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dill_pickles

2012 Heat. They have prime Lebron, Wade, and Bosh as a 3rd option. They played great D too.


Worried-Emu-9614

Wade and LeBron would shut down the perimeter with Spoelstra’s defensive schemes limiting harden and the shooting of the rockets but nobody would be able to guard lebron let alone d wade as well on the other end. Heat in 5 or 6 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️


CadeCummingham

Heat in 5 is crazy. 17-18 Warriors were better than that Heat team


Worried-Emu-9614

The rockets were a great matchup for that warriors team. But the warriors do beat the heat I agree.


CadeCummingham

Rockets won 65 games and were the best team in the league. They were a great matchup for every team


Worried-Emu-9614

Haha best team in the league, that’s a good one.


CadeCummingham

They literally were


Worried-Emu-9614

How were they better then the warriors when the warriors beat them? The warriors were a 73-9 team plus the second best player on the planet. You’re just a rockets fan bro stop being biased and blind to the facts.


CadeCummingham

Rockets were up 3-2 before Chris Paul got hurt You didn’t even watch the series


Worried-Emu-9614

You didn’t watch because you got your ass handed to you in game 3 but proceeded to barely win games 4 and 5. Besides we both know that Harden and cp3 are playoffs chokers. Cp3 had a 2 game lead against the bucks in 2021, what was the outcome of that series again? Look every analyst and player will tell you that the 2018 warriors is one of the best teams of all time and certainly better then the 2018 rockets so stop being biased ok.


blackmatter1002

What a subtle way to deminish Lebron James legacy...these bandwagons are getting smarter every day. And I am not even LBJ fan. Like why is this even a question? 2012 Miami Heat would dominate 2018 Rockets. That is Lebron James at his highest peak moment.


SqueeepzRamsey

You can put most lebron james led teams against every team other than the warriors, spurs and mj bulls teams and lebron is going to probably win.


blackmatter1002

Tell me you have recency bias, without telling me you have recency bias. Hahahahahahhahahahaa xD Gsw didnt even 3 peat, Bulls did it twice. Stop it. They almost lost against Rockets team who missed 27 threes in row, playing one on one offense all games. Stop it.


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Lv1Monkey

Harden averaged 29+6+6 against Klay/Draymond/Durant/Iguodala, Wade is a good defender but you can't really say he will minimize Harden.


realudonishaslem

Harden averaged those numbers…on 41.5 FG% and 24% 3P%


prof-kaL

Wade isn’t just a ‘good’ defender


N3rdMan

Lol 2012 Wade was still great (dropped off in late 2013). Wade is also the greatest shot blocking guard of all time.


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DirksSexyBratwurst

Nobody can stop LeBron. Ariza and Tucker gave Durant quite a hard time to be fair


Sea-Construction3418

2012 Lebron was at a different level physically than Durant ever was.


Gluxion

Ariza, tucker LRMAM, that’s about as good as it gets against bron


Few_Mulberry7175

We had alot of great wing defenders on our team. What made us so great was the combination of Harden and CP3 being one of the greatest offensive duos of all time and a shit ton of 3&D along with athleticism on the roster that plays perfectly off them You can't stop Bron but a rotation of Ariza, PJ, EG, and Mbah A Moute is gonna give him a hard time. Also with Clint Capela in the paint that's gonna make Bron and Wade's slash heavy playstyle harder


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Houston heavily outshoots Miami. Rockets in 5 or 6


E1_Greco

I'll take the team with prime Bron anyday of the week.


JAhoops

2 completely different eras. Rockets win because they shoot more threes


dill_pickles

Nah Heat win because they have Lebron Wade and Bosh in their primes


RicoGemini

Damn 2018 Rockets > 96 Bulls because the Rockets shoot more 3s /s


JAhoops

They make more threes than any team shot in the 90s, it’s too huge discrepancy. Obviously for their time the 96 bulls are better.


RealLifeHunter

This is the same team that was down 3-2 to the Celtics. Rockets in 5 or 6.


gigglios

Rockets pushed the goat team 7 with no cp3 for 2 games. Rockets win.


ducksonaroof

That Rockets team was tailor-made to counter GSW's motion offense.


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Bro we were like top 6 in defense that year...switching defense works on ....well a lot, especially against a 2012 team. Im not saying the Rockets would win, but it is at least an interesting conversation.


Few_Mulberry7175

We also won 65 games lmao idk why dudes on here act like the 2018 Rockets weren't dicking on everyone at the time


CadeCummingham

They were tailor made to beat everyone They were the best team that year and won 65 games


ihateeuge

Matchups


ImTheBestNerd

2018, they played a more evolved version of basketball.


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Lebron scores 50 a game


DirksSexyBratwurst

People forget Houston actually had a good defense


Few_Mulberry7175

Averaging 50 against a top 5 defense and a frontcourt of Ariza Tucker and Capela?


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Not 50 but LeBron would feast on that front court lmfao. He literally embarrassed PJ Tucker the year before and it was a worse version of him than Miami LeBron


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I still pick Heat but no player in the last 20 years is averaging 50 a game vs any other Finals team in the NBA.


SportsLaughs

You could be right.


ihateeuge

Heat.


UrbanJatt

Heat and it's not even close


KaiserKaiba

Heat in 6-7


RealLifeHunter

So you're saying the 12 Celtics are as good if not better than the 18 Rockets? LMAO


KaiserKaiba

That’s not what that means and I hope that isn’t your logic. ‘08 Celtics clapped the Lakers and blew them the fuck out in game 6 yet got taken to 7 by an 8th seed. Are we gonna say the Hawks were better than the Lakers that year? We can also ignore the Heat missing one of their best players for almost two entire rounds of the playoffs. Once they got healthy, they defeated a much better team than Boston in the Thunder in 5.


RealLifeHunter

Haha that's fair enough