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Followers are involved about Michael Jordans eyes.
Through the Toronto Raptors’ Championship run final season, some in contrast Kawhi Leonard‘s function with the Raptors to Michael Jordan‘s with the Chicago Bulls.
Final yr, Clippers head coach, Doc Rivers said that Leonard was essentially the most like Jordan that he’s seen.
“He’s essentially the most like him,” Rivers informed ESPN.
“Huge arms, post-game, can end, nice leaper, nice defender, in-between sport.”
Some have in contrast Pascal Siakam to Scottie Pippen.
A similarity may be drawn between Siakam changing into the focus of the Raptors after Kawhi Leonard’s departure by way of free company to the Los Angeles Clippers and Pippen changing into the focus of the Chicago Bulls when MJ retired from basketball to play baseball through the 1993-94 NBA season.
Pippen averaged 22 factors through the 1993-94 season and the Jordan-less Bulls went 55-27 that season.
“We knew we may beat the Knicks with out Michael,” Scottie Pippen informed me final season.
“Our workforce bonded so effectively with out Michael, so far as how gamers responded. We felt like our offense was made for the Knicks.”
The Bulls misplaced to the Patrick Ewing, Charles Oakley, Anthony Mason and John Starks-led New York Knicks 4-Three within the Japanese Convention Semis in 1994.
This season, Siakam is averaging 23.6 factors, 7.5 rebounds and three.6 assists per sport this season for the Raptors.
Million Greenback Query: Is a 90s Chicago Bulls corresponding to the 2019 Toronto Raptors?
Getty PhotosPascal Siakam #43, Kawhi Leonard #2, and Marc Gasol #33 of the Toronto Raptors.
Former Raptors assistant coach, Phil Helpful has the reply. Now an assistant with the Los Angeles Lakers, Helpful stopped by the Scoop B Radio Podcast & gave his evaluation.
Try my notes beneath:
Phil Helpful on comparisons between Toronto Raptors’ Pascal Siakam and Kawhi Leonard to Chicago Bulls’ Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen:
“I see plenty of these comparisons and being equal and saying that he’s not Michael and Pascal is Pippen. However whenever you’re speaking in regards to the roles and the way they have been used and their ability set…Sure. I can see these comparisons as a result of Pascal is a man that dealt with the ball loads for us. He was like some extent ahead. Typically we ran plenty of the offense via him as an extra ball handler on the ground. And clearly Kawhi was the go-to-guy after we wanted a bucket; that’s who Nick Nurse tried to get the ball in his arms so, these comparisons are NOT farfetched in any respect.”
Phil Helpful on comparisons between 90’s Chicago Bulls and 2019 Toronto Raptors:
“I imply, you could possibly draw a few of these comparisons. I imply Kyle Lowry is a bona fide level guard. He’s an All-Star. He wasn’t a second fiddle dude. I feel you take a look at Serge [Ibaka], does he remind you of Horace Grant when he was capturing that midrange pull up and block pictures, lengthy, athletic. May you take a look at Marc Gasol like a Luc Longley sort of dude; as a result of Luc was a greater passer than folks gave him credit score for …yeah, you could possibly stress a few of these comparisons, however I actually assume the type of play that we had in Toronto was clearly completely completely different. I feel we performed means quicker than the Bulls workforce and once more, the sport has modified, proper? Completely different sport, completely different period, completely different defensive guidelines, and completely different offensive philosophies. So, I feel folks can draw some comparisons in that regard however, that workforce in Toronto; they have been fairly distinctive of their setup with the gamers that they'd.”
Phil Helpful on the place Kawhi Leonard made his largest transition in play:
“He took the whole lot he realized from San Antonio. Pop [Popovich] and that teaching type down there, they did an excellent job of serving to Kawhi flip into an elite participant. And look, he works! He’s a employee and he loves the sport. However I feel he took the basketball that he realized in San Antonio, “Okay. I understand how to play basketball, now lemme take that and lemme combine this with Kawhi Leonard changing into his personal man”…so to talk. And I feel you noticed him mesh each of these issues collectively and Nick [Nurse] allowed him to be free and Nick allowed him to broaden his sport, discover and be who he was with none restrictions. And I feel as a result of he had the self-discipline from San Antonio, that helped him not fall flat on his face. As a result of once more, he understood methods to play and it wasn’t about being reckless and taking dangerous pictures. He was nonetheless making an attempt to be very environment friendly at a excessive degree and make the appropriate basketball performs as he expanded his sport.”
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