LeBron’s faced much better teams in the Finals than Michael Jordan...

[Professor Emeritus]

p.s. - this whole thread is never made if Arvydas Sabonis comes over in 1986 when Porltand drafted him, and never got run into the ground by the Soviet Union.

0:58-1:40 makes me want to cry.





Even after the injuries, look at the shooting, the passing, the inside moves, the use of his body:



(p.s. - I had to crack up at Jordan getting his classic "MJ calls" at 3:08 and 5:30)

7'3" dunking, jump-hooking, shot-blocking, no-look passing, 3pt-shooting monster. That guy could have changed the face of the NBA in the 1990s. With Sabonis at the 5 the Blazers would have ran a train through the league.

 

[Da King]

I was actually going to shyt on Bron but


2014 Spurs>>>>> any team MJ played

 

[iceberg_is_on_fire]

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.

I'm a senior contract analyst for Tenet Health Hospitals in Chicago. I live in Excel nonstop.

 

[mbewane]

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.)

 

[Professor Emeritus]

He was talking like 32-year-old 215lb Buck and 25-year-old 230lb Draymond were the same size and strength down on the block.

The Blazers' strongest rim protector and big man defender

The Warriors' 2nd-strongest rim protector and big man defender

 

[FlyRy]

i'm a jordan stan but lookin back the 2nd 3peat team had some cupcake series

played the nets and the hornets in the first 2 rounds in 98