IM PISSED!! LEBRON SUPERFAN REACTS to Jordan vs Lebron - The Best GOAT Comparison Pt. 1 | PzoThePlug

foreigner we're back with another video now after I reacted to Michael Jordan's gold compilation, whatever the compilation is called, you guys told me oh my god Pizza you have to go watch the Jordan vs LeBron

comparison

video , they all got hit on my Instagrams. my Twitter so I was leaving it all in my comments I saw it I've seen the recommendations I was really in my life I like that although I'm not going to say too much I like that in that video I was saying a lot of LeBron I like LeBron. I'll be fair in this video.

If this video really comes down to it and breaks it down by saying that Jordan is the

best

, I can't argue with it, but I'm going to get my talking points and I really love you. all to listen to in this video. Let's get straight to this reaction. Come on, good man. I'm not going to pause too much because this is a longer video, but you know what I say when you're good. Well, let's go. back up a little bit you know what I'm saying read read when you're good at something you'll tell everyone when you're great at something I get it I get it I get it I get it they'll get it I tell them I get it right.

I said I won't pause too much, so I'll make this a very useful pause. This video came out two years ago. I'm a super LeBron fan, so everyone knows where I stand. The video may be a little biased towards Michael Jordan, so I'm going to point out all the things that I think are biased, but I'm going to acknowledge these things that are true. I won't do it if all of you "Everyone, let me know down at the end of this video. Whether you think I was being biased or not, but I'm going to try to be true to the sport of basketball, you know what I'm saying, let's understand it.

I won't do it Don't pause anymore, those are facts unless I'm picking something, you know what I'm saying, that's Barbara Jordan is four, okay, she's four, Jordan is six, I can recognize that, um, I can, oh, That's nasty, that's cute, Jordan, that's cute, Jordan, that's, yeah, dirty that's dirty, oh my Jordan, it's flying or storing a thing we can't admit, although they're both cool, cool in their own way. , they changed the game of basketball, they expanded the game of basketball, they made it much richer, more popular, Jordan really the Black Mamba, you know the Black Jesus, as they really call her, she really changed the game and I have technology that I love. of Jordan as a man in the last video, you all were really trying to act like I don't like Jordan Jordan versus LeBron LeBron. versus Jordan is a debate that has captured the public's attention for the last few years, in fact, especially after this moment in 2016 when LeBron James beat the Golden State Warriors, let's talk about his career internship, let's talk about it .

LeBron's own words were there. He made me the

best

player of all time. I thought that one over there he made you the greatest player of all time, but he did it. It's all from that moment on, just the icing on LeBron's cake, or is LeBron destined to end his career in Michael Jordan's Shadow? We've all heard the arguments from LeBron fans: he's bigger, stronger, faster, more durable, and from Jordan fans, Michael Jordan was just 6-0 with six MVPs in the finals, but the debate about

goat

is not as simple as experts make it seem. There are a number of factors relevant to determining the greatest basketball player of all time, let's get into it.

I would say there are five things that really matter when determining the

goat

of any sport, in no particular order, achievements, longevity, winning statistics and what we will do. refer to in this video as the vision test the vision tests we have to remember the five goat criteria according to who made this video let's get into it I don't want to talk before watching it let's get into it even if it's bad let's get into That and to be the goat you don't need to be the best in any specific category, but you need to be pretty good across the board, so simply winning seven championships like Robert already did isn't enough to get you involved in the conversation, no.

By the time we're done with this video, no, it will be completely obvious that one player emerges victorious, but before we begin I want to clarify that this is not a

comparison

of legacies, this is about who was the best basketball player, okay? we were talking about legacies Jordan is almost untouchable I said I said in my last video Jordan has the greatest career of all time, you can't get over the fact that we're talking about basketball players, let's understand it, not only did he bring basketball to global popularity, but that helped transform the Yankees. in an Empire, oh yeah, changing the way players played and how they dressed facts and even made it cool for guys to be bald like bro, well those things certainly contribute to MJ's iconic status, they don't make him a baseball player, so let's evaluate the criteria that matter and start with the individual achievements take a look Jordan had more regular season MVPs twice as many Finals MVPs nine scoring titles more okay, okay, well, Braun has four now , but Jordan still has six, he's a little too outdated on his tape, he's a little too outdated, but that's okay, several more picks across the entire defensive team, including once he was named Defensive Player of the Year.

