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152411.281 in reply to 152411.274
Date: 10/27/2011 7:55:28 PM
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You can't honestly believe that any of the SF's you listed, other than Pippen, could play consistent D on LeBron. I'm not sure Pippen, who's one of the best perimeter defenders ever, could hold up against him. He's just too athletic for anyone to shut down. Not saying any one of them are bad players but let's be honest here if he had had ANY help in Cleveland he would have already won a title. Cleveland went from being a title contender to being the worst team in the league. No one, even MJ had that much effect on their team.

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152411.282 in reply to 152411.281
Date: 10/27/2011 8:20:02 PM
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He did have help with SHAQ and MO WILLIAMS.

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152411.283 in reply to 152411.282
Date: 10/27/2011 9:23:59 PM
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He did have help with SHAQ and MO WILLIAMS.


The Big Three.

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152411.284 in reply to 152411.281
Date: 10/27/2011 11:04:03 PM
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The thing is, Jordan made Chicago into a consistent champion, and when he left, Chicago went 13-37, 17-65, and 15-67 the next three seasons, and this drop came when a 35 year old Michael Jordan left, not a 27 year old in his prime star player.

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152411.285 in reply to 152411.281
Date: 10/27/2011 11:47:36 PM
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First off if you had read my post you'd see that yes I believe Lebron has considerable skill, but he hasn't been around long enough or done enough to take a "greatest ever" title.

And to your question, I'd have to say that yes he could for sure burn Bird and Baylor, Dr.J I'm not really sure on. Hondo I believe could slow him down just by being so relentless, while Pippen could contain him on the perimeter if not inside. But on the flip side do you really believe Lebron could shut down any of those players, aside from Pippen?

And finally, well he wasn't in Cleveland last season was he?

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152411.286 in reply to 152411.285
Date: 10/28/2011 9:43:53 AM
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I think the important thing to keep in mind is that they're all fighting for second place behind Detlef Schrempf.

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152411.287 in reply to 152411.285
Date: 10/28/2011 10:22:32 AM
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Are you really questioning LeBron being a great defender? No, you're probably right LeBron just gets rolled by scrubs night after night, plays absolutely no defense at all....OR he completely shut down last years MVP in the playoffs which no one was able to do all year long. But no he's probably not that good. And no he wasn't in Cleveland last season, that was my point, he left and they went from being title contenders to being slightly above D League status.

Listen if you don't wanna call him the greatest at his position just because he hasn't been around forever then that's all you breh. I mean he'll probably fall off now, he'll go from being the best player in the league to being the next Brian Scalabrine. Can't really hate on someone for being young. Seven individually great years in Cleveland surround by Delonte West and Boobie Gibson (sick) and then getting a team full of players playing together in the league for a couple months to the Finals, yeah he hasn't done ish so far. I mean the rest of those guys did it all by themselves, what was I thinking?

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152411.288 in reply to 152411.279
Date: 10/28/2011 10:24:58 AM
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His attitude is holding him back from being great? Jordan didn't have a "I'mma get mine" attitude at all...

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152411.289 in reply to 152411.287
Date: 10/28/2011 10:56:02 AM
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And Derrick Rose is no Bird, Baylor, Dr.J, or even Hondo. Derrick Rose is still young and is a very one dimensional player as of now, and his style plays right into Lebron's defense- which is being more athletic than everyone else. And yeah I've seen him get rolled- some guy named Terry in a pretty important game, who's not half the shooter Bird was.

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152411.290 in reply to 152411.288
Date: 10/28/2011 12:51:53 PM
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The White Mamba has more rings than LBJ.

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152411.291 in reply to 152411.289
Date: 10/28/2011 1:29:19 PM
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Never said Rose was any of those guys. Or even close. I said he was the MVP and burning kids all year long...until LeBron locked him down. And no Terry isn't Bird, but he's in the league because of his shooting. He's not Shaq out there jacking up 3's. Actually his career 3 pt. % is better than MJ's who from what I remember wasn't too bad of shooter. And before you jump on my nuts about that I'm not saying Jason Terry is MJ, just stating facts.

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