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MJs top starting five
« on: April 15, 2020, 05:49:58 AM »

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Pippen
Worthy
Hakim


I understand the vote Pippen , it is not completely unreasonable but James Worthy ?!?!?!?? Seriously ?!?!?!?

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I understand the vote Pippen , it is not completely unreasonable but James Worthy ?!?!?!?? Seriously ?!?!?!?
Worthy was his teammate in college so it's understandable to me. Player rankings/lists/opinions are meant to be taken with a grain of salt anyways, just because they're great at executing at the court doesn't necessarily mean that they are excellent at analysing the game from an analyst's POV.
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« Reply #2 on: April 15, 2020, 08:23:52 AM »

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Saw this instagram post.  So probably not MJs top starting 5. 

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This is from an old interview asking him who he would WANT to play with, no who his all time starting five is

It does look like a starting 5 that could play at a very high level together.  It would be Showtime Lakers to the extreme.  MJ and Hakim would carry the scoring load.  Magic dishing his assists.  Worthy and Pipen being the secondary stars that they were.  There are certainly better star players than Worthy and Pipen but which if them has the necessary skillset and mentality to fill support roles and be 3rd/4th scoring options. 

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« Reply #3 on: May 20, 2020, 03:34:59 PM »

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My top five:

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Bird
McHale
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Well picking Hakim Warrick was definitely a surprise.    ;D

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« Reply #5 on: May 20, 2020, 04:29:09 PM »

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it shouldnt be a surprise to anyone that MJ would botch putting a team together
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it shouldnt be a surprise to anyone that MJ would botch putting a team together
ha-ha! tp..........was going to post almost same thing "..considering his track record as gm..."
Still, a team with MJ is going to be pretty good.

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it shouldnt be a surprise to anyone that MJ would botch putting a team together

Awesome; yeah, you should get 100 TPs for that one.

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it shouldnt be a surprise to anyone that MJ would botch putting a team together

Ah, I didn't know how to phrase my thoughts. 100 TPs.
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From the thread title I thought this was going to be about REAL top starting fives not MJs fantasy team.

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« Reply #10 on: May 21, 2020, 07:11:05 AM »

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And here's Paul Pierce's top 5 (not starting 5):

https://twitter.com/BleacherReport/status/1263167588961366016

People hate on PP for not including LeBron. Personally speaking, I got Bron in the same tier as MJ, Kareem, Russell, Wilt, Magic, Bird, Oscar and Duncan. I'm fine with opting for MJ/Kareem/Russell/Magic over Bron. My only objection to his list would be Kobe.
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Kobe was a big Larry Bird fan. Wonder if he had a top 5 team, and who was on it.

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And here's Paul Pierce's top 5 (not starting 5):

https://twitter.com/BleacherReport/status/1263167588961366016

People hate on PP for not including LeBron. Personally speaking, I got Bron in the same tier as MJ, Kareem, Russell, Wilt, Magic, Bird, Oscar and Duncan. I'm fine with opting for MJ/Kareem/Russell/Magic over Bron. My only objection to his list would be Kobe.
Pierce looks like a fool listing Kobe & Magic ahead of Bron. Makes him come off as having been beaten by LeBron in more ways than one, lol.

He’s such a bad analyst it’s not even funny.
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And here's Paul Pierce's top 5 (not starting 5):

https://twitter.com/BleacherReport/status/1263167588961366016

People hate on PP for not including LeBron. Personally speaking, I got Bron in the same tier as MJ, Kareem, Russell, Wilt, Magic, Bird, Oscar and Duncan. I'm fine with opting for MJ/Kareem/Russell/Magic over Bron. My only objection to his list would be Kobe.
Pierce looks like a fool listing Kobe & Magic ahead of Bron. Makes him come off as having been beaten by LeBron in more ways than one, lol.

He’s such a bad analyst it’s not even funny.
^^^this, I'm not sure how you'd pick those two ahead of LeBron unless you don't value defence at all and only value specific styles of offence.
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And here's Paul Pierce's top 5 (not starting 5):

https://twitter.com/BleacherReport/status/1263167588961366016

People hate on PP for not including LeBron. Personally speaking, I got Bron in the same tier as MJ, Kareem, Russell, Wilt, Magic, Bird, Oscar and Duncan. I'm fine with opting for MJ/Kareem/Russell/Magic over Bron. My only objection to his list would be Kobe.
Pierce looks like a fool listing Kobe & Magic ahead of Bron. Makes him come off as having been beaten by LeBron in more ways than one, lol.

He’s such a bad analyst it’s not even funny.
his reasoning was pretty bad, basically Lebron created a team in Miami and then again in Cleveland.  Just sounds like a huge hypocrite since you know Pierce's title team was manufactured the prior off season as well (I suspect he wouldn't have the same criticisms of Garnett as he did with Lebron).  The other analysts on the show didn't even really bother with his nonsense as they all just took it as nonsense.  Heck Magic would have gone back to school if the Lakers didn't win the coin toss for the 1st pick.  He has said this several times over the years.  In other words, he wanted to play with Kareem.  Kareem won his title in Milwaukee in Oscar's 1st season (i.e. he joined the team and wasn't on it) and didn't win any others without Magic.  Kobe demanded to go to LA after he was drafted by Charlotte.  He joined a team with Shaq.  His 2nd two, the Lakers were a mid-level team until they acquired Pau at the trade deadline.  They then went on a 3 season tear.  The analysis is just nonsense and that is the problem with it. 

The thing is, I think you could at least argue with a straight face that Lebron is outside the top 5, but Pierce just had this nonsensical argument.  And just to be clear, I don't think it would really be that difficult to argue that MJ, Bill, Wilt, and Kareem were all better for different reasons.  That 5th person is more difficult, but I can see at least reasonable arguments for Oscar, Magic, or Bird.  That said, I think most people have Lebron in the top 3 all time and more and more think he is the best player ever so it is getting harder to make the argument.
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