LeBron has more All-Star Game appearances, but that's largely because he played more seasons, actually. Taking into account retirements and major injuries, Jordan essentially played. 13 seasons compared to LeBron's 17, which makes Jordan's significant accomplishments even more impressive, and that's not to mention MJ's brilliant college career, which saw him twice named an All-American and once honored as a player. college of the year at a time when the country's best players actually went to college, so regardless of whether you're a LeBron or MJ fan, you have to give the mark of achievement to Jordan. Okay, we're talking about achievements. Okay, we're talking about MVPs, um championships, we're talking about defensive players. that you, family, we were talking about that, okay, I can recognize that in our analysis there is longevity and this is also a no-brainer, but this time in favor of LeBron, okay, LeBron has not only played more seasons in the league than Jordan.

Jordan's peak lasted about 10 years, while LeBron's peak lasted 16 years and is still going, and is incredibly durable during that time, missing significant time until the injury in 2019 alone, which said the claim that LeBron has been much longer lasting than Michael has been a bit exaggerated. Consider that Jordan played in at least 80 regular season games 11 times in his career, including all 82 games an incredible nine times. Compare that to LeBron, who played in at least 80 regular season games only twice and all 82 games only once, so both LeBrons. and Jordan get high marks for durability, but durability aside, the bottom line is that LeBron James for a much longer period of time than Jordan, oh my goodness, which puts the longevity mark squarely in the corn of LeBron, okay, that brings us to the third goat criterion for winning. so we want right now so we all know that Jordan wins, okay, okay, championships LeBron has won three Jordan is 6-0 in the NBA Finals LeBron has three and six yes, LeBron has made it to the finals nine times compared to just six times for Jordan, but let's not do that.

Pretend that getting to the finals is the same or almost the same as winning a title, definitely not, but come on, we're talking about winning, if we're talking about winning, LeBron James is a winner, you have to win it all. Eastern Conference to get to the finals, you know what I'm saying, you have to win so many games to get to the playoffs, you know what I'm saying, so people are Lebron, a winner, we're talking about winning how many times. Did Jordan get through that first round that second round that third you know what I'm saying come on now come on come on now LeBron has let's get this off the screen LeBron has so many Eastern Conference championships I'm trying to be on LeBron you?

I know what I'm saying, but come on, we're talking about winning. LeBron is a winner. LeBron is a winner. The Buffalo Bills are the only team in NFL history to appear in four consecutive Super Bowls, but is there only one during the winter? I can't lie, I wouldn't trade those four appearances for just one Super Bowl win, okay, frankly, okay, Super Bowls, but is there a single player or fan of that team who wouldn't trade those four appearances for just one? A Super Bowl victory Talk candidly to any fan whose team lost the final game of the season and ask them how they felt afterwards.

Almost universally his feelings are sadness, anger and disappointment. Fanatic and I have seen him lose time and time again. Honestly, I was really sad, but the teams this guy was facing, like what can I say, Kevin Durant, Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, Andrew Iguodala, Draymond, like, come on, bro, Tim Duncan, Kawhi, Leonard, Mario Ginobili, Tony Parker, the only one you could really give LeBron for losing is that cup, that one, that one, 2011. like being honest with yourself, being honest with yourself with the players, those feelings are only magnified listening to Charles Barkley talk about losing in the NBA abroad.

I was frustrated because I couldn't get my team over Michael and the Bulls and I probably think I've never gotten over him in the first place, but that was traumatic and that's okay Charles Barkley, we're talking about Charles Barkley, LeBron had his moment , like I said Over and over again, LeBron went like eight finals in a row, come on, now I know he didn't win as many times as he wanted, but the man still won, come on bro, he's still a winner, bro, come on, in words by Herm Edwards, you play to win the game that's true, that's true, hello while you play to win the game that's true, now back to Jordan and LeBron, that's true, as mentioned in the most important stages of basketball, LeBron was three and six years old and, frankly, that doesn't even show how lopsided his records really are.

