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Agree. Plus trying to bridge generation gaps is way too hard. Compare players to what they played against, it's the only fair way
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why does it matter? i agree most haven't. but some basketball junkies like myself have watched whole games on nba tv, dvds, youtube, and other sources. Thats more than alot of people who only seen the same 30 clips of a past player.Originally Posted by Animal Thug1539
I just want to know, who in this thread has watched Bird play live in his prime? I'm talking about the 80's??
I can bet everything I got 90% of you haven't.
Originally Posted by Moe Fab
Ya'll act like Bird would be some scrub. First, you have to factor in Larry preparing in today's context (training, diet, film, etc.), some of you are forgetting that is the first most important part of this. Then factor in his skill set which is incredibly high. Then his IQ which is incredibly high. Once ya'll do that how hard is it to conceive he'd be a top 3 player. Ya'll sound ignorant.
Originally Posted by MonStar1
why does it matter? i agree most haven't. but some basketball junkies like myself have watched whole games on nba tv, dvds, youtube, and other sources. Thats more than alot of people who only seen the same 30 clips of a past player.Originally Posted by Animal Thug1539
I just want to know, who in this thread has watched Bird play live in his prime? I'm talking about the 80's??
I can bet everything I got 90% of you haven't.
Originally Posted by Animal Thug1539
Originally Posted by MonStar1
why does it matter? i agree most haven't. but some basketball junkies like myself have watched whole games on nba tv, dvds, youtube, and other sources. Thats more than alot of people who only seen the same 30 clips of a past player.Originally Posted by Animal Thug1539
I just want to know, who in this thread has watched Bird play live in his prime? I'm talking about the 80's??
I can bet everything I got 90% of you haven't.
So how you gonna attack me for making my comment based on my take on Bird, when you practically did the same thing?!!
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I'm done with this thread. And I'm avoiding any sports thread with MonStar debating in it..
Bill Fairweather (an ESPN coordinating producer) remembers a great Mickey Mantle story — one of my favorite excerpts from the oral history of ESPN, Those Guys Have All the Fun.
When I was twenty-one years old and working at this local station in the sports department, Mickey Mantle came by as part of a promotional tour. He came into the sports office and wound up sitting there while the PR guy was doing some other stuff. So we’re in this room together, but I’m not going to bother him. He’s Mickey Mantle, right?
The office had TV screens with different feeds and games that were going on, but one of the screens had the live feed from Boston Garden. So now it’s like 4:30pm, and the lights are not even on at the Garden, but Larry Bird is out there shooting, as is his pregame ritual. He would always be out there hours before anyone else, shooting a half an hour or an hour by himself. Not even anyone retrieving the ball.
So Mantle sits back and starts watching Bird shoot, and two minutes go by, and I notice Bird hasn’t missed a shot. Two more minutes go by; Bird still hasn’t missed a shot. And I see Mantle start to sit up, to get on the edge of his chair and get more and more intently focused on watching this. No joke, Bird has probably taken a hundred shots in a row and not missed one. Mantle is just totally amazed by what he’s seeing, and I’m watching him watch Bird. I’m getting a real kick out of this because I’m seeing this guy, one of the greatest baseball players of all time, watching one of the greatest basketball players of all time, all the while knowing that there are only two people in the world who are aware of what’s going on now, and it’s me and Mickey Mantle.
I think Bird was shooting for close to ten minutes without missing a shot, and finally Mantle gets to the point where he has to say something. He’s just so amazed by what he’s been seeing that he looks at me and says, “This boy doesn’t miss.
Originally Posted by DCAllAmerican
Come on man, a hundred shots and not a miss. Come on man. Get real.
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LeBron would be the only SF better than him. Very versatile offensive game and he was a true PLAYMAKER. Durant is not that. Pierce is not that. I feel the second point often gets overlooked because of LeBron's greatness. SF is usually not a PLAYMAKER position. It's very rare. Look at the history of the league.
From the plethora of videos I've seen of Larry Bird, he was a better athlete than someone like Dirk, who I only bring up because he was mentioned.
Bird thrived in the playoffs, Bron shrinks in pressure during the playoffs (so far). He was also every bit the playmaker Bron is & will be. He actually had a decent post game which Bron still doesn't. Bron can't even knock a mid range J with any consistency. He's had the same game since getting into. Did you read that Mickey Mantle story? I've seen Bron shoot pregame several times & I can tell you he misses about 50% of what he shoots...
LeBron shrinks in the playoffs? Check his stats. One series
LOL, no.