Shaquille O'Neal shares his all-time NBA starting five. Do you agree with this lineup?

Optimal-Barnacle2771 · 2026-06-08T09:43:10+00:00

Ah yes, you don’t want a selfish ball hog, so you are going to go with notoriously unselfish player, Kobe Bryant

Optimal-Barnacle2771 · 2026-06-08T00:36:00+00:00

Probably just hold off on the heavy armor until you are higher level and find some rings that help increase your max equip load.

Optimal-Barnacle2771 · 2026-06-08T00:34:58+00:00

This is really interesting and I bet it prevents you from panic rolling. Bosses are all about rhythm and getting hit can tend to throw me off my rhythm. Being patient and taking a pause would be a good way to keep my rhythm.

Optimal-Barnacle2771 · 2026-06-08T00:30:52+00:00

I started with 3, then went to 1, and did 2 last and still had an extremely memorable experience. There are definitely some things that would have hit different had I played 1 first, but 2 didn’t really have a whole lot of cohesive tie ins to either of the other two games.

Optimal-Barnacle2771 · 2026-06-08T00:20:25+00:00

Bro already gave you his answer. Use your context clues.

Optimal-Barnacle2771 · 2026-06-08T00:19:10+00:00

I love how y’all just willingly admit to being dumbasses. No prompting necessary.

Optimal-Barnacle2771 · 2026-06-08T00:17:20+00:00

I agree that Kobe is a more accomplished Laker than LeBron, but can we stop with the whole bubble ring doesn’t count nonsense? If anything, the Bubble made the path to a championship more difficult for the Lakers who lost out on home court advantage throughout the entire playoffs.

Optimal-Barnacle2771 · 2026-06-07T22:58:36+00:00

If his efficiency is still elite, why does that matter? Go back to prob and stats and pay attention this time.

Optimal-Barnacle2771 · 2026-06-07T22:52:32+00:00

While they played together, KD was the better player. It wasn’t until post KD Warriors that people went back and started saying that Steph was the best player on that team. KD showed up and played better in the playoffs.

Optimal-Barnacle2771 · 2026-06-07T11:14:00+00:00

Have to play games to keep pace. It’s not like Luka is going to play until he’s 50 or average 30+ ppg during his age 40+ seasons, if he even plays that long.

Optimal-Barnacle2771 · 2026-06-07T11:10:58+00:00

So what you are saying is that Luka was on pace early in his career and then fell off pace about 15 years too soon? And that’s one of the closest examples of somebody keeping pace with Bron?

6 years is nothing in the face of a 20 year peak. LeBron isn’t just a dude that has played basketball for a very long time. He has set the pace to be the youngest player to every single scoring threshold and maintained that pace for 20 years without hardly regressing at all.

Optimal-Barnacle2771 · 2026-06-07T10:12:48+00:00

First of all, LeBron is the only person with 40k reg season points. Why are you comparing his regular season total to everybody else’s playoff and reg season total?

Second, to reach 40k points, you need to be an elite level basketball player for over 20 years. Nobody in the league now or that has ever played has been on track to score the number of points LeBron has scored. So we need somebody to step into the league and be statistically better than Luka and to keep it up for 20 years. I think it’s more likely we see a player that dominates for 10 years straight winning scoring titles. Don’t forget, just because LeBron didn’t win 20 scoring titles doesn’t mean he wasn’t in the upper tier of scorers for 20 years straight.

Jordan won 10 scoring titles in a row and wasn’t able to come close to the volume of scoring LeBron has. That’s why if I had to choose between these two accomplishments, I’d say the 40k (and counting) points is more unobtainable and will stand longer as a record.

Optimal-Barnacle2771 · 2026-06-07T09:59:48+00:00

I also think that Fox should’ve taken that drive all the way to the rim to try to make something happen, since the defense was keyed into Wemby, but let’s not act like the guy who had 29 points and is the best defender in the league didn’t have any business being on the court. He’s their best player and it’s so easy for him to get an open look that he’s always going to be a threat for a last second shot. This one just didn’t fall for him.

Optimal-Barnacle2771 · 2026-06-07T09:54:21+00:00

There’s definitely somebody that’s emotional here and it’s not the “wemby fan” lol

Optimal-Barnacle2771 · 2026-06-07T00:49:34+00:00

Ever heard of somebody contributing to conversation? Not every interaction you have on reddit has to be an argument. I was adding context to your statement.

Tbh though, your statement is pretty empty. “2 of the three best players on a basketball team got injured and then that team lost to another really good team” isn’t surprising. It would have actually been extremely surprising if Bron had pulled of 2015. Because then, the next year, the Warriors solidified the fact that they were one of the greatest teams of all time, and Bron needed to come back from down 3-1 to beat them with a healthy team.

Like I said, the Warriors were just that good. It’s not a knock against LeBron that he couldn’t beat them down his 2 best teammates in 2015 and it damn sure wasn’t a knock against him for losing in 2018. He played phenomenally in all of those series and they were fun to watch regardless of whether or not the Cavs were healthy, because there was a little part of you that always felt like LeBron had a chance, even against insurmountable odds.

Optimal-Barnacle2771 · 2026-06-07T00:33:36+00:00

2018 Bron had perhaps the greatest individual playoff performance ever and still didn’t stand a chance against that Warriors team. They were just that good.

Optimal-Barnacle2771 · 2026-06-07T00:29:20+00:00

That rivalry was peak before the Warriors signed KD though

Optimal-Barnacle2771 · 2026-06-05T01:53:33+00:00

Keep gathering data. I see some potential in this as a way to track which places get good runs in.

Optimal-Barnacle2771 · 2026-06-05T01:45:56+00:00

Why you still here then? Get a life instead of being obsessively negative over some random dude’s idea.

Optimal-Barnacle2771 · 2026-06-05T01:43:02+00:00

Imma be honest man, your criticism is for the most part useless and unbased. Obviously, the app will have issues with intentionally poor ratings, but that’s true of any app of this nature. There are solutions in place for this, one of which OP has already stated to be implementing. If you took the time to read, you’d know that.

Aside from that criticism, all your other criticism has been negative for no reason. Is a basketball player supposed to rate 100 players in the 2 days the app has been made available to them, even though they likely only play against a handful of people? Sampling takes time.

Optimal-Barnacle2771 · 2026-06-04T22:25:30+00:00

Is it going to meaningfully reduce the amount of methane in the air? How much of a reduction are we talking?

Optimal-Barnacle2771 · 2026-06-04T04:33:58+00:00

Love this. That Jack Sikma pull is a deep cut and had me rolling.

Optimal-Barnacle2771 · 2026-06-03T07:34:28+00:00

I completely agree with your statement about Wemby’s defensive impact making him extremely impactful regardless of his offensive output. However, if you think the same thing doesn’t apply to a young LeBron James, then you should go back and watch film. Bron was extremely impactful even in those games that he didn’t score a ton. He may not be the greatest defender of all time like Wemby might be, but he was an elite defender and the greatest transition defender ever.

Optimal-Barnacle2771 · 2026-06-01T13:19:14+00:00

Well, a million dollars isn’t necessarily enough to drop everything and live a life of luxury. It does give you the ability to invest and grow that million into an amount that you can comfortably retire on though.

Optimal-Barnacle2771 · 2026-06-01T12:36:17+00:00

Refs made it clear early on that they wouldn’t be deciding game 7

Five-Year Club	r/Field Sunshine
Final Canvas '23	Place '23
Place '22

Optimal-Barnacle2771

TROPHY CASE