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96-98 Chicago Bulls Appreciation Thread
M Dogg™:
--- Quote from: Sccit on March 25, 2015, 10:17:31 AM ---that 15-1 is a whole nother story....80s lakers > 00s lakers > 90s bulls
but yea, no one risks a ring by losing on purpose in the finals LOL...even u know that
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If you saw, and I did and I was rooting for the Sonics. Those boys played with the Sonics. It wasn't even close dude. You make it sound like the Bulls were in trouble at all.
Sccit:
--- Quote from: M Dogg™ on March 25, 2015, 10:36:12 AM ---
--- Quote from: Sccit on March 25, 2015, 10:17:31 AM ---that 15-1 is a whole nother story....80s lakers > 00s lakers > 90s bulls
but yea, no one risks a ring by losing on purpose in the finals LOL...even u know that
--- End quote ---
If you saw, and I did and I was rooting for the Sonics. Those boys played with the Sonics. It wasn't even close dude. You make it sound like the Bulls were in trouble at all.
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again, no team loses games on purpose, especially not in the finals ... what if MJ falls with an injury after losing 2 straight?? that's not a risk ANY team would be willing to take when it's all on the line LOL
M Dogg™:
--- Quote from: Sccit on March 25, 2015, 11:35:50 AM ---
--- Quote from: M Dogg™ on March 25, 2015, 10:36:12 AM ---
--- Quote from: Sccit on March 25, 2015, 10:17:31 AM ---that 15-1 is a whole nother story....80s lakers > 00s lakers > 90s bulls
but yea, no one risks a ring by losing on purpose in the finals LOL...even u know that
--- End quote ---
If you saw, and I did and I was rooting for the Sonics. Those boys played with the Sonics. It wasn't even close dude. You make it sound like the Bulls were in trouble at all.
--- End quote ---
again, no team loses games on purpose, especially not in the finals ... what if MJ falls with an injury after losing 2 straight?? that's not a risk ANY team would be willing to take when it's all on the line LOL
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Well that was the conversation that was going on before game 5. I remember it clearly. No one thought the Bulls were in trouble at all, being up 3-0, then losing a game. Maybe the Bulls didn't try to lose on purpose, but that game 5, they looked lazy and uninspired. Many before the game said they'd lose, and then after the game it was questioned if they lost on purpose so they can win at home. They looked like they tried to win game 4, but they lost. They were up 3-0, so again, they were never in trouble. It's just how it was then. And for losing one game, you want to discredit the whole accomplishment. They ran the gauntlet. Were as Showtime beat a bunch of under .500 teams and were fresh to beat the Celtics in 6, the Celtics who ran the gauntlet. If the Showtime Lakers were led by LeBron and called the Heat, you'd discredit them. Maybe after winning 14 out of 15 games, the Bulls just were flat for a couple of games, they did win 86 out of 97 games. But I know then, people just wrote it off as the Bulls losing in Seattle so they can win in Chicago. But not a single person thought the Bulls were in trouble at all at the time. Except I guess for 9 year old Sccit.
M Dogg™:
Interesting point I saw on this. I did mention Shaq, but the Bulls went through many centers in the playoffs. Maybe the trick is a lack of center to beat the '96 Bulls, or at least go 6 or 7 games with them.:
Kareem would cause the Bulls problems, no doubt about it, but he wasn't the juggernaut he was a few years before. He was 39 years old and 'only' a 17/7 guy at that stage of his career.
Magic would be definitely shared between Michael, Harper and Pippen, with Pippen playing against him the most.
Bulls never played the rockets in the playoffs, so you can't really say how they would go against Hakeem.
Just for note in 1996 the Bulls beat teams on the way to the Championship with the following centers -
First round - Miami Heat - Alonzo Morning (a 22/10 guy during that regular season)
Second Round - New York Knicks - Patrick Ewing (a 22/11 guy during the regular season)
Third Round - Orlando - Shaq (a 27/11 guy during the regular season)
Finals - no real center
That's 3 very good centers. You could argue that all 3 were better than Kareem at that stage of their careers (only looking at the relevant season we are talking about, not over their whole career!). None of the centers dominated the series against the bulls and all scored around their season average during the playoff series against the Bulls (Alonzo - 18ppg, Pat - 23ppg and Shaq - 27ppg)
Sccit:
--- Quote from: M Dogg™ on March 25, 2015, 11:46:56 AM ---
--- Quote from: Sccit on March 25, 2015, 11:35:50 AM ---
--- Quote from: M Dogg™ on March 25, 2015, 10:36:12 AM ---
--- Quote from: Sccit on March 25, 2015, 10:17:31 AM ---that 15-1 is a whole nother story....80s lakers > 00s lakers > 90s bulls
but yea, no one risks a ring by losing on purpose in the finals LOL...even u know that
--- End quote ---
If you saw, and I did and I was rooting for the Sonics. Those boys played with the Sonics. It wasn't even close dude. You make it sound like the Bulls were in trouble at all.
--- End quote ---
again, no team loses games on purpose, especially not in the finals ... what if MJ falls with an injury after losing 2 straight?? that's not a risk ANY team would be willing to take when it's all on the line LOL
--- End quote ---
Well that was the conversation that was going on before game 5. I remember it clearly. No one thought the Bulls were in trouble at all, being up 3-0, then losing a game. Maybe the Bulls didn't try to lose on purpose, but that game 5, they looked lazy and uninspired. Many before the game said they'd lose, and then after the game it was questioned if they lost on purpose so they can win at home. They looked like they tried to win game 4, but they lost. They were up 3-0, so again, they were never in trouble. It's just how it was then. And for losing one game, you want to discredit the whole accomplishment. They ran the gauntlet. Were as Showtime beat a bunch of under .500 teams and were fresh to beat the Celtics in 6, the Celtics who ran the gauntlet. If the Showtime Lakers were led by LeBron and called the Heat, you'd discredit them. Maybe after winning 14 out of 15 games, the Bulls just were flat for a couple of games, they did win 86 out of 97 games. But I know then, people just wrote it off as the Bulls losing in Seattle so they can win in Chicago. But not a single person thought the Bulls were in trouble at all at the time. Except I guess for 9 year old Sccit.
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lol wtf ....if the showtime lakers were led by lebron THEN THEY WOULDNT BE THE SHOWTIME LAKERS. u say some weird shit bruh. and i dont give a fuck what people speculate....mufuckaz say a ganga shit. but only an idiot would believe that teams purposely lose games in the finals. and you're not an idiot, so i know u dont truly believe that....really tho, i never said anything about whether or not the bulls looked like they were guna lose the series, so now u just puttin extras on it. i said they had their battles in the finals...it's not like the lakers vs nets in 2002 where it was just pure coasting....and this goes especially for the bulls vs jazz series'. so taking into account that the bulls had to fight to beat the jazz, you can see why one would say showtime lakers are easily better. because it's hard to imagine the showtime lakers losing even one game to the 90s utah or 90s sonics.
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