Norman Powell Explains Why Playoff LeBron is Just DIFFERENT
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- čas přidán 30. 10. 2023
- Norman Powell explains why the Toronto Raptors couldn't get past LeBron James in the playoffs. #paulgeorge #normanpowell #lebronjames #torontoraptors #clevelandcavaliers
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"But players aren't afraid of LeBron!" Flash-forward to Norman and PG having a group therapy session years after the fact.
Exactly lol
Lolol right????
Being afraid of someone is not showing up lol go listen to other players talk about people acting hurt when it was time to face Iverson mello kobe or Jordan that’s afraid 😂
🤣🤣🔥🔥🔥🔥
You know what fear means?
You gotta get Bron on the podcast… Would be the most watched episode ever
Bro not doing anything until like 5 years after he retires. He gonna wanna wait until the narrative of Lebron changes and people learn to appreciate him. Lebron on any of these nba podcast would be epic. If he joins sharpe on Shay Shay would be internet breaking
@@a.soraparu773 agreed, theres a reason why u rarely see him on any talk shows or anything like that. I agree he's waiting until after he retires to maybe go on these podcasts and shows
i think the most watched will be, if he gets Kawhi on the podcast.
@@iam_Oswald would be watched a lot but not as much as bron
@@Revcnanceand he would rather just have these discussions and bring people on his barbershop show
Lebron telling someone on the other team where he’s supposed to be for the play they’re running will never not be hilarious
Yeah, that’s some Bill Russell level IQ. Jerry West used to tell the same story about Mr.Russell, especially during his 2yrs as full-time head coach & starting center.
@@cjwrench07Bill was like: if not Jerry maybe i’ll has a lil bit less rings 😂
Kobe esque
@@cjwrench07 this is why when people say LeBron wouldn’t last in the 70s and 80s I just smile because they are lucky he wasn’t alive in those days because he probably would’ve have 15 championship rings
That has to be demoralising lol
The crazy thing about the jersey pull story that Norm doesnt mention is that LeBron WAS actually trying to help him. Norm wasn't supposed to be subbed and the Raptors would've got a T for the illegal substitution. What's even more funny is that the game was pretty close at that time.. LeBron really had no fear of the Raps at all.
At all. He was playing them like that 2k my career team you always drop 50 on
@@liooliva4023he did.
i feel like these memories would still be painful if we didnt win in 2019. that win took all the sting out of our 2010s playoff losses
LMAOOO@@liooliva4023
@@iN31Lno it didn’t lol you guys know inside you were never truly competition
LeBron owned you for years and it wasn’t until he moved away that you did anything in the east.
Even then you played the warriors without kd and klay for a chunk and still struggled to close out curry and friends.
Most fraudulent franchise of all time the raptors will forever be ringless.
The biggest dagger was LeBron spinning the ball in his hand with Ibaka guarding him then casually hitting a 3 getting nothing but net...then coming down the floor and nailing the exact same shot on ibaka
It was great but the best dagger was his running floater buzzer beater in game 2 over OG, this is the most difficult and one of the most beautiful shot of Lebron career imo, when he hit that shot the Raptors were all chocked lol, i will forever remember Kyle Lowry face 😂
@@Anthonydu01630Yup this was a real dagger. At that point we knew we never stood a chance lol
@@Anthonydu01630Lowry said man wtf am I supposed to do about this 😂😂😂😂😂
LeFU3
That shot I believe led to the commentator saying "LeBronto" lol
Imagine calling out and knowing opponent's plays + then being physically dominant over them as well. That 2018 Bron the best player ive ever seen 💪🏾
I agree. I even copped that ugly jersey to pay homage. No regrets
an argument can be made for 2013 Miami Lebron
@ikechukwuobidike9440 2013 better defensively for sure. But I think the offensive production is much greater than 2013, even though the efficiency is better in 2013 also. You still can't go wrong either way!
@@ikechukwuobidike9440nah. Miami LeBron was great but 2018 he was actually Thanos. I was actually shocked watching him at times
2018 lebronto was shooting so damn well man. He hasn’t shot like that since he punched the white board after game 1 finals when JR lost the game
Lebron single handedly stopping multiple franchises from getting over the hump is crazy lol
All the greats did it.
