Tougher Road To a Championship: 95 Rockets or 11 Mavericks

[Shaquille Sunflower]

Y’all got too many excuses. The question wasn’t who’s run was more impressive.

 

[Revolver Ocelot]

They was the same team.

I know you love your rockets but Beating Kobe, LBJ, Wade is much more difficult

Rockets went thru teams w/ a HOF'er or 2 as well b.

 

[Dwayne]

Rockets went thru teams w/ a HOF'er or 2 as well b.

Mavs beat 3 teams with players that will go down as top 5 players who was all in their prime. Kobe is a lil older than his prime but still a top tier player.

 

[Revolver Ocelot]

Mavs beat 3 teams with players that will go down as top 5 players who was all in their prime. Kobe is a lil older than his prime but still a top tier player.

And they swept one (Kobe)

Almost another (Durant)

And barely broke a sweat w/ the last (LBJ & Wade)

So how was it tougher?

 

[5th Letter]

True so let’s compare.

The rockets beat the 1, 2, and 3 seeds in the west and beat the 1 seed in the East.

The Mavericks beat the 6 seed, 2 seeded Lakers, the thunder were a 4 seed, and Miami was a 2 seed.

Roy, Aldridge Blazers, Kobe, Gasol, Pau Lakers, young Thunder with KD, Westbrook and Harden, Wade, Bron, and Bosh Heat.

You’re saying that’s inferior to Malone and Stockton, Barkley and KJ, Robinson and Elliott, Shaq and Penny?

 

[southsil4lil]

They was the same team.

I know you love your rockets but Beating Kobe, LBJ, Wade is much more difficult

More difficult than beating Shaq, Barkley, Stockton/Malone and David Robinson?

 

[5th Letter]

So now anti 90’s niggas is pro 90’s

 

[Dwayne]

More difficult than beating Shaq, Barkley, Stockton/Malone and David Robinson?

More difficult than beating Shaq, Barkley, Stockton/Malone and David Robinson?

yea. Beating Kobe, KD, Wade, and LBJ is more impressive

Dream was the best player in every series that year

Dirk wasn’t

What Dirk and the Mavs did was more impressive

 

[Shaquille Sunflower]

Roy, Aldridge Blazers, Kobe, Gasol, Pau Lakers, young Thunder with KD, Westbrook and Harden, Wade, Bron, and Bosh Heat.

You’re saying that’s inferior to Malone and Stockton, Barkley and KJ, Robinson and Elliott, Shaq and Penny?

Again you’re arguing for the quality of players they faced and not who had the tougher road to a championship.

 

[Shaquille Sunflower]

yea. Beating Kobe, KD, Wade, and LBJ is more impressive

Dream was the best player in every series that year

Dirk wasn’t

What Dirk and the Mavs did was more impressive

That’s not the question though, is it?

 

[5th Letter]

Again you’re arguing for the quality of players they faced and not who had the tougher road to a championship.

How is that not a factor in tougher road? Who you beat matters. People disqualified the 15 Warriors because key players on every team they faced were hurt.

 

[Shaquille Sunflower]

How is that not a factor in tougher road? Who you beat matters. People disqualified the 15 Warriors because key players on every team they faced were hurt.

How tough could it have been if the team you’re referring to never faced elimination?

 

[5th Letter]

How tough could it have been if the team you’re referring to never faced elimination?

That doesn’t negate it being a tough road. Again Roy and Aldridge, Kobe, Pau, Odom, KD, Westbrook, Westbrook, Wade, LeBron and Bosh. Is a tough road. And the Mavs were a underdog in 3 of those series.

 

[Suckio Andretti]

Funny because both sides are right and wrong

Btw that lakers team dirk faced wasn’t that good

sure the names on paper are good but context matters

 

[Suckio Andretti]

Also the teams in the 90s were worse teams

the Jazz would get stomped out by some of the teams in 2011

 

[5th Letter]

Funny because both sides are right and wrong

Btw that lakers team dirk faced wasn’t that good

sure the names on paper are good but context matters

Expound what made them not as good?

 

[Suckio Andretti]

Expound what made them not as good?

The talent level outside of Stockton and Malone isn’t on par with the talent of other teams

 

[huey]

mavs were not supposed to win that

 

[Revolver Ocelot]

The talent level outside of Stockton and Malone isn’t on par with the talent of other teams

I think 5th meant the Lakers

 

[5th Letter]

The talent level outside of Stockton and Malone isn’t on par with the talent of other teams

I was asking about the Lakers. You said they weren’t as good.

That was the era. You have a star and role players that fit around those stars. Decent players for their time.