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Message: [QUOTE="auror, post: 2720545, member: 1329"] He's trying blatantly to ignore the fact that the larger worldwide player pool, increased interest, more resources, better/more coaching and training, and yes the influence of statistics on strategy have actually led to a higher quality of basketball in the modern "LeBron era". And that very good teams existed in all eras, and that, for example, Paul beat the Spurs and the Warriors. Of course the best way to compare across eras is to use the in-era subjective awards, given out by those who, you know, watched the games closer than he did. But those show that in the years the Pistons won their championships, Joe Dumars made an All-NBA (and then the next year, too), but Thomas didn't make any of the teams. But that undermines his whole idea that Thomas beat all these incredible teams by himself since winning a playoff series is an individual accomplishment.. Plus, Paul has him handily beat in the awards area anyways so he'll ignore that, too. [/QUOTE]