Expert jumpshooters can develop great teams over time by fostering great chemistry that allows teammates to play well and allows the team to seamlessly add guys like Porzingas.
Otoh, Luka's reliance on ball-dominance means that he lacks the skill to fit with Porzingas or Brunson, while Tatum developed a great chemistry that can fit ANY player...
If you want athletic dominance and most entertaining with a play style that's almost more like a work of art than sport, probably like 1990 or 1991.
If you want grizzled master of the game and full mental dominance of the sport and the best display of a will to win probably like 1996 or 1997.
Probably a combination of things
- He doesn't run/sweat much in practise, he's an established star now so a coach is not going to wear him down.
- Pro athletes do have access to a shit ton of food, fully catered at the arena, hotels, on team flights, etc. etc. etc. If you want to eat ... I mean it's gonna be there for you.
A small discrepancy that doesn't change the point being made - Lebron had numerous "pippens" but failed to achieve anywhere near the team performance that MJ did... Heck, he was a miracle away from 1 for 4 with Wade/Bosh and his 2/4 included goat choke and record loss, so it's the worst 2/4 possible...
Lebron re-confirmed his horrible winning...
because the "heliocentric", aka "down-hill" or ball-dominant skillset freezes out teammates... so even though this guy is getting 50/20/20, teammates still have to get 50-90 points to win the game, and they simply can't against the best teams with that brand of ball
So the 50/20/20 player would have a lottery record on the championship level...
How hilarious would that be if the Lakers signed Ham to a new deal to coach them after Hurley said no, and they just completely publicly ignored the fact Ham just was the coach and got fired two months ago.
Just introduced him like he was brand new and announced how excited they are to welcome Darvin Ham as coach of the Lakers.
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All this controversy/media attention in itself is great for the WNBA, if I'm the commissioner of that league secretly I'm loving it.
WNBA is going to grow in popularity a lot in the next 5-10 years.
They've gone from a non-story sport that got no mention on mainstream sports media to being mentioned weekly now.
Shit, even the "women's...
That chart was long-debunked because a top-heavy league with 2 super-teams, aka only 2 Finals-caliber teams will have higher net ratings (beat everyone else by more) compared to a parity league with MANY finals-caliber teams (where every series is a bloodbath of evenly-matched teams)...
the latter is obviously the tougher path (having many...
Peak by far, unless the peak is short where you don't get a proper sense of what the player was, but Jordan won like 6 championships, back to back 3 peats, like you got a very length look at him dominating the league both individually and team wise.
This isn't like Yao Ming or Penny Hardaway or something where like injuries prevented you from...
Longevity is playing at a lower level for longer
So the "lower level" part means inferior basketball, aka not GOAT basketball
Otoh, Jordan is the only player that played goat offense and goat defense for his entire prime (88-98') - no one is anywhere near this - he was scoring champ and 1st team defense from 88-98'
In addition to being...
To me, longevity just means sample size. In basketball you don't need a huge sample size to gauge a player's level. In football(either of them) it's more important and in baseball longevity is everything.
Some people like to argue, "X would only make my team a contender for 5 while Y would do it for 8 years." I don't factor that in.
Michael Jordan and LeBron James are undisputed top 2 players in NBA history and it's not even close.
MJ played only 11 full seasons in Chicago Bulls... But Peak MJ is easily by far & away the most dominant player in NBA history.
- After starting 0-3 in 90/91 season, MJ never again lost 3 straight games during a stretch of 629 reg season &...
The 98' Jazz were the longest-standing organic juggernaut in history and the 90's West had the most long-standing organic juggernauts ever.... These organic juggernauts traded turns making the Finals and the team that won the West was a battle-tested juggernaut that was having their banner year - a freight train - that's what MJ beat 6 times in...