Ron Harper: 1997 Bulls Would Sweep the Warriors

[MooseMouthMthafuga]

The high pick and roll, man...How would the Bulls stop it?

Steph warps the defense 25-30 feet out.
Jordan gonna fight the screen, but Curry has enough space to shoot the 3 so Rodman hedges out to trap/show, so Curry hits Draymond at the top of the key. Then the Warriors are playing 4 on 3 with shooters in the corners.

No team has been able to stop this simple shyt from the Warriors and they have gotten better since the Finals.

The Bulls wouldn't know how to guard Steph with all their other shooters and playmakers on his team.

It's not gonna be that simple against Mike, Rodman, and Pippen.

With the intelligence of a prime Zen Master backing them up.

Steph is the only thing they've never dealt with before, but a determined MJ would shut him down 1 on 1

 

[DonKnock]

Warriors stans in here out they got damn mind.

Steph getting exposed on defense and all that extra energy he's putting out is slowing him down on offense

Foul trouble for Draymond or Klay and now you're in serious trouble.


And we're supposed to concede that Steve Kerr who admitted last year that "He doesn't really know what he's doing" is going to make the necessary adjustments against arguably the best coach of all time


Warriors might get 1 if MJ has an off night()

 

[Originalman]

The high pick and roll, man...How would the Bulls stop it?

Steph warps the defense 25-30 feet out.
Jordan gonna fight the screen, but Curry has enough space to shoot the 3 so Rodman hedges out to trap/show, so Curry hits Draymond at the top of the key. Then the Warriors are playing 4 on 3 with shooters in the corners.

No team has been able to stop this simple shyt from the Warriors and they have gotten better since the Finals.

The Bulls wouldn't know how to guard Steph with all their other shooters and playmakers on his team.

Curry gets his of course. He gets his this generation and in previous generations. The bulls strategy was to let one star get his points and shut down everyone else (just like in the suns series). The thing is Jordan matches or exceeds your star points and he in Pippen get your wing players in foul trouble.

In the end on the defensive end Thompson and Barnes are in foul trouble.

They were always league leaders in free throw attempts together and 4th qtr scoring. They won most games because by the 2:00 mark of the 4th they are in the bonus and got probably the best closer of all time.

 

[Originalman]

It's not gonna be that simple against Mike, Rodman, and Pippen.

With the intelligence of a prime Zen Master backing them up.

Steph is the only thing they've never dealt with before, but a determined MJ would shut him down 1 on 1

Pip and rodman were some of the best pick and roll defensive players of all time.

 

[Originalman]

We get to see that what that look like already tho.

Yep there it is homie.

 

[Originalman]

the Griz and depleted Cavs took them to 6, but the GOAT team is getting swept?

Lebron with a bad back and broke jumoer avg 38 with a bunch of D league players.....shyt MJ would have broke his record of 41 he avg against the suns.

 

[Originalman]

Bulls in 6

Outside the Flu Game, that 97 team is heavily slept on. GS would steal a couple of games because of the 3s falling. The Bulls always let a couple of games get away in the Finals. Outside of their first Finals against Magic, they all went to 6 games. Brian Williams (Bison Dele) off the bench, who was a late season pickup, would give GS fits. MJ & Pip would kill anyone guarding them. Klay and Iggy would be in constant foul trouble. I could see GS trying to put Green on MJ

Only thing was that 97 team rodman hurt his knee. That is why the Bulls signed Brian Willaims. Rodman struggled that finals against Malone because of the bad knee. But I believe the next season he played Malone better. But we all know Malone was a beast at the PF position.

 

[MooseMouthMthafuga]

Pip and rodman were some of the best pick and roll defensive players of all time.

And they could switch on these modern day PF's & C's with ease.

Most of these dudes don't have a back to the basket game.That's the only hope they'd have against Pippen or Rodman.

People saying the Bulls had tough series against the Jazz & Pacers

Rik Smits would probably be the best post player in the game right now

And the Jazz had arguably the best PF of all time who could face you up or post you up....an All Star SG in Hornacek...and a Hall Of Fame PG.

Those teams had a post presence.I think that was the only way to beat those Bulls teams.You had to have a dominate post presence.It's too bad we never got to see the Rockets & Bulls go at it back then.I seriously think the Rockets would've been their toughest challenge.Malone was level 8 in the post, but Hakeem was off the charts.

I think the Bulls would adjust to a perimeter oriented team like the Warriors without a problem.

We can't underestimate IQ/mental toughness in this match up, neither.

I think MJ would've been able to get into Stephs head.He wouldn't have been 100% there mentally against MJ.

 

[ManBearPig]

86 Celtics > 97 Bulls

 

[Originalman]

Bulls in 6

Outside the Flu Game, that 97 team is heavily slept on. GS would steal a couple of games because of the 3s falling. The Bulls always let a couple of games get away in the Finals. Outside of their first Finals against Magic, they all went to 6 games. Brian Williams (Bison Dele) off the bench, who was a late season pickup, would give GS fits. MJ & Pip would kill anyone guarding them. Klay and Iggy would be in constant foul trouble. I could see GS trying to put Green on MJ

One more thing folks forget that MJ post game was so tight that the Knicks would put Anthony Mason big strong ass on MJ and MJ would still put Mason in the post and do the fade away on him.

The bulls had a game in the 97 season where steward little aka Jeff Van Guandy had everyone except Ewing guard MJ and he light every defender up and ended up with 40 or 50 points.

shyt was wild MJ was posting up LJ and Mason hitting fade aways.....I was like you got to be fukking kidding me...

 

[Originalman]

86 Celtics > 97 Bulls

Now that would have been a great series because the Celtics were big and had great post players.....they would have given the bulls fits with their size.

 

[Cryptocurrency Scarface]

no one is getting swept but MJ's bulls would win

 

[Originalman]

No different than Lebron and his d league squad taking the Warriors to 6 in the finals.

I agree with Harper. Klay Thompson and Harrison Barnes would get exposed something serious in this series

Yep and the thing is homie that pacers team was 10 times better than that injured Cavs team. Smits and Miller are better than every player on the warriors except Curry. And the bulls were going for a 3 peat. Even MJ says they were tired. Who knows what happens if they didn't have all those miles on them.

 

[Archangel]

I think steph would get his. But MJ and PIP would get Barnes and Thompson in foul trouble. Rodman would get into Greens head with his antics. Rodman was taught by Laimbeer, zeke and Mahorn. No one could get into players heads like them dudes.

Dudes bytch about Delly being a pest.....lord what would they do with Rodman.

Rodman wouldn't be playing because he'd be serving suspensions for all the techs he'd get

 

[dterpsss]

Rodman would get green ejected the first 10 mins of every game