Comments on: Most Dominant Playoff Tournament: Pool D, Round 2 http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=5029 NBA & ABA Basketball Statistics & History Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:56:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6 By: Travis http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=5029&cpage=1#comment-15717 Fri, 02 Apr 2010 17:26:30 +0000 http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=5029#comment-15717 I'm sorry, no matter what the stats say, I can't see the '09 Lakers beating ANY of the showtime Lakers' championship teams, esp not 4-1. The '09 Lakers barely escaped a pretty mediocre Houston team in the semi's (4-3). Kareem + Magic trumps Kobe + Gasol any day of the week. Magic is a legitimate GOAT candidate (Kobe just isn't), and Kareem/Gasol isn't even a discussion. On top of that, the supporting cast of the '82 Lakers was unarguably better. Bob McAddoo, James Worthy, Jamaal Wilkes (~20 pts/game), and Norm Nixon vs. Lamar Odom, Trevor Ariza, Derek Fisher,and Andrew Bynum.

Yes, the '09 team won 65 games, but they were playing in a weaker league. The '82 Lakers had to go through that great Philly team of the early 80's.

Even the Lakers of the early '00s would blow away the '09 team. I watched that team last year and I just wasn't that impressed, particularly by Kobe, the most overrated player in the league - and this is an opinion I mostly developed from looking at the stats on this website. If you look at his career stats carefully, he's not nearly the player everyone thinks he is. And he only shot 43% in the Finals, not exactly Jordan-esque (whom the media always wants to compare him to). I actually thought Gasol should have been Finals MVP.

]]> By: Jayson http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=5029&cpage=1#comment-15605 Tue, 30 Mar 2010 00:51:37 +0000 http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=5029#comment-15605 The 91 Bulls completely dismantling one of the greatest defensive teams of all time in the 04 Pistons?
I think that Whatifsports may not be encapsulating how good that team was defensively after they got Rasheed Wallace.

]]> By: MyArvydas http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=5029&cpage=1#comment-15602 Mon, 29 Mar 2010 23:26:22 +0000 http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=5029#comment-15602 Neil, there's a small glitch in your '91 Bulls vs. '04 Pistons series: 17 different players enter the game for Detroit during every matchup!

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