Closest to a 1 Man Army: '03 Magic, '06 Lakers, or '09 Heat?

[Wade's Rings]

Which of these teams was closest to being a 1 Man Man Army?

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[SouBeachTalents]

Early Jordan Bulls would be up there too

[97 bulls]

Id add 95 Pippen to the mix

[ShawkFactory]

Tmac

[smoovegittar]

Close between Lakers and Heat, but I gotta go with Wade.

[Fowl]

2014 Knicks.

[Wade's Rings]

Early Jordan Bulls would be up there too


Id add 95 Pippen to the mix

I picked these because of recent memory. Anyway which of these 3 would you go with?

[Angel Face]

Early Jordan Bulls would be up there too

This!

[97 bulls]

I picked these because of recent memory. Anyway which of these 3 would you go with?
Sorry. Didn't mean to hijack your thread. Id have to look at their records and rosters.

[kuniva_dAMiGhTy]

Taking competition into account, I would have to roll with Bean (it's close though).

~35/5/5 on 56%TS with Kwame Brown and Smush Parker as starters...is just unreal. Never mind the fact LAL made the playoffs, in the West, and were one rebound away from a semi-finals appearance.

[Cocaine80s]

2015 Cavs

[Sarcastic]

Id add 95 Pippen to the mix

To be a 1 man army, you gotta be a big time scorer. Pippen was never that.

[JT123]

2014 Heat. There was an apb out for Wade and Bosh during the Finals. :facepalm

[Wade's Rings]

2014 Heat. There was an apb out for Wade and Bosh during the Finals. :facepalm

I know Wade really lost them the series when he let Kawhi light him up for 69% shooting in the last 3 Games :confusedshrug:

[superteamtheory]

christ these teams were ****in awful..

I mean, Kobe's got Lamar... so I guess that's something..
Wade's got a washed up Jermaine O'Neal...

Some will say Magic have Pat Garrity but I dunno I think I gotta give the nod here to T-Mac.. and he loses to the #1 seeded Pistons in 7, the Pistons that are one year/Sheed away from a ring... and everybody thinks this is proof he's overhyped... even as this Pistons team goes onto the 03 conference finals he was 1 game away from playing in... (sort of like Pippen was 1 threefoulcall away from making it to 94 Finals...)

[RRR3]

TMac was playing with literal garbage on the Magic

[97 bulls]

To be a 1 man army, you gotta be a big time scorer. Pippen was never that.
Wow. Didn't know that leading your team in pts, rebds, assts, steals, blks, running the.offense, and anchoring a defense wouldn't constitute being a one man army. Especially when they all have essentially the same record. Good to know

[RRR3]

I know Wade really lost them the series when he let Kawhi light him up for 69% shooting in the last 3 Games :confusedshrug:
Lol pathetic. Wade was horrific in the 2014 finals. Missed layups galore. Payback for LeBron in 2011 I guess.

[Wade's Rings]

Lol pathetic. Wade was horrific in the 2014 finals. Missed layups galore. Payback for LeBron in 2011 I guess.

He gave a shit troll response so I gave him the same type of answer.

[RRR3]

He gave a shit troll response so I gave him the same type of answer.
Who? Jt? I have him on ignore lol

[CarlosBoozer]

I was born in 09, is there a more recent team?

[Wade's Rings]

Who? Jt? I have him on ignore lol

Yea him..I usually ignore him or just give him a Troll Response back lol

[Wade's Rings]

I was born in 09, is there a more recent team?

:oldlol:

[sammichoffate]

06 Lakers, Kobe was getting comparisons over MJ at the time

[Jacks3]

have to put 03 t-mac at #1. remarkable season.

[nzahir]

Lol pathetic. Wade was horrific in the 2014 finals. Missed layups galore. Payback for LeBron in 2011 I guess.
Wade was even worse than 2011 lebron, less efficient, less points, boards, assists, and worse D(manu and green were on fire the whole series)

[Angel Face]

Gotta give credit to Kobe here, 81 points; 63 in 3 quarters, 35ppg. Best scoring season of any player since MJ. Too bad the Lakers choked 3 - 1 lead against Suns. Still a good run from Kobe considering his one of his team mates was Kwame Brown.

[WayOfWade]

Like some poster said earlier, it's between the 06 Lakers and 09 Heat. But how can you not give the edge to Kobe in 06? I mean, the last time anyone averaged 35+ ppg was MJ like 20 years before that, & even put up 81 points in one game compared to Wade's 30 ppg and season high of 55 pts. The Lakers even put up a better record (I think, I could be wrong).

[jlip]

T-Mac in '03. He was screwed by the new playoff format. 2003 was the first season the 1st round had moved to 7 games. He may have gotten out of the first round if it were yet a 5 game series.

[SHAQisGOAT]

Not even comparing them as players but looking at the whole picture I'd probably say Wade's 2009 Heat, tbh.

