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AI never won anything and he was really a selfish player. Philly got better the second they traded him. I'm not sure about wanting to win either. He was more interested in getting his than anything. It was hard for other guys to play with him because of his selfishness as a player.


By better do you mean they matched or exceeded AI's finals appearances?

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Iverson was definitely better than Kyrie and it's incorrect to say the team got better when he got traded. They won three less games that year than the year before. Let me know when Kyrie gets a team to the Finals without anyone else on the team averaging 15 ppg. Iverson had to be selfish to give his team a chance.

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On that list Pippen's easily ahead of McGrady, Petit, Mikan, Chris Paul, Kidd, Cousy, Havlicek, Dirk and imo the Admiral (ask Hakeem)


I'd say he's ahead of McGrady and maybe Kidd. I'm not sure about Chris Paul because I don't follow it anymore. No way is he ahead of any of the others.

There's the weird idea that people were a different species in the forties and fifties. But then the same guys who act as if Mikan and Cousy were stumbling down the court as if they had cerebral palsy will tell some story about who their grandpa was this legendary tower of a man. That's because grandpa is real. And Mikan is just a black and white picture.

That's wrong. There's plenty of YouTube material available on Cousy. It's simply disingenuous to watch him and Pippen and come away saying Cousy is better at basketball.


You can't watch old ass videos and tell how a guy could move. Babe Ruth wasn't some fat guy who took baby steps around the bases either. I have no doubt that if a 25 year old Cousy came out to your park you'd shit your pants at how good he was. Also, if he were playing in the 90s he'd be roided up like Scottie too. That has to be considered.

Of course you can get a good idea from watching actual footage. It's ridiculous to assert otherwise.

And yeah, Bob Cousy was better than me and my friends. He wasn't better than Scottie Pippen


You really can't get an idea from that old footage. Do you think Ruth took those little baby steps? Film degrades. Cousy was almost certainly better than Pippen.

It's a conceit of younger people like Boilermaker Rick to think everything is always on the improve. Man did not change as a species over forty years. He ate better and took more drugs.

Let me make the point this way. In the 70s a horse came on the scene in New York named Big Towner. Now, keep in mind that a generation for a horse is 3-4 years rather than 18-30 for a man. The sire of Big Towner was a horse named Gene Abbe who was born in 1944. Thirty years or ten generations of purposeful breeding had passed by the time Big Towner was born. (If you find old videos from horses in the 50s they look like the equivalent of Cousy compared to a modern race.) How could Big Towner possibly compete against the modern fashionably bred pedigrees of the time? Well, he beat everything in New York on the regular. There just isn't this drastic physical difference, though it may seem that way because of outside things like improved nutrition and drugs.

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Durant isn't helping. Not claiming that Kyrie is already better than AI.

I want to like the guy, but then he says something else that I just don't get


Durant is right about Irving being more skilled. May not translate into better player because career accomplishments will be taken into account. He is definitely more skilled than Allen Iverson


How? Better footwork?


Better handle. One of the best the league has ever seen. Better shooter. Check the numbers. better passer. Better finisher at the rim. Irving is Strickland like (his godfather) in the way he can finish at the rim. He can use either hand and makes a lot of layups at odd angles. Iverson was quicker and faster. His skills aren't better.


Strickland or Kenny Anderson are good comps for Kyrie. AI is just on another level. His speed and quickness made everything he did better. His effort and will to win is up there with the Jordan's of the world.


AI never won anything and he was really a selfish player. Philly got better the second they traded him. I'm not sure about wanting to win either. He was more interested in getting his than anything. It was hard for other guys to play with him because of his selfishness as a player.


Selfish? Have you ever looked at that bunch of bums he nearly carried to a championship? He probably should have been even more "selfish".

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Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
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On that list Pippen's easily ahead of McGrady, Petit, Mikan, Chris Paul, Kidd, Cousy, Havlicek, Dirk and imo the Admiral (ask Hakeem)


I'd say he's ahead of McGrady and maybe Kidd. I'm not sure about Chris Paul because I don't follow it anymore. No way is he ahead of any of the others.

There's the weird idea that people were a different species in the forties and fifties. But then the same guys who act as if Mikan and Cousy were stumbling down the court as if they had cerebral palsy will tell some story about who their grandpa was this legendary tower of a man. That's because grandpa is real. And Mikan is just a black and white picture.

