Out of all 6 of those teams, the best perimeter player was Reggie Miller
The Knicks had like 6 frontcourt players with 6'2 Starks and a grab bag of serviceable at best Pg's.
The only teams semi constructed to beat them was The Magic (and that was the Pre-Rodman bulls) and Miami (if Stern didn't cockblock the Juwan Howard to protect his gambling cashcow)
Did u seriously mention the bullets
Nostalgia is a disease
Yea, but when Jordan got past 6'3 Starks, he had 6'7 250lbs Anthony Mason, 6'8lbs, 250lbs Charles Oakley, and 7'1 254lbs Ewing welcoming him with open arms, to greet with a foul that would be called a flagrant by today's standards.
And Reggie Miller had a great run on those tough Pacers teams. The numbers don't do justice to how Miller's presence affected offense for other teammates, he was always on the move and a killer on the screen. Combined that with a great point guard like Marc Jackson and the Davis boys holding fort down low, not to mention Rik Smits who was formable back then and would easily be an All-Star in today's game - the Pacers weren't a team that anyone was going to just walk over. Ask Shaq and Jordan, who the Bulls fought to 7 games in 1998 (Smits wasn't on that team tho).
I'm not sure what you mean in semi-constructed to beat the Bulls, the Magic were perfectly constructed to beat the Bulls even with Rodman. You had Penny who at the time was on his way to All-Time Great PG, Shaq who was a monster, Horace Grant who knew what it took to win having won 3 already, Dennis Scott was murder on the baseline 3s, Nick Anderson (before his mental collapse), and Magic had a decent bench as well.
The Heat team with Alonzo and Tim Hardway were an almost mirror team of the Knicks. Riley made those Heat teams tough.
These teams alone are better than this year's Pacers and infinitely better than this year's Raptors. The West is where the really good teams are.
@ that bein the response.
