Is any current top player better than prime Ma Long (2015-2017)?

[NetProphet]

Interesting reading in this thread and also interesting how much the landscape has changed in 6 mths with WCQ📉, LSD📈 and FZD 🔃.
I guess my answer to the initial question is that nobody is as dominant as prime Ma Long was but being as good as him, as in could their best have beaten him on any given day, yes, definitely.

But maintaining a certain level over such a long period of time is real greatness, even if it doesn't define it.

LSD could go world no 1 and win most majors for 4 yrs including the next Olympics and ten fall off a cliff and never win another thing. Longevity wouldn't define him in that case but there'd be no doubting his greatness in such a case.
Same for FZD, career grand slam done and currently looks like we 'might' have seen the best of him. Never as dominant as Ma Long but still great!
I suppose it's Ma Longs longevity that sets him apart... similar with Waldner.
I think these guys get given the GOAT tag because of how long they did it for...

 

[zeio]

32商务被拒了吗 (32's commercial has been turned down?)
https://tieba.baidu.com/p/9393010481
爱吃甜荔枝_ye 听说🎲路虎商务被拒，不知真假
IP属地:山东来自iPhone客户端1楼2025-01-06 20:30回复
(I heard that Dice's commercial with Land Rover was rejected. Not sure whether it's true or not)

深深的幕 凯迪拉克签冠军，路虎签32强？？？这不是让人嘲吗？？？
IP属地:上海来自iPhone客户端4楼2025-01-06 21:01回复
(Cadillac signed the Champion and Land Rover signs the R32??? Isn't that a laughable???)

陪伴di 现在的车代机代大概率不会找他，签了不就直接说明自己不如友商，商家不傻
IP属地:江西来自iPhone客户端5楼2025-01-06 21:18回复
(Right now, automobile and mobile phone sponsorships highly unlikely would not choose him. If they signed, it would directly prove that they are not as good as their competitors. The merchants are not dumb)

帝国星舰可 讲真喜欢32的饭圈粉有这个消费能力？
IP属地:上海来自Android客户端6楼2025-01-06 21:56收起回复
(To be honest, do the fangirls who like 32 have the purchasing power?)
爱吃甜荔枝_ye: 喜欢32的都是些小学生初中生吧
2025-1-6 21:57回复
(Those who like 32 are probably primary and middle school students)

看什么看呀 这种客户都是男人的牌子签了这种人简直找死
IP属地:湖南来自Android客户端7楼2025-01-06 21:59回复
(This type of client is a man's brand. Signing this kind of person is simply asking for death)

yzxclrl 不可能真的。32深入人心，哪个大品牌想不通会找他
IP属地:浙江来自iPhone客户端8楼2025-01-06 22:05回复
(It can't be true. 32 is deeply rooted in people's hearts. Which big brand would not figure it out and choose him?)

妈妈西塔 现在只要是大牌，且樊振东涉足过的大牌，都不会再有竞品公司签他了，否则发出来就是遭人嘲笑。我家是八一守国门的奥运冠军，你家奥运32强，想想都替品牌感到掉价
IP属地:江苏来自Android客户端9楼2025-01-06 22:22回复
(Now, as long as it is a big brand, and big brands that Fan Zhendong has been involved in, no competing company will sign him, otherwise they will be ridiculed. My brand is the Olympic champion of Bayi who guarded the national borders, and your brand is the Olympic R32. Just the thought of it makes me feel that the brand has lost value)

yuki 汽车最忌讳遮挡
IP属地:北京12楼2025-01-06 22:26收起回复
(The most taboo thing about cars is hidden gear [TL's note: a play of words, 遮挡/hidden and 排挡/transmission])
爱吃甜荔枝_ye: 回复 yuki :太好笑了，汽车没有32档
2025-1-6 22:28回复
(It's so funny, cars don't have 32 gears)
林诗栋(邪恶椰子版): 神评论
2025-1-6 22:37回复
(God comment)

loveispainfull 原话是说“路虎放弃了”，胡说八道。路虎怎么可能有考虑过，从来就没听说过亚军能有车代，何況他还是32。
IP属地:中国澳门来自iPhone客户端14楼2025-01-06 22:28回复
(The original words were "Land Rover gave up", which is nonsense. How could Land Rover have considered it? I have never heard of the runner-up getting a car sponsorship, not to mention he is even 32)