That's wrong. There's plenty of YouTube material available on Cousy. It's simply disingenuous to watch him and Pippen and come away saying Cousy is better at basketball.


You can't watch old ass videos and tell how a guy could move. Babe Ruth wasn't some fat guy who took baby steps around the bases either. I have no doubt that if a 25 year old Cousy came out to your park you'd shit your pants at how good he was. Also, if he were playing in the 90s he'd be roided up like Scottie too. That has to be considered.

Of course you can get a good idea from watching actual footage. It's ridiculous to assert otherwise.

And yeah, Bob Cousy was better than me and my friends. He wasn't better than Scottie Pippen


You really can't get an idea from that old footage. Do you think Ruth took those little baby steps? Film degrades. Cousy was almost certainly better than Pippen.

It's a conceit of younger people like Boilermaker Rick to think everything is always on the improve. Man did not change as a species over forty years. He ate better and took more drugs.

Let me make the point this way. In the 70s a horse came on the scene in New York named Big Towner. Now, keep in mind that a generation for a horse is 3-4 years rather than 18-30 for a man. The sire of Big Towner was a horse named Gene Abbe who was born in 1944. Thirty years or ten generations of purposeful breeding had passed by the time Big Towner was born. (If you find old videos from horses in the 50s they look like the equivalent of Cousy compared to a modern race.) How could Big Towner possibly compete against the modern fashionably bred pedigrees of the time? Well, he beat everything in New York on the regular. There just isn't this drastic physical difference, though it may seem that way because of outside things like improved nutrition and drugs.

You're conflating physical traits with skills. The guys in the league today have devoted their entire lives solely to becoming better at playing basketball. Basketball is as much a skill game as a game of physical dominance. I'm not saying Pippen is better than Cousy was because he's a more evolved athlete(although he's certainly a better athlete), im saying he's better because he almost certainly put in a lot more hours to it and it shows in nearly every facet. You want to turn this into an old vs young debate because you know on its merits you're arguing a ridiculous case. I'm not saying Austin Rivers is better than cousy so you can stop with that red herring.

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The thing I love about these era discussions is that there are no ultimate right answers as video games are the only arena where current players can match up against former players. It also includes a generation gap face-off.

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Don't forget the talent pool today is probably 500 times larger than when Cousy played.

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You're conflating physical traits with skills. The guys in the league today have devoted their entire lives solely to becoming better at playing basketball. Basketball is as much a skill game as a game of physical dominance. I'm not saying Pippen is better than Cousy was because he's a more evolved athlete(although he's certainly a better athlete), im saying he's better because he almost certainly put in a lot more hours to it and it shows in nearly every facet. You want to turn this into an old vs young debate because you know on its merits you're arguing a ridiculous case. I'm not saying Austin Rivers is better than cousy so you can stop with that red herring.


But the hours of practice are circumstantial as well. It's not Cousy's fault that he had to sell insurance in the summer to makes ends meet while Scottie lifted weights and dribbled while being fed testosterone by Tim Grover. If Cousy were playing in the 90s he would have done those things too. You can only compare them by looking at what they did in the times they played and then looking at who was better. And in this case, it's clearly Cousy.

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I know a lot of guys don't agree with JORR and LTG's assessments of some modern players, and I'm wondering if this disagreement is not about the merits of the players themselves but rather just an experiential thing. Let me give you an example: I was in middle school and HS when Vince Carter entered the league and set it on fire with his amazing dunks. It was the best time to be a fan for me in retrospect because I wasn't as cynical as I am now and my youthfulness generally made everything appear to be fantastic. Nowadays I've got punk teenagers coming up to me talking about Zach Levine or someone else being the best dunker ever or whatever, and invariably my response goes something like "well, do you know Vince Carter, blah blah blah" like some old man yelling at cloud bitch I thought I'd never be.

I get it. Those punk teens are the new crop of middle/high schoolers thinking the players in front of them right now and here are the shit, and they don't care about guys who were balling before they were born or while they were still in diapers. And even as they get older I'm sure their perspective will become more balanced but that still won't erase the peak fan experiences they've had as youngsters watching Zach Levine or something dunking on the rest of the league. It's a sort of presentist bias that leads them to hold onto certain truths that become more rigid over time as they inevitably move away from being a full-time fan, or at least as rabid of a fan as they were when they were young.

