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***NBA 2018 Finals v2: Rigged/ Friendly Refereeing Edition

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MusterX said:
I'm obtuse? Half this forum denies the greatness of the past. With few exceptions I would take Larry Legends Celts or Magic Johnson's Lakers to beat any team in this years playoffs with the Warriors being the only team with even a chance. The 80's may be the greatest decade of basketball ever. And btw the conversation didn't start with me saying hall of fame, it started when iwhoopedbatman claimed the talent pool of the 80's is not even close to the current players. I find that absurd considering how many all time greats played in that era. Then he doubled down and said half of them wouldn't even start in today's game.

So go ahead and explain to me Luminaire how it is these guys wouldn't even start in today's game.

Julius Erving
Bill Walton
Kareem
Geroge Gervin
Alex English
Larry Bird
Kevin McHale
Isiah Thomas
Moses Malone
Magic Johnson
Robert Parish
James Worthy
Clyde Drexler
Charles Barkley
Dominique Wilkens
Adrian Dantley
Hakeem Olajuwan
Michael Jordan
John Stockton
Dennis Johnson
Karl Malone
Scottie Pippen
Ralph Sampson
Bernard King
Maurice Cheeks
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Lmao... lists players from 1969 to 2008.

Sorry Muster, go watch the damn games again, anyone with eyes can see the difference in quality on the floor.

I’m not going to sit here and pick apart players I enjoyed watching as a kid simply because you’re blind.
 
Luminaire said:
Lmao... lists players from 1969 to 2008.

Sorry Muster, go watch the damn games again, anyone with eyes can see the difference in quality on the floor.

I’m not going to sit here and pick apart players I enjoyed watching as a kid simply because you’re blind.
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Na man, the era where guys can’t shoot 3’s, free throws, or dunk aggressively as well would smash today’s era via being more physical. Despite the fact that today’s athletes are hilariously more athletic. But hand checks!!!
 
Luminaire said:
Lmao... lists players from 1969 to 2008.

Sorry Muster, go watch the damn games again, anyone with eyes can see the difference in quality on the floor.

I’m not going to sit here and pick apart players I enjoyed watching as a kid simply because you’re blind.
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All those players played in the 80's which is how this argument originated, comparing the 80's to now, but ok, now I'm convinced. Your acumen is insurmountable.
 
MusterX said:
All those players played in the 80's which is how this argument originated, comparing the 80's to now, but ok, now I'm convinced. Your acumen is insurmountable.
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Jordan GOAT. I don't need to articulate shit. Y'all disagree? In GOAT conversations LeBron deferred to hill and shot 0-4 in OT. Small shit matters. Fuck outta here if anyone disagrees. I'm using the eyeball criteria as well.

Sorry, you were saying? Lol
 
I think it’s safe to say 00–10 was the GOAT era.
 
MusterX said:
All those players played in the 80's which is how this argument originated, comparing the 80's to now, but ok, now I'm convinced. Your acumen is insurmountable.
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lol, take every great player that played any minutes in a decade and attribute them that to the decade.

If that’s the criteria, 90’s > 80’s all day. You can have Bill Walton lmao... I’ll take Shaq. You can keep Alex English lmao... I’ll take Kobe. You can have Mo Cheeks LMAO, I’ll take Allen Iverson.

This isn’t going well for you.
 
Luminaire said:
lol, take every great player that played any minutes in a decade and attribute them that to the decade.

If that’s the criteria, 90’s > 80’s all day. You can have Bill Walton lmao... I’ll take Shaq. You can keep Alex English lmao... I’ll take Kobe. You can have Mo Cheeks LMAO, I’ll take Allen Iverson.

This isn’t going well for you.
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I'd take Dream over Shaq.
I'd take Magic over Kobe.
I'd take Bird over McGrady

Etc. Incredible players and teams are just that, INCREDIBLE.
 
Luminaire said:
lol, take every great player that played any minutes in a decade and attribute them that to the decade.

If that’s the criteria, 90’s > 80’s all day. You can have Bill Walton lmao... I’ll take Shaq. You can keep Alex English lmao... I’ll take Kobe. You can have Mo Cheeks LMAO, I’ll take Allen Iverson.

This isn’t going well for you.
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Gdamn you trigger me. The 80's had Hakeem Olajuwon but you pick Bill Walton to compare to Shaq because you think it makes you clever. That is not even to mention the argument was not 80's compared to 90's. Then you pick Alex English to compare to Kobe, once again, oh no, you are so clever. In the 1986 playoffs Jordan dropped 63 in the Boston Garden against Larry Bird in what may be the greatest game ever played by a single player. I'll go ahead and take him over Kobe.
 
This is a must win game for the cavs which means the warriors will have a let down game. It could be an easy win for them if they run their offense through one of the most efficient players in nba history. But for some reason Kerr is too inept to see what everyone else sees. Curry should take every shot and everyone else should just set good hard illegal screens. And if Curry wants to pass it it his choice
 
MusterX said:
Gdamn you trigger me. The 80's had Hakeem Olajuwon but you pick Bill Walton to compare to Shaq because you think it makes you clever. That is not even to mention the argument was not 80's compared to 90's. Then you pick Alex English to compare to Kobe, once again, oh no, you are so clever. In the 1986 playoffs Jordan dropped 63 in the Boston Garden against Larry Bird in what may be the greatest game ever played by a single player. I'll go ahead and take him over Kobe.
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It’s because in the 90s I get Hakeem as well... in fact in the 80s you don’t get Hakeem... two time finals MVP, you get Akeem, young NBA Center lmao.

That’s why I picked Walton, because he didn’t log a minute in the 90s.

Same with the other instances.

And again, in the 80s you get young stud Jordan, getting bottled in the yoffs season after season, in the 90s I get 6 time champ Jordan.

So yea, I win.
 
HomerThompson said:
Come get it. I'll take Jordan's 1995-1996 Bulls team over any team in history in a 7 game series. Prove me wrong.
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Lol the team that lost to a young magics team a year earlier? Best team ive ever seen was the 2014 Spurs. They would have routed the Bulls and any celtics team that ever existed .
 
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