I watched some highlights from that year and my God, they stink compared to nowadays. I've seen high school teams with better skills than these guys and I swear I am dead serious.
Yes, they were GREAT for their time. Key words: "for their time". But honestly, if you put that team in today's league, I don't think they'd win a single game all season. Just the dribbling alone from back in that time period looks so beginner.
The sad part is, we'll never get to see it, so old people will continue to say that this team is the best ever. My advice: watch film from back then.
I watched some highlights from that year and my God, they stink compared to nowadays. I've seen high school teams with better skills than these guys and I swear I am dead serious.
Yes, they were GREAT for their time. Key words: "for their time". But honestly, if you put that team in today's league, I don't think they'd win a single game all season. Just the dribbling alone from back in that time period looks so beginner.
The sad part is, we'll never get to see it, so old people will continue to say that this team is the best ever. My advice: watch film from back then.
I watched some highlights from that year and my God, they stink compared to nowadays. I've seen high school teams with better skills than these guys and I swear I am dead serious.
Yes, they were GREAT for their time. Key words: "for their time". But honestly, if you put that team in today's league, I don't think they'd win a single game all season. Just the dribbling alone from back in that time period looks so beginner.
The sad part is, we'll never get to see it, so old people will continue to say that this team is the best ever. My advice: watch film from back then.
You were only allowed to take 2 steps back then, that's why it's called Homie-ball nowadays.
The best player of all time and the best coach of all time would be the worst team in the current league?! Sure, right. You could argue that they wouldn't win the championship but any Michael Jordan led team would absolutely devastate teams like the Spur and Pistons. With the current fouling rules, Jordan could easily get 40 to 50 points a night. This is truly one of the dumbest takes to be on this board and that is saying a lot.
the 90s were only a few years into the "get away with traveling" era. Similar to the end of baseball's dead ball era, it took a while for the game to adjust.
If they started calling traveling again, all today's teams would lose to teams from the 70s.
basketball is inherently a sissy sport with silly rules eliminating anything physical and heavily favoring offense. It would be vastly improved by making dribbling illegal, and you can only pass the ball, as it was originally.
I watched some highlights from that year and my God, they stink compared to nowadays. I've seen high school teams with better skills than these guys and I swear I am dead serious.
Yes, they were GREAT for their time. Key words: "for their time". But honestly, if you put that team in today's league, I don't think they'd win a single game all season. Just the dribbling alone from back in that time period looks so beginner.
The sad part is, we'll never get to see it, so old people will continue to say that this team is the best ever. My advice: watch film from back then.
Compare the roster of the 95-96 Bulls to the 15-16 Warriors (73-9).
Curry, Klay Thompson, Draymond Green, Harrison Barnes, Andrew Bogut, Marreese Speights?
Head to head:
Rodman OWNS Draymond and would even steal his girlfriend. Pippen easily shuts down Klay. Jordan and Curry might not guard each other, but Jordan would outplay Curry 99 times out of 100. Kukoc, Longley, and Kerr are about even with Barnes, Iguodala and Speights.
Todays game is different?...no problem for the Bulls, they averaged 105 pts per game in a more defensive focused era.
Kerr is a career 45% 3pt shooter. Kukoc and Jordan are both great 3pt shooters. Pippen, Jordan, and Rodman were some of the best defenders in NBA history. The warriors were a horrible defensive team.
You can compare eras and deeper teams now, but head to head nobody stands a chance against the 95-96 bulls.
Not true at all. They ranked 5th/30 in defensive rating in 15-16, and they ranked 1st in 14-15 and 2nd in 16-17. Speaking of 16-17, your head-to-head comparison gets trickier when you replace Barnes with a 28 year old Kevin Durant.
That said, I don’t really have a dog in the fight between those two squads: both are among the best ever, and I’m fine leaving it at that.
The Bulls would obviously be a playoff team in today’s league with Jordan and Pippen, who would be great players in any era. I do think their depth would suffer a little bit in today’s global game, where D1 college stars often go undrafted due to an incomplete skill set. Still, it wouldn’t surprise any reasonable person if they were contending for championships.
I always find it annoying when people say that Jordan (or Bird, or so and so) would “easily score 40 or 50 points every night” if they played today. Jordan may well be the best player in the league, but he wouldn’t be an incredible statistical outlier like that. I’d buy 35p/8r/7a though, which is clearly phenomenal.
The physicality of 90s basketball is also seriously exaggerated by lots of people in these debates. I have watched full games from the 90s on YouTube recently, and they were calling plenty of fouls with minimal contact, and yet these people would have you believing it was a brawl. The traveling thing is also overstated, a common scapegoat for those who used to watch the NBA and no longer enjoy it. And I can assure you that today’s players could make the (minor) adjustments if traveling calls became more stringent.
players could make the (minor) adjustments if traveling calls became more stringent.
the question is how effective would they be when they could not travel and carry the ball? Would they adapt quicker to the rules than the 96 bulls to the modern game? What about the benefits of drugs the modern players get to take?
