Hakeem speaks out against NBA "superteams"

[Texas2step]

What does it take? Great players show up and he did, that's why management brought him there. fukk what he was called, Aldelman was never great on the big stage and that team was freaking stacked. Oh, and don't get it twisted, Dream has 0 rings if Mike does not retire. Again, teams are built for playoff runs, fukk regular season records. Did the Miami Heat have the best record in the NBA this year? They're a super team right?

Plenty of NBA Champs didn't have the best regular season record. Clyde was brought their to help close on the big stage, and he did just that.

So Shaq and Penny didn't bounce that nikka out the playoffs in 95. GTFO

 

[Jplaya2023]

So Shaq and Penny didn't bounce that nikka out the playoffs in 95. GTFO

Let's not open old wounds please.

 

[Jesus Shuttlesworth]

Who cares about small market teams?

 

[Texas2step]

they didn't lose 2 years in a row in the finals.

Second, in the 90 and 92 finals, the blazers were the underdogs against arguably of the 5 best teams in NBA history. The 90 pistons and 92 bulls which featured multiple HOF's of those teams and 2 HOF head coaches. Both luxuries Drexler didn't have in portland. I don't see how losing as an underdog made you a choke artist. If anything you can call them that in 91 after losing to the lakers in the WCF's. That's it.

He wasn't a choke artist because his team lost, it was because he didn't play up to his potential

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

So Shaq and Penny didn't bounce that nikka out the playoffs in 95. GTFO

LMAO!!! Man stop it. You reaching now kid. You know Mike had a year and a half layoff and came back late that season. You know Orlando wasn't seeing them bulls if Mike had played the whole year. Good try though.



I was still glad Orlando got them nikkas up out of there though

 

[Jesus Shuttlesworth]

So Shaq and Penny didn't bounce that nikka out the playoffs in 95. GTFO

So Mike wasn't just coming back from a year and a half layoff?
And Mike didn't prove that was a fluke by going 72-10 the next year and sweeping Orlando on their way back to the top?

 

[Texas2step]

Not all the same, the rockets before making that trade were not going to win the title with that roster as it were currently.

They honestly would've lost to Utah in round 1 if they didn't have clyde.

In a do or die game 4 down 2-1 in the series, hakeem and clyde became one of the only sets of teammates ever to score 40 a piece in a playoff game

Utah Jazz at Houston Rockets Box Score, May 5, 1995 | Basketball-Reference.com

In a do or die game 5 on the road, they each hit 30 and no one else scored in double digits
Houston Rockets at Utah Jazz Box Score, May 7, 1995 | Basketball-Reference.com

otis thorpe or mad max isn't getting houston over that hump

Breh you act like they didn't face adversity the year before and got out of it. Im not saying Drexler is trash, Im saying he wasn't good enough at that point to be considered a Superteam

 

[Jplaya2023]

He wasn't a choke artist because his team lost, it was because he didn't play up to his potential

you lying B stop it

28. CLYDE DREXLER, PORTLAND, 1990&
Detroit 4

Portland 1 FINALS STATS
Points per game: 26.4
Boards per game: 7.8
Assists per game: 6.2
PER: 26.0


The Blazers lost in five, but don't blame the Glide. He filled the stat sheet with 26.4 points, 7.8 boards and 6.2 assists, and shot 54.3 percent on the series. Unfortunately, the Blazers lost three games at the wire and ended up succumbing in five, but that shouldn't tarnish what was an outstanding Finals debut by Drexler.

He also was huge in the Blazers' only win, scoring 33 points and making the game-winning foul shots at the end of overtime in Game 2. He nearly pulled a similar feat in Game 4 before Detroit responded with a last-second bucket.


NBA Playoffs: Greatest Finals performances -- 21-30 - ESPN

 

[NYC Rebel]

Breh you act like they didn't face adversity the year before and got out of it.

He's not ACTING like that.



They have nothing to do with each other.

 

[Jplaya2023]

Breh you act like they didn't face adversity the year before and got out of it. Im not saying Drexler is trash, Im saying he wasn't good enough at that point to be considered a Superteam

We might be arguing 2 different things, because i'm DEFINATELY not calling houston of 1995 a superteam. They were FAR from that. Clyde was past his prime clearly, and dream was at the end of his as well.

I'm arguing about the status of Clyde in his blazer days and giving an explanation as to why they lost in the finals.

 

[Texas2step]

So Mike wasn't just coming back from a year and a half layoff?
And Mike didn't prove that was a fluke by going 72-10 the next year and sweeping Orlando on their way back to the top?

so you gonna act like he didn't average 31 pts a game in playoffs that year? So they didn't bounce the hornets out the playoffs that year as well

 

[Jplaya2023]

so you gonna act like he didn't average 31 pts a game in playoffs that year? So they didn't bounce the hornets out the playoffs that year as well

Let's not side track this thread but that was CLEARLY NOT MICHAEL JORDAN, despite what his "stats" would lead you to believe

 

[Jesus Shuttlesworth]

so you gonna act like he didn't average 31 pts a game in playoffs that year? So they didn't bounce the hornets out the playoffs that year as well

Yeah because we all know how good those Hornets teams were.

 

[Street Knowledge]

so you gonna act like he didn't average 31 pts a game in playoffs that year? So they didn't bounce the hornets out the playoffs that year as well

Jordan dominated in the 95' playoffs. They just weren't as good as the magic(who dream swept without HCA)

 

[Texas2step]

Yeah because we all know how good those Hornets teams were.

Yea the same Hornet team that had Larry "Grandma'ma" and Alonzo Mourning scrub team right?