Which Spurs team could give the 95-96 Bulls team a run for their money?

[DarkReign]

OMG, some of you Spurs fans are comepletely and utterly delusional.

Rodman is junk now? Averaged a double-double in the talent-laden, pre-expansion days. Michael "Im the greatest ing player ever, anywhere. Period" Jordan? Scottie "it aint all MJ" Pippen?

They could have put ing Elden Campbell at center and destroyed any Spurs team. Thats not an indictment on the Spurs. That 96' Bulls team was the best ever, Period.

No team could give them a run. Not even the showtime Lakers. They had toughness and finesse.

"Rodman wouldnt be averaging 15 rbds a game against Duncan/DRob..." LOL...blind homerism at its finest.

[SilverPlayer]

No team could give them a run. Not even the showtime Lakers. They had toughness and finesse.

"Rodman wouldnt be averaging 15 rbds a game against Duncan/DRob..." LOL...blind homerism at its finest.

They still had to take 6 games to beat Seattle, a very inexperienced team. The Sonics were playing way above their heads that year. This is the same Soncs team that was the first number 1 seed to lose to an 8th seed. The year before.


The Bulls were great but you state that nobody could ever beat them. That simply wasn't the case. There are probably about four or five teams that could have beat them. The Celtics and the Lakers were both godly in their own prime. The 95 Rockets, The '99 Spurs, and Shaq's Lakers were the other teams that I would put at the level of the Bulls.

I seriously believe that if MJ hadn't retired he would have lost those two years to Hakeem.

[florige]

I'd still pick the 99 team over anybody....Duncan breaking into the league was unstoppable. A Robinson with plenty of spring left to his game. Sean Elliot was at his best both a monster offensively and defensively. JJ and Elie to drain the occasional three ball. And AJ and AD were outstanding PGs. Excellent backups in Malik Rose and Will Perdue.

Without a doubt it was our most balanced team. It was a team without a single hole at any position.

Thats what I think. Those two guys didn't allow NOTHING in the paint area. If you weren't a jump shooting team you were pretty much screwed. Our offense was at question, but other than that...

[Texas_Ranger]

99.

[Findog]

Which Spurs team could give the 95-96 Bulls team a run for their money? I dont know if this post has made it up here yet, which i would be shocked if it hasn't. Anyone want to analyze the matchups?

Let's watch the Bulls try and stop Cadillac Anderson and Jon Sundvold!

[Findog]

They still had to take 6 games to beat Seattle, a very inexperienced team. The Sonics were playing way above their heads that year. This is the same Soncs team that was the first number 1 seed to lose to an 8th seed. The year before.

That was two years previous, not one. And that was not a close series, ask any of your fellow Spurs fans the difference. Bulls jumped out to a 3-0 lead before finishing them off in 6.

[SilverPlayer]

That was two years previous, not one. And that was not a close series, ask any of your fellow Spurs fans the difference. Bulls jumped out to a 3-0 lead before finishing them off in 6.

I remember the series. And it wasn't close until Seattle won two in a row and people were talking about Seattle having a shot.

Regardless my mention of the series going to six is huge. They couldn't close them out on the road. To me that shows that they had some flaws. This was a Seattle team that had One great player Payton and a guy who was playing way over his head in Kemp. Detlef was their next best player.

look at their roster:
Gary Payton | Shawn Kemp | Detlef Schrempf | Hersey Hawkins | Sam Perkins | Vincent Askew | Ervin Johnson | Frank Brickowski | Nate McMillan | David Wingate | Sherell Ford | Eric Snow | Steve Scheffler |

The Bull were great, but not unbeatable. As I said before I would say five teams could have given them a of a run.

By the way Rodman even with his rebounds was a huge liability for the Bulls, to pad his rebound numbers he would never leave the paint, and he would sacrifice guarding someone in order to get a potential board.

[Findog]

They couldn't close them out on the road. To me that shows that they had some flaws. This was a Seattle team that had One great player Payton and a guy who was playing way over his head in Kemp. Detlef was their next best player.

look at their roster:
Gary Payton | Shawn Kemp | Detlef Schrempf | Hersey Hawkins | Sam Perkins | Vincent Askew | Ervin Johnson | Frank Brickowski | Nate McMillan | David Wingate | Sherell Ford | Eric Snow | Steve Scheffler |

I might be the contrarian here but a core of Payton (one of the alltime great PGs in NBA history), Kemp (at his height a huge presence inside on both ends of the floor), a supporting cast of McMillan, Perkins, Schrempf and Hawkins, all those guys were starter-caliber players, a team that won 60+ games year after year, they beat out Malone, Barkley and Hakeem to reach the Finals, so they weren't exactly chopped liver. And they got rolled.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

That 99 team and its not even close. Robinson was not yet hobbled by his back as he was in the following championship and the ruleset alllowed our perimter defenders to shut it down. You try scoring in the paint with both Duncan and Robinson on the floor.

David Robinson was not hobbled in 99 and although Duncan improved over the next few years that pales in comparison to the dropoff that Robinson experienced in subsquent years.

Sean Elliot at that time was a better all around player than Bruce. i love Bruce but Elliot brought it at both ends of the floor.

As for the backcourt, there is no question that Ginobili and Parker are far superior to Johnson and Elie given the game of today; however I still feel that they changed the rules to cater to smaller quicker guards because of that 99 team. Ginobili could have played as well or better in 99 but Parker would not have. There is a definite reason that players like Gary Payton went form NBA All Defense to marginal defenders. Jaren jackson and Mario Elie went in the toilet for this very reason.

The 99 bench of Daniels, Kerr, Jackson, Kersey, Rose and Purdue brought a wide range of althleticism, shooting, rebounding and overall grit. I would kill to have Purdue and Kersey of 99 on our team today.

Sorry but that 99 team forced rules changes and to me that is the truest sign of greatness.

[EvenFlow]

On the flipside of the coin would Jordan Bulls be able to hang in today's bigger, stronger,faster nba with the nullification of handchecking and the inclusion of zone defenses. I don't think so.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

On the flipside of the coin would Jordan Bulls be able to hang in today's bigger, stronger,faster nba with the nullification of handchecking and the inclusion of zone defenses. I don't think so.

Jordan, Harper and Pippen could definitely hang in todays NBA world. Pippen and Jordan could keep up with and destroy point guards and Kerr was protected by their system.

If anything imagine a world where you couldnt handcheck them.

[td4mvp21]

Isn't there a website that predicts this type of stuff?