In terms of individual finals games, Jordan was 24 and 11. LeBron is 18 and 31. Oh, and that's because in six finals losses, the bronze team hasn't even been competitive, but you have to like teams of this man, you have to take into account every little detail. I could really start an entire NBA channel and I'm not going to talk about that, but you have to break down every little detail. The reason LeBron is losing is mainly due to the fact that his team is not as good as him. just like him but as good as the rest you know what I'm saying you can't explain those losses the bronze team hasn't even been competitive and two other times they lost four games to one that includes being on the wrong side of the two most unequal finals by margin of loss in NBA history oh wow, of course LeBron fans will tell you that the only reason for LeBron's Final Four record is that his competition was so tough that, ironically, some of these same fans criticized Jordan losing. early in her career on a Celtics team, okay, okay, but I won't disagree, you couldn't outrun them, but she was going against them, okay, she couldn't, she couldn't admit no, you were going, Jordan was going Against all times, Larry Bird, are you afraid?

Yo, Isaiah Thomas Joe Dumar, that's why he didn't get over it and those are the facts, okay, that's a good argument. He could conveniently lose it due to the fact that LeBron made the finals so many times, in part because the competition in his own conference was so weak for the vast majority of his career. LeBron played in what many called the Eastern Conference because the East was much weaker than the West; On the other hand, during Jordan's playing days, the East was generally considered the strongest conference like Jordan. I had to fight through tight rivalries against the bad Pistons, Patrick Ewing's Knicks, Shaq Penny's LED magic and Reggie Miller's Pacers, who said if you want to blame LeBron's failure in the Finals on the level of his competition , I won't argue with you.

Why are they doing this in proportion? If you like the average number of wins his Finals opponents have, you'll see that LeBron's Finals opponents averaged 60.8 wins per season, while Jordan's Finals opponents averaged 61.2 wins per season, per season. which turns out that both players are facing a difficult situation. competition in the Finals, but a big reason we don't hold the 93 Sons or the 98 Jazz in the same regard as some of LeBron's Finals opponents is because, unlike LeBron's opponents, LeBron's opponents Jordan never won the Larry O'Brien trophy, which goes to my original point is that the difference between winning the title or finishing second is huge and the reason those teams never won the title, this guy is fine, Okay, I can't disagree.

I'm not trying to say that Jordan's opponents, the Warriors teams that LeBron faced. four times in the final, the truth is that Jordan never played against a giant like that, but there is a very good reason for that. Jordan's Bulls were the Juggernaut, they were theteam that won over 70 games, they were the team with the target on their back every year. and as the Warriors showed us that it is not an easy place to be easier, as the Warriors showed us that it is easier to win when you are the Juggernaut, come on, I'm not China, they were never able to chain three consecutive championships, the Bulls did it Jordan. is twice, that's crazy, so what's the greater achievement: beating the Juggernaut or being okay?

More specific, LeBron. LeBron is the Juggernaut and he beat the Juggernaut. You know what I'm saying, and they had to build another Juggernaut on top of that to beat him. He's the only Juggernaut man, that's why Lebron is the best because he's the only Juggernaut man, you know what I'm saying, brother, come on now one of the four times he faced them or was the Juggernaut year after year, the victory over the 73 Warriors was the highlight of his career, but it's not the first time an underdog has won the championship, and in fact, there have been much bigger underdogs who ended up winning the title.

But how many times have we seen a player lead his team to six championships in eight years? Never before Jordan's Bulls, only Bill Russell Celtics achieved that feat in the NBA when they incredibly won 11 championship teams in 13 seasons. However, back then there were an average of less than 10 teams in the league and only a couple of playoff rounds here to win a title, not even Bill Russell had a streak of winning 25 of 26 playoff series like Michael did Jordan and Michael's winning pattern goes beyond the NBA. Don't forget that Jordan has never won anything but gold at the Olympics and also won an NCAA Championship.

