What made the Rockets a better team was their ability to work inside out...Miami has to rely on Lebron working out of the post...or they would be relegated to being just a jump shooting team... PS..Lebron on Olajuwon at crunch time would be scintillating to watch..
PLayers like Lebron would get to the rim unabated...sure... but players like Wade would be out of the playoffs...bc playoff fouls back then are consider flagrant today...players back then played with more contact and were more effective playing through contact...Lebron realistically would be just as effective then..Wade, I dont think so...and same goes with a lot of other players... PS...to prove your point that 2013 heat team had trouble with a dominant big man squad...look to Indiana, Knicks, Memphis, Spurs and Bulls...look at the scoring output...in losses to these teams...they either had less than 90 or low 90's...
Actually, since the league's centers are so watered down, if Mutombo were playing, he would arguably be the best C today. Olajuwon/Robinson/Shaq/Ewing/Mourning were definitely better than any C playing today.
Considering they had a hard time eliminating Boston last season, who is probably the closets current incarnation of those hard nosed 90's teams, they surely would've struggled. Boston doesn't even have a stong center and they struggled with their physicality. Miami is a finess team built for the current rule changes. Against the Rockets, Bulls, and Orlando Lebron isn't even the best player on the floor.
Yeah, I don't know if the guy is being sacarstic or maybe he never actually saw these guys play but I didn't even think there was anything controversial in that statement. Lebron is the greatest player of his era and he puts up gaudy numbers, but even those numbers don't touch any of those 3. In 93 Olajuwon put up 25, 13, 4 and 4 blocks a game on 53% shooting. Jordan Averaged more points and a better shooting percentage with comparable assist and rebound numbers along with being a lock down defender. Shaq may not have been as skilled as Dream and Jordan but he is still the most dominant player I've ever seen, they guy shot 60% from the field for a whole season he literally scored at will. Lebron's best seasons may be ahead, of him and he's in the conversation, but he's not there yet.
lol this is so wrong , Wade much better than Drexler? Heat bench by miles? Stop dreaming , this Heat team got no chance against 95 Rockets , Hakeem alone would murder them , their bigs would fouled out in the 1st half that they might need to use their ball boy on Dream . Hakeem would make Wade and Lebron cry like a little girl if they try to score inside the paint . :grin:
btw seem like you are so high about your so called GOAT Lebron, that you think no one can stop him . Guess what , Hakeem play exactly the standard of Lebron , and he's a 7 footer , try to stop that . :grin:
The first threepeat bulls held their own against teams with dominant centers despite having no marquee bigmen themselves. The Heat play the same type of swarming defense by committee, and have been defensively elite come playoff time.
Nostradamus right here! Looks like LBJ is going to shoot 60% this year. And no one in the modern era has put up the all-around numbers LBJ has in the last five or six years.
Not against the Spurs and Rockets. I think that from 1991-1993, both the Spurs and Rockets were 5-1 against the Bulls.
