Lambier on James and Jordan: If James had Pippen by his side, the championship could be 2 more than Jordan
Recently, Bill Lambier of the Bad Boys Corps expressed some of his views. He believes that if James has Pippen on his side like Jordan's side, he has at least eight championships. James is a very great player and if he plays in his time, he will be more successful than Jordan. It was because of Pippen that Jordan was able to succeed. There is no doubt that James is the first person in history in his mind.
Basketball is a team sport. Without one person, this team will not take off. Without Pippen, can Jordan win the championship? However, it cannot be said that with Pippen you can win the championship. Pippen joined the Bulls in '87 and didn't win the championship until '91. What did Pippen do in those four years? How did he grow up from a cowardly, inferior novice? At the time, the Bulls were a small team that didn't win championships and didn't have the money to build a successful team. They had to trade something, and they chose Pippen for the Supersonic No. 5 show with a backup center at the time, and although Pippen had a serious back injury at the time, the Bulls thought he was a genius. But cowardice accompanied Pippen in the first season.
Pippen seems to have immune function to Jordan's garbage talk, and he is hanged by Jordan while training. But Pippen came out with his strong heart, and old fans should know that Jordan will find Pippen for one-on-one training after the team training, so Pippen has made great progress. In one game, Jordan had a teammate who got the ball and could score under tight defense, which is why the Bulls are getting stronger. Pippen's growth is inextricably linked to Jordan's training, which is why Pippen has become the top player in the league.
A big reason Jordan won the championship was that other teams didn't hold the group, and James was forced to start grouping when he was defeated by other teams. The Bulls didn't have the strength to win a championship in season 95, and then they attracted good helpers. If Jordan had led the original Bulls in '95, they wouldn't have won the last three titles. Description: Bringing in good helpers is the same as hugging a group. After Jordan's first retirement, Pippen was promoted from the team's second leader to the first, but he led the team to the second round of the playoffs at most.
The basic logical principles of the debate about the historical ranking of basketball players are fundamentally wrong, so the debate is endless and difficult to unify one statement. 1. Basketball is a collective project, and it is impossible to identify individual contributions. 2) Jordan and James played at different times, and they didn't really play each other. It can only rely on fantasy and speculation. Jordan and James have their own strengths and weaknesses when it comes to personal data, and James also has dozens of historically number one playoff stats. 3. Can the champions be compared directly? Factors such as injuries to team members, opponents, their own side or the opponent's core personnel determine the ownership of the champion. Jordan, for example, has never met a champion team like Durant, Curry, harden. 4) MVP is artificially chosen, which is often a wrong conclusion; acknowledging that Jordan and James are great basketball players of different eras should not be compared to each other.
As long as you really understand basketball, you shouldn't compare James to Jordan, let alone surpass Jordan's historical position. Performance is certainly one aspect, but his contributions to the NBA and basketball as a whole are also why Jordan came in first place. If you don't know, you can look at what has changed in the NBA and even the U.S. economy as a result of Jordan's first retirement and comeback, and what concessions the entire NBA has made after Jordan's first contract expired. I'm a Kobe fan, but I'd say that no matter who the second man in history is, he's always far from the first.