Your out of your mind. Reggie Miller is not even close to Steph Curry good. Reggie Miller is Klay Thompson. Not Steph Curry.
You're entitled to your opinion, bro... I watched a lot of Reggie vs MJ years - and Reggie was damn good... Just like prime Clyde vs MJ - but people wanna say harden is better than prime Clyde - which is ridiculous.... As I said, these divas of today are one dimensional and people want to hold them up as the greatest thing since sliced bread - whereas guys of the past had 80-90% of the offensive output - while playing good defense and facing better defense.... but casual fans dont get excited about defense - so that goes out the window as the owners like Les are just trying to make a buck by putting out a flashy product... jut like people would rather watch a bunch of roided out baseball players have a homerun derby with a juiced up ball - rather than the finer points of advancing the runner... it's all designed to dumb down the sport for broader appeal.... so the rich get richer... and true fans get a watered down product...
The 1996 Bulls in the playoffs played Hardaway-Mourning's Heat, Ewing's Knicks, Shaq's Magic, and Payton's Supersonics. Who have the Warriors played so far? Blazers, Jazz, Kawhi-less Spurs. Enough said.
There's plenty of good defenses today as well. As someone who watched plenty of basketball of that era, who was in The Summit for Games 6,7 vs the Knicks... im not underselling the past. Frankly I'd take Klay Thompson's defense over Reggie. The eye test, the stat test, etc show Klay as Reggie. Regfiebdoesnt have Steph ballhandling or creation, couldn't shoot off the dribble like Steph, didn't have the volume metrcis of Steph, etc. Steph is a 2 time MVP, once unanimous. Reggie missed the HOF his first year. HOFer but not first ballot. Steph will be a unanimous first ballot HOFer. It might be my opinion... but it's also the opinion of pretty much basketball analysts across the board.
So did Reggie have better ballhandling or creation and shooting off the dribble than Klay? Did reggie have better defense than Steph? Reggie was playing against Jordan, Drexler, Kobe, Stockton, Gary Payton, Penny Hardaway, Jason Kidd, AI, VC.... are the guards today that Steph and Klay have to defend comparable? It's a watered down league where it's all about offensive stats and really good players are ballyhooed as among the greatest of all time....
The Bulls if you put them in this era with their skillset would lose by a decent margin. With modern day defenses which are way more advanced than before, you can't survive with 2 non shooters on the floor. The absurd romanticization of the 90s is just weird. I don't think people actually go back and watch the games from that era.
No. When you think don a Reggie Miller you don't think of ballhandling or defense. Better defender than ballhandler. Are you asking me if today's guards, especially point guards, in a league as stacked at the PG position as maybe ever, comparable? I get it. You think thenleaue is watered down. I'm not going to convince you otherwise.
In all seriousness, the Warriors got a break with the intentional dirty play against Kawaii. I believe that the Spurs would have defeated the Warriors this post season. No doubt, the Spurs were the biggest threat to the Warriors. Had the Warriors lost to the Spurs, I doubt this thread would exist. Which seems like many Rockets fans loathe Jordan's Bulls because of the "ifs" regarding 1994 and 1995, when the Bulls were not at full strength.
Many Rockets' fans worship three point shooting like the Warriors because that's the way the Rockets play.
Were you on clutchfans in 2015-16? Tons of threads crapping on the warriors style of play, the amount of three pointers, etc. Then this year the rockets shoot a million threes a game. Not as many threads bashing the amount of three pointers this year even though the rockets basically play the same exact way with even more three pointers
Some people love 79-74 knicks/heat playoff brickfests with isolation plays and jacked up shots with 2 seconds left on the shot clock
Using mid-90's NBA rules...I think the '96 Bulls would beat this Warriors team in 5 or 6 games. Rodman's mind games would continuously get under Draymond's skin and get him ejected once or twice. And Pippen is a better defender than anyone GS has played in this year's playoffs, excluding Kawhi. OTOH, using today's rules...I think it's a tossup. The series would probably go the full 7. The league is way softer today than it was 15+ years ago. Only a few of today's players truly possess that constant killer instinct (and LeBron is not one of those few.)
