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I stick by my comment, I think The Bucks would be somewhere around.500 without Giannis.
The 2018/2019 Hawks would take this Bucks team w/o Giannis 6 games in a Playoff Series on the sheer Brilliance of their fabulous young PG.
concur. They'd be good, not great
With Giannis they sweep the Hawks and Giannis reduces John Collins to tears. This Giannis may b the most gifted Basketball player any of us has ever seen and some of the older guys on this forum remember KAJ. At 24 years old all he needs is a jumper and does anyone on hear not believe that it's only a matter of time before he checks that box too? Frightening.
Who is KAJ ?
Edit...oh Jabar. In all the years I followed him I don't recall his initials being used.
MeR- Wiseassery aside. Add Giannis to next year's team and it would compete for an Eastern Title.
Agreed, absolutely.
Big Z would like a word with you
You'll have to go to him though because he just had another foot injury
Oh come on.....Let Giannis win something before we call him the most gifted basketball player of all time. Let him develop a jumper. Saying he's not as polished coming out of Greece is an excuse. Lebron at 24 bullies Giannis.
Lebron had power, skill and the strength of mind to lead a team at 24. Does Giannis possess the Magic, Bird, Jordan, Lebron level of intangibles ? That might be the only open question.
Gianni's shouldn't even be in the same paragraph as LeBron. You guys are totally a prisoner of the moment if you're even putting them in the same sentence.
If you want to have a LeBron vs Jordan conversation, I'll listen, but this is lunacy. Plus it would need to be in a different thread so WC doesn't "off topic" me.
In the interest of staying on topic, I'd take KD. These big games usually come down to the last 5 minutes, so give me the guy that can score from anywhere over the guy that has to get in the lane.
You're wrong Squill, at least PARTLY wrong.
Giannis is every bit the talent Lebron is, in some important ways he's superior. What seems unlikely at this point is Giannis matching Lebron's combination of talent, aptitude and will power. Those intangibles set the all time great winners apart from other extremely gifted players. Bill Russell, Bird, Magic, MJ and Lebron, those guys were great both physically and mentally. It's extremely rare for a person to have both qualities in such abundance.
Also butt booger, I don't off topic posters....what the hail, just this once.
Even though Lebron took those early Cavs teams to the finals, it took him a while to will his team to victory. You could see it when he finally won in Miami. He had to go to the dark place that MJ spent much of his career. When things got crucial he had to decide to just take over, not hope a teammate made a play.
The ultimate play was one of the greatest defensive plays I've ever seen in Basketball, to give the Cavs the Championship.
Greek freak and Joel Embiid would get so much money if they were FA