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DevdanSanguine:
Spurs dynasty
celtics big 3
lakers

Lol don't include Celtics when we are talking of teams in their athletic primes please. They were all on the wrong side of 30. Scratch out the Spurs dynasty while you're at it. I'm talking of 3 players who were all below 30 and within a 2 year age range of each other. A team with all 3 stars at their peak. No other team had this

DevdanSanguine:
all formiddable, name one team that compares to any one of those within the 8 year stretch jordan won 3.

Dirk's old team with 38year old Jason Kidd at PG is formidable but the Utah Jazz and Gary Payton's Supersonics are not?

DevdanSanguine:
Jordan would probably never win a first round series without pippen.

Lol. We never saw prime Jordan without Pippen. We would never know and more importantly we would never care

DevdanSanguine:
Same mavs that beat kobes lakers?

Yes they were on the decline after two ships. The Mavs team that year was an outlier anyway. Its not coincidental they never crossed the first round after that season

DevdanSanguine:
3 future hall of famers.

Waaay past their prime

DevdanSanguine:
Spurs dynasty with 4 hall of famers and the second greatest nba coach of all time. Try again.

Yes two of these HOF were at least 37 years of age. The other was in his second year in the league. Still LeNomad with 3 HOFs and all-stars like Rashard Lewis and defensive beasts like Shane Battier still suffered a gentleman's sweep to these OAPs

MitrikDenholm:
Fun fact, LeBron has never lost in the first round, Jordan has never gotten past the first round without pippen, in fact, the bald gambler was swept on one occasion. Imagine the sort of brain damage one has to have to believe that losing earlier before the finals is better than losing in the finals. These are the kind of chaps who argue for Jordan.

Excuses excuses. A rubbish conference like the East it would be a shame if LeNomad lost in the First round. Da phuck was he supposed to lose to? Al Jefferson? Gerald Wallace?

LeNomad would trade his lineage to not have the 3-5 soon to be 3-6 tag to his name. All those L's for what? To be a rich man's Jerry West.

You think people care whether Joe Montana ever lost the wildcard game or not? Only Bronsexuals console themselves with that first round jazz. Nobody cares bruhh

MitrikDenholm:
Small fry, I asked you who drexler had when he faced Jordan. Jordan didn't play the 1995 finals because another fact the Jordan stans don't want you to know is when Jordan came back in 1995 he was chased off before he could even make the finals by Shaq and penny.

Simple difference is LeBron is playing against super teams, Jordan was playing on the super team during the extension era. Flat track bully!

Lmaooo only one Super-Team has existed with all 3 star players at their athletic prime when they were formed. LeNomad played in it for 4 years.

Truth be told he'd probably be on one ring or no ring at all if he didn't run to South Beach.

Super teams like Dirk's Mavericks that had no player that ever won a ring. With a 38yo starting PG

OKC with a 23yo baby as it's best player.

Or the aged Spurs with two of it's 4 best players 36 or older...

Lmaoooooo

MitrikDenholm:
LMAO Jokes.


First of all Clyde drexler has a ring. Funny thing is it's those without a ring from his era like Barkley and Reggie that like to svck his dick to claim they don't have one because they played against the "goat". Put Jordan on drexlers team in that finals and then put drexler on Jordans. Jordan's team went from 57 wins to 55 wins without him.

Drexler, IT they know. They've seen it first hand. He didn't win anything on his own yet he gets all the credit. The only thing Jordan has ever led his finals team in is scoring, assists rebounds and other things, pippen. Marking the best opposition player, pippen. Man couldn't even get out the first round until he got pippen and phil Jackson and when Jackson left he too retired.

Man was a flat track bully playing against white plumbers and truck drivers who has been elevated to the level of a deity because he popularized the game. Fortunately, the honest ones who played against him know he was a mere mortal. Barely above average in today's game.

Which he needed Olajuwon and the Houston Rockets help to get. I don't want to hear nothing from these salty old haters who are mad they didn't get the love the GOAT got.

