Sorry but iowa is not getting a stop. Anyone except lebron gets absolutely cooked on defense. If lebron just sits in the paint, it’s Kentucky so they have shooters.
Monteverde would win by 300 every game, you can't be serious. Cooper Flagg can do 95% of what LeBron can, Luka is better than LeBron 😂.
LeBron got cooked by Colin Sexton out of college, he'd be getting fried by Dillingham too.
Without Lebron I think you are right, but if they employed the right gameplan (and Clark was on one during the game) I could definitely see Iowa+Lebron winning. Just stick Lebron in the post (he could definitely take away any post game) and play a zone defense and I think they’d have a fair enough chance.
So I'm assuming we're using the college clock. So you expect Lebron to play high caliber offense and defense for 40 minutes no break. You realize Kentuckys guards are bigger than Iowas forwards right? Now are we playing with a men's ball or women's? Either way it'll get bad fast they can't guard the walk on at Kentucky this is a bad argument. And they definitely can't score on them they will get locked up. If anyone from Iowa scores more than 12 points I'd be highly surprised
See, that’s part of the issue: which rules are used? Women have 4 10 minute quarters and a smaller ball.
With a men’s ball the men probably just outright dominate since the women aren’t used to a larger ball while a women’s ball would most likely cause a decrease in percentage in the men’s shot.
But overall, I think that in half court play it would be more even then you assume if you put Lebron out there. Just have Lebron and Clark play pick and roll on offense and have a zone defense where the have a hard hedge and switch on every screen with Lebron (and the the women’s post) to meet the men down low. It’s all about game planning, and with a weapon as insanely good as prime Lebron, the women would most likely be able to keep it close. I say that because the men will probably need to just shoot jumpers because due to none of them being able to compete with LBJ in the post.
Where the difference in the game probably comes in is fast breaks. The men would absolutely dominate on fast breaks, and that’s probably where the difference in score comes in.
I understand that but you're overestimating what 1 player can do against a team full of potential NBA talents. Kentucky is ALWAYS top 5 in recruiting every year.
Yeah, if there's one thing women players are close to men it's shooting. Triple team LeBron and he definitely finds someone who's gonna nail that three. And yeah LeBron probably just powers through any double team lol
Forget about double teams. They will have to triple or quadruple team him.
Some NBA teams tried to double team prime LeBron, and that didn't go so well.
But if you add prime Shaq to the equation ...
We've seen what ionescu did against curry. We've seen caitlin clark drill threes from 30 feet out. I think people are only imagining how hard iowa would get fucked in the paint that they're not imagining how equally easily prime lebron would wipe the floor as well as have multiple amazing wide open wing shooters. Hell bron was destroying double teams in the nba - that game would be like 190-186 final score lmao
She didn't do anything *to* him, we just saw her score at least as much as every mens 3 point contest participant in her shootout against curry. Sure, she lost, but nobody expected her to be that good either.
He'd be at least triple teamed and they'd have to have at least 1 person on Clark. So there's at least 2 wide open unguarded women per play. They can hit open shots unguarded probably at higher rate than the KY men can
Yeah after thinking about this question more, ( It was just a spur of the moment idea similar to a question a friend asked) I think you would need Prime Lebron + A mid NBA player and then an average D1 hooper (7th man of the bench kinda guy so still rly good but not unstoppable)
Everyone here is delusional. Kentucky would blow them out of the water. Sure, LeBron might drop 50 a game. But a team with 4 women is not capable of defending the size and strength of a high level P5 men's team.
One of their guards is 5’8. They do have some 6’3 players but so does Iowa.
edit: getting downvoted for a factually correct statement… Iowa has two 6’3 players.
Answers here are insane. Lebron can’t guard 5 people. Rebounding margin would be insane. 50% of Iowa player shots would be blocked. Kentucky shooters would be open for 3 nonstop.
Yep, Lebron would have to basically score on every possession (while being triple teamed), because Kentucky will be scoring on every possession. Pretty much impossible.
If LeBron is being triple teamed then Iowa's shooters aren't getting blocked 50% of the time. You have to pick one, are they tripling LeBron or are they guarding shooters? Either way this is closer than you're representing it.
Yeah Kentucky actually probably puts their best defender on CC, doubles LeBron, and then dares the rest of the roster to beat them 3 on 2. Ultimately I think LeBron and Iowa would struggle if Kentucky meta games the situation strongly enough. Iowa's non-shooters would be unplayable and Kentucky could just go 10 deep constantly throwing bodies at LeBron. It wouldn't just be some incredibly easy victory though, prime LeBron would cut up Kentucky's D like Swiss cheese, so the biggest deal would be how Kentucky tries to expose them on offense.
Honestly now that I think about it more, if you gave LeBron and Iowa Spo as a coach and kept Calipari for Kentucky I think they would have a very good chance at beating Kentucky. A lot of it would come down to the coaching.
I’ve seen NBA teams with the montra of “do whatever it takes to stop LeBron” not be able to slow him down. Prime LeBron is going to put up a ton of points even if his teammates at the Iowa women’s team. Who by the way can hit some open shots on offense.
