I forget why Harris wasnt playing him as much...
LeBron’s faced much better teams in the Finals than Michael Jordan...
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I forget why Harris wasnt playing him as much...
NYC Rebel
...on the otherside of the pond
He's a liar. He said "Kobe and Shaq" as if they were a starting duo and move the goalposts to starters minutes. You proved him to be a liar again but he will stil front.
Were the Lakers a good team? That's really all that matters...portraying the Jazz as some powder puff is more dishonest than forgetting Kobe was coming off the bench(when he was still logging starter minutes)
DallasTxRep
Superstar
None of this fukkin matters, LeBron IS NOT better than Jordan...period. No amount of advanced statistics will change that. Only more championships. 2-5 in the Finals won't cut it
NYC Rebel
...on the otherside of the pond
NYC Rebel
...on the otherside of the pond
Who said he is? That was never the point or argued in here.
I made a mistake using Kobe and Shaq instead of the Lakers. The Jazz beat a good team albeit dysfunctional. Utah was really good those years.
mbewane
Knicks: 93 til infinity
Duckworth had an interior presence?
This niqqa was getting booed for missing bunnies. Did you datamining tell you that? Did your datamining tell you that it was so bad that they had o trade Kevin the following year because the shyt was getting to his head?
Notice the richness and texture coming from a niqqa who actually saw these teams? Notice that you could only recite birthdays (they were in their 30s) and stats?
You still gonna run with this lie? Cliff Robinson had an "interior presence" now?
You know how you can tell a niqqa who never really WATCHED the teams they're talking about play but are googling their way into a conversation?
They can tell by reading your fake ass pretend posts.
datamining
richness and texture
next thing you're gonna tell me my age and shyt
ManBearPig
half man half bearpig
OK then
Kobe wasn't that goods like I said.
Shaq wasnt winner in 1998 nor leader. If anything his prime was in 2000
NYC Rebel
...on the otherside of the pond
Dog...you lied and faked. What else is there to say besides you overusing smilies?datamining
richness and texture
next thing you're gonna tell me my age and shyt
At lease you're not riding on that lie.
mbewane
Knicks: 93 til infinity
It's all good breh breh, had a shytty day at work and you made me laugh so whatever makes you feel good about yourself
iceberg_is_on_fire
Wearing Lions gear when it wasn't cool
NYC Rebel
...on the otherside of the pond
Mannnnn.....the person who handles reports for us in Jamaica was off. I had to bundle a list of mad advertisers, mediums, media types, numbers...a gamut of shyt I haven had to do in years.
http://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/POR/1992.html
This thread is saying that the Blazers had no outside shooting, and no interior presence, yet made it to the NBA Finals
Just shows you how weak the NBA was back in the 1990s.
Who was the Blazers' outside shooting?
Drexler: 3-20 on threes in the Finals, 33% on the year, really ugly jump shot
Porter: 4-13 on threes in the Finals, 39% on the year
Ainge: 3-17 on threes in the Finals, 34% on the year
Everyone else on the team: Literally fukking nothing at all outside of 15-17 feet. The ENTIRE TEAM other than those 3 guys was 5 for 53 on threes in 82 games that year. And those three guys were only combining to make 4 threes/game as it was.
You're claiming they had an outside shooting game when they had ONE player who shot over 34% on threes for the year, only THREE players who made threes at all, only averaged 4 threes/game that season, and shot a combined 10-52 in 6 Finals games.
Who was the Blazer's inside presence?
Starting center Duckworth: 7'0" 275lbs, doughy as hell, no defense, no inside offensive game, averaging 10 and 6
Starting PF Buck: 6'8" 215lbs: could defend and rebound but NO offensive game whatsoever, 11 and 9
Backup big man Cliff: 6'10" 225 lbs: Beanpole skinny, couldn't defend inside, no offensive game inside, 12 and 5
You're claiming they had an inside presence when they had NO players with an inside offensive game, ONE player with interior defense (and he weighed 215), and ONE big man who averaged more than 6 boards/game.
If you had watched Portland back then, you would have known that their big men thrived on mid-range jump shots, easy fast-break points, and Buck scoring on put-backs. Those anemic rebounding numbers for Duckworth and Cliff show you just how much they got pushed around inside.
(p.s. - you use the Draymond Green example, but 6'7" 235lbs can be a LOT stronger than 6'8" 215lbs, especially today when players are hitting the weight room like never before. And Green is one of 2 defensive big men for the Warriors, while 215lb Buck is the only guy Portland had.)
Kobe averaged 8 ppg in 20 mpg in the playoffs that year, and you're acting like the Jazz were all tough by beating that?
That Laker team was never going to challenge for a championship until Phil Jackson came in...emphasizing the importance of good coaching yet again.
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