Ibaka: "LeBron Is Not A Good Defender"

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no you dont

you rememeber billups abusing an old gary payton

you remember kobe marching into the locker room screaming "BILLUPS IS KILLING US, IM GONNA CHECK HIM" to see if gary still had pride and would step up like "nah, i got him", but gary was silent

you rememeber billups/rip going off whenever they weren't being guarded by kobe

they were both guarding..:pacspit:
AI dropping 48 on kobe :smugfavre:
Tmac used to put up easy numbers against bean :smugfavre:
 
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The Heat have good individual defenders. I never said Lebron is a bad defender. Wade, Chalmers, Batter, Haslem, are all good individual defenders. I am talking about people specifically talking about Bron as a GREAT defender. He has not achieve that upper echelon individual defensive ranking in my eyes. If he guards Durant for 30+ minutes and has him shooting under 35%, then yeah, my opinion will change, but as of right now, he is an great weakside/help defender and that's where it ends in my book.

lmao thats an insane expectation. NO ONE can guard Durant that well. No one ever.
 

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The Heat have good individual defenders. I never said Lebron is a bad defender. Wade, Chalmers, Batter, Haslem, are all good individual defenders. I am talking about people specifically talking about Bron as a GREAT defender. He has not achieve that upper echelon individual defensive ranking in my eyes. If he guards Durant for 30+ minutes and has him shooting under 35%, then yeah, my opinion will change, but as of right now, he is an great weakside/help defender and that's where it ends in my book.

:krs:
 

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[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBcZbKvVknI[/ame]

lots of Durant-Bron matchup in that video.. just throwing that out there..
 

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lmao thats an insane expectation. NO ONE can guard Durant that well. No one ever.

:childplease: Kobe did it to McGrady in the playoffs in 2004 :manny:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwP7FNsAaQ8&feature=plcp"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwP7FNsAaQ8&feature=plcp[/ame]

Unlike some people Kobe doesn't shirk his defensive duties :jawalrus:
 

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The Heat have good individual defenders. I never said Lebron is a bad defender. Wade, Chalmers, Batter, Haslem, are all good individual defenders. I am talking about people specifically talking about Bron as a GREAT defender. He has not achieve that upper echelon individual defensive ranking in my eyes. If he guards Durant for 30+ minutes and has him shooting under 35%, then yeah, my opinion will change, but as of right now, he is an great weakside/help defender and that's where it ends in my book.

So if bron had a hand full of allstar/hof centers to funnel his man to, would that make him a great defender? Ex.bean

Kobe aint that nice on defense, please stop. Hes average, good in spots but overall average.

Bron is proly the best defender in the L for 2-3 years now. Not being able to stop a scoring champ dont mean he aint.
 
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