Lebrons Cavs vs Jordan’s Bulls

[Jordan23]

I read somewhere on another board where a guy legit thinks Jordan’s best bulls team doesn’t beat Lebrons Cavs in a series. Just curious if there are people on here that are that stupid?

 

[Robotech]

I read somewhere on another board where a guy legit thinks Jordan’s best bulls team doesn’t beat Lebrons Cavs in a series. Just curious if there are people on here that are that stupid?

His Cavs teams were great. Just happened to run into the Warriors four straight times. I think it would be a tough battle against the Bulls, but I think they'd be right there with them and it would be a long series most of the time. The Cavs might possibly have the more useful bench. I think you'd have to let the Bulls replace some of those bigs with wing players.

 

[Jordan23]

His Cavs teams were great. Just happened to run into the Warriors four straight times. I think it would be a tough battle against the Bulls, but I think they'd be right there with them and it would be a long series most of the time. The Cavs might possibly have the more useful bench. I think you'd have to let the Bulls replace some of those bigs with wing players.

I don’t see the Cavs coming close, weren’t they playing a true center? Don’t think the bulls would need to replace their bigs to beat them. Bulls had solid defenders and Pippen would slow Lebron down. Jordan and Harper would contain their guards.

 

[Robotech]

I don’t see the Cavs coming close, weren’t they playing a true center? Don’t think the bulls would need to replace their bigs to beat them. Bulls had solid defenders and Pippen would slow Lebron down. Jordan and Harper would contain their guards.

I think the Cavs do at least as well as the Jazz, probably better.

 

[Stakesarehigh]

I think the Cavs do at least as well as the Jazz, probably better.

Definitely

And the best Cavs team could definitely beat the 98 Bulls

 

[bksballer89]

Cavs in 4

 

[Ojb81]

Definitely

And the best Cavs team could definitely beat the 98 Bulls

Uh, no. Sorry.

 

[Robotech]

Definitely

And the best Cavs team could definitely beat the 98 Bulls

And the best Bulls teams were probably from the second 3 peat, and those guys were mostly in their 30s. The Cavs were much younger. LeBron is the old guy, but he doesn't age like other people.

 

[Stakesarehigh]

Uh, no. Sorry.

They're better than the jazz by a fair margin

 

[tlance]

Uh, no. Sorry.

The ‘98 Bulls weren’t that good man. At least not compared to the other Bulls teams. Hands down the weakest of the 6 title winning squads. They were older and Pippen was way less than 100%.

 

[Ojb81]

The ‘98 Bulls weren’t that good man. At least not compared to the other Bulls teams. Hands down the weakest of the 6 title winning squads. They were older and Pippen was way less than 100%.

yes, in comparison to their earlier versions of themselves, the '98 Bulls weren't as good. But there's not a fucking chance in hell they'd lose to Cleveland, not a chance. Anyone who thinks otherwise has lost their goddamn minds.

 

[Ojb81]

They're better than the jazz by a fair margin

mmmmmthat's debatable. certainly not by a "fair margin"

 

[tlance]

yes, in comparison to their earlier versions of themselves, the '98 Bulls weren't as good. But there's not a fucking chance in hell they'd lose to Cleveland, not a chance. Anyone who thinks otherwise has lost their goddamn minds.

Look.

A way too high percentage of posts on here are devoted to giving reality checks to Cav homers.

That being said, I can promise you that the ‘16 Cavs were better than the ‘98 Jazz. And that the team they beat, the ‘16 Warriors would run circles around the ‘98 Bulls.

the ‘98 Jazz had the Bulls on the ropes and let them off.

Pippen was hurt.

He averaged under 17 points a game on 41% and 67% from the line in the ‘98 playoffs. He further tweaked his back in that series. After game 2, he had 1 game where he went off with 28, 9 and 5. In the other 3 games (3,5,6), Pippen averaged 8 PPg, 6 Rebs and 3.7 Assists

Because Pippen wasn’t right, the Bulls weren’t either. They were extremely vulnerable and it took a miracle to win that series. They would not have beaten a stronger opponent, which the ‘16 Cavs would have been.

 

[Stakesarehigh]

Hornacek, Malone, and stockton were all over 34

 

[justanidiot]

which rules are you playing the game under? The bent arm on the body and hammered fouls or these touch foul rules LeBron has been playing under?
All Michael had were Scottie and Rodman. I doubt the rest of the team would have been having roles on any team on the league, while free agents flocked to cleveland to get a ring from LeRoy.

Completely different basketball those what, 18 years apart? You cannot have the conversation without stating which game they were playing.

 

[Stakesarehigh]

which rules are you playing the game under? The bent arm on the body and hammered fouls or these touch foul rules LeBron has been playing under?
All Michael had were Scottie and Rodman. I doubt the rest of the team would have been having roles on any team on the league, while free agents flocked to cleveland to get a ring from LeRoy.

Completely different basketball those what, 18 years apart? You cannot have the conversation without stating which game they were playing.

All he had was Scottie and rodman?

Lol mmkay

 

[Edonidd]

Jordan would score 40 points a game just from the free throw line in today's game

 

[Jiddy]

ITT: People justify how the Cavs could probably have hung with the last team of the aging Bulls dynasty...but if they played the 72-10 Bulls would have been rekt 100 series out of 100.

 

[cwalke3408]

 

[cwalke3408]

The problem with the Cavs is that their Offense was too centered around Lebron. If Andre Iguodala can win a Finals MVP by being the Lebron defender then I like my chances with having Scottie, Jordan, Rodman being able to switch and guard Lebron. Also with being the focal point of the offense, I'm not sure if Lebron would be mainly task to guarding Jordan to conserve energy and all. So that leaves you with Shumpert or JR

 

[SJ76]

It’s an interesting thing the NBA board here on tHoop