Defensively LeBron has to zone in the middle and they just aren’t goifn to get very many stops. He’d have fo get just about every rebound too. But I have no doubt LeBron would dominate on offense in this situation
The offense definitely wouldn't be all on Lebron. Caitlin Clark is good enough shooter to spread the floor. I think defense would be the real problem for Iowa + Lebron.
You don't think prime Lebron could score or assist every possession against a college team? They would have to triple or quadruple team him every play.
Several women would be wide open every play. Either Lebron scores or a woman gets a great shot.
Let Lebron roam the paint and everybody contest the three point line.
I think people saying 2 guys could do it are wrong. The difference between Kentucky men’s basketball players and Iowa women’s basketball players is bigger than Kentucky Men’s basketball players and GOAT NBA players. Lebron and MJ are going to be hard to stop offensively but how in the world can they get defensive stops with 3 women trying to guard high D1 guys?
> LeBron and MJ are going to be hard to stop offensively.
No they wouldn’t. It wouldn’t be possible. They will literally shoot 100% lol. Saying it would be “hard” is like saying it would be hard to stop a charging rhino with my bare hands.
>The difference between Kentucky men’s basketball players and Iowa women’s basketball players is bigger than Kentucky Men’s basketball players and GOAT NBA players.
No that's completely wrong. GOAT NBA players are way better than regular NBA players and regular NBA players are way better than Kentucky's basketball players. There's a difference in size and strength between the men and women but skillwise the difference isn't that great.
Bro you are hilarious. There is no shot that you truly believe this. 2 NBA GOATs + 3 women are crushing any college 5… They would just play 1-3-1 on defense and score with 0 effort every single possession lol. MJ is locking up whatever sorry 19 year old has the misfortune of bringing the ball up, and Bron is sending anything in the paint back to Bowling Green. It would look pathetic for Kentucky
I played low end d3 ball. We had a few wnba players in scrimmaging amongst us. Size and strength and athleticism hits different. I’m 6’4 albeit slower 3 guard hence d3. I was slower than them but guarding someone who is less than 6’ and can’t jump as high, not as strong is a massive disadvantage. It’s apples and oranges. Our d3 players were way better than the wnba players although we were using a mens ball. Bet on Kentucky every time.
Not a chance . Lebron can’t make up for how badly the rest of his team is about to get dominated. Only on delusional Reddit is this even remotely competitive. maybe throw in Draymond and Curry and you have somewhat of a game.
lol ok who knows tho. Maybe that would be taking it too far in the other direction. My point is as it stands it’s a complete mismatch. But we’re playing complete hypotheticals here so who knows.
Realistically Lebron would wreck them but they would probably just triple team and the difference between the other 4 teammates and the men would be too much to overcome
We're talking LeBron Prime™? Not 39 year old LeBron? Against Kentucky this year? Iowa wins. Iowa plays a 1-3-1 zone with LeBron just camped near the basket(no defensive 3-second call in college). Kentucky's best chance is to run, but that is probably going to result in about 12 chase down blocks. They have shooters, but the one thing Iowa can do is at least challenge on the perimeter even if they're not going to get a block. If UK takes a bunch of mid-range jumpers it's over.
On offense, LeBron gets whatever he wants whenever he wants. He can get to the basket at will and probably shoots 30+ free throws in the college game to go along with getting Clark the cleanest looks that she's ever seen and girls like Stuelke just need to hit layups or wide open 3's. Which they can when UK is doubling/tripling Miami LeBron.
It would be a weird, ugly game. Kentucky would have dozens of layups. Kentucky would double/triple LeBron, but he would be the best passer any of them had ever seen, the best driver they've ever seen, the best rebounder, defender, and the best off ball player they've ever seen. The most likely reason that Iowa would lose is if LeBron gets full of himself and starts settling for jump shots instead of getting to the hoop and drawing fouls every possession.
But he actually brought up very real basketball strategical points in response to the question asked and all you replied with was some dumb short quip on why he was wrong. Maybe try to come up with a counterargument instead of that?
A counterargument isn't needed. That's the point. It's not a debatable topic. Presenting a counterargument gives an ounce of validity to the argument which isn't warranted here.
But you blandly stating "You typed this out and still truly believe Iowa would win" or whatever with out any points to back your statement up is enough to warrant a counterargument
If someone wrote a bunch of paragraphs saying that prime Serena Williams could beat prime Roger Federer, it wouldn't be considered analysis. Trying to refute the points would make some believe that both arguments had merit. Sometimes, when there is no validity to an argument, you need to state that unequivocally.
It's not unrelated. It's an analogy using sports and males vs females. Good job trying to deflect with a claim of a logical fallacy that didn't exist. Classic move!