Put LeNomad in OKC and put KD in that Miami Heat team and let's see if he gets out the West. Pointless suggestion

Regular season wins count for zilch. The Bulls won nothing without him.

The GOAT was not a stats whooore like LeNomad. You forget in that era shooting guards really didn't have to rebound. It's not smart basketball to have your best player to guard the opposition's best player over the duration of a series. You of all people should know this. Why didn't Lebron guard Dirk?

The East was much tougher back when the GOAT got into the league. Celtics. Pistons and Bucks were much stronger than the wackass Eastern conference LeNomad has to face now. No player dead or alive would have taken that useless Bulls roster past the first round. Name one player in that assortment of bums that did anything of note in the league (all-star. 6th man) anything I'd wait

IT? Same dude that MJ kicked out the team? Who hated the GOAT since he got into the league? Of course I'd expect that salty hater to be objective

It's easy to get to the Finals when your competition is Kyle Lowry and Demar DeRozan. Or good but washed up 35/36 year olds

Donlittle:
Thoughts everyone?

I've not met anyone from the GOAT era who wasn't mad salty that the GOAT got all the love, the endorsements, movies and owning an actual ball club. They're all United in Jealousy

I'd be mad too if everyone wanted to be like Mike not Clyde

He thought he was in the same level with the GOAT till they met in The Finals and he showed them that egbe isu ko ni iyan

It's like Peyton Manning telling you Tom Brady is the GOAT. Not gonna happen

I'd be lying if I said I'm not worried about the Golden State I've been seeing lately. Whatever funk they're in they need to snap out of it quick. The Houston threat is real and would be stewpid to ignore at this point.

Lol the East is sweet

We need to get Timo Werner. Must!!

MitrikDenholm:
Oooh everyones calling the east a cakewalk now because Kyrie is out. LOL As if that changes anything.

Lol the East is sweet bruh. Always been

chic2pimp:
I can't even defend Pep when it comes to away games in the CL. I've always said He needs to be a bit more conservative in his approach to them. Having said that, I know fully well Pep is an idealist and taking that approach would be going against the grain as far He is concerned so i'd rather judge Him on the tie as a whole or should I say His record in the CL.

2 CL Titles and getting to Numerous Semis is a record not to be taken lightly. Coaches like Conte and Klopp would kill to be just half as succesful as He has been in Europe.

You don't get it. He is too conservative!! That is why he fails to setup his team to even look like scoring. No be today Pep team don dey get no shot on target for crucial CL away games.

You can judge him by any parameter you like but the numbers don't lie. Since he left Barca the only teams he has beaten away are Basel and Arsenal.

If he fails to take this £500m City team past Liverpool then it becomes more glaring that Pep is a proper hype job that can't win the CL without Messi

chic2pimp:
Yh I have to admit Klopp got his tactic spot on yesterday whereas Josep did not. However I won't read much into it as it is just one game. Also as we've seen time and again, in a cup competition, anything is possible.

Don't worry If Pep pulls off the improbable in the return leg, i'll be here to remind you Guys.

The problem with Pep is that in every away CL game against quality opposition, especially since he's left Barca! He always gets his tactics wrong!!!! It's not about just one game. This has been the story over and over again.

He's nice with steamrolling the league but as a Bayern fan I know wetin my eye see against Madrid. Barca and Atleti in the first leg where we barely were able to create scoring chances never mind scoring a goal. .

@ Madrid - 0 away goals.
@ Barcelona - 0 away goals
@ Atleti - 0 away goals.
@ Anfield - 0 away goals
@ Chelsea - 0 away goals

Of course we usually see a blitzkrieg in the second leg from his sides but more often than not the damage has already been done in the first leg.
It is only under Pep that you pray the first leg is at home not away because you know you are already at a disadvantage since his teams cannot buy an away goal to save their lives

raumdeuter:
They are not wrong given that they'll have referees like Viktor Kassai wearing their jersey.

