Been hearing about this like crazy today. Of course the Warriors would be favored to beat the Bulls due to how the game has evolved. Players, teams and owners all learn from past history and the Warriors had to evolve into a team that was better than the next best team in the league. The Bulls didn't have to face players like today so they would have zero experience on how to play them. Not to mention you are paring a team full of players who know of the Bulls in 1996 against a Bulls team that has no clue of how players will be in the future. That's a HUGE advantage. It's like saying which is better $1 million 20 years ago or the equivalent to $1 million today ($1.57 million). If you presented both to someone in 1996 who only knew about the economy in 1996 then you'd take the equivalent at $1.57 million because it's more. But in their own era they equate to the same amount of money. LeBron and Durant are not made the way they are now without the help of Michael Jordan and the Bulls in the 90s. But for fun let's do the poll anyhow.
The 2017 warriors would have loved that shorter 3 point line. People forget about the 3 years in the 90s the NBA shorthend the 3 point line because scoring dropped.
Who is favoring the Warriors of today over the Bulls? Didn't have to face players like today? Do you remember the superstars who played in the NBA during the 90s? The Bulls would have swept today's Warriors, easily. The Bulls had incredible perimeter defense throughout all their championship years.
So basically as rockets fans when we talk up the 90s bulls to discredit the 2017 warriors, we indirectly admit that the rockets would have never won titles if Jordan played full seasons in 94 and 95 since they were so other worldly.
this is a weak era. most who believe otherwise are new fans or teens. 90s era 2nd tier stars would destroy this era's best players.
Not at all. Pointing out that the 90's Bulls would destroy the 2017 Warriors (using 90's rules) has nothing to do with Rockets vs Bulls. The 94 and 95 Rockets would have beat the 94 or 95 Bulls based on head to head matchups at the time.....and the 94 or 95 Rockets would beat the 2017 Warriors if going by the rules of the league as they were in the 90's. The Bulls had no answer for Olajuwon, the Warriors would have even less answer for it than the Bulls did while at the same time hand checking and hard fouls would completely break the soft ass Warriors. Of course, at the same time, if ANY team from the mid 90's had to play with today's rules, their whole team would foul out or be ejected because I doubt they could adapt to the sot BS of today.
This belongs in the dish Anyway, 17 warriors, easy. People always look back on the 80s and 90s with rose coloured glasses. The game has changed a lot.
Questions like this are impossible. Which set of rules are we going to use? Are we allowing handchecking? Are touch fouls going to dominate the game? Illegal defense? If you're playing but 90's NBA rules, GS has no chance
Saying the Bulls would beat the Warriors is like saying Jesse Owens would beat Usain Bolt in a foot race. Athletes get better. Nutrition, training, athleticism, shooting, defensive schemes, and everything else have all improved. Golden State would crush it in the era of man-to-man defense. And LOL at the Bulls' "incredible perimeter defense" going up against a team shooting twice as many threes as the Bulls were used to seeing, with the greatest shooter of all time and two of the ten greatest shooters of all time, one of whom is a seven-foot Scottie Pippen. Current Warriors beat '96 Bulls, who beat '86 Celtics, who beat '72 Lakers, and so on back through time. In 10-20 years we'll be hearing the same discussion about some team versus the '17 Warriors. And that team will be better.
Jordan, Pippen, Rodman vs Durant, Curry, Klay and Draymond. I mean maybe Jordan could have overcome that gap in talent but I don't think so.
If you took that 96 Bulls team and teleported them to Oracle, giving them no time to prepare, Phil Jackson would already be down 40 before he figured out a way to work around the (now legalized) illegal defense schemes. Rodman would have fouled out within 5 minutes, but the way the game is today, it probably works out for the Bulls, as Kukoc gets to play 40 minutes and jack up 3's along with everyone else. But I think if you have 2 Kerr's in the same building all reality implodes.
Everything is better now than in 1996 including movies, tv shows, video games, technology, cars, knowledge of training and nutrition, football players, baseball players, Olympic athletes, soccer players but never nba players.