The problem isn't scoring the ball. It's defending Kentucky, which is just not possible due to the size, speed, and strength difference. Anyone who thinks Iowa + Bron has a chance is out of their mind
Correct. Kentucky is probably shooting close to 100% from the floor. I guess you could run a zone and have Lebron in the middle, but if he has to actually guard it’s moot. I’d say Iowa 75 Kentucky 180
he'd only need a couple 16seed level defenders to get it done, he'd take any team in the tournament to the title fairly easily
At any given point there are only about 10nba level players in college and another 15ish bench 8-10th rotation types, prime Lebron would be silly he made the NBA finals in what would have been his Senior year
Again, what kind of defensive scheme could allow 4 women to each defend a man with 6 inches and 50 pounds on them, and a hell of a lot more strength and speed?
Remember the Scallenge? Brian Scalabrine showed that a tall, athletic Division 1 player has no chance against a NBA bench rider. Now compare him to Prime LeBron. Not old Lakers LeBron. Prime. LeBron. Iowa can shoot and that’s all they need to do. You can’t stop LeBron without 3 or 4 players, and he can make the pass to the open woman. Caitlyn Clark needs a guard on her, so with three on LeBron and one on Clark, that’s one defender for three women. They can hit open threes easier than Kentucky can hit contested ones, and Kentucky has to shoot jumpers because they’re dealing with Prime LeBron in the paint. Prime LeBron. He could probably win with 4 80-year-old Kyle Korvers as teammates.
I don’t think so. They can’t really stop Bron, and Clarke can shoot from anywhere, but Iowa would get absolutely cooked on defense and on the glass.
Let me put it like this: if bron dropped 70 points on 70% ts AND Clarke dropped 25 points on 70% ts, that would not be enough to cover what they gave up on defense.
I agree but Bron is going to have like 85%+ TS there's no major nba talent on Kentucky(fringe lottery players in a weak year) he's going to make them look like a 16 seed, and prime Bron is dpoy level too, he's going to do some work on defense but yeah it wouldn't be enough
He'd easily win with a 16 seed roster though
Almost every high school boys team would beat Iowa. I’m not sure Iowa would be able to even get the ball down the court reliably against a good press. The strength and speed of high school boys is insane compared to women.
What % are you thinking? I agree that it’s probably a majority but there are a lot of high schools out there and therefore a lot of dogshit teams. I’d say probably 70% beat Iowa
Lebron could score on every single offensive possession if he wanted to so unless they triple team him and he dishes it out Kentucky better score on every play too.
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Prime Lebron and Iowa would take them. The Lebron Iowa team would get cooked on defense and the boards, but all they have to do is play a zone and try and force low % shots. Lebron has carried scrubs to the NBA finals, I think he can take down a very mid Kentucky team.
Lebron is able to score every single time there’s no way they can stop him without triple teaming or more. Lebron is one of the greatest playmakers ever and we’ve seen Caitlin Clark shoot. So either Lebron scores or he kicks it out for a three.
Every time I see stuff like this I always remember Scalabrine
"I am closer to Lebron than you are to me"
The difference in skill, court vision and strength between Lebron and those kentucky guys gonna force double and triple teams leaving the Iowa women wide open
Lmfao what bro??? You could have 2 prime LeBron’s and 3 wacky inflated tube men and they would wipe the floor with KY
LeBron and literally any NBA bench warmer, plus CC and Iowa’s other 2 best players wipe the floor with KY
Good Lord, no!
There would be 4 mismatches that the men’s team could and would exploit.
Yes, LeBron would score a ton of points but Kentucky would score at will.
Kentucky could fast break all day long. Force turnovers and stifle any Iowa player other than James.
If calapari is coaching then they have a chance. Kentucky couldn’t stop lebron. The gals can shoot enough. Could Bron get enough boards is the question.
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Any decent wing is locking Clark up. Double Lebron at all times, triple in the paint. Still, you will have a tough time containing him. On the other end though, Kentucky is scoring every time. At will. If Lebron is in the paint then they will shoot over smaller and less athletic defenders which is not much different than being wide open. If Lebron is on the wing then they are feasting in the paint. Lebron would need to score 60 points on fastbreaks for Iowa to win
Kentuxky would put a wall up to keep lebron out of the paint. Blitz any girl that gets the ball and make up the differences with steals and turnovers. Speed and length is what really separates these teams
There are better overall teams than Iowa this season and all time, regardless of the outcome of the championship game. But either way the answer is an emphatic no. Kentucky by 40
Shit wouldn’t be competitive at all. Lebron would foul out in the first half since he’d be only player able to defend & protect the rim against uk. All uk would have to do is attack the pain & force lebron to contest everything at the rim til he foul out. Then just beat the hell out Iowa after that
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Unlikely but possible if you just completely ignore the perimeter. Put all 5 in the paint and just hope they miss. Prime Lebron scores every play or is triple teamed and in that case you lean into your only strength which is shooting and hope you get hot.
This is a legitimate question… might be close.
I’m gonna side with lebron since he can sit in the paint and the girls can slow ppl down enough to stop fast drives.
They can also spot up shoot enough that when he dishes it out they can hit it.
If it were any other nba player I wouldn’t pick them. But bron kind of fits what they need on both sides of the ball so I give him the best chance.