People slight lebron for his finals record but that man legitimately owned the east for decades and forced superstars to get traded or sign with west teams 😂😂😂😂
Absolutely 💯 Truth 😅😅
Facts. Then won in the West 😂
The raptors won the finals the year lebron went to Los Angeles 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Literally every time except for 1 he was the best in the finals for both teams
Right
It’s crazy cause Toronto put together all these same size wing players to guard Bron on the perimeter and you’d think it would have an effect but it meant nothing at all lol
refs plan.
@@andrewtataj497yeah cause refs hit several consecutive fadeaways in the 4th quarter
cope
@@andrewtataj497 lebron being better plan *
@@andrewtataj497 Proving again that raptors fans have the worst basketball iq by far!
Who rookie og and siakam? I dont really remember demarre Caroll? Lol
Can never get enough of LeBronto stories, can just imagine dem boys shaking at the knees like a cartoon in the locker room before every game. The greats always have a franchise that they just owned.
Jordan - New York
Kobe - Denver
LeBron - Toronto
Curry - Houston
Celtics also
can I add Luka - suns? :D@@angelusgnz5784
Bron owned the whole East. Wizards, Pacers, Hawks, etc
@@BrothaMan98some mediocre ass teams if I’m being honest. His finals opponents were his only real challenge. Apart from Big 3 Celtics and Magic, the east was mid
Fast forward a few days later and in his 21st season lebron james just went vintage lebron vs the clippers with both PG and Norman playing against him and dropped 35pts 11rbd and 7ast in an OT win.
Just ridiculous to be that good for this long.
Some of these players will suffer from PTSD watchin highlights later on
Literally came back to say he gave them niggas the work last night
@@the2kqueenlachiefa561work work work work work (in my Rihanna voice)
@@Apocalypse2031MJ is the GOAT but bro you really have tooo much time on your hands 🤦🏽♂️
@@jayh5183fr lmfao
@@Apocalypse2031bro don't be bringing up finals losses like Lebron wasn't 22 his first time getting swept by a team with 3 HOFers when MJ didn't get to the finals till he was 28
As a Raps fan I remember the pain and every moment, that 2016-2017 LeBron was a savage.
You forgot about 2018 😂
@@h1tman392that was the most painful one for them. He memory-holed it.
@@h1tman392 Haha don't remind me
2018 bron was the best player I’ve ever seen 😂 time flies fast. Can’t believe it’s almost six years
Lebronto is crazy
You had to be there to really understand lmao that was they kryptonite 😂😂😂😂
@@onlyfactxpodcast Facts I still have some of the memes saved from then 😂
Raptors can try but this a stain that will never vanish. I know they won a chip as soon a LeBron left but damn... he owned them so hard . I mean they fired yhe coach of the year cause of one guy 😂
after years of getting slaughtered by kobe once he retires. only to get slaughtered by lebron
2018 Lebron was in an unbelievable flow state.
Yea I've never seen an athlete so locked in and dominant during a stretch like that, not kobe or mj could touch 2018 bron
The turnaround thing was rediculous… cause it was literally like a father playing with his kids in the backyard… but it was against the # 1 seed on the road.. I think the news before the game was that bron didn’t have a signature fade like Kobe and Mj then he set the record for most fadeaways hit in a game
LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOoo
“He’s hotter than fish grease!!” He was hitting them on a different defender every play
@@TheBossyMango I forgot it was also the year they really pressed about him not being clutch and there was no kyrie to bail them out late game… and he proceeded to hit a game winner every other game
Have you heard Al Horfords story about Game 7 vs Cavs that year, LeBron was different lol. I’m glad I never took it for granted
@@TheBossyMango yea, I remember watching it… I mean he was playing 42 mins a game and played All 48 in Game 7… to close em out he took the rebound the length of the floor and got a and 1.. it’s what made the JR smith play so heartbreaking… Bron played arguably the best basketball ever to get get them there. And that 1 play killed all of Cleveland’s momentum.
The biggest miss possibly in LeBron‘s career is that the Cavaliers didn’t sign Paul George and went with Isaiah Thomas they had the opportunity to trade Kyrie for Paul George and didn’t do it could you imagine prime of his career never was getting hurt who knows what would’ve happened
Too scary to imagine. 😂😂😂😂😂😂 I would have loved it though.
