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I give a heck of a lot of credit to the Spurs of 2014 but as ty as the others played not named LeBron We should be careful not to overrate the Spurs I say best team since 2001 ...
Fair points but disagree about 2001 Lakers. As you said 2002 was a weak squad but 2001 had prime Shaq and Kobe playing elite level hoops. That Kobe shat on Bowen, so KL is great but Kobe has dominated better. With Phil and a great staff behind them. Also your last paragraph with MVPau pretty much destroyed the credibility of what you wrote before it. I get you live to troll and bash Kobe but that was calculated but childish.
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I give a heck of a lot of credit to the Spurs of 2014 but as ty as the others played not named LeBron We should be careful not to overrate the Spurs I say best team since 2001 ...
Yeah. . .I ain't trying to totally on them, I mean any team that wins a le isn't ty by any stretch. It just felt like good fortune. There really weren't any other big threats at the time in either conference. Even in 2011 I didn't think that team was any worse than 2009 and 2010, and they got crushed by the eventual champ Mavs, who imo were second to the Spurs that year pre-Manu injury. Though I did pick Mavs to win after Spurs got knocked out. I didn't think Lakers could compete. Pau and Kobe tailed off a little, the role players' drive to win was diminished, Artest became the new Dennis Rodman, Bynum was a huge quitter, etc. They kind of imploded there at the end.
2001 Kobe shat on Antonio Daniels, Terry Porter, and Derek Anderson. The following year, with Bowen, Kobe went back to average. Also, 2000 to 2002 Kobe is no where even close to 2014 Lebron.
MVPau does not belong in the same league as Shaq and Duncan and Dirk, and the supporting cast of 09 10 Lakers isn't close to Pistons, 14 Spurs and Celtics, those are facts.
7 games to beat the old Mavs
But, but, but the Mavs were the second best team behind the Spurs this yearAaron Brks
You've nary room
Lol now they are ty because Spurs dominated them 4-1?
Erase the Spurs in 2013-2014 pretend that they never existed, Heat 3peat.
You all act like Lebron has a bad supporting cast, fact is the Heat would rape anybody in the league outside of the Spurs.
seeing how bad they played in the finals, no
Read the first 2 lines of my post.
That team was taken to 7 by Aaron Brooks
The Spurs had a lot to do with how horribly they played.
That said, I am thinking that Clippers have a good chance of beating the Heat in the finals, OKC, as horribly as they match up with the Heat, may have a puncher's chance as well.
However, Clippers can never get past the Spurs/OKC, so other than the Spurs, there really aren't that many teams who can really dethrone the Heat, and certainly none that would make them look this bad.
His cast was not bad never said that. Ray and Rashard played fine tbh ... and are very good players and got little credit.
Lebron worshippers downplay his cast no doubt, but only those 3 played at or above expectations. Chalmers, Wade, Bosh, Battier etc all played like trash tbh.
IF I missed the year on Bowen, my bad but I do recall him ting on Bowen in the playoffs not sure how he was "average" ...I also remember his shooting% dipping with Bowen defending but average is not a "fact".
I agree Pau is not Dirk etc. comparing a #2 to first ballot HOF'ers is pretty foolish, tbh.
Dirk's right hand> Aaron brooks
Green was on Wade.
Diaw was on Bosh.
Battier is pretty much done, and Chalmers was trash you got it.
But really? They are automatically trash because of that one series? Wade owned Indiana the series before if i remember correctly. Bosh won them game 2. You seem to downgrade the win by saying that most of the cast was playing like trash when in fact, Spurs just straight up dominated them.
Kobe scored 26 ppg on 45% shooting in 02 vs Bowen. That's his average for that year.
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