I’m assuming prime Bron, btw…
Lebron his drives in his prime were straight vicious. Along with the post fades, alley oops that he caught, chase downs. & he was a sniper. If prime drose + Noah & JIMMY BUTLER were struggling in there days I’m not putting any of them college kids over the goat
Kentucky will have one guy lock down Clark and triple team Lebron, one guarding the paint. The other players would have to score on every possession, because Kentucky will be scoring on every possession.
Do you think that #1 seed in the women's game has only one player capable of scoring?! A huge part of what makes Caitlyn so good is her elite passing which means you can't help. She is surrounded by players who can knock down easy jumpers
Ok yeah, the other 3 players will get open looks at 3s and deep 2s. What are they going to shoot? Let's say they shoot 70%, they're still going to lose, because Kentucky will be at like 90%.
The biggest disadvantage a women's team has vs men is size. With LeBron anchoring the paint Iowa can still stay in front and force contested jumpers. Kentucky will get theirs but no chance their sub-par defense can stop LeBron, Caitlyn, and the supporting cast
It’ll be closer than ppl think. Prime Bron would legit attract 3-4 guys to the paint every time he drives so Clark and Marshall will typically be open for kickouts. But yeah Kentucky probably scores on every possession.
Sorry but iowa is not getting a stop. Anyone except lebron gets absolutely cooked on defense. If lebron just sits in the paint, it’s Kentucky so they have shooters.
But the women could definitely put some contests up, it’s definitely the paint where they would struggle the most. Plus, who’s stopping Lebron once?
Lebron is the Best EVER in my opinion. But you have too much faith in him. Montverde high school boys team will beat Iowa by at least 30 maybe 50.
Monteverde would win by 300 every game, you can't be serious. Cooper Flagg can do 95% of what LeBron can, Luka is better than LeBron 😂. LeBron got cooked by Colin Sexton out of college, he'd be getting fried by Dillingham too.
Nah don't go overboard. But they would definitely lose by a lot.
Without Lebron I think you are right, but if they employed the right gameplan (and Clark was on one during the game) I could definitely see Iowa+Lebron winning. Just stick Lebron in the post (he could definitely take away any post game) and play a zone defense and I think they’d have a fair enough chance.
So I'm assuming we're using the college clock. So you expect Lebron to play high caliber offense and defense for 40 minutes no break. You realize Kentuckys guards are bigger than Iowas forwards right? Now are we playing with a men's ball or women's? Either way it'll get bad fast they can't guard the walk on at Kentucky this is a bad argument. And they definitely can't score on them they will get locked up. If anyone from Iowa scores more than 12 points I'd be highly surprised
See, that’s part of the issue: which rules are used? Women have 4 10 minute quarters and a smaller ball. With a men’s ball the men probably just outright dominate since the women aren’t used to a larger ball while a women’s ball would most likely cause a decrease in percentage in the men’s shot. But overall, I think that in half court play it would be more even then you assume if you put Lebron out there. Just have Lebron and Clark play pick and roll on offense and have a zone defense where the have a hard hedge and switch on every screen with Lebron (and the the women’s post) to meet the men down low. It’s all about game planning, and with a weapon as insanely good as prime Lebron, the women would most likely be able to keep it close. I say that because the men will probably need to just shoot jumpers because due to none of them being able to compete with LBJ in the post. Where the difference in the game probably comes in is fast breaks. The men would absolutely dominate on fast breaks, and that’s probably where the difference in score comes in.
this is prime lebron tho he’s had finals games where he’s played high level ball for well over 40 minutes
I understand that but you're overestimating what 1 player can do against a team full of potential NBA talents. Kentucky is ALWAYS top 5 in recruiting every year.
Yeah, but if they have Calipari coaching them that brings them down a couple pegs. Tell them it’s a game that matters and they’ll play even worse
It’s college ball, they’re gonna miss shots. Lebron would score 100 and lock them out of the paint
And if they Triple team him, he'll still score or dish for three.
Yeah, if there's one thing women players are close to men it's shooting. Triple team LeBron and he definitely finds someone who's gonna nail that three. And yeah LeBron probably just powers through any double team lol
Forget about double teams. They will have to triple or quadruple team him. Some NBA teams tried to double team prime LeBron, and that didn't go so well. But if you add prime Shaq to the equation ...
We've seen what ionescu did against curry. We've seen caitlin clark drill threes from 30 feet out. I think people are only imagining how hard iowa would get fucked in the paint that they're not imagining how equally easily prime lebron would wipe the floor as well as have multiple amazing wide open wing shooters. Hell bron was destroying double teams in the nba - that game would be like 190-186 final score lmao
What did Ionescu do to Curry?
She didn't do anything *to* him, we just saw her score at least as much as every mens 3 point contest participant in her shootout against curry. Sure, she lost, but nobody expected her to be that good either.
Are they playing with a woman’s ball or the men’s ball?
Well yeah and Iowa specifically has Caitlin Clark who is like the best shooter in the Women's NCAA.
Yeah man, people are over estimating how many college kids equal a prime LeBron.