PG and Lebron at that 2018 Finals would be an icing on the cake. No one is stopping that, and you have Kevin Love doing his thing.
And Cavs had the opportunity to sign amare stoudamire the year before he went to the Knicks they didn’t want to make the deal and people get mad because he left the Cavs if they Cavs did what the lakers did for Kobe and what the bucks did for giannis and what the bulls did for Jordan Lebron would have never left them!!! People forgot Kobe Jordan and even someone like giannis we’re preparing to leave if those franchises didn’t make the right moves… the same for Paul Pierce also he was preparing to leave if they didn’t get deals done
Paul George and lebron james would have been insane 😂😂😂😂😂
Kobe said he was thinking about leaving Los Angeles because he wanted to play with LeBron James but they got him Andrew Bynum
I witnessed the Cavs’ sweeping the Raptors in 2018. That game was nuts. LeBron and those Cav’s owned the Raptors souls that series and it was over from game 1.
I feel like if people heard more conversations like this, there would be less LeBron hate. We need to appreciate what we're seeing before he's gone. MJ is my goat, but LeBron deserves respect.
21 seasons and still consistently balling, I don’t think there’s a goat near that.
Nah the haters would call this generation soft - but when players from the 80s and 90s say the same stuff about MJ it was fear 😂
The same LeBron haters do see these videos, but rather than hear LeBron actual former players and coaches that have nothing but the real up close and personal relationship with LeBron show him respect, they rather listen to people who don't like LeBron and spew negative comments, because they feel like that brings clicks and views to their channel,or maybe they will get a personal response from LeBron himself which will never happen!
Yea we need to respect greatness.
These LeBron therapy bonding sessions be funny. He done ruin a lot of players playoff runs 🤣🤣🤣
Paul George Gilbert Arenas 😂😂😂😂😂 Roy Hibbert Demar Derozan Kyle Lowry just to name a few people 😂😂😂
@@Amb252 More & more will be coming at as his career winds down🤣🤣
don't forget about them Chicago boys or any of the Wizards/Bobcats/Detroit teams before that, and how can we forget about both generations of Boston teams? My guy been cooking the East up for longer than most players are in the league@@Amb252
Kyle got a ring though
Everyone gives Kawhi all the credit for Toronto winning that year but no one ever mentions that was right after Lebron went to the west side
😮
Fact
Nah. Kawhi can match Lebron's number so nope that Raptors version can beat Lebron.
@@shamsielshahar120man wtf?
@@justiceforall31 means your mom is Lebron
“who guarding 23?” 😂😂
too funny !
As a raps fan, Norm will always be one of my favorite players. Great episode P
“Don’t talk back to the king like that” 🤣🔥🤣🔥
Thanks for the great conversation. It's a pleasure to hear y'all talk about playing each other and not fronting like y'all are enemies. It's ok to ball and be cool with each other. I'm 53, and I totally hate the way the 90s players act like you can't be respectful and friendly yet still compete at the highest level. Big ups.
Im 72 yrs young and franky tired of wokeism modern basektball . we had greats in our day like Larry Bird , Jerry West, not these thugs today who dress like woman and kiss men
Dwane Casey managed to beat LeBron in one series, that Finals where he coached Tyson Chandler and the Mavs defense, and ever since then LeBron decided that not only was he gonna beat Casey, he was gonna do it by outfoxing him
He destroyed him and he took it personal 😂😂😂😂
Casey was trash of a coach... Great guy but he gets exposed when it matters.
Norm will always be a Raptors legend!
Today I learned Norm Powell is in fact NOT Lebron's direct son. The Lebronto Raptors franchise was, making Powell instead Lebron's son by association.
As a Clippers fan, it's so cool to see Norm and PG having this conversation. Fun to root for these guys who clearly love and respect the game, genuinely seem to like each other, and are playing great right now.
keep thoughts about man on man love or action to yourself pervert and let us just enjoy the sport .
