Current LeBron could have lead the 2003 Wizards in the nba finals

[TheGoatest]

Funny how old Jordan gets a free pass for not making the playoffs with those Wizards in a conference where a team whose leading scorer averaged 14.9 points made the finals.
Yet a 39 year-old Karl Malone and a 40 year-old John Stockton were perfectly capable of leading their team to the playoffs in the significantly tougher western conference.

[Axe]

Funny how old Jordan gets a free pass for not making the playoffs with those Wizards in a conference where a team whose leading scorer averaged 14.9 points made the finals.
Yet a 39 year-old Karl Malone and a 40 year-old John Stockton were perfectly capable of leading their team to the playoffs in the significantly tougher western conference.

Jerry sloan > doug collins

[TheGoatest]

Jerry sloan > doug collins

2001-03 west >>> 2001-03 east

[Axe]

2001-03 west >>> 2001-03 east

Yup, pretty much.

[TheGoatest]

Good, glad that we agree that Jordan couldn't make the playoffs in the significantly inferior conference during both of his seasons with the Wizards.

[Axe]

Lol @you not noticing that i was only augmenting your point further. Sloan was truly a better coach than collins ever was. And idc about baldan that much after his days in chicago were already over.

[TheGoatest]

It seems that you were trying to justify Jordan failing to make the playoffs because he had a bad coach. He should've been able to make the playoffs regardless of who his coach was.

[Axe]

But i ain't so chill out with the projections. And i'm not one of those who think that he can bring another team to a postseason trip because he was pretty much rusty already after a two-season vacation.

[Bawkish]

Current Lebron couldn't even enter the playoffs last year

[Spurs m8]

How insecure are you, op?

All you seem to do is make these fantasy threads...

Your boy is a loser...deal with it

[Kiddlovesnets]

He can’t, the nets team in 2003 were dominant in the east conference playoffs, winning 10 straight on their way to the finals with 2 sweeps in ECSF and ECF. Even the spurs needed 6 games including a monstrous game 6 to hold off that Nets team, LeBron at 35 ain’t going to beat them with the Wizards rosters.

[Reggie43]

The East was at arguably its all time worst so of course Lebron could have lead that team to the Finals.

[TheGoatest]

The East was at arguably its all time worst so of course Lebron could have lead that team to the Finals.

Those two Nets finals teams are hands down the worst finalists to represent a conference two years in a row in the history of the league.

And I respect the hell out of Jason Kidd. But we're talking about teams whose leading scorers averaged 14.9 (2002) and 18.7 (2003) points per game, and whose second best player by a huge margin was Kenyon Martin.

[Lebron23]

It seems that you were trying to justify Jordan failing to make the playoffs because he had a bad coach. He should've been able to make the playoffs regardless of who his coach was.

Doug Collins is actually a good coach. His grant hill led Pistons won 54 games in the late 1990's.

[Overdrive]

C Ethan Thomas F Kwame Brown, F LeBron James G G Jerry Stackhouse G Larry Hughes. He won 50 games with Larry Hughes as his 2nd scoring option in 2006. Stackhouse said he hated playing with MJ because MJ wanted to be the no.1 option even though he was already washed up in 2003. Stackhouse averaged 29.8 ppg in 2001. A healthy lebron is going to leelevate that team.

No he could not. The Nets were better and current Lebron needs a reliable second scorer. Stackhouse's 30 points on 30 shots won't cut it. The RIP version is a better fit for him.

Prime Lebron could.