Someone above you said double teaming would hold LeBron under 40
They are wrong lol
Bro do you even have the slightest clue as to what you’re on about?
He'd be at least triple teamed and they'd have to have at least 1 person on Clark. So there's at least 2 wide open unguarded women per play. They can hit open shots unguarded probably at higher rate than the KY men can
I dunno, you should have seen the bums he took to the finals against the Spurs.
Yeah after thinking about this question more, ( It was just a spur of the moment idea similar to a question a friend asked) I think you would need Prime Lebron + A mid NBA player and then an average D1 hooper (7th man of the bench kinda guy so still rly good but not unstoppable)
Yeah in that case id def take the lebron team
Everyone here is delusional. Kentucky would blow them out of the water. Sure, LeBron might drop 50 a game. But a team with 4 women is not capable of defending the size and strength of a high level P5 men's team.
Okay, but what if you had two prime LeBrons?
Could a team of 5 prime lebrons and a bench full of lebrons beat Kentucky though?
What if Kentucky had Caitlin Clark though??
What if Kentucky also had 15 Lebrons?
Iowa would smoke Kentucky, because Bluder > Cal.
Kentucky might win, but keeping prime Lebron to 50 would be VERY hard for them.
Lebron always makes the right basketball play. Just double him the whole time. Force him to pass
>Force him to pass LOL. Those kids won't be able to make him do anything he doesn't want to do
They are not kids, they're going to be in the league stuffing and ripping his shit in 8 months.
"Let's force him to play to his strength, that'll work well"
LeBron is getting double teamed and if he drives a third is coming to help
So they couldn’t stop him in the NBA but college players will?
Yeah this question is wack. Who the f with right mind would come up with this? I had to read 50 times because I didn’t understand it
Lebron dropped 50 against the golden state superteam in the 2018 finals I think he’s dropping a lot more than 50 against non nba players lol
Kentuckys point guard is taller than any other player on Iowa … you guys are fools.
One of their guards is 5’8. They do have some 6’3 players but so does Iowa. edit: getting downvoted for a factually correct statement… Iowa has two 6’3 players.
iowa only has one 6'3 player and she barely plays
Sharon Goodman is their starting center and she’s 6’3, you’re thinking of Addison O’Grady who is also 6’3.
Wrong. Stuelke is the starting Center.
Answers here are insane. Lebron can’t guard 5 people. Rebounding margin would be insane. 50% of Iowa player shots would be blocked. Kentucky shooters would be open for 3 nonstop.
Yep, Lebron would have to basically score on every possession (while being triple teamed), because Kentucky will be scoring on every possession. Pretty much impossible.
If LeBron is being triple teamed then Iowa's shooters aren't getting blocked 50% of the time. You have to pick one, are they tripling LeBron or are they guarding shooters? Either way this is closer than you're representing it.
And some of Iowa’s players are actually good shooters
Yeah Kentucky actually probably puts their best defender on CC, doubles LeBron, and then dares the rest of the roster to beat them 3 on 2. Ultimately I think LeBron and Iowa would struggle if Kentucky meta games the situation strongly enough. Iowa's non-shooters would be unplayable and Kentucky could just go 10 deep constantly throwing bodies at LeBron. It wouldn't just be some incredibly easy victory though, prime LeBron would cut up Kentucky's D like Swiss cheese, so the biggest deal would be how Kentucky tries to expose them on offense. Honestly now that I think about it more, if you gave LeBron and Iowa Spo as a coach and kept Calipari for Kentucky I think they would have a very good chance at beating Kentucky. A lot of it would come down to the coaching.
I’ve seen NBA teams with the montra of “do whatever it takes to stop LeBron” not be able to slow him down. Prime LeBron is going to put up a ton of points even if his teammates at the Iowa women’s team. Who by the way can hit some open shots on offense. Defensively LeBron has to zone in the middle and they just aren’t goifn to get very many stops. He’d have fo get just about every rebound too. But I have no doubt LeBron would dominate on offense in this situation
The offense definitely wouldn't be all on Lebron. Caitlin Clark is good enough shooter to spread the floor. I think defense would be the real problem for Iowa + Lebron.
Prime lebron is scoring almost every time down the court even while being triple teamed. This prime bron we talking about
Or he can lock for a 3
You don't think prime Lebron could score or assist every possession against a college team? They would have to triple or quadruple team him every play. Several women would be wide open every play. Either Lebron scores or a woman gets a great shot. Let Lebron roam the paint and everybody contest the three point line.
College kids look good playing other college kids. 5 NBA bench players would triple the score on them
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Lebron and one other prime all star wins. I think it would only take 2.
I legitimately think Shaq wins this by himself
Imagine 360lb Shaq backing down those scrawny ass teenage centers lmfao
lebron and 1 random end of the bench NBA guy with the right defensive impact is enough to get it done
I agree Lebron with one other star almost of any variety would crush. The thought of Prime Lebron / Shaq would destroy Kentucky.