Thanks and God Bless,
DrJim
the pull jersey story was HILARIOUS
“Turn the 0-2 into the 0-3”
“Imagine ain’t no Kyrie it’d be no me, imagine if I never met the broski” 🔥
that was a top tier meme
Danggg Its so good seeing pg happy and laughing here while being in the zone (serious face) this season. Man he aint even flexing up even in tough plays this season
Bron is so unintentionally funny. I really hope Powell does the jersey tug to him some day. 🤣
Telling the opposing player what to do is pure disrespect 😂😂
2018 Bron was the most complete basketball player I've ever seen. I even copped that ugly Cavs jersey just yo pay homage. No regrets
2018 was extra selfish played no D and got swepted once again and still couldn’t guard KD💯
@@Dipset415 casuallll alert
That's maybe the best jersey of Lebron's career lol. 2018? You trippin
@@Dipset415casual🎯
That jersey was 🔥
This has been a good therapy session for me as well 😂😂😂
Literally both these teams could have won a chip if they didn’t meet up with Lebron
Versus SaS of 13-14 or the GSW of 15-18?
You know Toronto ended winning a chips vs a GSW hospital right? Like 50-70% of their power was off that finals
They would’ve ran into the spurs or the warriors and got swept
“Could have”
@@alarydavidninwarriors beat the Cleveland hospital, Cavs beat the warriors hospital we can do this all day. At the end of the day they won a chip and got through the toughest eastern conference in a long time.
A lot players didn’t walk around saying they were afraid of MJ until they retired. All the stories about Larry Bird came out later too. Right now they are competing against each other so some stories aren’t gonna be talk about
Those Toronto turnarounds were insane. I’ve never seen someone hit that many like that.
Powell is chill like that.Great video as usual.
knowing what would be the next play of your opponent is crazy! I don't think any player has that ability.
The screenshot for this is perfection, both look like they are just reliving past losses in their own head.
Bron casually dog walking the east
Yall got the best basketball podcast out there keep up the good work
I dont see you doing better so shut your woke mouth before I knock your blocn off
Thanks and God Bless ,
DrJim
Stretched the shit outta my man shirt 😂😂
This whole convo funny asf
I do not know how many times I watched him to see his Lebron impression, "what, I am trying to help you"
Hilarious!😂 Nice Pod fellas.
😂😂 I been sleepin on PG..this podcast lit lowkey
People like to say Mike kept everyone dry in the 90s, but there is a whole generation of ringless hall of famers who could not get over LeBron in the East for 8 straight years.
Great episode
Can tell PG played with a kiwi "yea na" 😂love it❤
Man norman seems like a very cool guy man. Salute
I hear people say that LBJ and the Cavs would have lost to the Rockets in the 2018 finals had Houston beat the Dubs. But I gotta disagree. 2018 Bron was like a force of nature and the only thing that could have stopped him were the Warriors.
This Podcast is dope!!!!
this the best podcasts :D
Damn I’m watching Austin Reeves break this man down in real time.
Will never be another like him. 🐐🐐🐐
PG need to speak on that 2017 playoff series when bron single Handed-lily with kyrie and love on the bench came back from a 30 point deficit
Bron just hits different! 😅👍✨
When it’s all said & done and the Lebron documentary comes out y’all will see just how dominant lebron was and how many people he stopped from going to the finals
It would have been interesting to see the kwahi raptors go against the LeBron Cavs. Funny cause if bron stayed in Cleveland 1 more year he'd have another ring. Cavs would have beat an injured GSW also.
I’ve never seen 1 man dismantle an entire franchise for yrs.
5:07 PG asking if Bron pulled on his collar 🤣🤣
i love to see Shump on your next guest..that would be lit🔥🔥
The chosen one, and the GOAT in his generation 💪👑🏀
To know your opponents plays and then calling them out and then also telling the opponent what to do is just ultimate trolling and playmaking.
Lowkey. We all gonna wait for the jersey pull on Wed. 😂
The only way he does that is if they were leading big 😂
Stories like this is what makes Lebron the GOAT. This is one team out of several that he knows how to outsmart
When lebron retirement comes I hope lebron will be the guest of your podcast
Bro mentioning myspace today is wildd lmaooo
Brons mind is every bit as impressive as his athletic ability, its staggering.
now im going to be waiting for Norman to pull Bron jersey next clippers-lakers game LMAO
The jersey story was funny.
