Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2017 5:06 am Post subject: So Where is KD in the all time great ranking now? MVP checked, NBA finals MVP check, multi scoring champs checked, championship ring checked
Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2017 9:03 am Post subject: Re: So Where is KD in the all time great ranking now? MVP checked, NBA finals MVP check, multi scoring champs checked, championship ring checked
governator wrote:
Ahead of Malone?
Top 10? 15?
Last year, ESPN ranked him 22. He might have moved up a couple of notches, but it's hard to gauge someone in the middle of their career, especially after a success.
people say how well lebron played, but i felt he stacked his stats in the first half.
KD was just a monster the entire freaking series. Unreal, definitely the best player in the finals in my opinion.
Lebron is a career stat padder. Great player, but a stat padder.
KD was the best player on the floor the entire series.
I tend to agree. It's a testament to Lebron's greatness that he can look uninvolved and disinterested during a game yet end up with a gaudy stat line. Still, when you watch him, you can't help but want more from him especially during those moments when he should be taking over games.
none of the champs now can be compared to the previous ones because of the way the teams were formed. THey did not have to fight for it and deal with stuff like from eras before. So while it's possible to make the comaprison to malone or stockton, its not really fair. Malone and Stockton stuck through thick and thin together instead of jumping ship (ignoring malone's laker experiment). They didn't win, but the carried a far bigger load than these new guys. i mean, isn't this stating the obvious?? are we really going to just blindly place durant at the top because of this, or lebron?
also, regarding these new superteams...they are so much better than their competition and have so many capable individuals, that regardless of durant, curry, lebron, etc. what they are doing is this:
they can save their energy for most of the game, even important ones, and just bust out in the important minutes, like the last minute of the finals where durant scored 7. he was well rested, didn't need to do much except easy buckets early in the game. this is very different than the pistons hounding mj, and mj fighting for those points etc. they aren't even breathing heavy for these all important finals games. it's so easy.
1. Michael Jordan
2. Kobe Bryant
3. Magic Johnson
4. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
5. LeBron James
6. Larry Bird
7. Bill Russell
8. Wilt Chamberlain
9. Shaquille O'Neal
10. Tim Duncan
11. Hakeem Olajuwon
12. Jerry West
13. Moses Malone
14. Oscar Robertson
15. Kevin Durant
16. Stephen Curry
17. Karl Malone
people say how well lebron played, but i felt he stacked his stats in the first half. s.
Perceptions are interesting. His actual stats were:
21/5/5 in the first half.
20/8/3 In the second half.
wasnt long before the lebronsexuals showed up
I understand. Actual facts can be very inconvenient and hard to deal with
how were his shooting percentages per quarter?
I too understand that you need to defend him in every post.
Lebron isn’t an emotional topic for me. I feel no need to defend him or attack him.
I am emotional about facts. It bothers me we are in an age when people make up facts, and when their errors are pointed out, they become upset and defensive.
But I get that many more people are the opposite of me -- they are emotional about players and indifferent to or casual about facts.
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Do people care about this kind of thing? On the real seriously?
if the question is "do people care who is the best in competitive sports?" then the answer is yes. sports is fundamentally about answering that question, lol. do people care who was the greatest military commander is history? yes.
How many of those 20 pts came after the game was over and he started padding his stats with layups?
2 of his 20 points came after the game was over.
However, if you think the game was over at 2:30 with the score 115-126, you would say 4. However, the Cavs have shown they can outscore any team (even the Warriors) by 11 points in 2:30, so I stick with 2.
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