The short way of saying this is I wondering if in, let's say, 30 years me or FF or LYK or whomever will be the new JORR/LTG/etc of this board trying to tell someone born in 2030 that there's no way some small forward born in 2025 is better than Dirk or LBJ or KD or whomever because of blah blah blah, while that person replies that LBJ, KD, etc., weren't shit, and that they were old and slow and decrepit and couldn't do this or that, etc.

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Don't forget the talent pool today is probably 500 times larger than when Cousy played.



Although 500 times is grossly overstating it, this is a legitimate argument. But one that works in reverse when discussing baseball- even in the pre-Robinson era, and especially afterward during the 50s and 60s- when every athlete in America was trying to play professional baseball.

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You're conflating physical traits with skills. The guys in the league today have devoted their entire lives solely to becoming better at playing basketball. Basketball is as much a skill game as a game of physical dominance. I'm not saying Pippen is better than Cousy was because he's a more evolved athlete(although he's certainly a better athlete), im saying he's better because he almost certainly put in a lot more hours to it and it shows in nearly every facet. You want to turn this into an old vs young debate because you know on its merits you're arguing a ridiculous case. I'm not saying Austin Rivers is better than cousy so you can stop with that red herring.


But the hours of practice are circumstantial as well. It's not Cousy's fault that he had to sell insurance in the summer to makes ends meet while Scottie lifted weights and dribbled while being fed testosterone by Tim Grover. If Cousy were playing in the 90s he would have done those things too. You can only compare them by looking at what they did in the times they played and then looking at who was better. And in this case, it's clearly Cousy.


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You're conflating physical traits with skills. The guys in the league today have devoted their entire lives solely to becoming better at playing basketball. Basketball is as much a skill game as a game of physical dominance. I'm not saying Pippen is better than Cousy was because he's a more evolved athlete(although he's certainly a better athlete), im saying he's better because he almost certainly put in a lot more hours to it and it shows in nearly every facet. You want to turn this into an old vs young debate because you know on its merits you're arguing a ridiculous case. I'm not saying Austin Rivers is better than cousy so you can stop with that red herring.


But the hours of practice are circumstantial as well. It's not Cousy's fault that he had to sell insurance in the summer to makes ends meet while Scottie lifted weights and dribbled while being fed testosterone by Tim Grover. If Cousy were playing in the 90s he would have done those things too. You can only compare them by looking at what they did in the times they played and then looking at who was better. And in this case, it's clearly Cousy.

No, at some point you can compare how good they actually are. Because if you take your thinking to its logical end point then the best player in 1945 is as good as Magic Johnson/Jordan/LeBron. It's just ridiculous. At a certain point it's not disrespectful to watch two guys play, even from different eras, and say yeah ok this guy is clearly better, regardless of circumstance.

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I know a lot of guys don't agree with JORR and LTG's assessments of some modern players, and I'm wondering if this disagreement is not about the merits of the players themselves but rather just an experiential thing. Let me give you an example: I was in middle school and HS when Vince Carter entered the league and set it on fire with his amazing dunks. It was the best time to be a fan for me in retrospect because I wasn't as cynical as I am now and my youthfulness generally made everything appear to be fantastic. Nowadays I've got punk teenagers coming up to me talking about Zach Levine or someone else being the best dunker ever or whatever, and invariably my response goes something like "well, do you know Vince Carter, blah blah blah" like some old man yelling at cloud bitch I thought I'd never be.

I get it. Those punk teens are the new crop of middle/high schoolers thinking the players in front of them right now and here are the shit, and they don't care about guys who were balling before they were born or while they were still in diapers. And even as they get older I'm sure their perspective will become more balanced but that still won't erase the peak fan experiences they've had as youngsters watching Zach Levine or something dunking on the rest of the league. It's a sort of presentist bias that leads them to hold onto certain truths that become more rigid over time as they inevitably move away from being a full-time fan, or at least as rabid of a fan as they were when they were young.

The short way of saying this is I wondering if in, let's say, 30 years me or FF or LYK or whomever will be the new JORR/LTG/etc of this board trying to tell someone born in 2030 that there's no way some small forward born in 2025 is better than Dirk or LBJ or KD or whomever because of blah blah blah, while that person replies that LBJ, KD, etc., weren't shit, and that they were old and slow and decrepit and couldn't do this or that, etc.