The 90s are recent enough that the athletes are decent enough to be competitive. It isn’t like asking how some 240lb lineman from the 50s would do in the modern nfl. But it is hard to get exact comparisons to tell if they are about equal or a half step slow.
I watched some highlights from that year and my God, they stink compared to nowadays. I've seen high school teams with better skills than these guys and I swear I am dead serious.
Yes, they were GREAT for their time. Key words: "for their time". But honestly, if you put that team in today's league, I don't think they'd win a single game all season. Just the dribbling alone from back in that time period looks so beginner.
The sad part is, we'll never get to see it, so old people will continue to say that this team is the best ever. My advice: watch film from back then.
Compare the roster of the 95-96 Bulls to the 15-16 Warriors (73-9).
Curry, Klay Thompson, Draymond Green, Harrison Barnes, Andrew Bogut, Marreese Speights?
Head to head:
Rodman OWNS Draymond and would even steal his girlfriend. Pippen easily shuts down Klay. Jordan and Curry might not guard each other, but Jordan would outplay Curry 99 times out of 100. Kukoc, Longley, and Kerr are about even with Barnes, Iguodala and Speights.
Todays game is different?...no problem for the Bulls, they averaged 105 pts per game in a more defensive focused era.
Kerr is a career 45% 3pt shooter. Kukoc and Jordan are both great 3pt shooters. Pippen, Jordan, and Rodman were some of the best defenders in NBA history. The warriors were a horrible defensive team.
You can compare eras and deeper teams now, but head to head nobody stands a chance against the 95-96 bulls.
If you just had a 7-game series between 2016 or 2017 Warriors and 95-96 Bulls the Warriors would have a big advantage. And with KD I don’t think it would be that close. The main reason is that the Bulls never faced a faced a team with an offense like the GS that was built around 3-point shooters. If Phil Jackson never saw the Warriors play he would not know to create defensive schemes to try and lock down the perimeter.
Sure, Jordan could guard Curry, but he would still need to chase him all over the court for 40 minutes. Or Pippen would. No one else could guard him. There was nothing like the Warriors off-ball movement in the 90s and it would catch the Bulls defense completely off guard. And 7 games is not enough time to figure it out. OTOH, Kerr understands the Bulls offense and defense of the 90s as well as anyone coaching today. And you are underestimating the Warriors defense. Bogut was a good rim protector, Green is more versatile than Rodman, Iguodola was a lock-down defender in his prime and Klay was one of the best 2-guard defenders in the league before his injuries.
A few other points: Jordan was only a 32.7% career 3-point shooter, Pippen 32.6% and Kukoc 33.5%. The Bulls were not a great 3-point shooting team, but that didn’t matter in their era. Yes, Kerr was accurate, but he was mostly shooting open 3s. He wasn’t shooting 3s off the dribble or 30 foot step-backs over 7-footers.
If you just had a 7-game series between 2016 or 2017 Warriors and 95-96 Bulls the Warriors would have a big advantage. And with KD I don’t think it would be that close. The main reason is that the Bulls never faced a faced a team with an offense like the GS that was built around 3-point shooters. If Phil Jackson never saw the Warriors play he would not know to create defensive schemes to try and lock down the perimeter.
Sure, Jordan could guard Curry, but he would still need to chase him all over the court for 40 minutes. Or Pippen would. No one else could guard him. There was nothing like the Warriors off-ball movement in the 90s and it would catch the Bulls defense completely off guard. And 7 games is not enough time to figure it out. OTOH, Kerr understands the Bulls offense and defense of the 90s as well as anyone coaching today. And you are underestimating the Warriors defense. Bogut was a good rim protector, Green is more versatile than Rodman, Iguodola was a lock-down defender in his prime and Klay was one of the best 2-guard defenders in the league before his injuries.
A few other points: Jordan was only a 32.7% career 3-point shooter, Pippen 32.6% and Kukoc 33.5%. The Bulls were not a great 3-point shooting team, but that didn’t matter in their era. Yes, Kerr was accurate, but he was mostly shooting open 3s. He wasn’t shooting 3s off the dribble or 30 foot step-backs over 7-footers.
Pippen, Rodman, and Jordan could easily shut down Curry, Klay, and KD. Reggie Miller ran around the court way more than Curry, and teams in the 90s had much more sophisticated off ball movement than today.
If you move the Bulls into todays era, they would be able to add more depth thanks to the increased influx of international talent, and USA talent.
I watched some highlights from that year and my God, they stink compared to nowadays. I've seen high school teams with better skills than these guys and I swear I am dead serious.
Yes, they were GREAT for their time. Key words: "for their time". But honestly, if you put that team in today's league, I don't think they'd win a single game all season. Just the dribbling alone from back in that time period looks so beginner.
The sad part is, we'll never get to see it, so old people will continue to say that this team is the best ever. My advice: watch film from back then.
Starting about 50 to 55 years ago, NBA, hard fouls were allowed. About 40 years ago was the beginning of solid consistent defense era in N.B.A. I don't know why defense was allowed for awhile. I don't know why defense is no longer allowed in N.B.A. Bulls, both three championship eras played great perimeter defense. That would not be allowed today. Bulls never had enough high quality three point shooters to compete today.