Jimmy Butler's Run to the 2023 NBA Finals Is OBJECTIVELY More Impressive Than Any Run LeBron Had EDIT: @Rhakim Exposal Thread

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Why you think they won 50 games? You think prime Bron would ever be an 8th seed with this roster? This same Heat team was the top seed in the East last year and the only player they lost was PJ Tucker.

Arguing that a supporting cast with Bam, Herro, and Lowry is worse than a supporting cast with Hughes, Illgauskas, and Boobie because they underachieved during the season is the epitome of deranged.


Breh, if Bron was on this squad they'd be saying, "Bron-Bam-Love-Lowry are 4 future Hall of Famers. This is a Superteam!"

Now they're obsessing about regular-season win totals without any context, but if you point out that Bron's run in 2018 was against the exact same seeds with damn near the exact same win totals, they're all saying,

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Kevin Love was Bron's #2 option in 2018. No one else in double figures for the entire postseason.

Kevin Love is Jimmy's #8 option this year. He has SIX teammates better than Bron's #2. But they actually think Jimmy has a worse supporting cast. :deadrose:
 

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Man if Lebron had this supporting cast and lost, all we would hear is how he doesn’t have help and who they need to trade for etc
Conversely, if Lebron had this supporting cast and lost, all we would hear on the Coli is how MJ and Kobe would've found a way to win with Caleb Martin as their sidekick:mjlol:
 

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Cuz the East was trash and the team ahead of them was burnt out

Billups was 30, Rip was 28, Prince was 26, Sheed was 32, and Webber was 33. But they were "burnt out" lol.

The next year Billups, Rip, and Sheed all made All-Star, Prince was All-Defensive, and the Pistons won nearly 60 games and pushed the 66-win Celtics to 6 in the ECF. But they were already "burnt out" the year before according to you, and Bron putting up an all-timer of a 48-6-6 masterpiece in a must-win Game 5 with the game-tying shot to send to overtime and the game-winner in double-overtime didn't have anything to do with that.


If the Pistons were burnt out in 2007, then why aren't the Celtics burnt out now? They've been to the ECF in 5 of the last 7 years and just went to the Finals last year, aren't they "burnt out" too? They looked like dogshyt for most of this postseason in a way the '07 Pistons never did.





The top 5 teams in the West that year all won 50 games.

Top 4 teams in the East won 50 games in 2018 and the 5th was 48 games. But you think that was weak competition. The 'ol "that was different" ass fool strikes again.




Also, yes Bron would be an 8th seed or similar

Bron won 50 games and made the Finals with Kevin Love as his #2 option, but he would be an 8-seed with Kevin Love as his #8 option. :mjlol:

Bam, Martin, Herro, Lowry, and Strus were ALL better basketball players this season than anyone Bron played with in 2018, so how the fukk would he be an 8-seed?
 

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Why you think they won 50 games? You think prime Bron would ever be an 8th seed with this roster? This same Heat team was the top seed in the East last year and the only player they lost was PJ Tucker.

Arguing that a supporting cast with Bam, Herro, and Lowry is worse than a supporting cast with Hughes, Illgauskas, and Boobie because they underachieved during the season is the epitome of deranged.
legit some of the most special ed reasoning i've heard itt :francis:
 

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Cuz the East was trash and the team ahead of them was burnt out and didnt have Ben Wallace :what:

The top 5 teams in the West that year all won 50 games.

Also, yes Bron would be an 8th seed or similar :mjlol: The Heat were #1 seed in the East last year winning only 53 games. 53 wins would've been the 4th seed in the East this year
Prime Bron, Bam, Herro, Lowry and shooters ain't winning less games than the Randle led Knicks. Bron won damn near 70 games with Mo Williams as his second option.

The Heat would have won more games this season if Butler played more and took the regular season more seriously.
 

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Didn't 5'10" JJ Barrea lock down Bron and 47 year old Jason kidd?:mjlol:

Do you seriously believe that, or are you just trolling?

JJ Barea guarded Bron on 4 possessions the entire series and was always backed by a triple-team. Kidd and his 9 All-Defensive selections was Bron's 3rd or 4th defender. He was primarily guarded by Shawn Marion, one of the elite wing defenders of his era, with the entire zone hedging towards him and DPOY Tyson Chandler protecting the rim.
 

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Do you seriously believe that, or are you just trolling?

JJ Barea guarded Bron on 4 possessions the entire series and was always backed by a triple-team. Kidd and his 9 All-Defensive selections was Bron's 3rd or 4th defender. He was primarily guarded by Shawn Marion, one of the elite wing defenders of his era, with the entire zone hedging towards him and DPOY Tyson Chandler protecting the rim.

Do you believe Derrick White shut down Jimmy Butler or did he have a bad game? All players do, but LeBron took an L against two short players who should have otherwise have been yammed on by prime LeBron, yet he was the one he fell short when it counted.
 

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By the same token, the Heat were a previous Finals participant and the #1 seed last year.

JIMMY, BAM & DUNCAN
ARE THE ONLY PPL LEFT
FROM THAT FINALS TEAM...

THEYRE ALSO MISSING
THEIR 2ND LEADING SCORER HERRO,
PJ TUCKER
AND OLADIPO FROM THAT
NUMBER 1 SEEDED TEAM.

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:evil:
 
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