The average NBA career is 5 years, and here you are saying Kidd who needed well over a decade to finally add a J to his name is proof many others would have done the same while knowing most NBA careers dont have a decade worth of bricks to eventually become good shooters.
"You didn't call Joker as the next anything"
Why do you keep going on about this "your thread" nonsense, as if it's not transparent that you're deflecting every single time you bring it up?
On the teams he became a reliable shooter, he was taking open threes because the attention was on other offensive players.
Malone’s scoring method was limited. I think Stockton would have easily adapted to the variety of ways Barkley could score.
In the finals, the Bulls were always the favorite team. Even in 91. That was a Laker team on it's last legs with a man who just contracted HIV. I mean.... that wasn't the 80sthat twitter thread noted 3 of 6 MJ championships were against perennial chockers in Seattle and Utah, but I would add Portland to that list as well. So 2/3 not half . And that's nothing against MJ because he deserves all his props
I mean you do kinda have a point. Like who did the bad boy pistons ever really beat? The pre dynasty bulls? The corpse of Kareem and no magic in the 89 finals? Even if Magic was healthy in 89 that wasn’t like the 85 or 87 teams
The 80’s west was mostly garbage. In the 1987 playoffs they didn’t face 1 50 win team to get to the finals
The year the Lakers became the first team, to win back to back championships in 20 seasons, they had the Jazz, Mavs, and Rockets who were good teams
Celtics. They should’ve beat in the Celtics the year prior if Isaiah didn’t throw that dumb ass pass.
Some of the teams they were losing to were nobodies or teams that never won anything though. It’s not like they were losing to the champs or anything most of the time
