Younger fans don’t know that LeBron wasn’t always a Bully ball Player. His first step when he was younger was just as quick as current day Ja Morant
September 23, 2024
Younger fans don’t know that LeBron wasn’t always a Bully ball Player. His first step when he was younger was just as quick as current day Ja Morant
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Nah he was a bully ball player back then too, he was also just the quickest player in the league
LeBrons first step was fast, but once he is side by side, it is all about his strength and ability to move through players. Any guy fast enough to guard the first step couldn’t handle his strength and vice versa. It has always been his combination of attributes that made him hard to guard.
Every single player on the court and bench in this clip is retired. LeBron just came off a season averaging 26,8,7 on 54% shooting. Let that sink in.
Two thoughts. A, this doesn’t mean it isn’t already happening just damn I haven’t seen it but have we already hit the point where people who watched Bron’s early years are gonna bestow highlights like old heads who saw Magic/Bird? B Lebron has always been bully ball. Just look at the highlight, yes he has more of an explosive launch, but if you’re looking at him the guy is still very much using his strength to get by and make that explosion
Freak of nature for sure but as quick as Ja Morant is a joke 😂
Quickness, strength, length, and pure athleticism.
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What the hell is going on with Drew Gooden’s “hair”??
LeBron was always a bully ball player. His signature move was getting you on his hip, after that you were finished
He was stronger than everybody who was quicker than him & quicker than everybody who was stronger than him. There wasn’t anybody he who was a good match up from day 1 for young bron
I am old
LeBron was God-level in that Detroit series.
Tayshaun prince cowering out the way of that dunk is never not hilarious
What he did with that scrub cavs team on the beginning of his career was amazing.
He was SIGNIFICANTLY quicker than anyone his size at that time, before that time, or since. He’s likely in the conversation of the fastest up and down the court top speed guys, if not THE ultimate freight train.
Players like Iverson, Hill, and young Jordan are all by themselves in the “quickest” category, especially in regard to first step
Iverson might have the deadliest combination of first step and handle in the history of the game.
Why you ruining my night like this
I love lebron but i think ja’s quicker
Man, some of my first basketball memories was if I saw LeBron anywhere near the paint while sprinting it was 2 points.
Greatest *athlete* the game has ever seen and one of the greatest in all of sports
Prime Dwade had a faster first step but to be lebron that big is insane and just be as fast as Dwade
The true start of his greatness. 18 years later and he’s still dominant. Shits wild
I remember watching this game live. He scored every damn time.
This was when he scored 25 straight points, 29 of the Cavs’ last 30, and the go-ahead score with 2.2 seconds left as the **Cavs stun the Pistons in double-overtime**.
Tayshaun Prince with the business decision lmao
What? Lebron has always been bully ball once he got to the basket he’d out muscle you
My only take away is that I appreciate you calling me young
These aren’t first steps. These are two borderline crossovers, and he backed up to take a running start on each of them. They are quite LITERALLY not “first steps”.
These are also what LBJ is best in the world at. Going down hill once he picks up some speed.
LBJ never had a really elite actual first step. That would be Derrick Rose, Russell Westbrook (as much as he fumbled it afterward), etc.
He has done something that few athletes are able to do. He’s adjusted his game to the skills that he has at his current age. Young LeBron was an unstoppable combination of strength and speed. Just ungodly good.
God mode LeBron was born on this day
Drew Gooden’s hair is diabolical
I mean I was there, I started watching around the time he joined the league, and calling it as fast as Ja is definitely a huge exaggeration. Stop it.
Can’t unsee Drew Gooden’s back of the head hair patch 😳
Quick for his size and quick as modern day Ja Morant are two very different things, he definitely does not look as quick as modern day Ja Morant here. He had great quickness for his size though, which is a lethal combination because someone that size is much harder to stop when they get downhill (especially with his vertical athleticism).
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Nah he was a bully ball player back then too, he was also just the quickest player in the league
LeBrons first step was fast, but once he is side by side, it is all about his strength and ability to move through players. Any guy fast enough to guard the first step couldn’t handle his strength and vice versa. It has always been his combination of attributes that made him hard to guard.
Every single player on the court and bench in this clip is retired. LeBron just came off a season averaging 26,8,7 on 54% shooting. Let that sink in.
Two thoughts. A, this doesn’t mean it isn’t already happening just damn I haven’t seen it but have we already hit the point where people who watched Bron’s early years are gonna bestow highlights like old heads who saw Magic/Bird? B Lebron has always been bully ball. Just look at the highlight, yes he has more of an explosive launch, but if you’re looking at him the guy is still very much using his strength to get by and make that explosion
Freak of nature for sure but as quick as Ja Morant is a joke 😂
Quickness, strength, length, and pure athleticism.
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What the hell is going on with Drew Gooden’s “hair”??
LeBron was always a bully ball player. His signature move was getting you on his hip, after that you were finished
He was stronger than everybody who was quicker than him & quicker than everybody who was stronger than him. There wasn’t anybody he who was a good match up from day 1 for young bron
I am old
LeBron was God-level in that Detroit series.
Tayshaun prince cowering out the way of that dunk is never not hilarious
What he did with that scrub cavs team on the beginning of his career was amazing.
He was SIGNIFICANTLY quicker than anyone his size at that time, before that time, or since. He’s likely in the conversation of the fastest up and down the court top speed guys, if not THE ultimate freight train.
Players like Iverson, Hill, and young Jordan are all by themselves in the “quickest” category, especially in regard to first step
Iverson might have the deadliest combination of first step and handle in the history of the game.
Why you ruining my night like this
I love lebron but i think ja’s quicker
Man, some of my first basketball memories was if I saw LeBron anywhere near the paint while sprinting it was 2 points.
Greatest *athlete* the game has ever seen and one of the greatest in all of sports
Prime Dwade had a faster first step but to be lebron that big is insane and just be as fast as Dwade
The true start of his greatness. 18 years later and he’s still dominant. Shits wild
I remember watching this game live. He scored every damn time.
This was when he scored 25 straight points, 29 of the Cavs’ last 30, and the go-ahead score with 2.2 seconds left as the **Cavs stun the Pistons in double-overtime**.
Tayshaun Prince with the business decision lmao
What? Lebron has always been bully ball once he got to the basket he’d out muscle you
My only take away is that I appreciate you calling me young
These aren’t first steps. These are two borderline crossovers, and he backed up to take a running start on each of them. They are quite LITERALLY not “first steps”.
These are also what LBJ is best in the world at. Going down hill once he picks up some speed.
LBJ never had a really elite actual first step. That would be Derrick Rose, Russell Westbrook (as much as he fumbled it afterward), etc.
He has done something that few athletes are able to do. He’s adjusted his game to the skills that he has at his current age. Young LeBron was an unstoppable combination of strength and speed. Just ungodly good.
God mode LeBron was born on this day
Drew Gooden’s hair is diabolical
I mean I was there, I started watching around the time he joined the league, and calling it as fast as Ja is definitely a huge exaggeration. Stop it.
Can’t unsee Drew Gooden’s back of the head hair patch 😳
Quick for his size and quick as modern day Ja Morant are two very different things, he definitely does not look as quick as modern day Ja Morant here. He had great quickness for his size though, which is a lethal combination because someone that size is much harder to stop when they get downhill (especially with his vertical athleticism).
as quick as ja? uh….
Him and D-Wade both came in as PGs.