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  • allpurpleallgold
    allpurpleallgold Member Posts: 8,771
    This has gotten stupid. MJ and Lebron both had a ton of help. Doesn’t take away from their greatness.
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  • Gladstone
    Gladstone Member Posts: 16,419
    "Despite being underdogs to the heavily-favored Warriors in round two, he believes the Pels are going to shock some folks. "We know we can beat them. We've done it in the regular season, and we've been in every game that we've lost," Davis said. "We know we're a good matchup against these guys and we've got a lot of confidence in ourselves.""


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  • Tequilla
    Tequilla Member Posts: 20,071
    Regular Season and Playoffs are different animals
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  • haie
    haie Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 23,381 Swaye's Wigwam
    This is like when Tequilla talks about Oregon getting hammered. Such a biased piece of shit his drivel isn’t even worth reading...

    What did Pippen do without Jordan? Lol, you know nothing about the nba.
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  • Tequilla
    Tequilla Member Posts: 20,071
    haie said:

    This is like when Tequilla talks about Oregon getting hammered. Such a biased piece of shit his drivel isn’t even worth reading...

    What did Pippen do without Jordan? Lol, you know nothing about the nba.

    Seriously, what did he do without Jordan?

    Lost in the 2nd round to New York in '94.

    Part of one of the biggest choke jobs in NBA Playoff history with Portland in '00 blowing a 15 point 4th quarter lead to the Lakers ... after that his Blazers team did NOTHING the rest of his career there.

    Let's be 100% clear here ... the Bulls with Jordan in '94 win another title. Without Jordan, they lost in the 2nd round. With Jordan (full seasons) they won 6 straight titles with only 2 of their 24 series during that time period went the distance.

    Jordan's dominance is only compared in the history of the NBA to what Bill Russell accomplished.
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  • BleachedAnusDawg
    BleachedAnusDawg Member Posts: 12,920
    Tequilla said:

    haie said:

    This is like when Tequilla talks about Oregon getting hammered. Such a biased piece of shit his drivel isn’t even worth reading...

    What did Pippen do without Jordan? Lol, you know nothing about the nba.

    Seriously, what did he do without Jordan?

    Lost in the 2nd round to New York in '94.

    Part of one of the biggest choke jobs in NBA Playoff history with Portland in '00 blowing a 15 point 4th quarter lead to the Lakers ... after that his Blazers team did NOTHING the rest of his career there.

    Let's be 100% clear here ... the Bulls with Jordan in '94 win another title. Without Jordan, they lost in the 2nd round. With Jordan (full seasons) they won 6 straight titles with only 2 of their 24 series during that time period went the distance.

    Jordan's dominance is only compared in the history of the NBA to what Bill Russell accomplished.
    https://youtu.be/rZbEEj2w8Zk
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  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 47,741 Standard Supporter
    BleachedAnusDawg said:

    Tequilla said:

    haie said:

    This is like when Tequilla talks about Oregon getting hammered. Such a biased piece of shit his drivel isn’t even worth reading...

    What did Pippen do without Jordan? Lol, you know nothing about the nba.

    Seriously, what did he do without Jordan?

    Lost in the 2nd round to New York in '94.

    Part of one of the biggest choke jobs in NBA Playoff history with Portland in '00 blowing a 15 point 4th quarter lead to the Lakers ... after that his Blazers team did NOTHING the rest of his career there.

    Let's be 100% clear here ... the Bulls with Jordan in '94 win another title. Without Jordan, they lost in the 2nd round. With Jordan (full seasons) they won 6 straight titles with only 2 of their 24 series during that time period went the distance.

    Jordan's dominance is only compared in the history of the NBA to what Bill Russell accomplished.
    https://youtu.be/rZbEEj2w8Zk
    Akeem only played in the NBA for two seasons?

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  • Tequilla
    Tequilla Member Posts: 20,071
    And Mario Elie was going to slow down Jordan? We already know how Drexler on Jordan played out.
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  • Tequilla
    Tequilla Member Posts: 20,071
    Today's LBJ vs Jordan stat of the day ...

    Number of Series Lost When Having Home Court Advantage:

    LBJ = 3
    Jordan = 0
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  • BleachedAnusDawg
    BleachedAnusDawg Member Posts: 12,920
    Tequilla said:

    And Mario Elie was going to slow down Jordan? We already know how Drexler on Jordan played out.

    The point is that video is food for thought. 4 straight years of making runs to the Finals and playing a very good Rockets team would not have been a gimme for Jordan. This is where credit is due to LeBron. Staying power greater than anyone in history.
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  • Tequilla
    Tequilla Member Posts: 20,071
    BleachedAnusDawg said:

    Tequilla said:

    And Mario Elie was going to slow down Jordan? We already know how Drexler on Jordan played out.