It was great, you kept your cool.👏
I also think, Lebron was really trying to help. Maybe he was too focused on creating, executing plays in his mind that it was just his body's initial reaction. 😅
Think they're just both honest immediate reactions.
The myspace was something.😄
Biz Mack did a hell of a job lol
Bron different. The trolls don’t understand how great he was/is.
crazy how players talk about lebron like he retired 10 years ago - man is still in the league fighting for a championship ad players are telling stories around the campfire - legendary
We’ll truly appreciate it once he’s retired
This one had me rollin 😂
Some people aren’t ready for Brons documentary mannnn that mf gone be loaded ‼️🔥
Would be hilarious if he pulls brons jersey
Pg yall the favorite now
Nah
lol norm impression 'psft, im tryna help u!'
Powell might do that "jersey pull" 🤣🤣🤣
I just went and watched the Jersey pull 😂 I would’ve been pissed too
lol i love these back stories 😂😂😂😂
Players giving props to opposing players, it's all the fans and the media who's beefing with themselves 😂
Bron literally haunting you guys from the east to the west 😂
Till this day I refuse to watch a single highlight from those series. I’ve erased those Lebronto years from my mind. My Raptors’ history starts in 2019 😭
Bron on the pod would be legendary 💯
Got him so tilted Powell starts talking about MySpace on accident 😅 oh the MySpace memories.
Norm seems cool AF
I noticed how everyone of them always talk about Lebron, not Curry nor KD, but it's always Lebron who they have a not so great memories from 😅
Yep even KD too yeah
Cause Lebron owned the east for a decade. I’m sure some western conference players have stories about those 2
yeah like the time KD, Harden, Westbrook, and Ibaka were up 3-1 on the GSW and then proceeded to lose the series(which GSW ended up losing to Cavs in the finals after being up 3-1), and then Draymond didn't even have enough time to leave the parking lot before he called KD and got his snake butt over to the Warriors so they could go beat Pappa BronBron?@@gozz2118 I agree one of my fave stories of the stars of the West dominating 🙃
norman powell is a straight baller bro
the raptors teammate who he didnt name , was patrick patterson ( was the raptors player he told the play)
People always say players aren’t scared of Lebron but they really are there body mannerisms even on the floor u can see it lol he is the reason Durant was recruited to GSW lol
2:05 Patrick Patterson
Lmao when I heard “MySpace” I was like damn it’s coming back
I love Powell man always liked him
18 must’ve been painful for Raptors 🤣
18 was total devastation
That was total domination by bron
19 was a movie tho so its all good
It definitely was lol we was watching game 3 at a bar and had some drinks to cope with the loss
Ppl on purpose not to mention the opponents
MJ played against, in that era Danny Ainge, Dennis Johnson, Jeff Hornacek, Mark Price…were stars.
Players were averagely more skinny, smaller, slower, only a few can jump high or shoot 3’s, no big man can dribble, no eurosteps, no shammgod. They played brute, but no skills. Hand check yes, but no zone defense, to which Kobe said “I don’t care if yo hand check with 3 hands” “the zone I think cripples some of the top scorers”
When prime MJ left the bulls in 93’ the went from 57 wins to 55, when prime LeBron left cavaliers in 10’ they went 62 wins to 19.
And MJ fans always lie about MJ stuff, for example "his vertical jump is 48 inches" and "his body fat ratio is 3%" If those were true, LeBron & Carter would have a 50 inch vertical jump and Helmut Strebl would have -3% body fat ratio.
its just nostalgia man.
NBA was expanding at that time, Jordan had a greater fan base due to many reasons (some of them arent even related to basketball) and Bron has a greater amount of heaters .
And I agree with what you say about say about the opponents.
Bron had to face much more guys in their prime and many of them are in the top 75 AT unlike MJ.
MJ is one of the best with no doubt but im afraid people chose him over Bron for reasons outside of basketball
I think you have to be there to get it. Michael Jordan is GOAT because he could've played in any Era but a lot of Michael was new. Similar to Steph and our Wembyama, it's new. Plus he went 6 for 6. Teams had 2 to 3 years to prepare for him and they were unable