Replace Kobe With A Prime Pippen On Those Shaq Laker Teams

[Luke Cage]

if they had pippen instead of kobe, they prolly would've kept eddie jones.
imagine that defense

team would beasted on everybody.

 

[Kobes Two Jerseys]

Kobe was often the reason they needed late game heroics.

In the end, 6>5 :JJ:

And 5> 4. :bittershaq:

 

[Luke Cage]

team don't need any late game heroics when you got shaq locking down the paint and eddie jones pippen locking down the perimeter.
they'd only need 80 points to win games.
shaq already good for 30. pip and eddie give you about 30 to 40 combined.
ten points from the rest of the roster? thats bar-b-que chicken right there brehs

 

[IAmGettingAMailOrderBride]

Dude can't shoot, hell no, rick fox and horde would have to carry the load
The. Karl Malone would probably have to carry the team to beat Detroit in 2005

 

[954UAlreadyknow]

Prolly one, the first one...the last two leaned HEAVILY on kobe and shaq being as dominant as they were...and pippen was never that type of scorer or closer that kobe was...the shaq/kobe lakers were way more top heavy than the mj/pip bulls were, the supporting cast outside of the duos weigh heavily in the bulls favor...pippen was a great player, but wasn't the type of guy that would destroy the duncan/robinson spurs with prime shaq and timmy playing in the series, and be the best player on the floor...during the last two shaq/kobe chips, kobe was basically doing everything pip was called to do in chi (initiate the offense and be the primary perimeter defender), AND drop 30plus on any given night and be the first option on offense in the 4th if the situation called for it...if the lakers had a supporting cast outside of their top two like the bulls had in '96-'98, they prolly win one or two more...they won like 2 ships with their 3rd best player being either fisher or horry

Great post....

I can't see it being more than one


I think people forget how top heavy those teams were

 

[Captain Crunch]

Good discussion we're having here