Richard Jefferson: Giannis is a Scottie Pippen, he needs a Jordan (Scottie Responds)

[kdslittlebro]

Freak is only 25 with no true reliable sidekick, everyone is expecting him to be Lebron. He’s not Lebron, totally different game. Totally different offense. He’s an interior alpha who need another perimeter alpha like Jimmy Buckets or Dame.


Jefferson is bugging. However let’s not get carried away with him being a role player. Boy was putting up 19 to 23 ppg in his prime years. He was way better than Burrell.

He was a really really good player in a period of time. I loved those Nets teams as a kid. Nobody in this board can say shyt about RJ on the court. He also averaged 12 points a game on his career, tho. His disrespect is much greater than what he's received

 

[ZEupTWN]

It's hard to be a Gladdys Knight with a team full of pips, and win a chip, but a couple different bounces of the ball and he's up 2-0 and would we be having this discussion, he needs help, but the issue is convincing nikkas to go to Milwaukee, it’s not exactly a fa hotbed so unless they draft some hidden gem, he’s going to have to take his talents elsewhere

Ironically the team best suited for him rn would be the team he's facing currently

Or The Rockets but they can't afford him

Shaq understood leverage and positioning better than most. If you paid attention it wasn't just dunks it was fundamentals, many of which are lost today. It was seals, spins, dropsteps etc. Of course Hakeem is the standard but Shaq was better than alot of big men skill wise.

People really do expose there knowledge of the game when discussing Shaq's actual skillset....

 

[seemorecizzy]

Scottie Pippen better than Giannis ....are you out of your fukkin mind

lmaooo

 

[MooseMouthMthafuga]

He may not be as SKILLED as Scottie but he’s absolutely more dominant and impacts a game more than Scottie. Shaq wasn’t the most skilled player at all, yet he has 4 rings and is considered top 10 all time. Why doesn’t Shaq get compared to lesser players?

Shaq had some of the GOAT footwork

and he was splendid in the post.God

gave Giannis the physical gifts, but he

needs to meet the creator halfway, and

forge his own skill set if his destiny's to

obtain true greatness.He'll obtain it on

a commercial level, but for folks that

really live the sport, you can see the

holes in his game.

 

[ALonelyDad]

Jay Williams got him in his feelings with that one

 

[Jesus Is Lord]

He was a really really good player in a period of time. I loved those Nets teams as a kid. Nobody in this board can say shyt about RJ on the court. He also averaged 12 points a game on his career, tho. His disrespect is much greater than what he's received

Indeed. Most posters never saw his prime years to speak on it. Rich earned his way to say what he feels, no matter how far fetched it may seem.

 

[Jesus Is Lord]

Scottie Pippen better than Giannis ....are you out of your fukkin mind

Pippen is the most overrated and underrated player that I can remember. Rarely is he rated when he needs to be.

 

[Jekyll]

Jay Williams got him in his feelings with that one

He's right though. Lebron had his struggles as #1 but that doesn't make him Pippen. Pippen has never done anything like that 07 Detroit series.

 

[ALonelyDad]

He's right though. Lebron had his struggles as #1 but that doesn't make him Pippen. Pippen never has never done anything like that 07 Detroit series.

was a stupid comment but I have never seen Bron get this mad, I guess the Pippen comment is his trigger

 

[SAINT]

Jay Williams got him in his feelings with that one

That must’ve touched a nerve. Also what happened to “blackout” lebron? I thought the media told me he goes zero dark thirty and doesn’t use his phone or social media during the playoffs?

 

[10bandz]

Exactly. People must think he’s 33 years old and it’s now or never for him. He’s 25 years old, arguably not even in his prime yet

Nobody allows these players to grow and mature nowadays (I’m even guilty) before they start casting aspersions and saying what he is and what he’s not. He will have a reliable jumpshot by the time he’s 30 and then we’ll see if the narrative changes.

I agree with what you’re saying for the most part but Giannis is out here getting the #1 seed and MVPs. I don’t like when nikkas be out there dominating the regular season and then the energy is WAY different in the playoffs. Giannis looking suspect right now tbh.

 

[10bandz]

Jay Williams got him in his feelings with that one

Cuz he knows deep down he cost Wade a FMVP in 2011

 

[McPiff]

The coli armchair psychologists will never cease to amaze me.

 

[Mike18jj]

I'm all for athletes responding to people, just because someone is higher up don't mean they can't check people from time to time. Never have a problem with KD doing it.

 

[Lakerman0834]

Jay Williams got him in his feelings with that one

Jay Williams a bum who is a bust talking like he knows greatness.