The 96 Bulls Would SWEEP The 2017 Warriors

The 96 Bulls Would SWEEP The 2017 Warriors



The 96 Bulls Would SWEEP The 2017 Warriors

“The 1996 Chicago Bulls Would SWEEP The 2017 Golden State Warriors” -Scottie Pippen

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  1. No way the Bulls could win. They couldn't shoot. People talk about how the defense was so much tougher back then, but watch the replays there's no hand checking, there's no rough shit. The defense is terrible actually. Defenders are a thousand times stronger nowadays.

    Draymond could handle Rodman and the Splash brothers would have shot Jordan and Pippen out of the gym.
    I hate when old people act like basketball was better back then, when the guys are a thousand times more skilled today. I'm an old guy but I'm not a romantic I'm a realist. I can just see it getting better every year.

    The kids practically trained from birth now. You got kids in kindergarten with basketball coaches. Nowadays there drawing from a worldwide pool of talent too.
    And they'll be even better tomorrow that's just the way it works.

    Jordan was a 29 percent 3-point shooter for his career. That just doesn't work in today's basketball, you need to be able to space the floor. And he had a shorter three-point line and much worse perimeter Defenders back then. Back then you had one 3-point shooter on the team. They had Steve Kerr. Nowadays everybody, at every position, shoots the three.
    I think the Bulls would actually be one of the better older teams to play in this generation because the athleticism would make them better perimeter Defenders. But you can't compare one generation to the next. Bird was the best, he got old and Jordan was the best, he got old and T-Mac / Shaq dominate. Now it's Jokic. Those guys couldn't do what Jokic can do. Just like bird couldn't do what Jordan could do. Jordan couldn't do what T-Mac could do. You just can't compare one generation to the next, the whole game changes.

  2. Gary Payton took that bulls team to 6 games in 1996. When he switched onto MJ defensively, Jordan shot 36% from the field.

    They won 72 games cause of the impact of expansion teams and the expansion draft. The talent pool was horribly diluted. Jordan’s own teammate Dennis Rodman admits this about 1996.

    Guys like Dr J, Magic, and Bird were on television during the 96 finals talking about the weakness of the league due to the above issue. That interview is still up on YouTube for anyone to go and watch.

    Yet I’m to believe that Andre Iguoudala, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green couldn’t guard Jordan??

    Kevin Durant and Steph would’ve been a nightmare for the bulls.

    If Reggie Miller can take the bulls to 7 games then 3 of the 5 best shooters of ALL TIME on one team (warriors) would have a field day with that bulls defense.

    It’s nonsensical narrative and delusions that the media feeds to fans that has people still hyping up the 90’s. For gods sake watch the games, there is no comparison, today’s players are simply better.

  3. Reggie Miller and the pacers took MJ and the bulls to a game 7 in the playoffs. Imagine if those bulls had to guard 2 shooters like Reggie Miller and a scorer like Kevin Durant because Steph and Klay is like 2 Reggie Millers and add Kevin Durant. That bulls team would have got swept period.

  4. Rodman was such a goat that Orlando led by shaq could beat Jordan’s bulls right out the playoffs the year prior and just the acquisition of Rodman changed things so drastically that shaq was holding his head after each game in the rematch

  5. I do think ppl overrate the Bulls a bit. The bulls never swept any team in the NBA finals or had a 16-1 playoff run but somehow they'll sweep a team that has done both of those things things. A warriors vs bulls series can go either way but since the warriors are modern they have the advantage of multiple past playing styles. Warriors know the triangle, Spurs plays and have there own plays. This level of information give them an advantage over the Bulls that sight edge should be enough to get the warriors past the Bulls.

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