Michael Jordan memo to Kobe Bryant:

[QUOTE=Sarcastic]Mr 4 fer 20 in game 5 against Chalmers is gonna light up Magic and Stockton?

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I love that gif yo HAHAHAHAHA

Why are so many people doing the whole "comparing '92 Dream Team player to '12 player who he's most similar to or most likely to be matched up with"?

It doesn't work like that. Yes, at the end, if one team has the advantage in 7-8 of the 12 match-ups, then odds are they are goig to win, but not aways. The 1992 would win and is the better team for different reasons. They have more depth and versatility. Like rake said, they have Jordan, Pippen, Stockton, Malone, Ewing, D-Rob, Clyde, Barkley, and Mullin in the prime of HOF careers. The only players from the 2012 team that you can say are in the prime of a HOF career is LeBron, probably Durant (I guess he could suffer a career ending injury tomorrow and is HOF status would be in question), and maybe Paul. Kobe is a HOFer (obviously) but he's not in his prime and it's too soon to say with Love.

Oh, and quit using Larry Bird to back a '92 team argument. He could barely walk and barely played. If we're going to exclude injured guys like Wade and Howard from the 2012 team, and say Kobe is 34 and no longer in his prime, then there's no point in using Bird to make the '92 team look stronger. Sure, he'd be effective 5-10 minutes a game as a spot-up sniper but he'd be a major liability on defense unless you tried to hide him by playing zone.

[quote]Kobe is a student of the game and has learned a lot of from MJ, but he's also made some things on his own as well. I don't understand how you can look at the two players and think in a head to head matchup, both in their primes, Kobe is 10% away from Jordan. That's the very definition of trolling. [/quote]

No, it isn't - it's called reality. Do yourself a favor and watch some '90-'92 Jordan and say with a straight face that Kobe's ever been within 10% in terms of impact on games. 90% of Jordan is nearly prime Magic/Bird level, but Kobe is slightly below them - being 90% of Jordan doesn't make you some scrub. It makes you one of the 10-15 best players of all time at a minimum.

[QUOTE=OldSchoolBBall]No, it isn't - it's called reality. Do yourself a favor and watch some '90-'92 Jordan and say with a straight face that Kobe's ever been within 10% in terms of impact on games. [B] 90% of Jordan is nearly prime Magic/Bird level, but Kobe is slightly below them - being 90% of Jordan doesn't make you some scrub. It makes you one of the 10-15 best players of all time at a minimum.[/B][/QUOTE]
:biggums:

lol @ Kobe being a better off ball defender and post player than Jordan. Now I've heard everything. :oldlol: ****ing kids...

[QUOTE=Raz]CT: Ewing/ Robinson/ Laettner
PF: Barkley/ Malone
SF: Pippen/ Bird/ Mullin
SG: Jordan/ Drexler
PG: Johnson/ Stockton

CT: Chandler/ Love
PF: James/ Iguodala/ Griffin
SF: Durant/ Anthony
SG: Bryant/ Harden
PG: Paul/ Williams/ Westbrook

First thing that comes to mind is that absolutely no one on the current team can guard Charles Barkley. He's going to score almost every time he touches the ball. He shot 71% from the field. That's right, 71%. Jordan could make life difficult for anyone in the 2012 team's backcourt. Pippen and Malone could guard LeBron on different areas of the court, and when the 2012 tries LeBron and center, D-Rob would have been fast enough to keep up with him.

[B]The only weakness for the Dream Team was point guard, due to Stockton being injured, and Magic being slower.[/B] Pippen played a lot of point guard though, and excelled. Frankly, if Stockton is healthy, he and Pippen would ruin Paul, Williams and Westbrook.[/QUOTE]

This.

[QUOTE=RaininTwos]:biggums:[/QUOTE]
I know right.:oldlol:

Magic had more impact on 5v5 basketball games than Jordan could ever dream of.

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[QUOTE=RaininTwos]Kobe is a better shooter, better off ball defender and just as good in one on one situations, [B]plus his post game is all time nasty.[/B][/QUOTE]

So you either weren't alive, in a coma, or didn't watch the NBA in the mid to late 90's. Second 3-peat Jordan was a beast in the post.

[QUOTE=KG215]So you either weren't alive, in a coma, or didn't watch the NBA in the mid to late 90's. Second 3-peat Jordan was a beast in the post.[/QUOTE]
Now please refer me to where I said Jordan was garbage in the post.

Talking on the internet is disjointed for some reason.

It's clear at that point I was just pointing out how great Kobe's post game is. Keep assuming that I'm ignorant though.

[QUOTE=tontoz]

Who shuts down Deron, the guy who shot 40.7% this year? :oldlol:[/QUOTE]


LMAOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

[QUOTE=RaininTwos]He finds cutting big men on the regular for OKC, but now that he's playing with better big men he wont?

With the way you guys talk about him, I wonder how he gets assists.[/QUOTE]



He gets only 5.5 assists in 35 minutes and that is with the NBA's leading scorer on his team. :lol

[QUOTE=RaininTwos]Kobe is a better shooter, better off ball defender and just as good in one on one situations, plus his post game is all time nasty.[/QUOTE]
Better off ball defender? Wtf where are u getting this shit from

[QUOTE=tontoz]He gets only 5.5 assists in 35 minutes and that is with the NBA's leading scorer on his team. :lol[/QUOTE]
Now we are using assists to say that Westbrook can't pass to cutting big men.

Wow, I'm done here.

[QUOTE=Linspired]did you just said ewing & blake is nice even match up? and has an 'edge' on defensive end? :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll:


that's the funniest thing i've ever heard!!! blake couldn't do a damn thing about 50 year old tim duncan!!!!
ewing would make blake cry like a little baby! i mean we are talking about 29 year old ewing here!! what's going on in this board! ewing was a filthy animal!![/QUOTE]

Dude did you read??? I said Ewing has the edge on the defensive end...