The Last Dance

[*jason*]

(05-26-2020, 06:22 PM)J24 Wrote: 1.) Scottie Pippen is a no doubt hall of famer and Horace Grant is criminally underrated PF for his time. The 91-93 were pretty damn good.
2.) Jordan never carried a low level roster to the Finals like Lebron did with the 07 Cavs. He might have been physically beat up but his teams were never outmatched like  Brons.
3.) LeBron scored 28.7 points per a game on 57% shooting how did Kwahi own him again?
4.) LeBron came into his career as the most hyped player from high school and lived up to it.
Yeah LeBron isn't that likeable I'll give you that but that doesn't make Jordan better at Basketball than him.

1 Yup... Horace was a blue collar monster. People also seem to forget about BJ Armstrong and John Paxson too. Both were knock down shooters, and scrappy defenders. Really an argument could be made that the 92 team was the best incarnation of the Bulls. Jordan was still at his physical apex at the time too.

2 Correct... But I also don't recall a Michael Jordan team ever getting the brakes beat off of them, and swept either. LeBron is great enough to get you one game.

3 In 2014 the Spurs showed what a flawed roster the Heat had. That can happen when players are trying to put together their own team. Pop out coached Spoelstra, and the Spurs moved the ball beautifully. LeBron was the only guy to show up, and he certainly wasn't owned.

4 If nothing else the Last Dance showed that LeBron is infinitely more likable than Jordan. Dude could ball, but he's a dick.

But yet and still, there was an air of invincibility around Jordan that nobody has had in my lifetime. Shaq and Kobe were close in the early 2000s, but once Michael got to winning it was curtains for the rest of the NBA.