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Right. Saying Bird would have a harder time getting his shot now is 100% backwards. He would be unguardable.
He'd be pumping out 35 a game. He had Steph's range 35 years ago and had a better inside game than anyone in today's game
Modern day Don King except this one pimps his kids.
If you want to see true high quality defense from the past, find video of the last 6 minutes of games 5,6 and 7 of the 1981 Eastern Conference Finals when Bird and company shut down Philadelphia..
Not really he was the star on teams that didn't play as a team vs the powerhouse teams aka Celtics with Bird and Lakers with Magic and Detroit. Until he grew up and they went away.
Yup. Jordan benefitted from timing more than any athlete. He went into his prime just as all the old 80’s powerhouses started dying off and his first title was against an aging Lakers on their last legs without Kareem. Shift Jordan’s career in any direction and he immediately has stiffer competition whether it’s the 80’s powerhouses or the Lakers of the early 2000’s and Pop’s Spurs. That’s why I always give Lebron the benefit of the doubt as far as competition. Jordan would not have gotten to the Finals as much if he had to go through a Big 3 Celtics and if he did those Lakers teams with Kobe and Gasol were a level above who he played in the Finals. Then when he went to Miami he had to go against the Spurs twice and then just went through 4 straight Finals against Golden State who BEFORE Durant came there were being compared to Mike’s best teams. Jordan still is better and has the better resume but there is really little doubt that Jordan’s career was on a sweet spot where he played between dynastic runs
Best line I ever heard about the '85-86 team was Bill Walton's that the toughest games they ever had were the scrimmages between the #1 and the #2s and that the #2 ( Walton, Wedman, Carlisle, Sichting and.... ) could have won 50 games... As it was, they [ED-the team] won 67 games and cruised to the championship....
If this ****head's prediction DOES come true, his shotless son will be on the bench and have a great courtside seat now that Rondo is there.