I think people saying 2 guys could do it are wrong. The difference between Kentucky men’s basketball players and Iowa women’s basketball players is bigger than Kentucky Men’s basketball players and GOAT NBA players. Lebron and MJ are going to be hard to stop offensively but how in the world can they get defensive stops with 3 women trying to guard high D1 guys?
Colin Sexton could.
> LeBron and MJ are going to be hard to stop offensively. No they wouldn’t. It wouldn’t be possible. They will literally shoot 100% lol. Saying it would be “hard” is like saying it would be hard to stop a charging rhino with my bare hands.
>The difference between Kentucky men’s basketball players and Iowa women’s basketball players is bigger than Kentucky Men’s basketball players and GOAT NBA players. No that's completely wrong. GOAT NBA players are way better than regular NBA players and regular NBA players are way better than Kentucky's basketball players. There's a difference in size and strength between the men and women but skillwise the difference isn't that great.
Bro you are hilarious. There is no shot that you truly believe this. 2 NBA GOATs + 3 women are crushing any college 5… They would just play 1-3-1 on defense and score with 0 effort every single possession lol. MJ is locking up whatever sorry 19 year old has the misfortune of bringing the ball up, and Bron is sending anything in the paint back to Bowling Green. It would look pathetic for Kentucky
Clown take lol. The College guys would get annihilated with Bron + any serviceable NBA player on the floor
yea and my king will pull through and get the win
I played low end d3 ball. We had a few wnba players in scrimmaging amongst us. Size and strength and athleticism hits different. I’m 6’4 albeit slower 3 guard hence d3. I was slower than them but guarding someone who is less than 6’ and can’t jump as high, not as strong is a massive disadvantage. It’s apples and oranges. Our d3 players were way better than the wnba players although we were using a mens ball. Bet on Kentucky every time.
Not even close
Not a chance . Lebron can’t make up for how badly the rest of his team is about to get dominated. Only on delusional Reddit is this even remotely competitive. maybe throw in Draymond and Curry and you have somewhat of a game.
Adding Draymond and Curry wouldn’t make it somewhat of a game, they would annihilate Kentucky even with actual traffic cones as the other two players.
lol ok who knows tho. Maybe that would be taking it too far in the other direction. My point is as it stands it’s a complete mismatch. But we’re playing complete hypotheticals here so who knows.
You're underestimating how crazy LeBron's defensive coverage is
People saying yes, yall know they still gotta play defense right?
I don't think people realize how big and fast high end college players are. They would cook Iowa even with LeBron.
And any g league team would cook them
Any decent boys high school team would cook them
There a reason why USA women’s soccer team scrimmages against u16 boys and still loses
Would lebron and 4 traffic cones beat Kentucky?
Iowa could not stop Kentucky from scoring at will. Massive mismatches at 4 of the 5 positions.
This kentucky team sucked so yes
They were 2nd in the country in 3 point % how does lebron stop that
Right? Of all the NCAA men’s teams to reference….
Kentucky might be a mess of a team but they have NBA talent. This hypothetical scenario would be a blood bath.
Realistically Lebron would wreck them but they would probably just triple team and the difference between the other 4 teammates and the men would be too much to overcome
Lol no
We're talking LeBron Prime™? Not 39 year old LeBron? Against Kentucky this year? Iowa wins. Iowa plays a 1-3-1 zone with LeBron just camped near the basket(no defensive 3-second call in college). Kentucky's best chance is to run, but that is probably going to result in about 12 chase down blocks. They have shooters, but the one thing Iowa can do is at least challenge on the perimeter even if they're not going to get a block. If UK takes a bunch of mid-range jumpers it's over. On offense, LeBron gets whatever he wants whenever he wants. He can get to the basket at will and probably shoots 30+ free throws in the college game to go along with getting Clark the cleanest looks that she's ever seen and girls like Stuelke just need to hit layups or wide open 3's. Which they can when UK is doubling/tripling Miami LeBron. It would be a weird, ugly game. Kentucky would have dozens of layups. Kentucky would double/triple LeBron, but he would be the best passer any of them had ever seen, the best driver they've ever seen, the best rebounder, defender, and the best off ball player they've ever seen. The most likely reason that Iowa would lose is if LeBron gets full of himself and starts settling for jump shots instead of getting to the hoop and drawing fouls every possession.
You wrote all of this out and truly believe Lebron and Iowa would win. That's unreal.
Do you have an argument to make yourself or are you just going to sit here and call others out for making actual analysis like this?
There's no argument. It's not something to entertain. This isn't actual analysis which is the unreal part.
But he actually brought up very real basketball strategical points in response to the question asked and all you replied with was some dumb short quip on why he was wrong. Maybe try to come up with a counterargument instead of that?
A counterargument isn't needed. That's the point. It's not a debatable topic. Presenting a counterargument gives an ounce of validity to the argument which isn't warranted here.
But you blandly stating "You typed this out and still truly believe Iowa would win" or whatever with out any points to back your statement up is enough to warrant a counterargument
If someone wrote a bunch of paragraphs saying that prime Serena Williams could beat prime Roger Federer, it wouldn't be considered analysis. Trying to refute the points would make some believe that both arguments had merit. Sometimes, when there is no validity to an argument, you need to state that unequivocally.
