Well, now you might be on track to providing a meaningful counter-argument, but I'm not going to make your argument for you. Earlier in the thread I...
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I'd ascribe the word to Jordan, Duncan, Magic, Bird, Hakeem, and to a lesser extent Kobe, LBJ, and Shaq (Shaq only because he was so damn big and...
ALL of the evidence doesn't need to support it. But the preponderance of evidence supports the idea that teams built around PFs don't make the...
I provided you with a list of non-transcendent players who made the Finals - none of them are PFs. Include everybody and only 4 teams in the last 30...
Not very debatable. When Dame plays well, but LMA struggles we still generally win. When LMA plays well and Dame struggles, we rarely win.
My point is about teams built around PFs. There are 28 teams that miss the Finals every year - a good portion of them are going to be lead by wings,...
Don't care. All I care about is how he plays. Unfortunately, he doesn't seem to play well when he's emotional. I hope this snub sends him into a...
Bingo!
Tell it to him!
I said if you want to count Dirk, feel free. I personally don't because I feel like it was a one-and-done fluke - an exception to the rule. As I've...
And that's all I'm getting at - building around PFs will only get you so far. And now maybe you'll understand that my distaste for LMA stems from my...
Nobody can do it alone. That doesn't change the fact that teams built around PFs don't get to the Finals (very often).
Jordan, Magic, and Bird were all transcendent players and didn't RELY on others, they were relied upon. Over the past couple decades there have been...
Yes, but again - what's Malone without Stockton? Stockton/Malone and Payton/Kemp are packages that can't be separated. Malone without Stockton...
Well, sure, generally the best team(s) have the best player(s). But if you remove the Jordan's, Kobe's, and LBJ's, there's more history of good...
Yup, BOS was always Pierce's team. They built the team around him by going out and trading for KG (and Ray). They didn't build around KG, they...
As with PF you need to be a pretty transcendent C - merely being very good is not good enough.
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That's because you can't build a winning team around a PF, unless you have a transcendent talent at PF (Duncan). Winning teams are built around...
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