The 80's were only an "offensive era" in the first half of the 80's , not in the 2nd half in which Jordan played when teams like the Bucks, Pistons and Hakws started to rise in prominence in the East as the best teams for being DEFENSIVE teams. So that's a myth, you're just repeating there, generalizing the whole 80's.
The early 00's was a more defensive era than the late 00's. Doesn't mean the whole era was defensive. The early 2010's was a more defensive era than this current 3' ball happy , late 2010's era.
I don't care if this is Lebron's era or not , ISO. That's not the point here.
If you take a look at the best offensive players the 86 Celtics faced, they faced Dominique in round 2 and he had
24/6/4 on 39 FG% despite the Pistons in the previous round were he had
34/6 on 46 FG%.
In the ECF, the 86 Celtics faced the Bucks and they limited Terry Cummings, one of the most underrated and difficult players to guard of that era to
18/11 on 40 FG%
In the NBA finals of 86, they made Hakeem play worse than he normally could (despite Hakeem having the help of another all star 7'4 giant named Ralph Sampson)
Hakeem had
25/12 on 48 FG% . Hakeem in the WCF against the Lakers had
31/11 on 52 FG%.
Of course the 86 Celtics totally consumed Sampson and made him irrelevant despite the fact he was a giant with good ball skills.
The point is Jordan was able to put up those sort of numbers because in addition to being the best player ever at scoring at the basket, he was also the best midrange shooter ever. He put up those numbers against virtually every team he faced in the playoffs :
List of career achievements by Michael Jordan - Wikipedia (scroll down to his individual playoff numbers).
He has several playoff series performances in excess of 40ppg, something no other player in NBA history has even come close to doing, including Lebron. And Lebron plays in an era that is very kind to perimeter players.
Anyway, I have other things to do. Its always fun schooling you on basketball but you make it easier for me, because most times you don't know what you're talking about. I have other things to do. I'll let you have the last word.
