Would Rook MJ dominate Bron? Playing in today's game with their rules Yes.
You're cutting off your nose to spite your face with this.
You know cotdamn well a rookie MJ is not doing this, and you know that if you acknowledge that, it'll undermine your whole position. You're painfully transparent.
Break it down like how you did with everything else, using minutes, shots per game, the many dribbles it would take to score, you did all of that to prove your point about how Luka scored his points, how A.I. wouldn't attempt his shots etc,
Let's break it down:
A rookie MJ would've likely been drafted to a lottery team, and that team would've likely been either going through the early stages of rebuild or on a treadmill team with journeymen players who've been cast aside by the rest of the league, so the likelihood that iteration of MJ would even be on a team good enough to compete with a prime Bron (on a much greater team), would be improbable. No different to a rookie Bron in Cleveland in 2003, with a roster full of inexperienced players, fringe NBA talent and league-average vets, going up against MJ in his prime with prime Pippen, prime Horace and all the high-level role players, who have established chemistry as a collective and have been battle-tested.
Right off the bat, a rookie MJ would be at a significant disadvange. Even a prime MJ in this scenario would be at a significant disadvantage if he was just thrown onto a lottery team who he had no experience playing with.
That's before we even get into the glaring issue with your hypothetical - being that a rookie version of MJ had no prior experience playing in a league relative to the NBA; he was mentally in his infant stage of professional play; he had no relative experience of winning in a professional capacity; he had no relative experience of adjusting his game; he was at his physical weakest; he had no relative experience of leading grown men - he would've stood no chance of having even the slightest hope of competing with, let alone dominate, a prime Bron.
The fact that obviousness of this needs to be laid out for you to understand, is troubling.
In this current Era with the freedom of movement
Your ignorant, misinformed, delusional ass doesn't even know what 'freedom of movement' is, nor do you understand how to contextulize it in comparison to the the year that MJ drafted, that had much weaker defenses and less-advanced defensive schemes.
The 90s had much easier scoring conditions because of illegal defensive rules -
A Rook MJ would dominate a prime Bron, MJ quickness will be too much for Bron, MJ can create his own shot, MJ is much quicker off the dribble, Bron was never and has never been a good 1 on 1 defender, that's why he started the whole ducking superstars, he never matched up the entire game on an opponent superstar.
Here you go again, simplifying the situation to this reductive ass shyt.
I could care less about how you falsely believe in how a rookie MJ would score against Bron, when it's built on such flimsy, elementary reasoning. The game isn't 1v1, so regardless of however MJ scores, it would be a drop in the ocean going up against a team with prime Bron. MJ's team would NOT be competitive. A Prime Bron, in a established defensive setup, with players who he has relative-extensive experience playing alongside, and whom have their own defensive chops, would completely overwhelm a rookie MJ on that end of the floor.
Furthermore, why are you emphasizing a point around how Bron wouldn't be able to guard rookie MJ here, when a young, much smaller and less physically-developed MJ would not stand a chance guarding a prime Bron, who would be at hit the peak of his athletic and relative-strength powers, is more to the point. Or do you seem to think a rookie MJ could defend a prime Bron, more than the contrary? Infinitely greater defenders than rookie MJ couldn't defend prime Bron - you're not seriously going to tell me that version of MJ could defend him, right? If you don't believe MJ could defend him, then what's the point of even arguing this nonsense?
A rookie MJ is not beating a prime Bron, under any circumstances. Period.
p.s. MJ didn't defend opposing superstars during his day. That's what Pippen and the likes of Harper were used for. And as much as you like to believe Bron wasn't a good 1v1 defender, MJ was much less so. His strengths on defense were never 1v1. Your shooting yourself in the foot with your own arguments.
I asked your goofy ass if Luka 18, 19 would put up points against a 1993 New York Team and you still haven't answered it, You made it seem like Luka would be doing x, y, and z if he came into the league at that age, so what I did was test out that dumb ass take you mentioned,
Luka would put up points; winning/dominating is another thing, altogether, that would be completely dependent on the team he was on.
I've already told you countless times the relevance of Luka's experience playing against grown men before being drafted to the NBA. You choosing to believe that I'm making it seem like Luka would come in right from his rookie season and dominate every single team, is a fictive you've created in your own head.
He'd undoubtedly need time to adjust to the league just like every single player that's ever been thrust into the situation in the first place.
Nobody* is a finished product in their rookie season, so it begs the question, why do you keep trying to spam this point about rookie players? Are you under the impression that players don't ever get better from their rookie years? That if someone like Luka wouldn't ever develop beyond what he'd show during his 1st year in the league?
