correct 3ball. Thank you.
I am also going to get you to acknowledge that lebron is in fact indisputably top-5 as you used to argue that he isnt top 15.
Did you actually watch the series?
Nope.
absolutely not. Mo williams was putrid in that series. Mj on those cavs would absolutely not have beaten that magic team.
That version of lebron in that series was as good as he was any of the years that he won the championship. So 2012, 2013, 2016. And he was hitting his jumpshots that year and in that series, rendering your other point irrelevant.
The cavs just couldnt guard the magic and mj wouldnt fix that. The magic had three different mismatches that they were exploiting. Dwight abusing z, 6'9 rashard and 6'9 hedo shooting over 6'3 delonte. Who was their second best perimeter defender. Lebron could only guard one at a time.
Even if mj shut down one of the two between hedo and rashard, it wouldnt make a difference because all 3 players were scorching. Dwight finally had someone that he could score on for the only time in his life. We know he sucks on offense.
Not to mention mj would be the only scorer carrying the entire offensive load - mo williams was a complete no-show. 40ppg wouldnt cut it.
When the magic played the lakers in the next round in the finals, the magic had zero mismatches that they could exploit. Because ariza was a capable defender and gasol and odom were both mobile and long, and they destroyed dwight. And then kobe and fisher outclutched them. Much better team than the 09 cavs.
Every single version of mj would've gotten destroyed playing with delonte west and mo williams and anderson varejao and old z.
Mj hasnt won a single thing without the bulls team that won 55 games without him. I doubt those guys on the cavs would win 25 games, let alone 55 games.