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Originally Posted by AdumbGuy
Not sure what you're talking about. These games aren't sustainable. You can't do that in every playoff game. He breaks these games out when they're needed. Against indy last year, he had a 40, 19, 9 game after bosh went out; the 45 point outburst came when the whole world was getting ready to kill him and the heat for getting eliminated. Dude stepped up, and stepped up BIG.
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And yet Jordan did. You keep talking about a few big games sprinkled in with a lot of consistently very good games. Jordan was dominant the vast majority of playoff games he played.
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OKC had durant/westbrook/harden - that's 3 superstar talents + the defensive player of the year and they got spanked.
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I don't think there is a single person that would doubt that Westbrook and Harden and everyone not named Kevin Durant was ice cold for pretty much the entire series. They were unready for the big stage. And that's only one series out of 8. I think most would agree that if the Spurs play their game, it is by a mile the best team they'll see all postseason.
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By what metric are you suggesting "tougher" competition? Last I checked, the thibodeau style defenses common in the nba now that specialize in making it hard for individual scorers to go off weren't exactly common in Jordan's era.
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By the metric that the Eastern Conference the past 2 years has been absolute dogshit and everybody knows it. And you've got to be kidding me, comparing LeBron's defenders against Jordan's. Jordan played in an era of massive handchecking and squared off regularly against elite defenders like Bryon Russell and Joe Dumars and Gerald Wilkins.