All-time for a superstar, without thinking all that much, I'd single out Pistol Pete's 1977 Jazz...
Extremely shitty supporting cast overall, with a very unproven coach who did nothing further on, in a really balanced conference/league.
They were 34-39 for the 73 games he played in and finished the season at 35-47 (1-8 without him), 8W's away from making the Playoffs.
Maravich scored 50+ points 4 times as New Orleans won all of those games, he scored 40+ points 13x as they went 10-3, and 30+ 39x as they went 25-14.
Dude scored 36.4 PPG on 34W's and 26.6 on 39L's.
Pistol was EASILY the scoring champion, all-nba 1st, 3rd in the MVP ballot (as voted by the players) without making the post-season, 12th in the league and his team's best in APG, top5 in RPG amongst guards... Doing WAY too much, even for a player who used to overdo it a whole lot.

[Wade's Rings]

Like some poster said earlier, it's between the 06 Lakers and 09 Heat. But how can you not give the edge to Kobe in 06? I mean, the last time anyone averaged 35+ ppg was MJ like 20 years before that, & even put up 81 points in one game compared to Wade's 30 ppg and season high of 55 pts. The Lakers even put up a better record (I think, I could be wrong).

The Lakers won 45 Games and the Heat won 43.

[Jacks3]

06 Lakers: 48-34 expected W-L, 2.53 SRS

09 Heat: 42-40 expected W-L, 0.49 SRS

The Lakers were noticeably stronger and they did it while playing in a much, much better conference.

[superteamtheory]

Not even comparing them as players but looking at the whole picture I'd probably say Wade's 2009 Heat, tbh.

All-time for a superstar, without thinking all that much, I'd single out Pistol Pete's 1977 Jazz...
Extremely shitty supporting cast overall, with a very unproven coach who did nothing further on, in a really balanced conference/league.
They were 34-39 for the 73 games he played in and finished the season at 35-47 (1-8 without him), 8W's away from making the Playoffs.
Maravich scored 50+ points 4 times as New Orleans won all of those games, he scored 40+ points 13x as they went 10-3, and 30+ 39x as they went 25-14.
Dude scored 36.4 PPG on 34W's and 26.6 on 39L's.
Pistol was EASILY the scoring champion, all-nba 1st, 3rd in the MVP ballot (as voted by the players) without making the post-season, 12th in the league and his team's best in APG, top5 in RPG amongst guards... Doing WAY too much, even for a player who used to overdo it a whole lot.


lol... actually, this might be the answer.

but I think T-Mac's 03 was a special one that summarizes his career in many ways.. don't take it the wrong when I say: he's mostly a 1 dimensional scorer... and was so great as a 1 dimensional scorer he was able to take 80% of the 2004 champs (over ShaqKobe) to game 7 ..

[HylianNightmare]

Tmac

[Smoke117]

Heat 2009. Wade was elite and by far the highest impact player on his team both offensively and defensively. Neither Tracy or Kobe can say that.

[FKAri]

Regular season, Kobe.
In the playoffs, TMac
Wade is also really close imo.

[T_L_P]

TMac was playing with literal garbage on the Magic

Kobe had Lamar Odom.

T-Mac's best teammate was Mike Miller.

[GIF REACTION]

Lebron in 2009 and 2007 and 2014 and 2015 and 2013

[JT123]

Lebron in 2009 and 2007 and 2014 and 2015 and 2013
:applause: Bron is the only one man army to lead his team to multiple Finals appearances.

[Papaya Petee]

06 Lakers: 48-34 expected W-L, 2.53 SRS

09 Heat: 42-40 expected W-L, 0.49 SRS

The Lakers were noticeably stronger and they did it while playing in a much, much better conference.
Wtf is this garbage?

Lakers were 45-37 Heat were 43-39

If going by expected W-L, that means Kobe underachieved and Wade overachieved

[VIP2000]

Kobe had Lamar Odom.

T-Mac's best teammate was Mike Miller.

Mike Miller was actually traded halfway through the season for rookie Drew Gooden and rookie Gordon Giricek.

So his supporting cast in the playoffs consisted of:

Pat Garrity
Darrell Armstrong
Andrew DeClercq
Fat and washed up Shawn Kemp
Gordon Giricek
Drew Gooden
Jacque Vaughn
Pat Burke
Jeryl Sasser

[miles berg]

Kobe had Lamar Odom.

Gotta go with TMac here.

[gyu]

Mike Miller was actually traded halfway through the season for rookie Drew Gooden and rookie Gordon Giricek.

So his supporting cast in the playoffs consisted of:

Pat Garrity
Darrell Armstrong
Andrew DeClercq
Fat and washed up Shawn Kemp
Gordon Giricek
Drew Gooden
Jacque Vaughn
Pat Burke
Jeryl Sasser
This is the correct answer. Let's be honest, I bet most of you guys have never heard of most of them.

[Magic 32]

:applause: Bron is the only one man army to lead his team to multiple Finals appearances.

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[Dragonyeuw]

If you didn't know who the players were, which season at least statistically looks the best?

30.2 ppg, 7.5 apg, 5.0 spg, 2.2 spg, 1.3 bpg, .491% FG, .765% FT

32.1 ppg, 5.5 apg, 6.5 rpg, 1.7 spg, 0.8 bpg, .457% FG, .793% FT

35.4 ppg, 4.5 apg, 5.3 rpg,1.8 spg, 0.4 bpg, .450% FG, .850% FT