MF.....u are on a ROLL. I'm laughing so hard I can hardly breathe.....now stop it.

Dawg, I can ONLY call it how I see it! You know I don't fake the funk!

The funny part is.....I don't even like Mj.

Historically and fundamentally, the nature of the game is simple: get the ball to the center and the team with the better center is the better team. This is the reason why Jordan will be the GOAT. Of course there are lots of GOATs in the herd, including Kobe, but Jordan is the GOAT and will remain so until another go-to player can dominate the way he did WITHOUT a dominating big man at center. He changed the entire scope of the game! In fact, name one team that didn’t have a dominating (not necessarily the best) big-man at the time that won any championships. All I can think of is the Bad Boys, and for their tactics they deserve asterisks by their titles. Still, they didn’t dominate an entire decade the way Jordan’s Bulls did. Sure, it’s a team sport. BJ, Pippen, Horace, Tony, Kerr, etc. were as good as another supporting cast in the NBA. They played their respective roles well.

The funny part is.....I don't even like Mj.

Cmon, dawg. You KNOW I ain't EVER gonna buy that shit!

Historically and fundamentally, the nature of the game is simple: get the ball to the center and the team with the better center is the better team. This is the reason why Jordan will be the GOAT. Of course there are lots of GOATs in the herd, including Kobe, but Jordan is the GOAT and will remain so until another go-to player can dominate the way he did WITHOUT a dominating big man at center. He changed the entire scope of the game! In fact, name one team that didn’t have a dominating (not necessarily the best) big-man at the time that won any championships. All I can think of is the Bad Boys, and for their tactics they deserve asterisks by their titles. Still, they didn’t dominate an entire decade the way Jordan’s Bulls did. Sure, it’s a team sport. BJ, Pippen, Horace, Tony, Kerr, etc. were as good as another supporting cast in the NBA. They played their respective roles well.

You're dead-on: The game is won from the paint.

However, MJ never faced a dominant center in the NBA Finals: Vlade Divac/Kevin Duckworth/Mark West/Jim McIlvaine/Greg Ostertag. WEAK. Very weak group of centers.

Now, the ONLY NBA Finals matchup I wish would have happened was: Hakeem's Rockets vs MJ's Bulls. THAT would have ended a ton of speculation on both sides. Honestly, I think Dream's team would have beaten MJ's squad simply because MJ's Bulls either won it in 5 or 6 games (mainly 6 though), and that was against WEAK centers. I don't see anyone stopping Dream while I do see MJ vs Drex causing MJ to extend himself on the defensive end, IF Drex takes the battle personal unlike he did when they faced in the 92 Finals.

You're dead-on: The game is won from the paint.

However, MJ never faced a dominant center in the NBA Finals: Vlade Divac/Kevin Duckworth/Mark West/Jim McIlvaine/Greg Ostertag. WEAK. Very weak group of centers.

The way to the finals is through the conference. And don't forget that the third title MJ won in his conference the Knicks were the number 1 seed, with the supposedly best center in the game. That proved untrue the following year, though, as you already know.

The way to the finals is through the conference. And don't forget that the third title MJ won in his conference the Knicks were the number 1 seed, with the supposedly best center in the game. That proved untrue the following year, though, as you already know.

You're dead-on: The game is won from the paint.

However, MJ never faced a dominant center in the NBA Finals: Vlade Divac/Kevin Duckworth/Mark West/Jim McIlvaine/Greg Ostertag. WEAK. Very weak group of centers.

Now, the ONLY NBA Finals matchup I wish would have happened was: Hakeem's Rockets vs MJ's Bulls. THAT would have ended a ton of speculation on both sides. Honestly, I think Dream's team would have beaten MJ's squad simply because MJ's Bulls either won it in 5 or 6 games (mainly 6 though), and that was against WEAK centers. I don't see anyone stopping Dream while I do see MJ vs Drex causing MJ to extend himself on the defensive end, IF Drex takes the battle personal unlike he did when they faced in the 92 Finals.

You're dead-on: The game is won from the paint.

However, MJ never faced a dominant center in the NBA Finals: Vlade Divac/Kevin Duckworth/Mark West/Jim McIlvaine/Greg Ostertag. WEAK. Very weak group of centers.

Now, the ONLY NBA Finals matchup I wish would have happened was: Hakeem's Rockets vs MJ's Bulls. THAT would have ended a ton of speculation on both sides. Honestly, I think Dream's team would have beaten MJ's squad simply because MJ's Bulls either won it in 5 or 6 games (mainly 6 though), and that was against WEAK centers. I don't see anyone stopping Dream while I do see MJ vs Drex causing MJ to extend himself on the defensive end, IF Drex takes the battle personal unlike he did when they faced in the 92 Finals.

