by Dee4Three on Sun Feb 18, 2018 2:02 am
NovU, Jordan is not my "hero". I just think he is the greatest basketball player of all time. I've even said that if he hadn't retired through 93-94 and part of 94-95, that I think Hakeem would still have one or both titles. I don't think the Bulls had an answer for him. And yes, LeBron is a big part of that 29th in defense, and I never said that numbers don't matter, I said it was possible to stat pad your defense. I'll say again, it's clear to see LeBron's agenda when he is playing, it's play as lazy as possible on defense while sneaking in for a stat here or there, while stat padding his offense while holding the ball and looking for the assist pass, or plowing when the game is out of hand for a few extra points. It doesn't take a 3 digit IQ to see or understand that, so you have me worried. And dude, seriously? LeBron says that he feels the best in his career this season, but you are going to mention his minutes as an excuse compared to a 38-40 year old Jordan? He is still 5-7 years YOUNGER.
Hova, the game I watched I saw him start out on Roberson, and proceed to cover him when he was on the floor. If you saw different and he started off on Melo, or covered him a lot of the game, I take back that comment on that specific game. But I saw him on Roberson, just like Mbah a Moute, Henson/Liggins. However, the Cavs vs Thunder game I watched was before the trades happened, so you might be right in that regard. Maybe after the trades he has started taking better players on the other end.
In regards to his effort, I've never seen a player who is considered one of the best or the best take so many plays off. Or just not take pride on the defensive end. I've also never seen so much obvious stat padding in my life. Again, I'm not the only one, his teammates were rumored to be pissed about his defense rant because he was also not playing defense (In fact, that previous posession before the rant he just stands there), and the stat padding is obvious and has been called out. So what are you guys really arguing?
He stat pads, obvious. He takes a ton of plays off, obvious. He's been exploited, obvious. He's covering weak offensive players on the other teams (sometimes the worst), obvious from the games I've watched.
All the reasons why I consider him overrated.
And NovU, you can absolutley be considered biased towards LeBron, or in your words "Licking his balls", as you disregard the negative and only stand up for what you consider the positive. Also, it's quite obvious that you are biased towards the other forum members that are your "favorites", as you will never call them out, or make negative comments, or do a contest of anything they say even if you disagree with it, because that wouldn't be the cool thing to do. Shut your pointless mouth, fucking christ. If someone strongly favors a player to another player, and gives his stance on why, he is "Licking his balls", no dumbass, it's called a strong conviction on one player compared to another. Are you 8 years old? Those comments are reserved for 8 year olds, the licking balls comments. Grow up.
And Diamenz, I agree. It's not even close defensively, LeBron has one thing ahead of Jordan and that is size. I also think that way on offense, Jordan is light years ahead of James offensively, it's not even close. In pure basketball skill, Jordan beats him by a mile. Even Olajuwon said that you couldn't compare the two because it's not close (after working out with James).