member Posts: 9,208
    Jordan played back when the NBA was relevant. LaBron is part of the reason why the NBA sucks.
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  • Fire_Marshall_Bill
    Fire_Marshall_Bill Member Posts: 26,096 Standard Supporter
    edited July 2015
    The '94-'95 Bulls were 47-35 and a five seed. Give Jordan credit for getting them to the second round. Off the top of my head, we're talking Pippen, Kukoc, then guys like Kerr, Bill Cartwright, and Luc Longley. Without Jordan, they're probably around .500 and an eight seed if they're lucky.

    Lebron is never gonna touch Jordan. Sports radio douches just bring it up when things are slow (like this time of year). I will give Lebron credit for '07 though. Stick the 15th best SF on that team, and I doubt they win 35 games.
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  • Fire_Marshall_Bill
    Fire_Marshall_Bill Member Posts: 26,096 Standard Supporter
    ThomasFremont said:

    RoadDawg55 said:

    ThomasFremont said:

    RoadDawg55 said:

    Doogles said:

    And to think I almost didn't click "post discussion"

    I've moved to a much seedier dive and have switched from bloodies to Jameson and headlands ipa.

    I'll keep drinking while the slap fight ensues. LBJ is underrated by this board, but Jordan kept hall of famers from wearing rings. My initial comment was more to the point that Jordan was beaten in his prime and didn't make the finals. Any Houston fans can also call Bullshit on the claim Olajuwon only won bc Jordan wasn't there. He was, he just missed the dance.

    LBJ is not underrated. He's one of the best of all time. Trying to compare him to Jordan is FS though. It's not even close.
    Disagree.

    There isn't one objective measure to put LeBron above Jordan. Maybe LeBron will finish with more regular season MVP's if you want to stoop that low. But MJ had Pippen and Phil Jackson, LeBron had to play for Mike Brown, yadda, yadda. Facts are facts, boobie lips. If you want to argue that LeBron is better than Bird and Magic, I would agree.
    Actually there are quite a few. That's the fucking point.

    Jordan has 6-0.

    LeBron has everything else. Against better competition.

    If you think the 80s-90s NBA was better than the current version, go light yourself on fire.

    This isn't even a debate.
    I don't even know where to begin....
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  • Fire_Marshall_Bill
    Fire_Marshall_Bill Member Posts: 26,096 Standard Supporter
    greenblood said:

    SevenEleven said:

    RoadDawg55 said:

    greenblood said:

    RaceBannon said:

    I will argue that claiming the East has been so bad all 5 years is dooging at its finest. Winners win and Lebron owns the East.

    Same folks claim the pac 12 doesn't suck even though oregon wins it rather easily

    Jordan beat a shitty West every year other than Phoenix

    Why not just let the results stand? Jordan doesn't get blamed for 95 because he was playing baseball.

    Pippen claiming he was a good as Lebron is what deserves shit

    I might be a homer to some degree, but the 1992 Blazers with Drexler, Porter, Kersey, and Robinson has been long considered one of the best NBA teams in history NOT to win a championship.
    The Jazz had two hall of famers and won 64 and 62 games the two years they made the finals.
    Everybody had two hall of famers during that era.
    Hakeem and Clyde (later charles)
    Barkley and kevin johnson
    Drexler Ainge
    Payton Kemp

    NBA hall of fame doesnt mean shit

    There's a reason stockton and malone never won shit. They were longevity stat-compilers, but not really all that outstanding. On top of that, they were just about ready to collect their social security checks when Jordan faced hem in the finals.




    WTF'd for listing Ainge and Kemp as hall of famers. Kemp may have been if cocaine hadn't have won. Ainge? You do realize he spent most of his career as a pretty good backup PG, right?
    This. Ainge was a decent shooting crybaby Mormon. He was a good role player. Nothing more.
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  • allpurpleallgold
    allpurpleallgold Member Posts: 8,771
    Fire_Marshall_Bill said:

    The '94-'95 Bulls were 47-35 and a five seed. Give Jordan credit for getting them to the second round. Off the top of my head, we're talking Pippen, Kukoc, then guys like Kerr, Bill Cartwright, and Luc Longley. Without Jordan, they're probably around .500 and an eight seed if they're lucky.

    Lebron is never gonna touch Jordan. Sports radio douches just bring it up when things are slow (like this time of year). I will give Lebron credit for '07 though. Stick the 15th best SF on that team, and I doubt they win 35 games.

