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239321.44 in reply to 239321.41
Date: 4/4/2013 8:01:19 PM
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Very true. But neither Jordan or Kobe ever had as much talent around them as Lebron does at Miami now. I mean, them not winning (or at least getting to the finals) every championship until some sort of power shift means they've underperformed badly in the postseason. It's pretty ridiculous what he has now.


Who balled this?

This is absolutely ridiculous. Both Jordan and Kobe, had the 2nd best player in the league on their team, at the time. In Kobe's case, he WAS the 2nd best player. sheesh. You guys just love rewriting history. Jordan's team was awesome, that even when he went on his hiatus, they still won 55 games, without him. Yeah the NBA must have been really soft those years, if you could remove Jordan from a team, and they still win 55 games.

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239321.45 in reply to 239321.44
Date: 4/4/2013 9:13:29 PM
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Jordan maybe(Pippen is tough to judge), but Kobe most certainly did not have the 2nd best player in the league for his last two(especially since most would agree Lebron was the best player in the league at the time).

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239321.46 in reply to 239321.45
Date: 4/4/2013 9:48:10 PM
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Since this argument is ridiculous and i'm losing my cup game i'm gonna prove why lebron is the superior player now.

offensive stats:

kobe: per/23 ts:57% eff:25.35 +/- : 1.9

lebron james: per/31 ts: 63% eff: 32.15 +/-: 8


ps: i won't even get into defensive metrics, i dislike kobe, but i don't hate the guy

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239321.47 in reply to 239321.46
Date: 4/4/2013 9:56:25 PM
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I'm going to assume this wasn't really in response to me, because it makes little to no sense in response to my last post. The point of it was that Jordan's teams(at least the 2nd threepeat) were easily the best team in the league, as were Kobe's first 3(Portland had quite a team season 1). Just like the Heat have clearly had the best team for the past two seasons.

And Kobe's 4th and 5th were not obviously superior to all of the other teams in the leagues.

Lebron is at this point easily a better player than Kobe and has been for some time(he's also currently better than peak Kobe). But better player=/=greater player

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239321.48 in reply to 239321.47
Date: 4/4/2013 10:02:49 PM
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You're assuming right. as far as comparing the greater player, i would think you should wait until lebron ends his career to judge him on that end. The dude is 28, easily he has 5 more years, with 3 or 4 top level.

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239321.49 in reply to 239321.48
Date: 4/4/2013 10:08:16 PM
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Mmk, just double checking :)

And yep, it's best to wait until they're done. To be honest I'm extremely impressed that Kobe is still doing what he's doing at this point in his career, if he keeps this up next season I really really hope he doesn't retire, it's tough to see guys go out when they're still so good(I mean I don't like seeing their skills fall off a cliff either, but if he's still the best SG in the game it's tough)

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Date: 4/4/2013 10:16:58 PM
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It's bittersweet for kobe, he is a smart dude. I'm sure he realizes that team maybe worst next season. Another year to steve nash's legs, ron artest turd contract, pau gasol's decline and dwight's inability to step up when it matters. Unless mitch pulls one of his magic trades or they get something in this year's draft it looks as if kobe will suffer even more through next season. Is it worth it? only he knows.

Add to tis the ineptitude of his coach to actually try a system that suits his team, meanwhile he watches OKC and houston rise. San Antonio's coaching wonders, and a couple of teams like the blazers, golden state, jazz that should be better next season

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239321.51 in reply to 239321.44
Date: 4/5/2013 3:50:35 AM
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Who balled this?

This is absolutely ridiculous. Both Jordan and Kobe, had the 2nd best player in the league on their team, at the time. In Kobe's case, he WAS the 2nd best player. sheesh. You guys just love rewriting history. Jordan's team was awesome, that even when he went on his hiatus, they still won 55 games, without him. Yeah the NBA must have been really soft those years, if you could remove Jordan from a team, and they still win 55 games.


Jordan's team was awesome, I don't deny that. But Scotty Pippen was not at all the 2nd best player in the league. Even on Jordan's hiatus, when he broke out, he was just top 5. If he was so easily number 2 when Jordan was there, why wasn't he by far the best during that? Maybe my memory is flawed, but I also don't think those Bulls were as good as the Heat are now.

And are you saying Shaq/Kobe were the best 2 players in the whole league? I actually could see that argument being true in... 2000 was it? Their first in the threepeat? You are right about Shaq being better than Kobe then, if nothing else, but I could argue Allen Iverson, Jason Kidd, or Tim Duncan were better than Kobe a lot of that year too. That was Shaq's year. But before long he was noticeably slower and worse from what I believe was a foot injury, and Kobe took over. Not that Shaq was bad, just not in the best of the best anymore.

I never said that Kobe/MJ didn't have talent around them. I just think that neither ever had as much as the Heat do now. In hindsight though, that 99-00 year for the Lakers is definitely arguable....

Last edited by Double B at 4/5/2013 4:02:54 AM

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239321.52 in reply to 239321.48
Date: 4/5/2013 2:06:33 PM
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He's 29.... Lol. And by the time he's 34... He won't be shit. His knees will be bad.

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239321.53 in reply to 239321.52
Date: 4/5/2013 2:32:32 PM
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I like how you can predict the future. You know robert, not everybody suffers two serious knee injuries in one season....

From: G3C

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239321.54 in reply to 239321.53
Date: 4/5/2013 3:06:41 PM
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ROFL

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