WELL HE fukkED UP
Pippen just said he could average 40 in this era
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WELL HE fukkED UP
Dusty Bake Activate
Fukk your corny debates
Lol yeah right Pippen wasn’t that good of a 3 shooter and was a subpar free throw shooter.
Dusty Bake Activate
Fukk your corny debates
He’s go to the line and average 70%.
He wouldn't average close to 40, he wasn't a natural scorer. But he would average a triple double and be a top 5 player.
Long Live The Kane
Tyrant Titan
Nah. Not only did he lack the motor but he also lacked the skill with his streak shooting ass.
He can't score the ball as well as LeBron, Doncic, Kawhi, George, etc. he ain't averaging no 29 points per game. It's ludicrous. Pippen played in a fairly faced paced era himself in the late 80's/early 90's and was always a second fiddle. In the seasons where he didn't have Mike in '94 and with the Blazers in '99 he was never a bucket like that.
at Pippen shooting 10 threes a game
Not sure if you’re trolling or what....In the late 80s and early 90s he played with maybe the most aggressive scorer of all time in his prime...of course he played second fiddle....his 1.5 seasons as a first option he still played in an offense that stressed ball movement and balanced scoring... there was nothing lacking from pippens skill set that would prevent him for scoring more other than shot attempts...he’d maybe take a bump in efficiency, but put him in a usage heavy system where he shoots four or five more times a game and he could average 27 in today’s game.... comparing him to cats like PG as if he’s been dropping 30 a game for a decade or something...he was putting up pippen type scoring numbers his whole career up until last year when him Russ started taking turns iso’ing every trip down the floor and his attempts went up like 5 a game
Nah. Maybe many elite players could fill up the scoring column if they had free rein like Harden, but their team wouldn’t accumulate wins at the rate the Rockets have over the years. Even when Iverson was dominating the scoring for years his team only had that one outlier great season.
Could ask you the same question about Harden's wack ass play style. Y'all actually enjoy watching him hooking defender's arms and jumping on their backs flopping for bullshyt fouls while dominating the ball every possession to do nothing but chuck up contested step back threes, even when him and his teams bricking 20 in a row in the playoffs and blowing 20 pt leads in the regular season? Isn't this shyt boring by now? Y'all really enjoy this brand of NBA "skill"?? This shyt is trash
ISO
Pass me the rock nikka
Paul George has a far better jumper and a slicker handle. He has bested Pippen's highest scoring average in 4 different seasons now. And this is while playing on snail paced Indiana teams and playing second fiddle to guys like Westbrook ('18 season) and Kawhi (this year).
Not sure if you’re trolling or what....In the late 80s and early 90s he played with maybe the most aggressive scorer of all time in his prime...of course he played second fiddle....his 1.5 seasons as a first option he still played in an offense that stressed ball movement and balanced scoring... there was nothing lacking from pippens skill set that would prevent him for scoring more other than shot attempts...he’d maybe take a bump efficiency, but put him in a usage heavy system where he shoots four or five times a game and he could average 27 in today’s game.... comparing him to cats like PG as if he’s been dropping 30 a game for a decade or something...he was putting up pippen type scoring numbers his whole career up until last year when him Russ started taking turns iso’ing every trip down the floor and his attempts went up like 5 a game
Pippen wasn't a scorer, he was a jack of all trades, an athlete, and a defender. He was more like a souped up Iggy less than he was a Kawhi Leonard type player.
I’m not a fan like that but Harden is trending towards being underrated.
He’s incredibly skilled at what he does.
He’s incredibly skilled at what he does.
I could see Pippen averaging 27-28 today on his own team. But 40 is crazy
JesusFOREVER
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Everyone is doing it
Long Live The Kane
Tyrant Titan
the bolded is a graceful way of saying “he scored more than 1 point more than pippen’s high once in his career” .... take away last year and you could make this same reverse engineered argument of PG’s ceiling as a scorer as you are with Pip....pip could slash, post up, pull up in the midrange, run pick and roll, spot up for 3 (which is the biggest scoring advantage PG has over him, which I’m not entirely sure he wouldn’t improve on considering the focus on it in today’s game) ...the tools were there...saying that he could average 5 more points a game on increased usage at less efficiency is far from “ludicrous” ... we see it happen all the time when players are put into positions where they’re asked to do more scoring...especially when the rules are specifically tweaked to allow for more scoring
The_Third_Man
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why these old players so insecure?
