You can't come up with any clear obvious examples the way I did with Kobe?
If it's true that Jordan received MORE preferential care in the Finals, shouldn't there be people listing multiple instances in which Jordan or Jordan's
teams were given unfair advantages in order to advance to the Finals or to win the Finals the way Kobe did?
Shouldn't it be even easier to list Jordan/Bulls examples the way I listed 6 or 7 or 8 Kobe/Laker examples in 30 seconds off the top of my head?
Ironically, I happen to recall just as many instances when a call went
against the Bulls in the playoffs than unfair calls going their way.
At the moment all I have is Reggie Miller getting away with a huge shove and Michael Jordan's foul on Russell.
That's all I've got and I watched him for all of his championships. Every one of them. And that's all I remember.
That's why I asked the question. Some of you saw just as much and some of you, even more than I've seen. Can any of you remember anything else?
Again, if I am wrong I humbly accept that. I'm really not trying to be mean about this. I'm just not convinced when all we've got to work with is "
Well, Jordan got a lot more gift calls in the playoffs than Kobe just cause I say so and because someone wrote a book 18 years ago."
I already gave you all the Utah game when Jordan gets away with a clear and obvious offensive foul...I'm even willing to settle with
two more examples of how Jordan or Jordan's team was given an unfair advantage in the playoffs by the refs because I honest to goodness can't recall much more than that.
That's all I'm looking for.
The reason I brought this up was because Kobe's first and third championships were very suspect. I watched the games without any baggage whatsoever and watched it completely objectively and the treatment those Lakers teams got made me sick to my stomach.
That's why it's unsettling to me when people were saying Kobe was better than Jordan at the time because he got to 3 quicker. It was a lot easier when you've got Shaq and every single call going your way.
MJ had to earn his way and go through Isaiah Thomas, Larry Bird and Magic Johnson.
Kobe, as the second-best player on those teams had to go through Steve Smith and Rasheed Wallace and Jason Kidd and Allen Iverson.
It was clearly tougher for Jordan.
That's why I brought that up - in order to point out how ridiculous it is to say Kobe's better than Jordan because he got to 3 quicker.
Again, no disrespect intended to you or to anyone else.
I'm just looking for something that is more convincing.
houheffna wrote:
I just got done with college...don't need anymore homework assignments....the fact that Jordan got superstar calls is a documented fact....go look it up yourself...your wanting evidence is shocking to me...even the most hardcore Jordan fans know he got the benefit of the doubt in most situations...
What does any of that have to do with who is better anyway?
the point is, if you think the Bulls didn't get the benefit of the doubt because of MJ a lot of the time...then what were you watching from 1990-2003?