3>2 is a product of rule changes, and a different culture, generally speaking, in the NBA. It's not as if no one figured out how to shoot trays by the 90's; it was simply just a less efficient way to score.
Even still, team ball > iso ball. The Warriors, who have good ball movement, movement without the ball, and chemistry, are the exception in today's league.
I think it goes 7 - Jordan’s easily the best player in the series and the Warriors have never seen 3 defenders like MJ, Scottie, and the Worm. Unfortunately GS probably wins due to 3’s, it just boils down to math. If they played with no 3 point line the Bulls sweep
They “almost wilted” by going 4-2 against the second best player of all time along with Kyrie?
They wilted by taking that same player to game 7 and not losing until the very last moment?
They dodged a bullet by Chris Paul being out, but “they wilted” with Draymond missing time?
Maybe give them some credit for the caliber of opponents theyre racking up championships against? Or do you think the Bulls did it against similar competition every year?
So much better than the crap iso ball that's the norm today.
Golden State has shown vulnerability, and that Bulls team never did.
This statement would be relevant if they played against the same teams during the same era.
That’s kind of beautiful, but I said in a previous thread that the Bulls might could win one game. That’s before Cousins. But just the Jordan nut huggers will say anythingIn order for this to be a fair comparison, you'd have to take the bulls best season (72 wins), and then have the previous season's MVP join them, which was the Spurs' David Robinson.
Then, you need to give the Bulls the equivalent of Demarcus Cousins. Which, for this argument, I think Dominique Wilkins is a good fit. Demarcus Cousins is ranked as the 23rd best player in 2017, and Dominique Wilkins was ranked as the 29th best player of the 90's. Now you can argue those rankings if you want, but they are close enough for our purposes. What we're comparing are 2 pretty damn good players who have both torn their achilles, and will not be as good as they were, but will still be pretty damn good.
So yeah. 96 Bulls with David Robinson and post-achilles Dominique Wilkins vs. the 2019 Warriors. I think the Bulls take it.
source for ranks:
https://www.si.com/nba/2017/09/13/top-100-nba-players-2018-kyrie-irving-john-wall-damian-lillard
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1342439-legends-of-the-nba-25-best-players-of-the-90s#slide1
Can the 96 Bulls beat 19 Warriors in a 7-game series?
Warriors when healthy would sweep Jordan and his boys imo.
That's the only way to somehow compare: within their respective contexts. Otherwise, you can't even discuss.
So let’s do this and make all the Bulls sound great and the Warriors sound sub par.Yes you can. You look at each player's individual skill set and come to a conclusion. For example Ron Harper was a good defender, long limbs... I think he would be able to shut Curry down. MJ was unstoppable on offense, I don't think Clay would be able to slow him down etc etc. Illustrating how the Warriors fared against the Rockets last season would be a pointless endeavor
The Bulls lost 2 games that year to the Pacers who lead by Reggie Miller. And the 98 Bulls were taken 7 games by the Pacers. So we have something to go by Pacers were a bad match-up for them. Only team to give them trouble. The Warriors are the Pacers on steroids.
Bulls amazing defenders struggled to shut down Miller but itt they shut down klay and curry and Durant easily lol
They wouldn’t know how to guard the 3 point line. Kerr would outcoach his old team and himself. Would be epic
lmao lmaoKnown Degenerate and big dick pip would bully the hell out of Staph and Ranch lmao. Klay would have to drop 60 a couple of games for them to win lmao
Golden State has shown vulnerability, and that Bulls team never did. They are the best team of all time, in all sports, and it’s not even close. The GOAT player period, the GOAT perimeter defender and the GOAT defender period, all in one team.
And they did beat really great teams, as listed in the post above.
If the 73 win team had won the title, with the addition of Kevin Durant afterwards, maybe this would be a discussion, but it’s really not at this point. If Golden State wins this year, then we can talk about dinasty.
You make it sound like the Bulls were unbeatable. The pistons beat the hell out of them until they got over the bump. The Knicks would have beat them had Starks not gone cold. Indiana took them to 7 games. Heat took them to 7. The Sonics took them to 6 with an injured Payton. The Bulls were not close to as dominate in the playoffs as the Warriors. 2000 and 2001 Lakers teams probably were more dominating than even the warriors come playoffs.