Hakeem at 31 is better than any Rocket now at any age til the end of time

You’re such a ****ing dumbass! I’ve literally said that Hakeem is still by far the greatest Rocket ever! I’m just not a fanboy that thinks it’s impossible for Harden to pass him. But I’ve never once said Harden is better!

 

Bullshit! You know if Harden wins one he’ll be inching closer to Hakeem. You don’t want that!

 

Ya'll see how tinman no longer responds to me cause he knows he has no facts to back up his BS. Either that or he's tired of being body bagged and put me on ignore.

 

It's tiresome. I very nearly defended John Stockton of all people when i read a youtube comment say that he couldn't even make an NBA roster today because it's too big and athletic for him. Lol. Seen the same said about Larry Bird. These fans today are so ridiculous. It's like they think every single player at every single position in the NBA is LeBron James and Russell Westbrook. As if Dirk, Nash, Curry and now Harden this season don't have 6 MVPs between them in this advanced and impossibly evolved league. I've seen these clowns say MJ would just be Demar Derozan in the NBA today at best. Meanwhile you can go watch old near retirement Shawn Marion and JJ Barrea hold Lebron in the NBA Finals while 38-40 year old MJ was giving athletic prime Marion the business and probably would have called Barrea a "****ing midget" to his face. Old man MJ with fluid drained bum knees and broken ribs and a sliced finger on his shooting hand that he still can't fully bend out there against prime Carter, Pierce, Kobe, T-Mac, Artest, KG, Marion, Iverson, etc.

Fans today see clips of 6'3 Dumars and Starks defending MJ and automatically generalize that it's all he ever faced for 82 games for 15 seasons. All he ever faced were 6'3 black guys and slow white bois. He wouldn't be able to do the things he did against the amazingly evolved humans of todays NBA where the average person is just as athletic as MJ! Back then, MJ was the only athletic player playing against a bunch of Danny Ainges and Craig Ehlos!

No way could Michael Jordan be good against the likes of 2018's starting shooting guards including midget Lou Will, midget Avery Bradley, soft ass jump shooting Devin Booker, midget Marcus Smart, soft ass jump shooting Bradley Beal, bum Crabbe, tooth pick Batum, midget Eric Gordon, slow white boy Joe Harris, midget Gary Harris, tooth pick Will Barton, midget Dipo, bum Middleton, bum KCP, tooth pick LaVine, toothpick Covington, bum ET Moore, bum on a bad team Hardaway JR, bum toothpick Corey Brewer who can barely dribble a basketball, Jrue Holiday, soft jump shooting white boy Forunier, white boy JJ Redick, midget McCollum, slow white boy Bogdonovich, jump shooting Danny Green, midget Donovan Mitchell. Don't even get me started on Harden, Klay, DeRozan and Butler!

HAHA. In a league catered to perimeter players and small ball era with open lanes and soft touch fouls, no way could MJ do anything against these amazingly skilled athletic freaks of nature!! It's just too damn advanced man. Too skilled. Too big! Too strong! Too fast! Too good!

 

This is the dumbest **** I have ever read... And its a little racist too (to black and white people, somehow). You basically just said every 2 guard in the league doesn't play defense...

 

Notice in the videos above that neither clock is running while Hakeem is practicing.

Further proof that Dream is timeless.

 

That's the entire point man! That his competition would be no different from 80s and 90s. MJ at 6'6 with a 6'11.5 wingspan and hands larger than most 7 footers and being one of the most athletic players of all time and most skilled is going to dominate opposing SG's in any era, period. This era is no different in terms of his competition and even in favor of MJ being better. MJ is bigger than nearly all of them and there are slow white players today just like any other era, just that most used to be white Americans and now they're mostly Europeans. It's all directly a response to you and your statement which looks so similar to the fools on youtube who say the things that i mentioned regarding MJ's peers and competition. It's increasingly common to see LeBron fans try and tear down MJ and his era just to try and propel LeBron or at least get him on MJ's level. Same thing happened with Kobe fans.

" the league/players are way better than they were in the 90’s. The game isn’t “tailor made” for anything other than talent. And the talent level right now is higher than its ever been." The league that YOU know is better than a league you watch on youtube from time to time when you're bored and have nothing invested into it is all you're saying. It's all obviously subjective. To me? There's bums in todays NBA left and right. Every roster. 2 decades worth of high schoolers and 1 and done players that never panned out because they didn't develop their game in college like they should have. Tons of "athletes" who can't even consistently stay on a roster because they're just not good BASKETBALL players. Undrafted players who become big time contributors way too late because they were deemed "not athletic enough" that the 90s were littered with. Skilled role player specialists with 3-4 years of college experience. Entire rosters with average age in the low 20s with zero veteran presence, and people want to call the 90s expansion teams "watered down." I guarantee you Toronto led by rookie Mighty Mouse surrounded by a bunch of 10 year vets on an expansion team would kick the **** out of these lower teams with 19 year olds and gleague bums. All the garbage teams of the 90s were rosters of young studs surrounded by veterans. Not a bunch of 19-21 year olds. Teams today tanking left and right for young kids who take 4 or 5 years to develop and more times than not, they never pan out. Vets demanding buyouts to go chill on a contender. Tons of overpaid bums. Stars all joining up with each other because its face of the league started this entire mercenary for hire strategy for the easy route. Easy money in todays league. Easy ride, and less drive.

The elite players are the elite. They'll make it in any era. Just like the elite of the 2ks, 90s, 80s, etc. Stop acting like everyone today is LeBron James, Russell Westbrook, John Wall athletes combined with Currys shooting and Kyries handles.

 

Hakeem can still whoop any rockets with his cane

 

guys that wanna compare eras fail to realize that back in the day you had straight up thugs like Oakley and Laimbeer patroling the paint... they had 6 fouls to deliver the most pain they could to anybody driving the lane... and back then, they weren't 'flagrant' they were just 'good hard fouls' and "thats what you get if you're gonna drive inside..."
It wasn't get the shot up and try to draw the foul... it was get the shot off - and try to protect yourself! lol!

 

@Os Trigonum

 

The cool thing about The Dream is that he is still a big time fan and is always supporting the team in the big games.

 

Dream believes in Zhou. Working with him daily...