Cavs: One pic shows why LeBron is not the GOAT discussion

[Koolaid_Man]

You know this has to drive ESPN writers and jockers like Midnight pulp insane it basically throws analytics along with the bath water out the window....

[KaiRMD1]

sorry about the shift in le KaiRMD1

[JoeTait75]

I remember the East that Jordan competed against was stacked.

Once the Bird/McHale/Parish Celtics and the Bad Boy Pistons got old and stopped contending the East was the weaker conference, IMO. You look at the teams MJ went up against in the East playoffs- the Cavs, Knicks, Magic, Heat, Pacers- you could argue that none of those teams, outside of maybe the '98 Pacers, were capable of winning the le against the best in the West. IMO none of those teams were as good as the Blazers, Rockets, Sonics, Suns and Jazz of the same era. You also had fairly lackluster teams like the Hornets and Hawks that won 50-plus games and got to the second round during MJ's second three-peat.

It says something about the relative strength of the conferences that in the 1995 Finals the sixth seed in the West swept the top seed in the East.

But they were allowed to foul the out of you and get away with it.

Nobody fouled MJ and got away with it.