YoungMoneyCashMoneyBoy
Superstar
It's your point though.
LeBron’s faced much better teams in the Finals than Michael Jordan...
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Expansion teams?? Really
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can we please stop making these threads
NYC Rebel
...on the otherside of the pond
No. My point is on what I saw (80 & 90s)
Your point is to datamine on shyt you didn't see (80s and probably the 90s) and think I should act like you.
YoungMoneyCashMoneyBoy
Superstar
Your "point" is on what you saw and basing that on expansion teams being the cause for what you saw.
No data mining necessary. Just an application of your reasoning, which is posted right in this thread. Far from data mining.
NYC Rebel
...on the otherside of the pond
I speak on experience. I also know NBA players who've said the same thing.
Applying that reasoning to an era I didn't see makes no point and is just taking up real estate in here and making you feel as if you've brought value
YoungMoneyCashMoneyBoy
Superstar
No one is asking you to apply it to an era you didn't see. I'm just pointing out how your reasoning could apply to other eras, which shows how faulty is.
NYC Rebel
...on the otherside of the pond
Yes you are. So applying something to other eras shows something is faulty considering we can't speak on those eras since we didn't watch them?
Dog...ur just taking to talk.
Lots and lots of problems with this list, but I just can't imagine under what scenario you could rank the 92 Blazers over the 2013/2014 Spurs. Do you seriously think the Blazers would take the Spurs in a series?
That Blazer team went 10-52 from three over 6 games in the Finals, and their greatest interior scoring threat was....? Spurs would pack the paint and the Blazers would be shooting contested mid-range jumpers all game long.
And defensively they were average or worse at every position. Spurs would have just picked them apart.
Not to mention the coaching gap.
I don't see how you could consider that Blazer team even close. Come up, your #5 Blazer team was the exact same team that lost to your #11 Laker team in the WCF the previous year.
edit: Okay, one more. Disrespecting that 2012 OKC team, a team that had the MVP runner-up Kevin Durant, the #8 MVP vote-getter Russell Westbrook, the DPOY runner-up Serge Ibaka, and the 6th Man of the Year James Harden all healthy and on the same team?
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NYC Rebel
...on the otherside of the pond
Inconsistent ass Kevin Duckworth who was already flabby and sick in his prime.
YoungMoneyCashMoneyBoy
Superstar
No, I'm just responding to you.
Applying something as static as the nature of expansions to other eras, can easily be done. The process and nature isn't ever evolving and different from one era to the next. The nature of it doesn't just change all of a sudden. It was shytty in '95, it was shytty in '88, and it was shytty during the '70's as evinced by the poor quality of play. You didn't have to see it in the 70's to know the league was at an all-time low in the 70's.
Again, you said, expansion caused "players to be pulled off of teams to play for expansion teams, which hurt the teams they left, forcing them to make up for the marginally talented player they saw leave the team with even lesser players."
I agree with you. That's what expansion does.
Inconsistent ass Kevin Duckworth who was already flabby and sick in his prime.
I'm a Portland fan, and my lasting memory of Duckworth is a constant stream of 17-foot jumpers.
He had height and size, and had a nice midrange jump shot and touch for a big guy, but he was not an interior force on either end of the court. And he got flabby quick. By that 1992 season, he was averaging 10 and 6 on 46% shooting with 0.5 blocks/game as the starting center.
And that was their biggest interior scoring force.
On a team that could only shoot 10 for 50 on threes in SIX games.
at having the 07 spurs at #2..:wtf.when have you ever heard them gushed about?
those fukks had to handcheck steve nash just to get past the suns
(fukk you stu jackson)not to mention nash's bloody nose in the clutch in game 1
that round WAS the finals..they faced a weak jazz team with a prime boozer and a deron who wasn't deron yet
O.T.I.S.
The Monk & The Mercenary
Only one team LBJ faced in the top 5
And still took them L's
While MJ... well yall already know what happened there
Only one team LBJ faced in the top 5
And still took them L's
While MJ... well yall already know what happened there
You just took a WOAT list that had the '92 Blazers at #5 at face value?