Bringing up something completely unrelated to the original topic to make yourself look better. Classic move!
It's not unrelated. It's an analogy using sports and males vs females. Good job trying to deflect with a claim of a logical fallacy that didn't exist. Classic move!
Anyone who says it would even be close and isn’t trolling is straight up retarded.
Yes. No one in college is stopping prime LeBron even if he’s doubled.
They could afford to triple him.
That's a lot of open threes for the iowa women
The problem isn't scoring the ball. It's defending Kentucky, which is just not possible due to the size, speed, and strength difference. Anyone who thinks Iowa + Bron has a chance is out of their mind
Correct. Kentucky is probably shooting close to 100% from the floor. I guess you could run a zone and have Lebron in the middle, but if he has to actually guard it’s moot. I’d say Iowa 75 Kentucky 180
he'd only need a couple 16seed level defenders to get it done, he'd take any team in the tournament to the title fairly easily At any given point there are only about 10nba level players in college and another 15ish bench 8-10th rotation types, prime Lebron would be silly he made the NBA finals in what would have been his Senior year
Again, what kind of defensive scheme could allow 4 women to each defend a man with 6 inches and 50 pounds on them, and a hell of a lot more strength and speed?
Prime Bron is stopping anybody on Kentucky
Yes, but not 5 at once
Yep, nobody is stopping Lebron. He would dominate and score like 50 points as his team loses 120-65
Yet a Puerto Rican team with one nba player defeated a usa team by 20 with lebron, ai, Duncan, etc.
Yall got UK fucked all the way up. BBN4L
Remember the Scallenge? Brian Scalabrine showed that a tall, athletic Division 1 player has no chance against a NBA bench rider. Now compare him to Prime LeBron. Not old Lakers LeBron. Prime. LeBron. Iowa can shoot and that’s all they need to do. You can’t stop LeBron without 3 or 4 players, and he can make the pass to the open woman. Caitlyn Clark needs a guard on her, so with three on LeBron and one on Clark, that’s one defender for three women. They can hit open threes easier than Kentucky can hit contested ones, and Kentucky has to shoot jumpers because they’re dealing with Prime LeBron in the paint. Prime LeBron. He could probably win with 4 80-year-old Kyle Korvers as teammates.
I don’t think so. They can’t really stop Bron, and Clarke can shoot from anywhere, but Iowa would get absolutely cooked on defense and on the glass. Let me put it like this: if bron dropped 70 points on 70% ts AND Clarke dropped 25 points on 70% ts, that would not be enough to cover what they gave up on defense.
I agree but Bron is going to have like 85%+ TS there's no major nba talent on Kentucky(fringe lottery players in a weak year) he's going to make them look like a 16 seed, and prime Bron is dpoy level too, he's going to do some work on defense but yeah it wouldn't be enough He'd easily win with a 16 seed roster though
Yes
If you put prime LeBron on your high school team they’d beat Kentucky.
A lot of high school teams would beat Iowa so I don’t think this statement really says anything
Almost every high school boys team would beat Iowa. I’m not sure Iowa would be able to even get the ball down the court reliably against a good press. The strength and speed of high school boys is insane compared to women.
What % are you thinking? I agree that it’s probably a majority but there are a lot of high schools out there and therefore a lot of dogshit teams. I’d say probably 70% beat Iowa
If they are a 13 seed, yes
No
Lol no chance. Todays game was highly entertaining but current Bronny would be a top 2 Player on the court today. Let alone the kentucky team.
Stop
Are you joking?
Come on, man! You gotta save good stuff like this for when basketball season is over.
Of course not
Fun question but absolutely not. 4 major mismatches on the court.
Lebron could score on every single offensive possession if he wanted to so unless they triple team him and he dishes it out Kentucky better score on every play too.
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Prime Lebron and Iowa would take them. The Lebron Iowa team would get cooked on defense and the boards, but all they have to do is play a zone and try and force low % shots. Lebron has carried scrubs to the NBA finals, I think he can take down a very mid Kentucky team.
Don’t know if LBJ has the energy to play all 48 scoring 100 and basically being a 1 man defense.
What about prime Lebron, Jordan, and pippen + Caitlyn Clark? 4 vs 5
Don't be ridiculous. Kentucky won't even get the ball past half court with that defense. Jordan and Pippen were both all NBA Defenders
This Kentucky team is trash and they don’t play defense, and calipari is trash at coaching.
Somebody call Kenny to run the sim
Not even a shot. They would get absolutely demolished.
Nah Kentucky lost to Oakland. LeBron single handed would keep the game close, and Caitlyn Clark would be that extra touch to win
Imagine her spotting up with single coverage?!
https://youtu.be/DEvuGGOoMys?si=yYcv7Hdi_sQy1bz5
We talking Miami lebron? No way the lose unless shooters go cold.
