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Team also had 4 all-stars. I do recognize kobe was young but still.And Shaq was in his prime. He has already been in the league 6 full seasons.
Team also had 4 all-stars. I do recognize kobe was young but still.And Shaq was in his prime. He has already been in the league 6 full seasons.
Kobe was literally 19 goddamn years old in the 98 playoffsI pointed this out earlier that Shaq and Kobe had so many issues with this Jazz squad including a sweep in the conference finals in 98. These new I will devalue the teams jordan played shyt is such bullshyt.
They lost before they got to Jordan though. Read the thread. They got eliminated in the 89 first round by a 43 win Warriorsthey didn't win because Jordan didn't let a lot of folks eat.
U don’t know shytHow could you go on a scoreless drought in today's league where nobody is playing defense? The Celtics...a supposed... "great" defensive team have had a handful of games this postseason that rank near the WORST defensive ratings you'll ever see. They actually have a worse defensive rating vs. the Heat than San Antonio did in the regular season. The team picking first in the draft.
And it's not like the Heat are "shot makers" on a consistent basis like people wrongly say. They have hideous regular season numbers. Gabe Vincent scored 0 points in a play in game. This isn't great basketball we're looking at.
There's other issues too. GSW one of the "best" offensive teams in this era and they can't beat a 38-year old LeBron and a broken down Anthony Davis? Does that sound familiar?
Actually it does sound familiar, that sounds just like the late 90s when Jordan was coasting to the finals at an old age. LeBron and Steph are still among the best because the new generation of talent who are supposed to be "shot makers" are overrated and can't get the job done when it matters.
The Knicks this year one of the best teams in the East... they had a point guard who was a backup in Dallas scoring all their points and their next biggest star is Julius Randle.
This "deep era" is getting exposed left and right.
Quoted for emphasisU don’t know shyt
Maybe if they missed more regular season games they’d win more games that matterMalone missed 10 games in 18 seasons
Stockton missed 22 games in 19 seasons
That’s what impresses me
U don’t know shyt
@Eric Brooks be watching players like Jalen Brunson cook on some “why is this nikka cooking like this” shyt
He just can’t be cold and exemplary of the talent in the league today it has to be that he don’t stack up to some 80’s/90’s point guards who had to post up past the timeline
All tight because the game passed him by
I'd argue they could grab 1 in the 70s, particularly the back half.To put it simply, there is no era where Stockton/Malone are champions.
If you put them out west the last 20 years they aren’t winning titles either
Bro, you don’t know what you are talking about.Yeah, but no good Black players wanted to play for Utah.
Teams like Utah, Milwaukee, & OKC will always have trouble winning becaues there's ZERO reason for any real players to go there voluntarily
And any great players they draft or acquire, will be leaving soon, if they're African-AMERICAN
It's another reason I don't judge Malone & Stockton as much as others.
Imagine who they would've played with if they played in New York, L.A., hell even Atlanta.
so he coached Robinson and Elliot for two seasons?He was the coach from 1988-1992, I'm pretty sure that's the David Robinson/Sean Elliott era
You mean Shaq needed another HOFer player to win a title? Utah had a HOF pairing for a decade and didn’t go in their primes. That’s the point!We don't do that here. We pretend Shaq wasn't a loser that needed two top 5 guards of all time to win anything
No one is devaluing Jordan but you all.I pointed this out earlier that Shaq and Kobe had so many issues with this Jazz squad including a sweep in the conference finals in 98. These new I will devalue the teams jordan played shyt is such bullshyt.