06-21-2017, 06:50 AM
(06-20-2017, 02:19 AM)BFritz21 Wrote: Except, even if you ignore the fact that all of those players with those titles weren't the center of their teams or the reasons for the titles, there's things like mentioning how there was only 8 to 12 teams in the league when Russel and the Celtics won those titles and the game was far less advanced.
Jordan led the Bulls to those titles with far less talent around him than Lebron has.
A smaller league means more good or great players on every team. A bigger league means players who wouldn't be good enough to ride the bench on an 8 team league end up starting on a team in a 30 league team. 8x12= 96. You can be one of the best 100 players in the whole country and not make a team! 30x12=360. Suddenly guys from 96 to 150 aren't just in the league but starting (5 starters on each team). So your argument that a smaller league was a weaker league is exactly backwards. A smaller league is a tougher league, which demonstrates that Russell and the other guys ahead of Jordan and Horry on the list were light years ahead of them in terms of talent.
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