Right, and then people always bring up the conference he played to get to the Finals, to which I then bring out this truism: For 5 of his 6 titles, MJ NEVER faced a team in the EC playoffs that had 2 HOFers on it like he had with Pippen. There was JUST Ewing. There was JUST Zo (IF he even makes the HOF). There was JUST Reggie (IF he makes the HOF). There was JUST Shaq.

The ONLY time he faced a team that had 2 HOFers on it was when he faced the Pistons (Zeke and Dumars - And Dumars shouldn't be in the HOF IMHO.) and by that time the Pistons were just about done with their run due to age.

The East was pretty weak back then, that's why whenever MJ's Bulls didn't represent the East - The West won everytime until 2004. MJ's path to the Finals was the easiest of any multi-title winning team ever.

The way to the finals is through the conference. And don't forget that the third title MJ won in his conference the Knicks were the number 1 seed, with the supposedly best center in the game. That proved untrue the following year, though, as you already know.

Right, and then people always bring up the conference he played to get to the Finals, to which I then bring out this truism: For 5 of his 6 titles, MJ NEVER faced a team in the EC playoffs that had 2 HOFers on it like he had with Pippen. There was JUST Ewing. There was JUST Zo (IF he even makes the HOF). There was JUST Reggie (IF he makes the HOF). There was JUST Shaq.

The ONLY time he faced a team that had 2 HOFers on it was when he faced the Pistons (Zeke and Dumars - And Dumars shouldn't be in the HOF IMHO.) and by that time the Pistons were just about done with their run due to age.

The East was pretty weak back then, that's why whenever MJ's Bulls didn't represent the East - The West won everytime until 2004. MJ's path to the Finals was the easiest of any multi-title winning team ever.

So what happened 2 the centers that u speak of? Where was Hakeem for the Bulls 6 titles? Last I checked, the Bulls BEAT the Knicks, the Pacers, the Heat, the Cavs ....all had GOOD centers.

Right, and then people always bring up the conference he played to get to the Finals, to which I then bring out this truism: For 5 of his 6 titles, MJ NEVER faced a team in the EC playoffs that had 2 HOFers on it like he had with Pippen. There was JUST Ewing. There was JUST Zo (IF he even makes the HOF). There was JUST Reggie (IF he makes the HOF). There was JUST Shaq.

The ONLY time he faced a team that had 2 HOFers on it was when he faced the Pistons (Zeke and Dumars - And Dumars shouldn't be in the HOF IMHO.) and by that time the Pistons were just about done with their run due to age.

The East was pretty weak back then, that's why whenever MJ's Bulls didn't represent the East - The West won everytime until 2004. MJ's path to the Finals was the easiest of any multi-title winning team ever.

I'm speechless.....

GOOD doesn't equal DOMINANT. The ONLY 2 dominant centers on that list - Ewing and Zo. Smits NOT dominant. Brad Freakin' Daugherty NOT dominant. And I addressed the Ewing/Zo in my above posts.

The East was pretty weak back then, that's why whenever MJ's Bulls didn't represent the East - The West won everytime

If Hakeem was so dominate, why didn't he make the finals at least ONCE in the 6 years that the Bulls were there?

The West was weak because Jordan never faced a dominate center, the East was weak because Jordan never faced a team with 2 HOF. So by your definition, the ENTIRE NBA was weak when the Bulls won their titles.

Because you KNOW you can't dispute ANY of that shit! THAT'S why you're speechless, dawg! It IS what it IS!:

1 - During their title runs, the Bulls never faced a team in the EC playoffs that had 2 HOFers on it sans the aging Pistons in 90-91 playoffs.

2 - The east was weak (and still is) when the Bulls made their title runs, because whenever the Bulls DIDN'T play in the Finals, the west ALWAYS won up until 2004.

Dawg, you KNOW you can't fuck with me on this shit! Just admit it!

Lol.....the East was so weak that he Bulls won EACH and EVERY TIME they played in the Finals. What does that say about the WEST?

Dawg, you're making this shit WAY too easy: Because his road to the Finals was A TON HARDER than MJ's run to the title. The West was LOADED with teams like Jazz, Blazers, Suns, Lakers, San Antonio, and Sonics. Every one of those teams made the Finals within that time period, except for the Lakers.