Replace LeBrons 2nd best player with Pippen from his 6th season

[Phong]

LeBron failed so many times in the Finals, his stans have to give him imaginary rings.

[dubeta]

LeBron failed so many times in the Finals, his stans have to give him imaginary rings.

The only place Kobe has success is in the court room

[Done_And_Done]

So basically 5 rings by now would be a consensus?


And lol at anyone saying Pippen cancels out LeBron. LeBron would let Pippen run and offense, and become the [B]Off- Ball scorerof the team like he did in the 2012 Finals

LeBron in the low post and Pippen on the perimeter running the plays


LeBrons assists go down, but efficiency and rebounds go up


LeBron: 28/11/4 on 59% shooting

Pippen: 22/6/6 with elite defense


5+ rings with more on the way

Don't you ever get tired of getting b1tch slapped around here? Like seriously... I've never seen a poster get ragged on the way you do.

You're like Ish's communal porta-potty and your face is the toilet seat.

Your sole purpose on here is to serve as a placemat for human sh1t.

[Done_And_Done]

The only place Kobe has success is in the court room

His 5 rings dictate otherwise.

See what I mean?

I literally just submerged your ugly face with a mass volume of sh1t.

And didn't flush.

[Hamtaro CP3KDKG]

Considering Bran went 2/4 with prime Wade whos better than Pippen and prime Bosh whos better than any 3rd best player MJ had. And also he couldnt win with 2011 Wade whos 2 times the player Pippen ever was

[Poochymama]

LeBron's enormous success with Wade and Kyrie should've debunked this by now. Those 2, when healthy, managed to put together monster seasons alongside him and were part of dominant offensive teams. And neither player had to adjust much. In Kyrie's case, 0 adjustments. He basically played like he had always played this past season. Cleveland finished as the league's #3 offense and were the runaway #1 during the 2nd half of the season.

If paired with Pippen, LeBron can easily move to the 4 for much of the time anyway, which was basically what he was doing from 12-14 in Miami.

Huh? Both of them had to adjust, a lot. Kyrie was never much a distributor, so it wasn't really a problem to give that over to Lebron, but he's basically given that role over to Lebron and he only really does it now when Lebron is on the bench.. Wade had to completely change the way he played though.

Lebron and Pippen is about the worst offensive waste of talent I can think of. They would be great defensively though. Lebron would do better with a really good 3 and d guy like Battier.

Lebron/Battier > Lebron/Pippen, even though Pippen is a much better player than Battier.

[SamuraiSWISH]

Pairing LeBron with a LeBron-lite. Essentially Pippen would become a 3&D player, and you'd be complaining about lack of help when they don't get it done.

Basically.

[OldSchoolBBall]

I love how these clowns talk about Pippen and act like it guarantees Lebron rings, as if Jordan didn't have to come up with monstrous games, 4th quarters, and heroic final 4-6 minutes in the postseason to win many of those games.

Is Lebron doing that? No - not to that extent, at least. Hence he doesn't win as much. Much of Pippen's value would also be neutralized by Lebron, since Lebron can't play off the ball nearly as well as Jordan - he'd make Pippen into more of a play finisher (which he could do) or shooter (which he was only average at), and you'd lose out on some of Pippen's own greatness at handling and setting up the offense since Lebron doesn't let anyone do that but himself.

[Ne 1]

I love how these clowns talk about Pippen and act like it guarantees Lebron rings, as if Jordan didn't have to come up with monstrous games, 4th quarters, and heroic final 4-6 minutes in the postseason to win many of those games.

Is Lebron doing that? No - not to that extent, at least. Hence he doesn't win as much. Much of Pippen's value would also be neutralized by Lebron, since Lebron can't play off the ball nearly as well as Jordan - he'd make Pippen into more of a play finisher (which he could do) or shooter (which he was only average at), and you'd lose out on some of Pippen's own greatness at handling and setting up the offense since Lebron doesn't let anyone do that but himself.

Ether.

Also LeBron didn't need a "Pippen" because on top of playing in a historically weak conference and playing in the weakest era for bigs ever...and in the weakest era for superstars...relative to league average Miami might have been the best offensive cast in NBA history.

Best player in the league in LeBron
Top 2 SG/Top 6-7 player in Wade
Top 5 PF/Top 15 player in Bosh

And a ridiculous amount of excellent shooters to space the floor for James/Wade:
Ray Allen
Chalmers
Battier
Miller
Lewis
(And you can even throw in Bosh here with him being regulated to a spot up shooter in Miami) Absolutely insane. If you were going to create the perfect offensive cast for a perimeter superstar, this would be it.

[Asukal]

The weak east is actually a blessing in disguise. We get to see bron fail year after year in the finals and has a chance to break wilt's 2/6 finals record. We wouldn't have any of that if the east is strong, because bron wouldn't even reach the finals at all.