Let's Be Honest, Jordan Played In A Weak Era.
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They won't. They'll just talk around it. Every era can be argued as weak, including the one we're in now. Jordan played in a great era of basketball, the game was geared towards defense. Damn near everything was allowed, people weren't getting suspended for the season for body checking guards in the lane, it was a tough game for a guard that drives the lane. But that's really neither here nor there, the game is about adapting to the competition and rules of the game. Jordan did that, and did it well and dominated against other professional basketball players.
If the argument is that he was bigger than everyone at his position, then are we supposed to say LeBron is playing in a weak era?
Call me crazy, but I think we are witnessing a great era of basketball right now. Not that it's better or worse. The only time I felt basketball was in a bad place was the year or two after Jordan retired. There was nobody really dominating like that. Now when Kobe retires, we'll still have LeBron and Melo to enjoy watching.
I swear nikkas make this thread once every 3 to 4 months
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They won't. They'll just talk around it. Every era can be argued as weak, including the one we're in now. Jordan played in a great era of basketball, the game was geared towards defense. Damn near everything was allowed, people weren't getting suspended for the season for body checking guards in the lane, it was a tough game for a guard that drives the lane. But that's really neither here nor there, the game is about adapting to the competition and rules of the game. Jordan did that, and did it well and dominated against other professional basketball players.
If the argument is that he was bigger than everyone at his position, then are we supposed to say LeBron is playing in a weak era?
Call me crazy, but I think we are witnessing a great era of basketball right now. Not that it's better or worse. The only time I felt basketball was in a bad place was the year or two after Jordan retired. There was nobody really dominating like that. Now when Kobe retires, we'll still have LeBron and Melo to enjoy watching.
I don't know how anyone who saw those HOF teams in the 80s and not feel that the teams MJ faced during his championship run fell short of them. I mean....the jazz teams the bulls faced twice in the ship couldn't see the championship in the 90s.
I agree with you about today...to me...this is the best the league has been since the 80s.
No he did not. Dude had zero championship rings or playoff success in the '80's. He put up gaudy numbers due to his 25 spg and filled up highlight reels but he most certainly didn't dominate shyt.Jordan also dominated in the 80s young fellas
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The 80's had the rockets and lakers make the finals out the west for the whole decade.In the east the celtics,pistons and sixers made the finals for the whole decade.Literally 5 teams made the finals for 10 years but jordans era was weak 
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The 80's had the rockets and lakers make the finals out the west for the whole decade.In the east the celtics,pistons and sixers made the finals out the east.Literally 5 teams made the finals for 10 years while but jordans era was weak
Those teams were better than every team MJ faced during their finals run.
You also should take into account that there were less teams back then. Even the 80s Bucks would have made mad noise in the 90s.
Jordan did not play in a great era of basketball. The early 90's was pure trash. From '88- '96 how many truly great players entered the league? The 90's were predicated on defense because there weren't that many skilled players, The Knickerbockers had only 3 legit NBA players on their roster Ewing, Oakley & Jackson. The Pacers had no superstar, no great players, no nothing. Reggie Miller wasn't great I don't give a fukk what nobody says.They won't. They'll just talk around it. Every era can be argued as weak, including the one we're in now. Jordan played in a great era of basketball, the game was geared towards defense. Damn near everything was allowed, people weren't getting suspended for the season for body checking guards in the lane, it was a tough game for a guard that drives the lane. But that's really neither here nor there, the game is about adapting to the competition and rules of the game. Jordan did that, and did it well and dominated against other professional basketball players.
If the argument is that he was bigger than everyone at his position, then are we supposed to say LeBron is playing in a weak era?
Call me crazy, but I think we are witnessing a great era of basketball right now. Not that it's better or worse. The only time I felt basketball was in a bad place was the year or two after Jordan retired. There was nobody really dominating like that. Now when Kobe retires, we'll still have LeBron and Melo to enjoy watching.
1 through 5 Chicago always had the best players in atleast 3 of the 5 match ups.
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There were 26 teams in the nba then there's 30 now.4 less teams won't determine how 5 teams made the finals for a whole decade.The 80's is mad overrated there were 3-4 stacked teams and the rest were average to trash squads.Jordan led the bulls to the ecf his 5th year in the nba and lost in 6.Give him a stacked team and he woulda won just like magic,zeke and bird did.The bolded is hypothetical and irrelevant
Yet the unstoppable Jordan never made it to one until those teams died. InterestingThe 80's had the rockets and lakers make the finals out the west for the whole decade.In the east the celtics,pistons and sixers made the finals for the whole decade.Literally 5 teams made the finals for 10 years but jordans era was weak
He had a stacked team each of the 6 times he won. So in poopooing on them , you poopooing on Jordan as well.
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adding four more teams watered down the talent pool.
While the teams were top heavy in the 80s, even the mid level teams back then would have made noise in the 90s. One thing you can't deny is how team continuity adds to team play....and Free Agency wasn't as prevalent back in the 80s compared to the 90s where teams came and went based on the players who signed or left the team.
Those 80s teams had players that played together longer. They played a better brand of ball because of it. MJ is LUCKY that Pippen didn't bounce during the 90s. Every other team split apart due to Free Agency in the 90s. And lets not talk about how expansion during that time spread talent even further.
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Sweeping the pistons is why they died.So you're saying Jordan had to wait until the teams the bulls beat in the Ecf then The Finals "fell off" or "died" yet they were good enough to get to the conference finals and finals?
your logic is trash fukk outta here 
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Bullshyt. The Pistons for the first time came in third place in the East the year the Bulls swept them, after winning the East for four straight seasons.. They were already on their way down.Sweeping the pistons is why they died.So you're saying Jordan had to wait until the teams the bulls beat in the Ecf then The Finals "fell off" or "died" yet they were good enough to get to the conference finals and finals?