    The point is that video is food for thought. 4 straight years of making runs to the Finals and playing a very good Rockets team would not have been a gimme for Jordan. This is where credit is due to LeBron. Staying power greater than anyone in history.
    I'll give LBJ credit for making it to a number of different Finals ... that being said he's also benefiting from greater nutrition, therapy, etc. knowledge than what was in place 25-30 years ago. One thing that I think needs to be said about LBJ with respect to his "staying power" is that he's often used the regular season to rest and cover some of the energy needed for these long seasons. In his 15 year NBA career, he's played 78 or more games in a season only 7 times. In contrast, Jordan did so 11 of his 13 seasons with the Bulls (only times he didn't was when he broke his foot early in his career and when he came back mid-season in '95) as well as playing 82 games at the age of 39 playing 37 minutes per night.

    I would have loved to see Jordan's Bulls play against peak Hakeem ... there's no question that that would have been the most difficult challenge for the Bulls. That being said, how many times did Jordan's Bulls beat Ewing in the Playoffs? We all remember aging Ewing but a lot of those battles against New York came relatively earlier in Ewing's career before his knees really started going down south.

    Honestly, the only thing that could stop Jordan was if you took his supporting crew out of the picture. The supporting cast wasn't quite ready for prime time in those early series with Detroit. Once they got there you couldn't stop Jordan.
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  • haie
    haie Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 23,381 Swaye's Wigwam
    ^ benefitting from greater nutrition. LOL

    Just shut the fuck up already
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  • Tequilla
    Tequilla Member Posts: 20,071
    haie said:

    ^ benefitting from greater nutrition. LOL

    Just shut the fuck up already

    Players today have significant advantages off the court today ... that's not opinion that's fact.

    I can only imagine hearing LBJ talk about how difficult it was flying Coach like NBA players had to do 30+ years ago.
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  • Gladstone
    Gladstone Member Posts: 16,419
    Tequilla said:

    BleachedAnusDawg said:

    Tequilla said:

    And Mario Elie was going to slow down Jordan? We already know how Drexler on Jordan played out.

    The point is that video is food for thought. 4 straight years of making runs to the Finals and playing a very good Rockets team would not have been a gimme for Jordan. This is where credit is due to LeBron. Staying power greater than anyone in history.


    Honestly, the only thing that could stop Jordan was if you took his supporting crew out of the picture. The supporting cast wasn't quite ready for prime time in those early series with Detroit. Once they got there you couldn't stop Jordan.
    This is the kind of low-rent, extreme double-standard hypocrisy that drives me up the fucking wall. I'm done talking about this.
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  • BaldwinIV
    BaldwinIV Member Posts: 797
    Tequilla said:

    BleachedAnusDawg said:

    Tequilla said:

    And Mario Elie was going to slow down Jordan? We already know how Drexler on Jordan played out.

    The point is that video is food for thought. 4 straight years of making runs to the Finals and playing a very good Rockets team would not have been a gimme for Jordan. This is where credit is due to LeBron. Staying power greater than anyone in history.
    I'll give LBJ credit for making it to a number of different Finals ... that being said he's also benefiting from greater nutrition, therapy, etc. knowledge than what was in place 25-30 years ago. One thing that I think needs to be said about LBJ with respect to his "staying power" is that he's often used the regular season to rest and cover some of the energy needed for these long seasons. In his 15 year NBA career, he's played 78 or more games in a season only 7 times. In contrast, Jordan did so 11 of his 13 seasons with the Bulls (only times he didn't was when he broke his foot early in his career and when he came back mid-season in '95) as well as playing 82 games at the age of 39 playing 37 minutes per night.

    I would have loved to see Jordan's Bulls play against peak Hakeem ... there's no question that that would have been the most difficult challenge for the Bulls. That being said, how many times did Jordan's Bulls beat Ewing in the Playoffs? We all remember aging Ewing but a lot of those battles against New York came relatively earlier in Ewing's career before his knees really started going down south.

    Honestly, the only thing that could stop Jordan was if you took his supporting crew out of the picture. The supporting cast wasn't quite ready for prime time in those early series with Detroit. Once they got there you couldn't stop Jordan.
    It's like you took some ~2009ish Kobe fanboy, beat him in the head with a brick until he was functionally retarded, waterboarded him 500 times, castrated him, and then asked him his opinion on LeBron. I find it hard to believe people are this stupid. And I'm a Tequilla fan when he isn't talking about basketball but holy shit. You've lost me permanently. Maybe stop while you're behind.
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  • Gladstone
    Gladstone Member Posts: 16,419
    10:00 left

    James has cramps. His team is flailing its own poo around. Game is stressful af to watch lol
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  • PurpleJ
    PurpleJ Member Posts: 37,643 Founders Club
    Basketball is a team sport or something.
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  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,827
    I'm pro Jordan in this debate but most pro Jordan arguments in this thread are painfully bad.
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  • CuntWaffle
    CuntWaffle Member Posts: 22,499
    Jesus fuck the refs made that game hard to watch
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