DRose speakin that real "Don't call it a matchup b/w players if you not defendin me in the game. Ya playin one side of the ball its not a matchup."

[Ohene]

CHICAGO's point was that they guarded their position

Kobe and Lebron not the same position lol.

This a better comp for that era breh

these dudes used to know how to actually put on a show and put butts in the seats
fukk this new nba. its garbage

 

[CHICAGO]

Bron was in the NBA for 8 seasons before Artest went to the Lakers...

Are you somehow implying Bron could guarding Kobe. But Kobe couldn't guard Bron

KOBE GUARDED BRON
WAY MORE THAN BRON
GUARDED KOBE OVER THE YEARS

nikka HAD CANDACE PARKER
BROTHER OUT THERE GUARDING KOBE


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[In The Zone '98]

CHICAGO's point was that they guarded their position

Kobe and Lebron not the same position lol.

This a better comp for that era breh

Plenty of switching and cross matching in this clip, bro

 

[Ohene]

Plenty of switching and cross matching in this clip, bro

Switching is fine
Down the stretch they guard each other

 

[OGBobbyJohnson]

whole interview was great,wish it was 3 hrs..cool listening to DRose talk about hoops

 

[Rosecrans]

Out the mud is lowkey the best new pod out there

Just real and raw af with no bullshyt

 

[Primetime]

Basketball was promoted as mano a mano,star vs star. So if the other star was scoring you need to match his scoring output and win the game. Its different in today's league with multiple stars on the team often times.

Tbh, the whole "guarding your matchup" more or less stopped being a thing once LeBron, Harden, Luka etc pioneered/popularized heliocentric offenses... aka excessive mismatch hunting thru the PnR. Obviously guys like Steve Nash been manipulating the PnR forever and occassionally taking advantage of a bad switch, but the aforementioned guys took it to another level.

i.e. Iguodala may start off on a Lebron or Harden... Kawhi may start off on a Luka.... but it's fleeting because they're going to force the switch to find Curry or Lou Will or whoever the weakest link/most flat-footed big is on the court.

Some would call it cowardly, others would say strategic/econcomical. Depends on our perspective.

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

To watch after the Superbowl

The fate of the world decided by a kicker???

 

[ReturnOfJudah]

 

[Primetime]

It's a shame that what seemed like a destined Finals match up between 2009 and 2012 got botched each year

One major take away just from seeing their regular season/all star games was that as physically gifted as LeBron was physically, Kobe wasn't a light weight himself. Now whether the refs would've allowed him to be that aggressive on defense for an entire series is one thing but man a 2009 or 2010 matchup would've been world war 1 for all stan-kind.

 

[SchoolboyC]

YEP

DONT CONFUSE THIS
p*ssy NBA WITH THE OLD NBA



HE USED TO GUARD RUSS
ALL GAME TOO, THEN
THEY WOULD PUT THABO ON HIM
WHEN HE WOULD COOK RUSS


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Remember watching this one live on NBATV, think it was either NYE or New Years Day, might’ve been a game or two right after Rose hit the gamewinner against the Lakers

A special time in the league

 

[010101]

NBA differentiated itself with mandatory man to man defense

it made those types of 1v1 battles guaranteed

..........

*

 

[Whips-n-Chains]

Possibly the realest athlete all time

 

[Shadow King]

Kobe and Bron don’t even play the same position. Kobe and TMac would guard each other.

kobe and bron are not the same position. if ron artest on the team, fukk is kobe doing guarding lebron.

kobe was guarding MJ for goodness sake lol

SG and SF have been the most interchangeable positions for the last 50 years stop it lol. Especially if the SG is 6'5" or better.

 

[jwinfield]

ADD DERON WILLIAMS TOO.

Had Jerry Sloan resigning the day after we beat them