Yep if you rewatch both series you’ll see they should’ve won both years.
In the 98 Finals, Greg Ostertag was so bad offensively the Bulls didn’t bother to guard him. Could this happen today?
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Erratic415
Superstar
Those Shandon Anderson misses were awful.
All of these were in the 4th Q of game 6 in 97’.
7:40 mark
NYC Rebel
...on the otherside of the pond
Complete bum play.
LOL at the Knicks then later signing these bums to try to be the Jazz East.
Wym could this happen today?! It’s already happening. Cacalytics types are fascinated by the concept of defense and dirty work players. Go head on over to Reddit. They were adamant Gobert was better than Donovan Mitchell. They LOVE Draymond. And those are the nerds Denzel was talking about who run basketball.
So yes this could happen and it is happening as two guys were just drafted lottery with no real expectation to ever become scorers, Maluach and Rudy 2.0 Joan Beringer. Last year it was Clingan
So yes this could happen and it is happening as two guys were just drafted lottery with no real expectation to ever become scorers, Maluach and Rudy 2.0 Joan Beringer. Last year it was Clingan
90s NBA was
Imagine having to sit through back to back NBA playoffs years & watching games with all time scoring lows? Greg doesnt have a job in the league if they didn’t add as many teams as they did.
Theres a reason why the Jazz scored 58 points in one game.
MJ was the league’s saving grace.
You don’t like 90s basketball and you’re a “Lakers fan” who didn’t like Kobe’s careerSo all your basketball interest the last 30-35 years as a 60 year old “Lakers fan” is basically suking off Brons dikk
you was out here hating basketball until 2003 huh 
It’s easy to glorify the past…until you have to watch it.
History remembers the wins and the highlights. It doesn’t remember how they won or the many lowlights along the way.
Basketball is better now compared to the 90s.
The same way people in the 1990s looked back at the 1960s era of basketball while cringing.
Mister Terrific
It’s in the name
Rudy Gobert vs. Greg Ostertag Comparison
Head-to-head comparison between the NBA stars Greg Ostertag and Rudy Gobert that includes championships won, honors and awards obtained, regular season and playoffs stats and other data put side by side.
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NBA Allstar
Rudy - 3
Ostertag - 0
All-NBA
Rudy - 4
Ostertag - 0
NBA all defense 1st team
Rudy - 7
Osterag - 0
All NBA defense total
Rudy - 8
Osterag - 0
Defensive player of the year
Rudy - 4
Osterag - 0
Rebounds leader
Rudy - 1
Osterag - 0
Blocks leader
Rudy - 1
Osterag - 0
PPG
Rudy - 12.6
Ostertag - 4.6
RPG
Rudy - 11.7
Ostetag - 5.5
BPG
Rudy 2.1
Ostertag - 1.7
Total points
Rudy - 10,458
Ostertag- 3,512
Total rebounds
Rudy - 9700
Ostertag - 4,145
Total Blocks
Rudy - 1,718
Ostertag - 1,293
Total games
Rudy - 829
Ostetag- 756
Lucky_Lefty
Dreams Are Colder Than Death...
Yes, Kendrick Perkins in the 2012 Finals. Brooks didn't want to take Perkins' bumpkin ass off the court. How soon y'all forget.
Coli really devolved into a Gobert vs Ostertag debate?
Rudy Gobert vs. Greg Ostertag Comparison
Head-to-head comparison between the NBA stars Greg Ostertag and Rudy Gobert that includes championships won, honors and awards obtained, regular season and playoffs stats and other data put side by side.
NBA Allstar
Rudy - 3
Ostertag - 0
All-NBA
Rudy - 4
Ostertag - 0
NBA all defense 1st team
Rudy - 7
Osterag - 0
All NBA defense total
Rudy - 8
Osterag - 0
Defensive player of the year
Rudy - 4
Osterag - 0
Rebounds leader
Rudy - 1
Osterag - 0
Blocks leader
Rudy - 1
Osterag - 0
PPG
Rudy - 12.6
Ostertag - 4.6
RPG
Rudy - 11.7
Ostetag - 5.5
BPG
Rudy 2.1
Ostertag - 1.7
Total points
Rudy - 10,458
Ostertag- 3,512
Total rebounds
Rudy - 9700
Ostertag - 4,145
Total Blocks
Rudy - 1,718
Ostertag - 1,293
Total games
Rudy - 829
Ostetag- 756
You thought you ate
It’s not about who’s better it’s about player type. A guy doesn’t need to be ‘better’ to prove the league is going after that player type
It’d be like if I said ‘the league is looking for all big point guards’ and you post magic Johnson’s stats
Tribal Outkast
Veteran
Man we can’t keep doing this when you have foreigners and white boys running things right now. Fools looking for Cooper Flagg to save the league
I’ve heard people talk more about basketball because of him lately. These white folks bout to go crazy if this dude ends up doing well. Let’s stop worrying about the 90’s and just worry about what’s happening now.
To be fair,
(1) The direct comparison to Rudy Gobert is Dikembe Mutumbo... Greg Osterstag is more along the lines of Daniel Gafford, who was the starting center of a Finals team just last year. Those kind of centers still (and will always) exist; hell if the Knicks didn't choke to Indiana, we'd have seen another one with Mitchell Robinson in the Finals. The Osterstags (90s), Rasho Nestersovics (early-00s), Tiago Splitters (2010s)... Obviously as time goes on, we'll slowly but surely continue to see that archetype be more skilled... from the Plumlees to now the Isiah Hartensteins.
(2) the series before the Bulls, Utah swept a 61-win Laker team with 3-all stars (Shaq-all nba, Eddie-all defensive, Van Excel) and essentially the same core role players (Horry-27 yrs old, Fox-28, Fisher 23) that would 3-peat once the Jazz got old and Kobe matured. Malone equalized if not outplayed Shaq no different than Hakeem did 3-years prior.. So while Utah, Malone, and Sloan were mostly choke artists, they were also a damn good team who in that 2-year span dog-walked every team but the Bulls. And lost game 7 of the 1996 WCFs to the 64-18 Sonics by 4 points... otherwise they'd have potentially gone to the Finals for 3-straight years (96-98).
(1) The direct comparison to Rudy Gobert is Dikembe Mutumbo... Greg Osterstag is more along the lines of Daniel Gafford, who was the starting center of a Finals team just last year. Those kind of centers still (and will always) exist; hell if the Knicks didn't choke to Indiana, we'd have seen another one with Mitchell Robinson in the Finals. The Osterstags (90s), Rasho Nestersovics (early-00s), Tiago Splitters (2010s)... Obviously as time goes on, we'll slowly but surely continue to see that archetype be more skilled... from the Plumlees to now the Isiah Hartensteins.
(2) the series before the Bulls, Utah swept a 61-win Laker team with 3-all stars (Shaq-all nba, Eddie-all defensive, Van Excel) and essentially the same core role players (Horry-27 yrs old, Fox-28, Fisher 23) that would 3-peat once the Jazz got old and Kobe matured. Malone equalized if not outplayed Shaq no different than Hakeem did 3-years prior.. So while Utah, Malone, and Sloan were mostly choke artists, they were also a damn good team who in that 2-year span dog-walked every team but the Bulls. And lost game 7 of the 1996 WCFs to the 64-18 Sonics by 4 points... otherwise they'd have potentially gone to the Finals for 3-straight years (96-98).