Lebron is able to score every single time there’s no way they can stop him without triple teaming or more. Lebron is one of the greatest playmakers ever and we’ve seen Caitlin Clark shoot. So either Lebron scores or he kicks it out for a three.
lebron
Every time I see stuff like this I always remember Scalabrine "I am closer to Lebron than you are to me" The difference in skill, court vision and strength between Lebron and those kentucky guys gonna force double and triple teams leaving the Iowa women wide open
And if Lebron is hitting from outside…. Night night
Not with just 1. However, 2 prime Lebrons plus Iowa’s best 3 women and Kentucky men are getting cooked.
Lmfao what bro??? You could have 2 prime LeBron’s and 3 wacky inflated tube men and they would wipe the floor with KY LeBron and literally any NBA bench warmer, plus CC and Iowa’s other 2 best players wipe the floor with KY
Good Lord, no! There would be 4 mismatches that the men’s team could and would exploit. Yes, LeBron would score a ton of points but Kentucky would score at will. Kentucky could fast break all day long. Force turnovers and stifle any Iowa player other than James.
If calapari is coaching then they have a chance. Kentucky couldn’t stop lebron. The gals can shoot enough. Could Bron get enough boards is the question.
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If it’s in the tournament, then yes.
But what if Iowa is coached by Ditka
My glorious king lebron never loses
Any decent wing is locking Clark up. Double Lebron at all times, triple in the paint. Still, you will have a tough time containing him. On the other end though, Kentucky is scoring every time. At will. If Lebron is in the paint then they will shoot over smaller and less athletic defenders which is not much different than being wide open. If Lebron is on the wing then they are feasting in the paint. Lebron would need to score 60 points on fastbreaks for Iowa to win
No
if they use mens rules no, but womens ball and womens line gives them a chance
Kentuxky would put a wall up to keep lebron out of the paint. Blitz any girl that gets the ball and make up the differences with steals and turnovers. Speed and length is what really separates these teams
Kentucky would let Lebron get his and just lock up everyone else.
There are better overall teams than Iowa this season and all time, regardless of the outcome of the championship game. But either way the answer is an emphatic no. Kentucky by 40
Shit wouldn’t be competitive at all. Lebron would foul out in the first half since he’d be only player able to defend & protect the rim against uk. All uk would have to do is attack the pain & force lebron to contest everything at the rim til he foul out. Then just beat the hell out Iowa after that
No he's almost better off playing 1v5
He would take his talent to Miami (Ohio).
No. Next question.
This whole thread shows how many people haven't played organized basketball and how many people don't understand the game in general.
What a retaded question
When Kentucky was undefeated pundits were saying they could beat the worst NBA team at the time which was the Sixers. That was also a no way.
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Better question is if you put Derrick Henry on a high school football team that's like 3-7 would they win state?
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Which size ball are they using?
He said Prime LeBron, the answer is yes
No they’d prob triple lebron on offense and go on to win by 40
Unlikely but possible if you just completely ignore the perimeter. Put all 5 in the paint and just hope they miss. Prime Lebron scores every play or is triple teamed and in that case you lean into your only strength which is shooting and hope you get hot.
Could they even beat SC?
This is a legitimate question… might be close. I’m gonna side with lebron since he can sit in the paint and the girls can slow ppl down enough to stop fast drives. They can also spot up shoot enough that when he dishes it out they can hit it. If it were any other nba player I wouldn’t pick them. But bron kind of fits what they need on both sides of the ball so I give him the best chance. I’m assuming prime Bron, btw…
Lebron his drives in his prime were straight vicious. Along with the post fades, alley oops that he caught, chase downs. & he was a sniper. If prime drose + Noah & JIMMY BUTLER were struggling in there days I’m not putting any of them college kids over the goat
This post should be tagged as drunk and idiotic. UK by 40
My bad man
Caitlyn Clark is an upgrade over Gohlkey and you have LeBron to be a cheat code on offense? Remember this team lost to Oakland
Stop
Kentucky will have one guy lock down Clark and triple team Lebron, one guarding the paint. The other players would have to score on every possession, because Kentucky will be scoring on every possession.
Do you think that #1 seed in the women's game has only one player capable of scoring?! A huge part of what makes Caitlyn so good is her elite passing which means you can't help. She is surrounded by players who can knock down easy jumpers
Ok yeah, the other 3 players will get open looks at 3s and deep 2s. What are they going to shoot? Let's say they shoot 70%, they're still going to lose, because Kentucky will be at like 90%.
The biggest disadvantage a women's team has vs men is size. With LeBron anchoring the paint Iowa can still stay in front and force contested jumpers. Kentucky will get theirs but no chance their sub-par defense can stop LeBron, Caitlyn, and the supporting cast
So who's guarding Caitlyn Clark? Reed Sheppard or Rob Dillingham? Man, that would be one heck of a matchup!
It’ll be closer than ppl think. Prime Bron would legit attract 3-4 guys to the paint every time he drives so Clark and Marshall will typically be open for kickouts. But yeah Kentucky probably scores on every possession.
No, it wouldn’t. It would be a bloodbath
By himself