Let's Keep It RoseMo700, Pippen would get demolished by Bron or Durant
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Filthy McNasty
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Im talking about all in their primes. Pippen would get torched and would proceed to get locked down by Bron on the other end of the court.
You are probably right.
In other news:
This guy
Would probably kill this guy
dontreadthis
philly.
lmao really, a caveman to a modern day infantry comparison? y'all don't think that's a bit steep??
Why is dude acting like Pippen played in the 60s? Pippen didn't retire until 2004 dumb nikka.
Penny straight freaked him
ItzDaKiing
Freedom
You are probably right.
In other news:
This guy
Would probably kill this guy
Terrible comparison.
Filthy McNasty
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thelonious21
I like my women tall
at ya'll clowns.. now we even putting Penny in the class of cooking him..
Texas2step
H-Town it's NOT our year
The same Durant that got shutdown by Jason Kidd last year
THEANGEL&THEGAMBLER
Rookie
No one player no matter how great a defender they are can consistently lockdown a great scorer.
Only team defense or double teaming can slow them down.
Only team defense or double teaming can slow them down.
ItzDaKiing
Freedom
I just want other nikkas who put Pippen on this godly level of defense to realize this.
1v1 great offense will always beat great defense.
we all saw how Pippen couldn't keep up with a young Kobe who was far away from his prime.
Imagine Pippen trying to guard Durant and Lebron.
imagine him trying to guard 01-08 Kobe
oh boy, see you must be to young to remember by the time pip was in portland. he was done athletically due to foot problems. i dont remember if it was a bad ankle or achilles. he had a similar issue to what rashard lewis use to go thru every time seattle would get to the offs and he would have foot issues. those feet issues can kill your game. ask yao ming, ask rik smits.
now you telling me PRIME pipp couldnt lock up kd. you're lying to yourself and you're overrating kd, and you are not respecting the lack of rules put into place nowadays to HELP skinny not that strong guys like KD. get to the rack. they dont allow you to touch and push/hold guys like the did in the 90's and 80's. you could really get up in a dude back then and put your weight/strength on him. not hacking. but all up in his jersey. and there would be no early whistle that makes you back off.
most of durants points come from him running around an illegal perkins screen or fastbreak, to semi transition baskets. he doesnt do a lot of 1 vs 1 in the halfcourt scoring lets say like a kobe or mj. thats because he doesnt have the foot work or physical strength to pull that off yet.
the reason Metta can no longer lock up durant isnt cause durants is so good all of a sudden. its cause the coach realized after ROn locked him KD isnt and never will be big/strong enough to deal with a physical defender that plays angles well. so the only way to get kd off is to run him off of screens.
when kobe used to go up against ron back in ron's prime. ron gave him a hard time as well. but unlike kd's team and coaching staff. pjax didnt give kobe more picks vs ron in the triangle. kobe had to learn how to beat Ron on his own. this kind of player no longer exists in the nba. which is why an old school hyper athletic defender like pip. could lock up anyone in the nba currently, in pips prime. not PORTLAND bad foot injury pippen. healthy BULLS PIPPEN.
dudes were not scoring like crazy cause the man to man defense was 10 times better. then you had to meet real true to life bigmen who were known shot blockers in the paint.
the reason i will still say KB is better then MJ. is cause he plays in the new era, vs longer more athletic guys, also vs zone defenses(keeping you out of the paint), in addition to nba refs allowing guys to grab and hold kobe on the perimeter like its 1990 something. so he's playing in two eras more or less. it gets no rougher then that. but the rest of these youngins. would be crying to the refs. now sure if you put them in todays era with todays soft "dont touch on the perimeter" rules. most defenders would no longer be LOCKDOWN Defenders. notice there is no such thing as lockdown defender anymore. why is that? thats cause the rules wont allow you to lock anyone up anymore. they want to make it so guys will have an easier time scoring. they did this because after the Mj, bark, era. guys coming in couldnt dribble legally, couldnt shoot to save their lives. and only had one move to get to the basket. so stern and the nba voted on rules that would help boost scoring or atleast make it easier to score. so viewership would go up. the game was SUPER ugly back then. it was hard to watch.
but durant doesnt have GREAT offense without a GREAT screen. thats what yall are failing to realize. there are rules in place right now that makes defenders back off of him or makes then not be able to put that arm on him like pip could back in his day. two different eras.
a thin guy like KD wouldnt be the leading scorer in the nba back in the 90's. he would be manhandled.