At this point if we make it beyond Sevilla, I don't mind anyone they give us

If UEFA had any honor that armed bandit should not be refereeing at UEFA Youth League never mind the main competition itself

Lol when the semis come there is no hiding place so whoever we get I'm cool. Our road has been relatively smooth thus far. All we can hope is that Coman returns soon. He was pegged for late April. I don't know if that still holds

Haha Bayern is now the weak link cos we beat Sevilla that league leading Barcelona (with 11 points) came from behind to draw with

Na that adigunjaale Viktor Kassai kuku give una mouth

Madrid fans now see us as the weak link and would rather face us than Liverpool or Barca. Iyaa o ki'n se omi obe oh

haymekus:
“It was a nice goal, but he should try it from 40 meters.”




Zlatan wee not kee me

Lol no mind that megalomaniac and flat track bully not fit to lace Ororo's boots. This ninja couldn't even lead PSG past Man City like small boy Salah is trying to do now. Still we no go hear word because of bicycle kick he did in a friendly match

Kuzma channeling his inner Kobe

SmooshCHN:
Paul George says he can't find his shot and shooting the ball has been feeling funny of recent. I can't


But somehow Russ keeps getting the blame and Billy Donovan keeps getting a pass.

Russell has his phuck ups but it's clear a lot of players on that OKC team are not doing their jobs

SmooshCHN:
I kept praying he shot 3s and he did 0/9 from 3pts, 4/16FG.. OKC's problem is beyond just Melo.. I've been saying this since their poor run early in the season. The way they play is their problem. No screens, no plays, no cutting, etc. Do they even realize they have Steven Adams? How potent will it be if they run heavy on high pick and roll with Westbrook and PG or Melo? I bet Melo's fat asss would have a problem setting picks, rolling or cutting back doors. They'll get higher percentage FG attempts doing this but all they do is take turns on offense and think that's teamwork. but what do i know?

The offense as a whole is badly run I agree. The way they use Steven Adams varies from game to game and they could do better. My problem with OKC is the fact that their additions have not been complimentary and this is probably why their offense does not seem to work most times. Oladipo, Melo, George. Russ all have one thing in common: They cannot function without the ball in their hands. When the best 3 players in your team are like that then you are going to have problems late in games

That's why throwing stars at problems instead of recognizing their fit is hurting a lot of teams. Everybody talks about the one Superteam that works! Nobody talks about the 10 that fail

Still I think it would be a bit unfair to blame Westbrook for Melo's cold shooting. He's basically setting for the 3's he's never had a history of making and is a complete defensive sieve.

airmark:
You don't throw passes anyhow bro. If he wants to become a dm or cm, he should let us know.

His moves lead to CL winning goals. We are not complaining

Pep disgracing himself in elite Europe away from home as usual. Some things would never change

Let him just do awe biribiri and pray Salah doesn't return for the second leg

Not to sound revisionist but City have been very suspect in the CL. They barely got by Donetsk and Feyenoord at home. Lost to Donetsk and Basel

Today just happened to be their day of judgement. Barring an early sending off against Liverpool I believe City are out. Hopefully Salah can be fit for the second leg. Not scoring a goal at Anfield was the coup de grace

Ibime:
Ooh, Aah. . . Arabanko. . . .


After the tikitaka, play the blues/ (the blues, the blues)
We go dey laugh as Pep dey lose/ (dey lose, dey lose)
Raumdeuter done dey type excuse/ (excuse, excuse)
after the reggae, sing the blues/ (the blues, the blues)

Salah no get time to waste/ (to waste, to waste)
Sadio Mane on the chase/ (the chase, the chase)
Otamendi wind your waist/ (your waist, your waist)
He done send am sunken place/ (the place, the place)

Twenty twelve at the Camp Nou/ (Camp Nou, Camp Nou)
RDM flog the Malu/ (Malu, Malu)
Masterclass in tactical/ (tical, tical)
Pep gast go sabbatical/ (tical, tical)

