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Message: [QUOTE="champs99and04, post: 2746447, member: 488"] No, I get it. I think it actually makes my point, if anything. Opinions tend to soften over time. Something is at its most threatening point when it's ongoing. Defeat gets progressively easier to swallow as you get further removed from that moment. Defensiveness leads to the formation of opinions and then those opinions lead to rooting interest. At least that's the way it is with me. The opposite can sometimes be true as well. You establish such high expectations and then when they don't meet them you overcompensate because you're disappointed. In either case, it's basically impossible to separate the basic psychological element that Jordan came at an earlier point in time from the analysis. To be clear, I'm not arguing for LeBron over Jordan (though game one of the finals was the most tempted I've been to sway that way). I just think it's worth defending LeBron on certain points. [/QUOTE]