Thing is the Bulls could use tape and practice and previous experience with zones to prepare for zone defense. It's not like this would be their first time dealing with zones. They all have experience in college or at the international level dealing with zones. You can't really prepare for a greater level of physicality if you haven't experienced it before. These guys didn't grow up playing like that. Tape isn't gonna help you. You can't practice at the same level of intensity that the game will be played at. Players aren't gonna move the same if they are getting grabbed and pushed and hit, especially if they aren't used to it.
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Thing is the Bulls could use tape and practice and previous experience with zones to prepare for zone defense. It's not like this would be their first time dealing with zones. They all have experience in college or at the international level dealing with zones. You can't really prepare for a greater level of physicality if you haven't experienced it before. These guys didn't grow up playing like that. Tape isn't gonna help you. You can't practice at the same level of intensity that the game will be played at. Players aren't gonna move the same if they are getting grabbed and pushed and hit, especially if they aren't used to it.
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Is this series being played where you can't touch guys on the perimeter, bump cutters, ect or is it being played under the 90's rules? This current Warriors team could very well get swept playing that '97 Bulls team under those rules. Under the current rules it would be a closer matchup and that '97 team would have to make some minor adjustments in its style of play but they were clearly more talented and genuinely better. This current Warrior team is built for the way that the league has engineered the game. Allowing teams to play more physically on defense against guys on the perimeter would slow all that splash brother shyt down. Especially when talking about the best defensive perimeter/wing duo of all time.
I feel liker the Warriors would grab a game. But like a earlier post said it would honestly depend on which era it was played. Since you could do different stuff in the 90's you couldn't get away with now.
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While I would never bet against Jordan, the idea that the Bulls would sweep these Warriors when they didn't sweep the Hawks or the Heat and lost twice to a 
Jazz team is laughable.
Jazz team is laughable.
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Ye we get it Michael Jordan can beat any athlete at any sport with that team.
I'm so bored of reading about cheesee eyes and that team
I'm so bored of reading about cheesee eyes and that team
While I would never bet against Jordan, the idea that the Bulls would sweep these Warriors when they didn't sweep the Hawks or the Heat and lost twice to a
The jazz were flabby with 64 wins and mvp karl malone?
*negged*
Theory is one thing, putting it into practice against a system which they've NEVER faced before is another thing altogether. As I said earlier in this thread, it'd take them a few games to work on how to best defend this Warriors squad, that's not taking into account it'd take more games for them to actually have success in guarding them.
Physical play wouldn't affect their offense, by any great margin, because there's far too much ball movement and player movement. They're not an ISO-dominant nor a post-play team - styles which would be susceptible to physical defense. And let's not act like there's any notable difference in physicality between today and the late 90s (physical play in which you could get away with). Especially when it concerns star players.
Same could easily be applied to the Bulls defending this Warriors offense.
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@ all the stans drawing their line on the sand.Stockton (34) and Malone (33) were past their prime. The overall talent level of the league wasn't what it is now as the best players were all well into their 30s and the young stars (Shaq, Webber, Bean etc.) weren't ready yet.
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Those 1998 jazz had 1 guy in the playoffs who even averaged 12 points per game. Their win total is inflated by how weak the league was from expansion. That same team in the early 90's was averaging about 50 wins a year. Suddenly with all this expansion and led by players who aren't as good as they were in the early 90's they start winning 60+? They were a d league team surrounded by two all stars, and Stockton had a sharp decline from 1997 to 1998.
To be fair Mailman had one of the greatest extended primes ever and it's hard to pinpoint a peak year for him. He didn't fall off until the early 2000s. Stock played at relatively the same level on a per minute basis too. Those dudes had Father Time shook for a minute
So the 97 bulls were also flabby n sick then by only looking at ages
this years spurs is also flabby as well right?
So the 97 bulls were also flabby n sick then by only looking at ages
The best players on the Spurs this year are 24 and 30
Same guy who tried to use physical play as a plea is saying it wont affect anything now
. You can prepare for strategies and concepts in theory. You cant prepare for getting grabbed or pushed (especially when you have never experienced it before) in theory. That along with the moment will have a greater impact on the Warriors than a new zone concept will on a team with previous experience.