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Nuh uh, 'seppe. Not after all that bull about wanting any of the O'fers to ring and join your exclusive club. No way.
thread makes no sense. A champion can not be "swept". A defending champion can, but how does a champion team get swept? Wouldnt they be the ones doing any "sweeping"
Ezau forgot how this works. Excuse him it's been a while since the spurs rang ...
Nuh uh, 'seppe. Not after all that bull about wanting any of the O'fers to ring and join your exclusive club. No way.
Please.
Let us proceed......
this would have never happened. everyone knows Jordan would not have been teabagged by a 5foot 5 JJ Barea for 4 straight games.
No.
As long as Pippen was holding MJ's hand, most likely not.
I'm a trend setter.
I set trends.
^lmcontrollinao!
I still got it.
If only Pippen was there in '80 to hold Sipe's hand thus preventing Red Right 88
"If it isn't open you throw that damn thing into Lake Erie"
^Come ta Pappy.
It'll never end.
Neither was 2009 or 2010 ...considering the influx of talent winning back to back with an aging fisher in a PG driven league and relying on Pau as the big in the more physical playoffs. Those 2 rings by Kobe and PJ to of the most impressive. plus the bench was suspect too outside of Odom.
That being said 3 peat Lakers, 80's Lakers, Celts, Pistons destroy this team. Kobe/PJ deserves lots of credit for 3 finals and 2 rings. Especially with the Celts, Lebron, Dirk, duncan and Dwight looming
I dunno, I think those squads were pretty solid, especially the 2009 squad. They had very few weaknesses. I think the 2009 squad could definitely give some of the better teams of all time a good run.
Definitely betterthan 2010 and if Bynum was healthy and Kobe 100% I would agree with you ...but neither were the case especially bynum.
All of MJ's 6 le teams would beat the 09 or 10 Lakers in 6 games or less imo. They were good Laker teams, but not transcendently great.
Now the 2001 Lakers...they'd beat the outta any team other than '96 Bulls.
20 years from now 18 year olds will talk about what a strong bench the Lakers had in those Pau years.
question is which Bulls teams? 80s with legendary bald man Granville Waiters or 90s dynasty? 80s yes. 90s no.
Classic.......
Only after Pau would implore & beseech them not to.
Disagree about the bolded. 2001 were Two-deep. After Shaq/Kobe, what else did they have? That '96 Bulls team lost 10 games by some insane total of about 20 points. That Bulls team was off the hook.
However, the '87 Lakers would have taken them out.
Those "two" were unguardable in 2001, especially in the playoffs...Kobe was entering his physical prime and Shaq was at his peak. They had a perfect compliment of players around them, and a solid bench. Damn good defensive team. Fisher was a stud that year as well. Once he came back from his ankle injury the Lakers went 23-1 to finish the year--ending w/ the most dominant playoff run ever.Disagree about the bolded. 2001 were Two-deep. After Shaq/Kobe, what else did they have? That '96 Bulls team lost 10 games by some insane total of about 20 points. That Bulls team was off the hook.
However, the '87 Lakers would have taken them out.
I'm not necessarily disagreeing, because like DD mentioned, Kobe and Shaq were BEASTS. But that Bulls team had 1st Team All NBA defenders at 3 positions in Rodman, Pip and MJ. Rodman, for all of the flack that Spurs' fans give him, was the key piece. The year prior to his arrival, Shaq took a wet on the Bulls. Then the Bulls went out and signed someone that could deal with him: Rodman. 72 wins later...
I feel you on the 2000 Lakers but the talent dropoff from Kobe/Shaq was steep. It amazes me to this day that they got by "Too Deep" Blazers with "Two Deep" Kobe/Shaq. That '96 team had some solid vets to go with their big 3 in Randy Brown (doberman defender), Kukoc, "24 fouls on Shaq" (Edwards, Wennington, Luc Longley, Salley) - after Rodman, as well as one of the best sharp shooters in NBA history: Kerr
Key matchups:
Randy Brown: would have been all in Fish' grill. Edge Bulls
MJ - Kobe - this would have been a fantastic matchup. Wash
Pip - 230 lb fat Rick Fox - Pip would have destroyed him. Edge Bulls
Rodman - he would check Shaq. Edge Lakers
I'm a Laker fan so I would say the 2001 Lakers would win, but it would probably go 7, tbh.
kobe and jordan a wash
you'd be trying to "wash" the memory out of you mind whenever jordan is bullying kobe on the block, and using his smarts to get whatever shot he wants while at the other end he's got kobe in panic mode chucking up fadeaway 22 footers barely drawing iron
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