    They won 55 games in the full season without Jordan.
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  • RoadDawg55
    RoadDawg55 Member Posts: 30,385 Standard Supporter
    allpurpleallgold said:

    Fire_Marshall_Bill said:

    The '94-'95 Bulls were 47-35 and a five seed. Give Jordan credit for getting them to the second round. Off the top of my head, we're talking Pippen, Kukoc, then guys like Kerr, Bill Cartwright, and Luc Longley. Without Jordan, they're probably around .500 and an eight seed if they're lucky.

    Lebron is never gonna touch Jordan. Sports radio douches just bring it up when things are slow (like this time of year). I will give Lebron credit for '07 though. Stick the 15th best SF on that team, and I doubt they win 35 games.

    They won 55 games in the full season without Jordan.
    With another All Star in Horace Grant. They replaced him with Luc Longley.
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  • HeretoBeatmyChest
    HeretoBeatmyChest Member Posts: 4,295
    RoadDawg55 said:

    allpurpleallgold said:

    Fire_Marshall_Bill said:

    The '94-'95 Bulls were 47-35 and a five seed. Give Jordan credit for getting them to the second round. Off the top of my head, we're talking Pippen, Kukoc, then guys like Kerr, Bill Cartwright, and Luc Longley. Without Jordan, they're probably around .500 and an eight seed if they're lucky.

    Lebron is never gonna touch Jordan. Sports radio douches just bring it up when things are slow (like this time of year). I will give Lebron credit for '07 though. Stick the 15th best SF on that team, and I doubt they win 35 games.

    They won 55 games in the full season without Jordan.
    With another All Star in Horace Grant. They replaced him with Luc Longley.
    They had 3 All Stars that season. BJ Armstrong also.
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  • ThomasFremont
    ThomasFremont Member Posts: 13,325
    Fire_Marshall_Bill said:

    ThomasFremont said:

    RoadDawg55 said:

    ThomasFremont said:

    RoadDawg55 said:

    Doogles said:

    And to think I almost didn't click "post discussion"

    I've moved to a much seedier dive and have switched from bloodies to Jameson and headlands ipa.

    I'll keep drinking while the slap fight ensues. LBJ is underrated by this board, but Jordan kept hall of famers from wearing rings. My initial comment was more to the point that Jordan was beaten in his prime and didn't make the finals. Any Houston fans can also call Bullshit on the claim Olajuwon only won bc Jordan wasn't there. He was, he just missed the dance.

    LBJ is not underrated. He's one of the best of all time. Trying to compare him to Jordan is FS though. It's not even close.
    Disagree.

    There isn't one objective measure to put LeBron above Jordan. Maybe LeBron will finish with more regular season MVP's if you want to stoop that low. But MJ had Pippen and Phil Jackson, LeBron had to play for Mike Brown, yadda, yadda. Facts are facts, boobie lips. If you want to argue that LeBron is better than Bird and Magic, I would agree.
    Actually there are quite a few. That's the fucking point.

    Jordan has 6-0.

    LeBron has everything else. Against better competition.

    If you think the 80s-90s NBA was better than the current version, go light yourself on fire.

    This isn't even a debate.
    I don't even know where to begin....
    So you have nothing to contribute?

    EVERYONE is shocked.
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  • RoadDawg55
    RoadDawg55 Member Posts: 30,385 Standard Supporter
    In 95, the Bulls were 34-31 when Jordan returned on March 19, 1995. They went 13-4 once Jordan returned. So despite winning 55 the year before, this was a team that was significantly worse.

    No matter how great a player is, he needs a team around him to win a title. The '95 Bulls weren't going to play at their peak level in so little time and they were one player short. They wouldn't have won their first three titles without Horace Grant. They wouldn't have won the second three without Dennis Rodman.

    To criticize Jordan's 94-95 season is some serious pressing. Same with trying to say LeBron is better.
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  • Kaepsknee
    Kaepsknee Member Posts: 14,919
    Doogles said:

    I'm hungover as shit at the cliffhouse chugging bloody Mary's when it occurs to me, why does MJ get a pass for losing to the magic in 95?

    The legend goes he won 3, retired, came back and won 3 more thus making him invincible in his prime. Reality is he came back for the final 17 games of the 95 season, averaged 30 in the eastern conference finals but lost to baby Shaq and penny.

    LeBron gets shit for his finals record vs. MJ 6-0, but MJ failed to get there in his prime.

    Same thing for Montana 4-0> Brady 4-2 fs.

    Jordan lost to the Pistons twice and the Celtics in the playoffs too.

    It's the Finals record not the conference finals record.
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