being a playoffs caliber team in the east doesnt mean much, it never has.
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being a playoffs caliber team in the east doesnt mean much, it never has.
You're insane. You claim you've been watching basketball since the 80's and say some stupid shat like that? The East have owned the West for many stretches in the last 20 years.
the bulls aside the west has COMPLETELY dominated the lame east.
lakers have 8 championships since 1980.
houston has 2
spurs have 3
since 1999 to 2005 the lakers and spurs won 6 of 7 championships. in the 90's (jordan's era of dominance the west won 3 rings as well) in the 80's the lakers (western powerhouse) had 5 rings and 9 finals appearences.
russell's era side the east has always been weaker than the west, i dont see how that is even debateable
and this isnt about championships, this is about teams, the east has always had less strong teams than the west which is why bad teams make the playoffs, the bulls once made the playoffs with a 30-52 record for christs sake, thats how weak the east has been for the last 2 1/2 decades.
Yeah, but you're simply looking at Finals winners. Miami just won the title, but you wouldn't say the East was better than the West this year, would you?
The East have had more quality teams from the late 80's all the way to the late 90's. It's not just the Bulls. The championship Pistons of the early 90's were a quality team. Same with the Pat Riley Knicks all the way through the 90's. Teams that make the playoffs and go deep in the playoffs every year.
Since you like looking at Finals winners so much.... Just remember: If Jordan didn't retire for baseball, the East would've ran a decade of championships (from the Bad Boy Pistons to what would've been 8 straight rings for Chicago) without the West winning one.
that is bs and cant be proved, the olajuwon-led rockets matched up damn well to the bulls.
Since 1980, East has won 14 times and West has won 13 times. Just thought I'd throw that out there.
[QUOTE=lakers-city]
06 mavericks >>>>>>>>>>>>>> the cavs jordan scored 69 against.[/QUOTE]
Er.... no. Not quite.
[B]1990 Cavs[/B]
G - Mark Price
G- Craig Ehlo
F- Larry Nance
F- Hot Rod Williams
C- Brad Daugherty
Bench: Winston Bennett, Chucky Brown
I'll take the 1990 Cavs vs. the '05-'06 Mavs any day. The Cavs had size, speed, defense, very good point guard play, good ball movement. I would love to see Dirk try to get off with Nance on him.
EDIT: I have both games on DVD and watched them back-to-back recently. Hands-down, Jordan's was the more impressive performance. Not to diminish what Kobe did, but basically he was basically just shooting all night. Jordan actually played defense, grabbed rebounds, etc. When you watch the games its real clear who the better player was. And I'm not a Kobe-hater, just acknowledging the truth.
[QUOTE=Xplicit]Jordan x1000.
[B]How can say with a straight face that Kobe's was more impressive? [/B]You people saying that are the same ones complaining about the rules today against defending wing-players. You complain about how guys like Wade and Lebron have it so easy nowadays without handchecking.. yet you totally fail to mention that Jordan scored his 69 with guys physically abusing him all game. Kobe would NEVER score 69, let alone 81, in Jordan's day with the same handchecking rules. NEVER[/QUOTE]
Because Mj had 5 extra minutes to further increase his stats.
[QUOTE=Indian guy]MJ.
Better overall numbers(18 rebs, 6 assists, 4 stls and 1 blk) against a [b]playoff[/b] team.[/QUOTE]
What about 62 in 3 quarters against the WC champs? :confusedshrug:
[QUOTE=picc84]What about 62 in 3 quarters against the WC champs? :confusedshrug:[/QUOTE]
You can do the same thing for Jordan, bring up his other games, but this thread is just comparing these [B]2 [/B].
Sure. But he acted as if Kobe couldnt do it to a playoff team. When he did arguably better to the WC champions. It completely invalidates the argument "but it was the raptors".
Too bad MJ didnt score one more bucket. 71 sounds like so much more than 69.
yo someone had this analogy earlier on that comparing Kobe's 82 to Jordan's 69/18 to paying with 82 dollars versus paying with 69 dollars and 18 cents when you buy something. And I'd just like to say to whoever made that analogy.. that is positively the worst analogy in the history of human civilization. it is wrong on so many levels I don't even know where to start so I won't. I'm just gonna lay this on the table. that was positively horrible.
I tried to find this for torrent and I searched "jordan 69" and I got like THOUSANDS of porn links :roll::roll:
who is this Jordan Capri? I'd better investigate. very busy girl it seems.