It's already happening. How can it be that players "evolved" so that a comparison of Cousy and Pippen is absurd (in favor of Pippen) but that evolution abruptly stopped so that LeBron James could never be as good as Michael Jordan?

Also, thank you for bringing up Vince Carter, another guy who was better than Scottie Pippen.

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I know a lot of guys don't agree with JORR and LTG's assessments of some modern players, and I'm wondering if this disagreement is not about the merits of the players themselves but rather just an experiential thing. Let me give you an example: I was in middle school and HS when Vince Carter entered the league and set it on fire with his amazing dunks. It was the best time to be a fan for me in retrospect because I wasn't as cynical as I am now and my youthfulness generally made everything appear to be fantastic. Nowadays I've got punk teenagers coming up to me talking about Zach Levine or someone else being the best dunker ever or whatever, and invariably my response goes something like "well, do you know Vince Carter, blah blah blah" like some old man yelling at cloud bitch I thought I'd never be.

I get it. Those punk teens are the new crop of middle/high schoolers thinking the players in front of them right now and here are the shit, and they don't care about guys who were balling before they were born or while they were still in diapers. And even as they get older I'm sure their perspective will become more balanced but that still won't erase the peak fan experiences they've had as youngsters watching Zach Levine or something dunking on the rest of the league. It's a sort of presentist bias that leads them to hold onto certain truths that become more rigid over time as they inevitably move away from being a full-time fan, or at least as rabid of a fan as they were when they were young.

The short way of saying this is I wondering if in, let's say, 30 years me or FF or LYK or whomever will be the new JORR/LTG/etc of this board trying to tell someone born in 2030 that there's no way some small forward born in 2025 is better than Dirk or LBJ or KD or whomever because of blah blah blah, while that person replies that LBJ, KD, etc., weren't shit, and that they were old and slow and decrepit and couldn't do this or that, etc.


It probably plays a role but I think there are times when you can be somewhat objective. Kobe is my favorite player of all time (despite being a rapist) but I would never argue that he's better than Jordan now. If you tell me LeBron is better than Kobe I won't listen to you even though he probably is.

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I know a lot of guys don't agree with JORR and LTG's assessments of some modern players, and I'm wondering if this disagreement is not about the merits of the players themselves but rather just an experiential thing. Let me give you an example: I was in middle school and HS when Vince Carter entered the league and set it on fire with his amazing dunks. It was the best time to be a fan for me in retrospect because I wasn't as cynical as I am now and my youthfulness generally made everything appear to be fantastic. Nowadays I've got punk teenagers coming up to me talking about Zach Levine or someone else being the best dunker ever or whatever, and invariably my response goes something like "well, do you know Vince Carter, blah blah blah" like some old man yelling at cloud bitch I thought I'd never be.

I get it. Those punk teens are the new crop of middle/high schoolers thinking the players in front of them right now and here are the shit, and they don't care about guys who were balling before they were born or while they were still in diapers. And even as they get older I'm sure their perspective will become more balanced but that still won't erase the peak fan experiences they've had as youngsters watching Zach Levine or something dunking on the rest of the league. It's a sort of presentist bias that leads them to hold onto certain truths that become more rigid over time as they inevitably move away from being a full-time fan, or at least as rabid of a fan as they were when they were young.

The short way of saying this is I wondering if in, let's say, 30 years me or FF or LYK or whomever will be the new JORR/LTG/etc of this board trying to tell someone born in 2030 that there's no way some small forward born in 2025 is better than Dirk or LBJ or KD or whomever because of blah blah blah, while that person replies that LBJ, KD, etc., weren't shit, and that they were old and slow and decrepit and couldn't do this or that, etc.


It's already happening. How can it be that players "evolved" so that a comparison of Cousy and Pippen is absurd (in favor of Pippen) but that evolution abruptly stopped so that LeBron James could never be as good as Michael Jordan?

Also, thank you for bringing up Vince Carter, another guy who was better than Scottie Pippen.

