OT: Messi or Lebron?

[AussieFanKurt]

Lol calling out messi for drugs. Have you not seen lebrons hairline..

[Jodelo]

it's a tough call i guess since both players have achieved massive successes in their professions respectively. but if i have to pick one i would go with my bron because my isn't trapped in a little 's body and my never acts like a drama queen like the little argentinian midget usually does.

on the other hand, messi is pretty overrated. he just benefits from playing on a great team (barcelona) where he gets the most highlights (since he plays an attacking role) while the real cornerstone of this team is xavi, or sometimes iniesta. there's a reason this team has been playing so bad recently w/o xavi, and the midget has also been suffering sort of a scoring drought w/o xavi delivering him assists from the midfield. it's for a similar reason that he has never achieved any legit successes with his national team (dude did win the olympic medal but who gives a about olympics?)

furthermore, messi is the durant of soccer. refs will do everything to protect him like he's a pregnant princess and they'll show you the yellow card for breathing at him, which makes him untouchable when he's on the ball so that he can even dribble into the goal if he wants to, with refs escorting his ass all the way

Truth bomb.

[Relevancy]

Truth bomb.

Of course you would agree with him, I mean, you're a Madrid fan and whenever Messi plays against you guys he always ruin your party, except for the 2 last games

[Relevancy]

I'm seriously starting to ask myself if some of you are trolling or not, I mean, how can anyone question mark what Messi has done so far at such a young age.

[99 Problems]

How can you apply any serious analysis. Basketball v Soccer?

Messi, essentially only has to play offence, whilst LeBrian is expected to play O & D. LeBrian could score zillions more points if that was his only focus. Lets face it there are 50 players league wise who would win the scoring le if they had the green light to put up a Kobe 33 shots a night. How many points a game would Patty Mills put up if Pop said Patty I want 33 shots each game. Messi has that green offence light.

Talking purely Soccer now, Messi is not just the best but the GOAT. Sorry defenders (Franco Baresi, you still the best). The best defenders in the world are unable to stop him. Pele, Maradona, Van Basten, all amazing but Messi is from another planet. Van Basten was near unstoppable until the hard men of the Serie A crunched his ankles to mush, but Messi is so nimble there is no stopping him.

[HarlemHeat37]

Talking purely Soccer now, Messi is not just the best but the GOAT*

Fixed it for you, tbh..

[hater]

messi still chokes when it matters. the World cup. not to mention the star quality in Barcelona is closer to the US Dream Team than to the 2013 Heat.

[hater]

Lefty hits the ball out of the park with the Messi to Kobe comparisons. They are on similar level. Both still haven't proven they can win it all on their own.

Prime Maradona > Messi each and everyday.



wake me up when Messi does that throughout an entire World Cup tournament

[Samuel Eto'o]

So I let all of you have some fun for a little while now I'm gonna lay down the truth.

It's really difficult to compare the sports 'cause basketball players in general have more responsabilites, it's only logical.

With that said it's clearly Messi, Messi at age 25 has a serious case as the greatest player of all time. He has improved his numbers year after year and what he did last season of breaking Muller's record was unthinkable, it was like breaking Wilt's record of 50 ppg on a season on this modern era, and this year he's on pace to breaking his own record again. He regularly leads the scoring and assisting tables on Europe. And when it's all said and done he will have pretty much every individual record there is on football.

What are your thoughts on Messi using HGH to give himself an advantage?

[DAF86]

What are your thoughts on Messi using HGH to give himself an advantage?

I'm pretty glad about that, tbh.

[Brunodf]

this thread. Lebron already won everything...

[Latarian Milton]

How can you apply any serious analysis. Basketball v Soccer?

Messi, essentially only has to play offence, whilst LeBrian is expected to play O & D. LeBrian could score zillions more points if that was his only focus. Lets face it there are 50 players league wise who would win the scoring le if they had the green light to put up a Kobe 33 shots a night. How many points a game would Patty Mills put up if Pop said Patty I want 33 shots each game. Messi has that green offence light.

Talking purely Soccer now, Messi is not just the best but the GOAT. Sorry defenders (Franco Baresi, you still the best). The best defenders in the world are unable to stop him. Pele, Maradona, Van Basten, all amazing but Messi is from another planet. Van Basten was near unstoppable until the hard men of the Serie A crunched his ankles to mush, but Messi is so nimble there is no stopping him.

it's basically impossible for any defender or any team defense to stop him when the ref would call it a foul for just breathing at him, and the midget would've already retired by his 23rd birday w/o refs giving him special care each and every minute in the field. soccer is more of a business than a sport and might be even more rigged than NBA tbh. messi is a good player but he's not really that good as the FIFA want you to think he is, at the very least midget needs to win a world cup with his national team to justify all the hypes and admirations, which he'll never do.

[DAF86]

this thread. Lebron already won everything...

Is like ∞ times easier to win everything on the NBA than in football/soccer.

[hater]

to be fair Messi might not even need to win a World Cup to be in GOAT conversation

But how about dominating a World Cup though? being best player or at least top 3 in a WC and getting the golden boot? at least do that

he hasn't even dominated a single WC elimination game

[DAF86]

to be fair Messi might not even need to win a World Cup to be in GOAT conversation

But how about dominating a World Cup though? being best player or at least top 3 in a WC and getting the golden boot? at least do that

he hasn't even dominated a single WC elimination game

He played ONE WC as a starter and at age 23.

[hater]

He played ONE WC as a starter and at age 23.

true. and got raped by Germany. thus no GOAT

[Brunodf]

Is like ∞ times easier to win everything on the NBA than in football/soccer.

If you truly are the best, you have to win the best tournaments/cup

[DAF86]

true. and got raped by Germany. thus no GOAT

Maradona got red carded and eliminated when he played a WC at that age.

[hater]

Maradona got red carded and eliminated when he played a WC at that age.

and he was no GOAT then either

[DAF86]

If you truly are the best, you have to win the best tournaments/cup

Not true, specially not in a sport where you can play much better than the rival on a certain game and still lose. And in a single elimination game tournament that its played every 4 years it's even less true.

[hater]

Not true, specially not in a sport where you can play much better than the rival on a certain game and still lose. And in a single elimination game tournament that its played every 4 years it's even less true.

so in your opinion winning NCAA tournament > winning NBA championship

[lefty]

He played ONE WC as a starter and at age 23.

And he will retire with 0 wc

[ElNono]

And he will retire with 0 wc

He won't beat Milan either, tbh....






... oh wait

[DAF86]

so in your opinion winning NCAA tournament > winning NBA championship

How do you take that out of what I said? Seriously.

[99 Problems]

Further to my earlier post.

Too much weight given to the World Cup. Look at it in the following way

If MJ or LeBrian never win a FIBA World Cup does that automatically reflect on their greatest arguments? No it does not, not remotely. Messi's greatness need only be based on his la liga & Champions League games.

Lastly Messi does have a great support cast, but great players almost always do eg: Ronaldo, LBJ, MJ, Kobe