That thread said I needed Kyrie to make the Finals
So then I can say that for Lebron to win as 1st option, he needed a sidekick that could make the Finals without him
and this sidekick actually had to be a franchise player from an in-conference opponent, aka diluting the conference.
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4th healthy season vs Finals team:
07' Lebron vs Spurs.......... 22 on 36%.... swept
24 Antman vs Mavs.......... 25 on 43%.... G-swept
89' Jordan vs DET............. 30 on 46%.... would've gone 7 if Pip didn't miss game 6
^^Except ant is a whole lot better than jordan if we were to base their careers on their respective first five years in the league. So until then, shut your trap. :whatever:
You can't compare the winning of a 3rd or 4th year team to a 1st year team
Ant and Lebron had 3 years to develop favored high seeds before entering their first playoffs, so of course their 3rd and 4th year high seeds won more than Jordan's 1st year team and 8 seed.
When Jordan had 4 healthy seasons (89'), he averaged 30 against the champs...
Pippen scored less than 18 in half the playoff games for 92', 93', and 97' too, with horrible efficiency.
He actually shot 0% on threes and 59% from the line in the 93' Finals (46.9 TS), so this performance coupled with his 15 on 33% against Dominique in the 1st Round yielded 50 TS overall for the 93' Playoffs and worst-ever PER, BPM, WS/48...
Probation? Michael Cohen had no criminal history and he got three years for carrying this out for Trump. There is no way an underling gets more jailtime than the mob boss who gave him the order.
Where do you get off thinking Trump is so popular? Maybe with the MAGA cultists but he is not gonna win an election with them alone. The women in the...
This is really setting up a bad precedent. Now if Biden doesn't get re-elected, him and Hunter will probably be pursued also for every little crime. Biden is literally fighting for himself and his family's life, might be using all the dirty tricks in the books to win the election. Can't say I blame him.
Luka cannot live off double-pin downs (off-ball), while Tatum can - this superior jumpshot diversity makes Tatum an "expert jumpshooter" that yields better ball movement and team assists, which in turn yields better chemistry for a better-performing cast, aka better team
carry on
Flowers time for Kyrie.
He clearly should've been top 75 over Lillard.. The only reason Lillard got it is because he had just finished hitting the half-court walk-off over Westbrook and it was fresh in everyone's minds.. But the reality is that Kyrie is a better big-game performer and winner, while also being far less ball-dominant, which...
Once the cat was out of the bag after the Denver series (no more surprise factor/no-pressure period over), Ant and the Wolves performed like crap thereafter.
This "surprise factor" inflation of performance and then the quick deflation once the "cat is out of the bag" is similar to the 94' Bulls taking their sleeping opponents by surprise in the...