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Who are the best wings Jordan had to go through? Any of them on the level of Kobe, LeBron, KD, Scumbag Wade, or Kawhi?
Nique, Worthy, Drexler...you can put GP in there if you want too. Hall of fame guys.
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Nique, Worthy, Drexler...you can put GP in there if you want too. Hall of fame guys.
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Yea, Plastic man would get the matchup whenever CHI went down to the Omni.
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Meth not a us, or I would get less warnings lol.
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Vernon Maxwell, John Starks, Nick Anderson & Penny, Hersey Hawkins,
None of them stars, but good players who played hard.
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Im actually glad Freeze posted that. I thought I was tripping before but I feel like it’s only been in the past couple weeks that I saw the “Staff Member” banner underneath your username. I very well could have and likely did miss it but for whatever reason I didn’t notice it until recently.
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Yea Penny wasn't know as a defender. Nick Anderson usually got that matchup.
With Seattle, VIncent Askew and GP took turns on that. Hersey was usually put on ROn HArper
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Is Meth actually a person? Or highly self-aware AI that developed a penchant for sneakers?
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Pretty good? Definitely. Sprewell is actually one of my favorite players. But compared to other All-NBA 1st team members throughout the history? Not so much.
It's pretty telling that probably the worst All-NBA 1st team selections ever are 3 guard spots from the 90s and 2 center spots from the 2010s:
Mark Price in 1992-93
Latrell Sprewell in 1993-94
Tim Hardaway in 1996-97
Joakim Noah in 2013-14
DeAndre Jordan in 2015-16
In LeBron's era, it is the quality of the big men that is terrible, but in Jordan's era it was the perimeter.
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True, and Penny actually was a star, so I’m not sure I thought that previous post through well enough...
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Additionally to DC's list MJ went through pre-injury Penny, 27 year old Steve Smith, Mashburn, 30 year old Glen Rice and 32 year old Reggie
So not on the level of today's very best wings but those are some solid names
So not on the level of today's very best wings but those are some solid names
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'So and so is REALLY with HER even though we thought he was with HEERRRRR? ERMAGERD!!'
What else is there to talk about? Literally anything else but that.
What kind of cars do certain players have?
What are their traveling destinations? Where do they like to go?
Who do we think can cook and who would be stuck with Ramen noodles if they had to really feed their own self without millions of dollars?
Who is good at certain board games?
Who is playing checkers, not chess, (if you know what I mean)?
Who could get away with walking down the street unnoticed like John Stockton did in Barcelona during the 92 Olympics?
Who has endorsement deals that they maybe regret?
Who can drive a stick shift? Who probably doesn't even know what a stick shift is (again, checkers, not chess)?
Who will be the next person to rob Aaron Gordon in a dunk contest?
Who will be the best of this growing wave of children of NBA players (post-Steph)?
Who would struggle in the world that you and I live in if they weren't extremely talented at basketball? Who would thrive?
Literally anything other than the junior high 'Hes with her? Oh my god. Wow, I thought he was with that other chick. Wait, she doesn't know?' When it turns to that, I feel like I should be trying to sneak into empty classrooms to plant porno mags in the desks of kids I don't like again.
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The original topic was "who were the best wings Jordan faced in the 90's" so Penny absolutely qualifiesTrue, and Penny actually was a star, so I’m not sure I thought that previous post through well enough...
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I thought people were trolling when they’d say MJ didn’t face any competition lol
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Is GP lying tho?
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I guess if you dominate your opponents the way he did, it can be viewed as not having any competition.
He never had a TMAC/AI to his Kobe, but there were players that were on a lower tier than he was that were still HOF Talents.
But I thought it shifted to who defended him the best, that is why I was talking about defenders after my first post.
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Either way it's good to mention both. Encapsulates what he faced in the 90's so it's productive to reference everyone from the HOF to the All Stars to the role players
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They are. Those are good players man
. Mike beat Magic coming off an MVP....in a year where Magic finished 2nd in mvp voting for his first chip...with james Worthy in ‘91. 91 Magic was incredible.And then Clyde....Clyde Drexler in ‘92 was considered like...the second best player or whatever. And was an athletic freak himself. They just showed you this on last dance
.Mike was just different...and put 39 & 10 on his head out the gate.
Then in ‘93....MVP chuck and a really deep PHX team. Mike averaged 40 & 9 on them....and a 55 point game.
3 straight chips. He just playing at another level. True definition of dominating the game. It’s like how Shaq ran the center position once he leveled up in LA. Nothing you could do with him. Tough team matchups in the west...then relative ease in the finals.Whoever he faced in the finals wasn’t going to have a shot. And Shaw did them dirty as he was supposed to...for 3 straight finals.
Be it rick smitts, mutumbo, Todd Maccoluch etc.
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What are the greatest teams MJ beat in a playoff series?
The Barkley Suns
Malone-Stockton Jazz
Payton-Kemp Sonics
Ewing Knicks
Shaq-Penny Magic
Reggie Miller Pacers
Interesting how not a single one of these great teams could exploit the two seasons the Bulls didn't win in the 90s to win a title. And this was during an era when Hakeem won a ring with the weakest supporting cast of all time.
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Bringing up Steve Smith was a good call. Looked it up and was surprised to see he only had one all-selection during his career. He had a good run of close to a decade when you could basically pencil him in for around 20 PPG.
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Has a single series win ever been capitalized on as much as this one? I feel like it changed everything for those guys especially after hoops
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