If someone shows me clips of LeBron at his best I can justifiably counter with Jordan clips that are equally impressive. You can't do the same if me and you want to start posting videos of Cousy and Pippen. And like a fat middle aged newscaster you blame the camera :lol:

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I know a lot of guys don't agree with JORR and LTG's assessments of some modern players, and I'm wondering if this disagreement is not about the merits of the players themselves but rather just an experiential thing. Let me give you an example: I was in middle school and HS when Vince Carter entered the league and set it on fire with his amazing dunks. It was the best time to be a fan for me in retrospect because I wasn't as cynical as I am now and my youthfulness generally made everything appear to be fantastic. Nowadays I've got punk teenagers coming up to me talking about Zach Levine or someone else being the best dunker ever or whatever, and invariably my response goes something like "well, do you know Vince Carter, blah blah blah" like some old man yelling at cloud bitch I thought I'd never be.

I get it. Those punk teens are the new crop of middle/high schoolers thinking the players in front of them right now and here are the shit, and they don't care about guys who were balling before they were born or while they were still in diapers. And even as they get older I'm sure their perspective will become more balanced but that still won't erase the peak fan experiences they've had as youngsters watching Zach Levine or something dunking on the rest of the league. It's a sort of presentist bias that leads them to hold onto certain truths that become more rigid over time as they inevitably move away from being a full-time fan, or at least as rabid of a fan as they were when they were young.

The short way of saying this is I wondering if in, let's say, 30 years me or FF or LYK or whomever will be the new JORR/LTG/etc of this board trying to tell someone born in 2030 that there's no way some small forward born in 2025 is better than Dirk or LBJ or KD or whomever because of blah blah blah, while that person replies that LBJ, KD, etc., weren't shit, and that they were old and slow and decrepit and couldn't do this or that, etc.


It's already happening. How can it be that players "evolved" so that a comparison of Cousy and Pippen is absurd (in favor of Pippen) but that evolution abruptly stopped so that LeBron James could never be as good as Michael Jordan?

Also, thank you for bringing up Vince Carter, another guy who was better than Scottie Pippen.


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Also, thank you for bringing up Vince Carter, another guy who was better than Scottie Pippen.


Nah. Even I, as the author of that shitty list, can't go there. I thought guys who criticized me should at least credit me for having the sense to not place the following guys on that list of players better than Pippen:

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Also, thank you for bringing up Vince Carter, another guy who was better than Scottie Pippen.


Nah. Even I, as the author of that shitty list, can't go there. I thought guys who criticized me should at least credit me for having the sense to not place the following guys on that list of players better than Pippen:

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Dwight Howard


Penny would have been and I can't complain if you say Iverson.

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Also, thank you for bringing up Vince Carter, another guy who was better than Scottie Pippen.


Nah. Even I, as the author of that shitty list, can't go there. I thought guys who criticized me should at least credit me for having the sense to not place the following guys on that list of players better than Pippen:

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Dwight Howard

You wanted credit for not saying Dwight Howard is better than Pippen? Do you also wish to be given credit for tying your shoes and stopping your car at a red light?

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You're conflating physical traits with skills. The guys in the league today have devoted their entire lives solely to becoming better at playing basketball. Basketball is as much a skill game as a game of physical dominance. I'm not saying Pippen is better than Cousy was because he's a more evolved athlete(although he's certainly a better athlete), im saying he's better because he almost certainly put in a lot more hours to it and it shows in nearly every facet. You want to turn this into an old vs young debate because you know on its merits you're arguing a ridiculous case. I'm not saying Austin Rivers is better than cousy so you can stop with that red herring.


But the hours of practice are circumstantial as well. It's not Cousy's fault that he had to sell insurance in the summer to makes ends meet while Scottie lifted weights and dribbled while being fed testosterone by Tim Grover. If Cousy were playing in the 90s he would have done those things too. You can only compare them by looking at what they did in the times they played and then looking at who was better. And in this case, it's clearly Cousy.

No, at some point you can compare how good they actually are. Because if you take your thinking to its logical end point then the best player in 1945 is as good as Magic Johnson/Jordan/LeBron. It's just ridiculous. At a certain point it's not disrespectful to watch two guys play, even from different eras, and say yeah ok this guy is clearly better, regardless of circumstance.


Okay, let's try it like this. Cousy averaged 13 playing with Havlicek who averaged 16 playing with Bernard King who averaged 28 playing with Gary Payton who averaged 15 while playing with LeBron. It only seems like the old guys couldn't compete.

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Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:

Also, thank you for bringing up Vince Carter, another guy who was better than Scottie Pippen.


