re: 2014 Spurs v 1996 Bulls

2014 Spurs: 62-20 in regular season, 16-7 in playoffs

1996 Bulls: 72-10 in regular season, 15-3 in playoffs.

This Spurs team was great, and their first half performance against the Heat in Game 3 maybe the GOAT for a team, but that Bulls team would most likely handle the Spurs. I think people sometimes forget three very important things when saying the spurs would win or are the best team ever

1. They almost lost to the 8 seed in the first round. That Mavs team was very well coached, but they didn't have a ton of talent. Taking SA to 7 diminishes the team's accomplishments slightly.

2. The Heat weren't very good in the second half of the season. They finished the regular season 11-14, but it wasn't really talked about as much as it normally would because of Indy's collapse and the East's crappy teams in general. They played a bad Charlotte team without their best player in rd 1, an old Nets team without one of their top players in rd 2, and an Indy team that almost lost to ATL (with no Horford) in the first round and was collapsing to end the season.

3. The Spurs would match up very poorly with the Heat. Ron Harper would have 6 inches on Tony Parker at the point, Rodman would hound Duncan on defense, and the spurs don't have enough defenders to stop the combo of Kukoc, Pippen, and Jordan.

This Spurs team was really good, but let's not try and get overwhelmed with the Spurs just because their team played more recently.