Wow, and she hit the first of two iconic shots to win the Championship in her career. Jordan is a winner, that's all there is to say when it comes to winning the Olympics. The checkmark clearly goes to Jordan, it's clearly stats, this one is a little more complicated. I mean, how do you statistically evaluate two players who played in different eras, under different rules and in different positions? That is a fact. One way to do this is to simply watch. In the eight traditional basketball statistics, points, assists, rebounds, steals, blocks, free throw percentage, free throw percentage and turnovers, we will focus on per-game statistics rather than cumulative statistics, since the statistics accumulated, such as total career points and total career assists, really speak to longevity, which is already its own category of goat analysis by game statistics, on the other hand, it is more of a sound that sounds like hey, let's put this aside, we'll do it this way so it goes on Jordan's favorite, not LeBron's, because if we were to do it cumulatively, we know that LeBron blows Jordan out of the water just for longevity , not because LeBron's good brother gets career point totals and career total assists really speaks to longevity, which is Already his own goat analysis category by playing style is more of an apples-to-apples comparison, so If we look closely at the eight traditional steps, we see that Jordan leaves LeBron in five of them, points per game, steals per game, blocks per game, free throw percentage. and fewer turnovers LeBron leads in the other three assists per game, rebounds per game and field goal percentage, okay, but that's a pretty simplistic way of looking at the stats.

What if we turned to analytics instead? Probably the most well-known analytical statistic is the player efficiency rating. or sure, OMG, this metric was created by respected basketball analyst John Hollinger to give an overall grade to a player's performance. Based on traditional statistics like the ones we just mentioned, Jordan has led the league by LeBron seven times, Jordan six times. finished in the top three 10 times Lebron Nine times, in fact, Jordan has the highest average of his career in both the regular season and the playoffs. Another popular analytical statistic is wind shares. Jordan has led the league in winchairs eight times, so that's why everyone wanted I want you to really watch this video because, come on, now I get it, but like five times Jordan finished in the top three in winshares 11 times, you I'll give it Jordan six times and when it comes to winning shares for 48 minutes.

Whatever Jordan has the highest rating of his career in both the regular season and playoffs. What about the more less box until recently? LeBron was actually ahead of Jordan in the plus-minus of his career, but after the 2017 season he gave Russell Westbrook the best plus-minus of a single season in history. By a wide margin, the architect of Box Plus Minus realized that the statistic was fundamentally flawed, so he made some changes to improve the formula himself. Oh really, Michael Jordan now has the highest season of boss minus, oh, oh really and lastly, what about the value over the replacement player?

At first glance, he appears to favor LeBron James' value over a replacement. It was a cumulative stat of five, as noted above. Cumulative statistics speak more to longevity than game-to-game dominance, oh my goodness, based on value over the replacement player. Jordan owns six of the nine. The best we can get is something like giving me, giving Lebron, me and my LeBron fans something that this individual season has played and on a per game basis, MJ's rating and career value over the replacement player is the highest of all time, both in the regular season and in the playoffs.

I bet you're noticing a theme here, yeah, Jordan not only beat LeBron in every routable analytical stat, he also consistently ranks as the best across the board before moving on from analytics, that's crazy, though Jordan , I am not going to lie. It's a little crazy, Jordan, boy, like you're dirty, another John Hollinger creation. The game score measures a player's performance in a single game, so it won't tell us who has had the best career, but it does provide an idea of ​​who has had the best games now. We only have game scores from 1983, so you won't see any mention of Wilt Chamberlain here who said that of the hundred highest game scores ever recorded, incredibly 19 of them belong to Michael Jordan - in other words, almost one of each five of the best.

Single-game performances over the past four decades have been MJ's, including the highest game score of all time for Jordan's 69.18 rebounding masterpiece. Comparatively, LeBron has had just three top-hundred game scores when it comes to the goat Nick Wright likes to ask this question. the aliens come down you have a game to save humanity who is your first pick in the history of the world well nick i think we have our answer now that i'm done man ok let's face it hardly anyone watching this video knows how to calculate actions per wind. box plus minus value of a replacement player or game score no, I don't know and why you should, this is basketball and not Goodwill Hunting, okay, okay, so let's go back to the traditional statistics that we all know and understand, but this time let's add context.

What do I mean by context? Well, some positions are simply better than others for accumulating certain stats. Let's take bouncing as an example in a vacuum. If we simply compare the number of rebounds per game of Brooke Lopez and Jason Kidd, we might think that Lopez was actually the better rebounder relative to his positions. Lopez is statistically one of the worst rebounding centers in NBA history, while Kidd is statistically one of the best rebounding guards in NBA history, but even a poor rebounding center can grab more rebounds than a great rebounding guard. . solely by virtue of his role on the field, so it makes sense that to understand the context of a player's statistics we should compare them to the respective positions in which he plays.