Nah. Even I, as the author of that shitty list, can't go there. I thought guys who criticized me should at least credit me for having the sense to not place the following guys on that list of players better than Pippen:

VC
Paul Pierce
Iverson
Webber
Ming
Kemp
Penny
Dwight Howard

You wanted credit for not saying Dwight Howard is better than Pippen? Do you also wish to be given credit for tying your shoes and stopping your car at a red light?


Dwight Howard was no joke for like five years in this league. Had he kept it up he would have been better than Pippen.

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I know a lot of guys don't agree with JORR and LTG's assessments of some modern players, and I'm wondering if this disagreement is not about the merits of the players themselves but rather just an experiential thing. Let me give you an example: I was in middle school and HS when Vince Carter entered the league and set it on fire with his amazing dunks. It was the best time to be a fan for me in retrospect because I wasn't as cynical as I am now and my youthfulness generally made everything appear to be fantastic. Nowadays I've got punk teenagers coming up to me talking about Zach Levine or someone else being the best dunker ever or whatever, and invariably my response goes something like "well, do you know Vince Carter, blah blah blah" like some old man yelling at cloud bitch I thought I'd never be.

I get it. Those punk teens are the new crop of middle/high schoolers thinking the players in front of them right now and here are the shit, and they don't care about guys who were balling before they were born or while they were still in diapers. And even as they get older I'm sure their perspective will become more balanced but that still won't erase the peak fan experiences they've had as youngsters watching Zach Levine or something dunking on the rest of the league. It's a sort of presentist bias that leads them to hold onto certain truths that become more rigid over time as they inevitably move away from being a full-time fan, or at least as rabid of a fan as they were when they were young.

The short way of saying this is I wondering if in, let's say, 30 years me or FF or LYK or whomever will be the new JORR/LTG/etc of this board trying to tell someone born in 2030 that there's no way some small forward born in 2025 is better than Dirk or LBJ or KD or whomever because of blah blah blah, while that person replies that LBJ, KD, etc., weren't shit, and that they were old and slow and decrepit and couldn't do this or that, etc.


It's already happening. How can it be that players "evolved" so that a comparison of Cousy and Pippen is absurd (in favor of Pippen) but that evolution abruptly stopped so that LeBron James could never be as good as Michael Jordan?

Also, thank you for bringing up Vince Carter, another guy who was better than Scottie Pippen.

If someone shows me clips of LeBron at his best I can justifiably counter with Jordan clips that are equally impressive. You can't do the same if me and you want to start posting videos of Cousy and Pippen. And like a fat middle aged newscaster you blame the camera :lol:



Right. Because Jordan isn't on film. He's on tape that doesn't degrade the same way.

Why did this evolution stop with Michael Jordan?

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Also, thank you for bringing up Vince Carter, another guy who was better than Scottie Pippen.


Nah. Even I, as the author of that shitty list, can't go there. I thought guys who criticized me should at least credit me for having the sense to not place the following guys on that list of players better than Pippen:

VC
Paul Pierce
Iverson
Webber
Ming
Kemp
Penny
Dwight Howard

You wanted credit for not saying Dwight Howard is better than Pippen? Do you also wish to be given credit for tying your shoes and stopping your car at a red light?


Dwight Howard was no joke for like five years in this league. Had he kept it up he would have been better than Pippen.

He was great for like two years. Really just the one.

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Also, thank you for bringing up Vince Carter, another guy who was better than Scottie Pippen.


Nah. Even I, as the author of that shitty list, can't go there.



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I know a lot of guys don't agree with JORR and LTG's assessments of some modern players, and I'm wondering if this disagreement is not about the merits of the players themselves but rather just an experiential thing. Let me give you an example: I was in middle school and HS when Vince Carter entered the league and set it on fire with his amazing dunks. It was the best time to be a fan for me in retrospect because I wasn't as cynical as I am now and my youthfulness generally made everything appear to be fantastic. Nowadays I've got punk teenagers coming up to me talking about Zach Levine or someone else being the best dunker ever or whatever, and invariably my response goes something like "well, do you know Vince Carter, blah blah blah" like some old man yelling at cloud bitch I thought I'd never be.

