Skip Bayless: "Has there ever been an easier run to the Finals?"

[livinglegend]

09 Jazz had a top 10 offense and a top 10 defense


prime Deron, prime Boozer, Brewer, Millsap, Korver, AK-47, Okur, coached by Jerry fricken Sloan

on paper, they had a better team than the 2015 Hawks

Denver had Billups, Melo, K-Mart, Nene, JR..Billups averaged 21/4/7 and shot 47% from 3 in the Playoffs, Melo averaged 27/6/4 on 45% shooting in the POs, JR averaged 15 a game off the bench, again a better team than any of the teams Bran faced this season..

Houston was injured, but Yao averaged 20/11 in 3 games against us in that series and Lowry went off on us. Houston was 1-2 with Yao, 2-2 without him in that series , overall, you can compare the Houston squad to this year's Bulls Squad, where Pau only gave them ONE healthy game vs Cavs. Brooks played better than Rose and MWP on the same level as Butler.

Utah: Okur was injured and you still used his name to make Utah look good. AGENDA DETECTED.
Ak47 was hurt and you still used him. AGENDA DETECTED.
Prime Boozer One of the worst defenders.
You forgot to mention Utah's starting center in the list of names you put : Jarron Collins.


Houston: No t-mac, No Yao, No Mutumbo.
6'7 Chuck hayes as center
And can you explain how kyle lowry went off? He averaged 5.7 ppg, 3.1 ass on 35 % FG against lakers. AGENDA DETECTED

And nuggets had a career loser in melo leading them.
And old and almost retired Billups.
A cancer in K-mart.

[J Shuttlesworth]

Utah: Okur was injured and you still used his name to make Utah look good. AGENDA DETECTED.
Ak47 was hurt and you still used him. AGENDA DETECTED.
Prime Boozer One of the worst defenders.
You forgot to mention Utah's starting center in the list of names you put : Jarron Collins.


Houston: No t-mac, No Yao, No Mutumbo.
6'7 Chuck hayes as center
And can you explain how kyle lowry went off? He averaged 5 ppg in those playoffs.

And nuggets had a career loser in melo leading them.
And old and almost retired Billups.
A cancer in K-mart.

Holy.

****ing.

Ether.

[ISHGoat]

Utah: Okur was injured and you still used his name to make Utah look good. AGENDA DETECTED.
Ak47 was hurt and you still used him. AGENDA DETECTED.
Prime Boozer One of the worst defenders.
You forgot to mention Utah's starting center in the list of names you put : Jarron Collins.


Houston: No t-mac, No Yao, No Mutumbo.
6'7 Chuck hayes as center
And can you explain how kyle lowry went off? He averaged 5.7 ppg, 3.1 ass on 35 % FG against lakers. AGENDA DETECTED

And nuggets had a career loser in melo leading them.
And old and almost retired Billups.
A cancer in K-mart.

you could have just looked up and saw his username was ImKobe came to the same conclusion

[livinglegend]

BTW, Lakers 09 championship should have a HUGE * next to it. If Rockets without t-mac for the whole series, without Yao for 4 games and without Mutumbo took them to 7 games, that means they would have won the series if full healthy.

Another * next to a Kobe championship.

[Jacks3]

It's not even the easiest run to the Finals that LBJ has had lol.

[ImKobe]

Utah: Okur was injured and you still used his name to make Utah look good. AGENDA DETECTED.
Ak47 was hurt and you still used him. AGENDA DETECTED.
Prime Boozer One of the worst defenders.
You forgot to mention Utah's starting center in the list of names you put : Jarron Collins.


Houston: No t-mac, No Yao, No Mutumbo.
6'7 Chuck hayes as center
And can you explain how kyle lowry went off? He averaged 5.7 ppg, 3.1 ass on 35 % FG against lakers. AGENDA DETECTED

And nuggets had a career loser in melo leading them.
And old and almost retired Billups.
A cancer in K-mart.

AK47 was hurt? Boo-hoo, he played all games and put up respectable numbers, Deron and Boozer both went off on the Lakers and put up better numbers than Pau.

Houston had Yao for nearly half the series and he contributed more than Pau did for the Bulls in the semis this year, which was my point. Oops, I meant to say that Brooks went off on us, but in Game 4, Brooks and Lowry combined for 46 points which is more than half of what the Lakers put up, Brooks had 34 on 60% shooting and Lowry had 12 on 63% shooting.

Overall, Houston's defense is what kept them in that series for so long, Yao had 28 & 11 in their Game 1 win, Lowry with the 34 in Game 4 win and Scola with 24 & 11 in their Game 6 win...Rockets were a solid team and they were used to playing without T-Mac, who missed more than half the season and was garbage in the games he did play. Rockets were 20-15 with T-Mac playing, 33-14 without him.

6-7 Chuck Hayes started for the first time in Game 4, and had 9 rebounds and 4 steals and they won the game, he also had 5 steals in Game 7. He might have been undersized, but they were 2-2 with him as a starter vs 1-3 with Yao.

I love your convincing arguments as to why the Nuggets weren't a good team, because Melo has never won a ring and he wasn't their leader , it was obviously the proven Finals MVP Chauncey Billups who led the team to the WCF.

Billups wasn't old in 2009, he was only 32 and was an all-star that averaged 18 & 6 in the regular season and 21/4/7 in the Playoffs, and he was lights out from 3...

But nice try.

[ImKobe]

BTW, Lakers 09 championship should have a HUGE * next to it. If Rockets without t-mac for the whole series, without Yao for 4 games and without Mutumbo took them to 7 games, that means they would have won the series if full healthy.

Another * next to a Kobe championship.

No they wouldn't have. They had a worse record with T-Mac playing that year than without him, and T-Mac wasn't a good player since 07....do your homework

Mutombo? Dude was 42 years old and played 9 games all season

1-2 with Yao playing, 2-2 without him, I'd say the extra minutes Scola and Hayes got actually made Houston a better team.