NBA Playoff Megathread

Tequilla

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.

haie

^ benefitting from greater nutrition. LOL

Just shut the fuck up already

Tequilla

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.

Gladstone

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.

BaldwinIV

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.

Gladstone

10:00 left

James has cramps. His team is flailing its own poo around. Game is stressful af to watch lol

PurpleJ

Basketball is a team sport or something.

dnc

I'm pro Jordan in this debate but most pro Jordan arguments in this thread are painfully bad.

CuntWaffle

Adam Silver made the call to the refs when Oladipo was starting the comeback.

CuntWaffle

Jesus fuck the refs made that game hard to watch