I get it. Those punk teens are the new crop of middle/high schoolers thinking the players in front of them right now and here are the shit, and they don't care about guys who were balling before they were born or while they were still in diapers. And even as they get older I'm sure their perspective will become more balanced but that still won't erase the peak fan experiences they've had as youngsters watching Zach Levine or something dunking on the rest of the league. It's a sort of presentist bias that leads them to hold onto certain truths that become more rigid over time as they inevitably move away from being a full-time fan, or at least as rabid of a fan as they were when they were young.

The short way of saying this is I wondering if in, let's say, 30 years me or FF or LYK or whomever will be the new JORR/LTG/etc of this board trying to tell someone born in 2030 that there's no way some small forward born in 2025 is better than Dirk or LBJ or KD or whomever because of blah blah blah, while that person replies that LBJ, KD, etc., weren't shit, and that they were old and slow and decrepit and couldn't do this or that, etc.


It's already happening. How can it be that players "evolved" so that a comparison of Cousy and Pippen is absurd (in favor of Pippen) but that evolution abruptly stopped so that LeBron James could never be as good as Michael Jordan?

Also, thank you for bringing up Vince Carter, another guy who was better than Scottie Pippen.

If someone shows me clips of LeBron at his best I can justifiably counter with Jordan clips that are equally impressive. You can't do the same if me and you want to start posting videos of Cousy and Pippen. And like a fat middle aged newscaster you blame the camera :lol:



Right. Because Jordan isn't on film. He's on tape that doesn't degrade the same way.

Why did this evolution stop with Michael Jordan?

I haven't really mentioned evolution at all. That's not my argument on why Pippen is better than Cousy. I've never once claimed that all players are better than the previous eras players. That's a strawman you go to often, not sure why.

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veganfan21 wrote:
I know a lot of guys don't agree with JORR and LTG's assessments of some modern players, and I'm wondering if this disagreement is not about the merits of the players themselves but rather just an experiential thing. Let me give you an example: I was in middle school and HS when Vince Carter entered the league and set it on fire with his amazing dunks. It was the best time to be a fan for me in retrospect because I wasn't as cynical as I am now and my youthfulness generally made everything appear to be fantastic. Nowadays I've got punk teenagers coming up to me talking about Zach Levine or someone else being the best dunker ever or whatever, and invariably my response goes something like "well, do you know Vince Carter, blah blah blah" like some old man yelling at cloud bitch I thought I'd never be.

I get it. Those punk teens are the new crop of middle/high schoolers thinking the players in front of them right now and here are the shit, and they don't care about guys who were balling before they were born or while they were still in diapers. And even as they get older I'm sure their perspective will become more balanced but that still won't erase the peak fan experiences they've had as youngsters watching Zach Levine or something dunking on the rest of the league. It's a sort of presentist bias that leads them to hold onto certain truths that become more rigid over time as they inevitably move away from being a full-time fan, or at least as rabid of a fan as they were when they were young.

The short way of saying this is I wondering if in, let's say, 30 years me or FF or LYK or whomever will be the new JORR/LTG/etc of this board trying to tell someone born in 2030 that there's no way some small forward born in 2025 is better than Dirk or LBJ or KD or whomever because of blah blah blah, while that person replies that LBJ, KD, etc., weren't shit, and that they were old and slow and decrepit and couldn't do this or that, etc.


It's already happening. How can it be that players "evolved" so that a comparison of Cousy and Pippen is absurd (in favor of Pippen) but that evolution abruptly stopped so that LeBron James could never be as good as Michael Jordan?

Also, thank you for bringing up Vince Carter, another guy who was better than Scottie Pippen.

If someone shows me clips of LeBron at his best I can justifiably counter with Jordan clips that are equally impressive. You can't do the same if me and you want to start posting videos of Cousy and Pippen. And like a fat middle aged newscaster you blame the camera :lol:



Right. Because Jordan isn't on film. He's on tape that doesn't degrade the same way.

Why did this evolution stop with Michael Jordan?

I haven't really mentioned evolution at all. That's not my argument on why Pippen is better than Cousy. I've never once claimed that all players are better than the previous eras players. That's a strawman you go to often, not sure why.


Well, what is it then? Pippen clearly isn't better on the numbers.

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He's obviously a vastly superior defender and rebounder, much better shooter, obviously a more explosive athlete. Ball handling and passing ability don't favor Cousy as much as they would need to in order to make up for all the other facets that favor Pippen. It's really not close.

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OMG. Vince Carter was so bad on defense, it shouldn't even be discussed. I just threw up a little.

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