When comparing LeBron James to the other small forwards who have played at least 500 NBA games. This is where he ranks overall, that's pretty impressive. Now let's see how Jordan compares to all the guards who have played 500 NBA games. As good as LeBron compared to other small forwards. Jordan is on another level compared to other guards. near the top of every major statistical category and there isn't a single category where LeBron is better than MJ relative to his position other than assists is fine so summarizing the stats whether comparing traditional stats or analysis, and especially when judging these players in context.

Of the positions they played, Jordan has a notable advantage over LeBron, so we have to give the check mark to Jordan and that brings us to the last category in our code analysis, the visual test and, to be clear through the visual proof, I'm not a fool. ah, no fool, you know what I'm saying, I'm not stupid, I can count three. Jordan already has three. LeBron is already faster or jumps higher. None of that is relevant unless we're having a track meet and, frankly, if physical measurables matter. so George Muresan would be in the conversation about goats, okay no, what I mean by the eye test is that if you sat the average basketball fan in front of a television to watch a player in action, what would would you notice which player is and isn't great?

One thing I've never seen about Jordan: I'm an average basketball fan and have had the privilege of watching LeBron and Jordan during their playing days, so unlike many of my fellow YouTubers, I haven't simply relied on Featured videos. What my eyes told me when I watched Michael Jordan play, particularly during his playing days with the Chicago Bulls, he was the best offensive player in the game, he was arguably the best defensive player in the game, he had the best mid-range game, he was the best finisher in The Rim. Wow, he had the best post game, which is incredible considering most of the players who dominated the post were big men.

He was widely considered the most decisive player in the game. His opponents considered him the fiercest competitor on the court. His teammates considered him the hardest worker in practice, and at the end of the day, among the other stars of his generation, he was the biggest winner now that you're playing against the elite of the world's elite athletes to be the better. at any one of those things is pretty remarkable, but to be the best at all of them, oh my God, I'm telling you it's impossible, except for the fact that we saw Michael Jordan do it and when it comes to the goat debate, that's the biggest obstacle we face.

LeBron is basically being compared to a guy who was great at everything and had virtually no weaknesses judging seriously by the eye test. What's the worst thing we could say about Michael Jordan's game? He probably wasn't a very good three-point shooter. 33 from Beyond The Arc in an era where the average player was also shooting 33 percent, so when it came to three-point shooting he wasn't good, he wasn't bad, he was just average I guess, but remember Michael played At a time when three-point shooting was not a big part of the game during the Jordan years, teams averaged only nine and a half three-point attempts per game and Michael himself attempted fewer than two three-pointers per game and if being an average three point shooter is a weakness of Michael's game, well then we have to call it a weakness of LeBron's game too, the difference is that LeBron plays in an era where the three point shot is a big part of the game during the years in which LeBron played against teams that attempted more than 21 three-pointers per game and LeBron himself averaged 4.3 three-point attempts per game or two and a half times more than Jordan despite the greater emphasis on three-pointers.

LeBron's career shooting percentage since Beyond The Arc is just a hair better than Jordan's at 34. percent and is actually slightly below his peers who averaged 35 percent from earlier during his era, but to reiterate That being an average three-point shooter was by far the worst part of MJ's game for LeBron isn't even close. In fact, LeBron has four major weaknesses as a basketball player. Each of which is evident to anyone who has seen him play. What comes first? He is not a good free throw shooter. Data from his career. LeBron has shot about 73.5 percent from the free throw line, which is pretty poor for a player. who handles the ball as much as he suspects, in fact, many analysts point out that at the end of games LeBron avoids driving to the basket because he is afraid of being sent to the line.

I don't know if that's true, but what I do know is that the odds of LeBron making two free throws in a row are statistically not much better than a coin flip. Jordan,on the other hand, he shot a solid 83.5 percent from the line during his career, yes, through contact late in games, oh yes, LeBron. The second weakness is that he is an inconsistent defender. Sure, he's had a few years where he was Elite defensively, evidenced by his numerous selections to the NBA's All-Defensive Team, but he's also had several years where he's practically been a liability on the side. defensive.

For MJ, who during his bowling days was consistently an elite defender, in fact, Jordan is the only player who ranks in the top five among all guards in both steals and blocks per game.