NBA tournament. Who wins? 1st round

Warriors would kill the Bulls. The 98 Pacers took the 98 Bulls to a game seven. Reggie’s movement was a problem then, Curry would be an even bigger problem. Not to mention what Durant and Thompson would do. This is an all time bad matchup for the Bulls as they could not exploit the lack of size the Warriors had.

Warriors win in 5.

Lakers win. We saw these series play out. When Shaq was motivated to be in shape he was unstoppable.

Lakers in 6

Celtics with Walton are probably the only team outside of early showtime Lakers who could beat the 2010’s Warriors. The big lineup of Gobert and Kat gave Jokic problems. Imagine having Bird, Parish, McHale, and Walton rotating in a game.

Celtics in 5

Last one is a toss up. This years Lakers team was very flawed, but Karl Malone is probably the most overrated player of the last 35 years. People treat him like he is a top 10 player, he’s not even top 25.

Probably Jazz in 6

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90s Bulls get killed by a bunch of superteams.

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Most people who think the 90’s Bulls were great were under 10 or not born yet in the 90’s.

90’s Basketball was bad.

MJ was great, but there are ten players playing today better than Karl Malone, Gary Payton, and Shawn Kemp

Thread is littered with ignorant takes that posters got from other people. Posters who never saw most of these teams actually play.

You’re asking people who don’t know anything about basketball to give you intelligent basketball answers. Malone could play center in today’s game and have the exact same numbers or better.

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90’s Bulls (w/rodman)

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This team gets wrecked by the best modern teams. The Warriors would WRECK them.

I don’t think people realize how overrated the Jordan Bulls teams were.

It's ridiculous. They must be very young and didn't get to watch guys like Jordan and Malone in their prime.

I’ve seen these people make these arguments before. They don’t know anything about the NBA past 7-10 years ago so they just parrot things they’ve read online or seen on YouTube from nutty fans making dumb and factually false arguments.

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The Warriors would WRECK them.

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I'm a big Steph fan. It would be tough.

Pippen would give Durant fits. Then you have to hope Klay and Steph are red hot. If the jump shots aren't falling, the Warriors would be screwed. With today's rules, MJ may average 50 a night.

First 3 peat Bulls team was a high pressure 94 foot team who was up and down the court with a lot of transition basketball. The second 3peat was a half court team that suffocated you on D with size and relied on execution on offense in their half court. The first Warriors title team relied on Bogut and Green stopping everything near the basket and perimeter scoring with Thompson playing in the mid post a lot on offense. They went to a smaller lineup and more scrambling D with the second version which wasn’t nearly as good defensively. These are big changes but the dolts on the board think they’re all just one thing.