NBA: Real talk : Jordan is overrated tbh

[Arcadian]

You should give reasons. What's up with these threads where the le is just an assertion, and the OP is just a three-letter acronym?

[Silver&Black]

Lebron also has the league in his pocket. LOL @ suspending Draymond Green. Tell me in all honesty, if it was 3-1 cavs up and he did that would they have suspended him?

Don't play that card.

They should have suspended him during the OKC series for kicking Adams in the nuts. When OKC was up 3-1.

[Thebesteva]

Don't play that card.

They should have suspended him during the OKC series for kicking Adams in the nuts. When OKC was up 3-1.

Its not a card its a fact. They should have I agree...but they didnt and you dont hold stuff like that emotionally in a professional league against a guy. He teabagged the guy and he just reacted to it he didnt do anything.

[midnightpulp]

DK couldn't hit an NBA three to save himself. Stern literally had to shorten the three-point line for a few years to inflate DK's career 3PT%. And DK was selfish as . He wouldn't "destroy the league" with today's modern offensive schemes, which emphasize his weaknesses (three-pointers and ball movement) over his strengths (chucking up midrange trash).

Kawhi Leonard couldn't find the rim from deep out of college and developed himself into one of the better 3 point shooters in the league. Leonard's offensive game is also heavily reliant on the midrange shot and mid-post, and he had little problem being a strong offensive player. What Jordan had that Kawhi doesn't is elite penetration skills. As I've always said, if Kawhi could develop a dribble-drive, it's GG. Not sure Kawhi can, though, since he simply lacks the natural athletic ability to ever be an elite finisher. Jordan was the best dribble-drive wing in league history. And with the way modern offenses create spacing, Jordan would eat defenses alive off penetration. I mean, James Harden is a 30ppg scorer with great metrics who lives at the FT line in today's game. Jordan is 2 tiers in talent above Harden.

[lefty]

However, the one thing he always had going for him is the EC is beyond pathetic. It's to a point that he just has to punch in his ticket for the finals.

What was MJ's compe ion in the East ?

Pat Ewing and scrubs? Not to mention, the refs carried DK in game 5 of the 93 ECF

The Cavs? yes that team had good players, but there is a problem when your toughest player is your PG tbh .... Daugherty and Nance were soft as in the playoffs

Barkley, Hawkins and scrubs?


The only real compe ion in the East were the Pistons but they caught injuries (pre-injury Isiah shat on Mike) and Stern changed the rules for DK.
The Celtics could have challenged for a few more les ; Bird, despite his injuries, owned their collective asses but Len Bias and Lewis dieded; plus the Celtics got robbed by the refs in the 1991 semis vs Detroit, Stern wanted another Bulls vs Pistons rematch.
The 1998 Pacers were a challenge, but game 7 of the ECF was rigged.

[Clipper Nation]

Lebron also has the league in his pocket. LOL @ suspending Draymond Green. Tell me in all honesty, if it was 3-1 cavs up and he did that would they have suspended him?

How is that proof that he has the league in his pocket? Gaymond hit him in the nuts, something he had been doing all postseason and the refs were supposed to be keeping an eye on anyway. He was one -up away from a suspension. And the Cavs still basically had to shame the league into doing their job. If anything, that incident proved that the Warriors had the refs and league in their pocket.

Meanwhile, if Gaymond even looked at Jordan funny, let alone went for his family jewels, Stern would have banned him from the league for life.

[lefty]

Lebron wishes the had the refs in his pocket

Sometimes refs are against him tbh