In Two thousand and Fourteen/ (Fourteen, Fourteen)
Ancelotti so flog him/ (flog him, flog him)
In Two thousand and Fifteen/ (Fifteen, Fifteen)
Enrique give am Billie Jean/ (Lee Jean, Lee Jean)

Messi put Jerome for ground/ (for ground, for ground)
Pep tactics no dey sound/ (dey sound, dey sound)
Unless him players dem better/ (better, better)
Do go flog am like leper/ (leper, leper)

Half a billion, wey him spend/ (him spend, him spend)
Klopp dey whoze am, he no send/ (no send, no send)
No be today crayfish dey bend/ (dey bend, dey bend)
Pepi shakara done end/ (done end, done end)

Hehehehe is there any space left in Yaba Left? Cos e be like say Ibime don mad finish oh

airmark:
He should never have become a defender in the first place. Renato must have learnt something from Alagolo. Even in his best match ever, he still played a stupid pass to endorse visa card. Tom Brady ko, Julian Edelman ni.

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When you frequently throw 60 yard passes you are bound to get a few wrong. Even Tom Brady does.. The important thing is the ones you get right e.g the pass that led to our CL winning goal!! Bet you didn't know that was BoaTANK

liveLongNprospa:
No offense bro.but do you watch Madrid play all the time?

None taken, I'm sure I watch more Madrid games than you do. The question is do you watch Bayern play?

liveLongNprospa:
Oga that's for you...
Sergio Ramos is no 1..

Ramos is good at clutch headers and scoring. He can't pass if his life depended on it

Bonucci ko Dorobucci ni.

Nihilstjnr:
Airmark is this true?

The kin through ball wey Boateng Brady dey spray no defender in World football can throw it. Bare facts

Jerome should be wearing #12 not 17. Like the great Tom Brady before him

Melo and George no try for Russ last night. If Melo is taking 16 shots and only making 25% of them then you have to really wonder what his use is for this team?

Loool at Raptors. Only a healthy Celtics team stand a chance in the East. I like DeRozan but his ceiling is what his ceiling is tbh

No time to be overtly critical about the performance. Important thing for me is we finally won in Spain after a 5 year wait.

Barca and Madrid gaan they know wetin Sevilla dey take their eye see for Sanchez Pizjuan..

Time to salute Hames whose entry changed the course of the game. The much maligned Ribery who dropped his best performance in the CL last night. Jerome BoaTANK the best passing CB in the game for his vision. Javi for the game-saving tackle and Rafinha for coming in and showing us that perhaps we should offload Bernat this summer as he is not fit for purpose..

raumdeuter:
In Hazards time at Chelsea there have been many good and ambitious players he was the one letting them down

In Chelsea Hazard has played with Mata, Kante Costa Azpi, Cashley Alonso Cortouis etc yet Hazard has always been mediocre.

No be this same thread people been dey tell us say 9 Chelsea players will make Bayern team in 2014? Now suddenly na ambitionless players dey the same Chelsea? A40 is God not good?

The good old days when we were told 8 Chelsea players would walk into Bayern starting XI.

Wetin dey really scatter my dada is that niggas legit thought Hidden was going to win Balon D'or in this decade

raumdeuter:
Thiago is the in between James and Vidal

He is not as creative as James and does not have the engine of Vidal. If James improves his work rate he can become like another KDB that will be great. I still think we will trade Vidal this summer. Those magas in Chelsea or Man Utd will pay him good money. King Arturo is 31yrs already and he doesnt look like someone that will age well

away today vs Sevilla I want solidity in the middle

So I will go with Vidal over Thiago

Kimmich---Boa--Hummels--Alaba
----------Javi---Vidal
-Muller-----James----Ribery
-------------Lewy

I get what you mean but we were pretty much losing today's game till James came on. At this stage of the season form is everything and James has been our most productive midfielder when fit.

As for Vidal the Goretzka buy was the writing on the wall. Something tells me Vidal would get an extension though. He has his days where he is untouchable