LeBron is just as good a defender as prime Scottie Pippen

[Yao Ming's Foot]

What year was that?

'about 8 months ago

[kenny817]

a prime pibb you say?



i dont really remember pibb, anyone else? was it kinda like dr pepper?

Yep exactly like Dr. Pepper just a different name

[jimmy77x]

If you can go 2 weeks without picking up a personal foul, sorry thats not defense, his is average at best. He's protected by the league next.

[SyRyanYang]

Breaking news everyone, Joey3000 has gone on record.

Full story later tonight.

[arifgokcen]

Lebron will never have that Pippen's role where he is totally committed to defense on every possession to the point where he has another player capable of carrying the offensive load like MJ did. Wade is slowly past his prime so he is not that guy anymore. So even if LeBron is as good as Pippen is (I dont think he is yet), he will never be given the opportunity to show it. At least i hope not because Miami would be severely misusing him if that were the case.

Agreed he is very close to pippen though when engaged even durant struggles to score on him.

[Joey3000]

Ummm...last year in The Finals

noob

First of all, u are delusional if u think anybody "IN THE HISTORY" of the game can gaurd or slow down Durant. A team effort would force him to get someone lese on the team involved. Durant would roast any defender, u name them: Jordan, Pippen, James, Kobe.. etc. Dude is just a beast.

[Joey3000]

Loooook you scumbags:

Lebron is just as good as Pippen on the defensive end. Stop making up myths about past players whom most of you never seen play.

[chips93]

Loooook you scumbags:

Lebron is just as good as Pippen on the defensive end. Stop making up myths about past players whom most of you never seen play.

people are only making fun of you because you take yourself so seriously as to make a thread, and 'go on the record' about your boring opinions

do you really think that you're that important, that people need to know, who you consider a better defender?

[Joey3000]

people are only making fun of you because you take yourself so seriously as to make a thread, and 'go on the record' about your boring opinions

do you really think that you're that important, that people need to know, who you consider a better defender?

Well im kinda a big deal.

[pauk]

Did Pippen ever allow somebody to average 31 pts on a 55/40/84 line on him in the Finals?

I thought the 90s was a weak era? :)

Battier mostly defended Durant, not like Lebron didnt defend him aswell but Durant as a pure shooting perimeter player at almost 7 feet is impossible to stop from shooting anyways..... Pippen never defended someone like that at his position in any of his finals, not even close... neither did he ever defend a perimeter player of that caliber or better at all in the Finals..... except for one guy you could say, Magic Johnson and with only Pippen & Jordan guarding him Magic averaged almost a 20 point triple double in that Finals as far as i remember...

Lebron & Pippen had very similar defense, especially when speaking of versatility... nobody could guard basically all positions as well as they could... but the biggest reason to why i lean more towards Pippen defensively is because his complementary role allowed him to work more as a defensive specialist than Lebron, as in he was able to focus more of his energy on defending than Lebron as this god called Jordan had his back completely on the offensive side (and even chipped in defensively aswell)....

[NumberSix]

Yeah, but Pippen creeps through the fog with his saggin' deuce.

[Whoah10115]

Lebron has only one season and two playoff runs played at that all-time elite defensive level. He was great his last two years in Cleveland, his first season in Miami, and has been very good this year.


And, even in that season and two playoff runs, he's not as good as Pippen.

[Yao Ming's Foot]

I thought the 90s was a weak era? :)

Battier mostly defended Durant, not like Lebron didnt defend him aswell but Durant as a pure shooting perimeter player at almost 7 feet is impossible to stop from shooting anyways..... Pippen never defended someone like that at his position in any of his finals, not even close... neither did he ever defend a perimeter player of that caliber or better at all in the Finals..... except for one guy you could say, Magic Johnson and with only Pippen & Jordan guarding him Magic averaged almost a 20 point triple double in that Finals as far as i remember...

Lebron & Pippen had very similar defense, especially when speaking of versatility... nobody could guard basically all positions as well as they could... but the biggest reason to why i lean more towards Pippen is defensively is because his complementary role allowed him to work more as a defensive specialist than Lebron, as in he was able to focus more of his energy on defending than Lebron as this god called Jordan had his back completely on the offensive side (and even chipped in defensively aswell)....

So who did Lebron guard in the Finals? and how can I take him seriously as a defensive legend if hes not actually guarding anybody worth a damn in the most important games of the season? What good is Lebron being able to allegedly guard so many different positions if his team is getting killed by Rondo, then Dwight, then Dirk then Durant?

[(e)]

Well im kinda a big joke.

fixed

[NumberSix]

Lebron has only one season and two playoff runs played at that all-time elite defensive level. He was great his last two years in Cleveland, his first season in Miami, and has been very good this year.


And, even in that season and two playoff runs, he's not as good as Pippen.

People love using the rules changes against offense, but you have to do so for defense as well. defenders in Pippen's era had much more leeway with what they could do to the offensive player.

LeBron does a fantastic job staying in front of players with his feet and his team defense is beyond Pippen's. If LeBron could hand check a moving offensive player, he's be as effective or more so of a man2man defender than Pippen.