Post was directed toward them being younger and better in the 80s
Plus they tied wit houston as having the most finals appearance in the 90s along with the blazers
LeBron’s faced much better teams in the Finals than Michael Jordan...
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Plus they tied wit houston as having the most finals appearance in the 90s along with the blazers
NYC Rebel
...on the otherside of the pond
Lost to "Magic?"
The 91 Lakers were a great team?
Kareem gone, Worthy hurt, Byron on fumes.
The Blazers choked in that series vs the Lakers
Please don't VCR your way into this conversation about THAT Laker team
Amare's Right Hook
Southeast World Champion
This gotta be the most ridiculous and most desperate thread YET.
First of all, Jordan was facing some of the greatest that ever played the GAME, not just regular HOF's, but some of the greatest that ever did it! He was facing Magic, Drexler, Barkley, Mailman & Stockton... Kemp and the Glove. Not to mention that second triple championship run so was dominant that it would of cruised on by the wack ass competition of Lebron's era without breaking a sweat.
The ONLY legit opponent that Lebron faced was the Spurs and lost to them twice and BARELY edge out one against them. That's the only team I could see give the Bulls a challenge, but that squad isn't no different from Barkey's Suns and the end result was still MJ pulling his team out for the championship. This entire argument should be null and void because the Heat lost to THE MAVS and Lebron was a complete no-show in that series in his passive way of playing basketball.. something Jordan NEVER in his entire career ever displayed, especially in a finals to INCLUDED his game winning shot as a Tar Heel his freshman year!
I'm a DIE-HARD Thunder fan, and I would attest that that squad was TOO young, inexperienced, and nowhere NEAR their respective primes to suggest they were a better team than any single team Jordan faced. This entire ARGUMENT is stupid. And it is sad because I'm a true OLD HEAD. I remember the entire Jordan legacy from start to finish and most of y'all in here are practically half my age and only watched highlights and others talk about Jordan's greatness and impact and assume that Lebron is better because of what you currently seeing without knowledge of how it was truly in the past. Lebron is great and will be regarded as one of the best ever.... but MJ was on a total different plane.
First of all, Jordan was facing some of the greatest that ever played the GAME, not just regular HOF's, but some of the greatest that ever did it! He was facing Magic, Drexler, Barkley, Mailman & Stockton... Kemp and the Glove. Not to mention that second triple championship run so was dominant that it would of cruised on by the wack ass competition of Lebron's era without breaking a sweat.
The ONLY legit opponent that Lebron faced was the Spurs and lost to them twice and BARELY edge out one against them. That's the only team I could see give the Bulls a challenge, but that squad isn't no different from Barkey's Suns and the end result was still MJ pulling his team out for the championship. This entire argument should be null and void because the Heat lost to THE MAVS and Lebron was a complete no-show in that series in his passive way of playing basketball.. something Jordan NEVER in his entire career ever displayed, especially in a finals to INCLUDED his game winning shot as a Tar Heel his freshman year!
I'm a DIE-HARD Thunder fan, and I would attest that that squad was TOO young, inexperienced, and nowhere NEAR their respective primes to suggest they were a better team than any single team Jordan faced. This entire ARGUMENT is stupid. And it is sad because I'm a true OLD HEAD. I remember the entire Jordan legacy from start to finish and most of y'all in here are practically half my age and only watched highlights and others talk about Jordan's greatness and impact and assume that Lebron is better because of what you currently seeing without knowledge of how it was truly in the past. Lebron is great and will be regarded as one of the best ever.... but MJ was on a total different plane.
Richard Wright
Living Legend
2011 (10th vs Mavs, 58th)
I love lebron. But he needed to win this one.
I love lebron. But he needed to win this one.
Godless Socialist CEO
Superstar
Talk about the teams he faced in the finals.... Ignore the cake walk he took to get there..........
Godless Socialist CEO
Superstar
Also ignore the 3 years in which there were elite teams(Boston twice, Orlando) in the East he couldn't beat them until he joined the Heat. When he was with the Cavs he choked each and every time.
We won't even talk about the 2 times he choked in the finals. The Mavs were basically a one man wrecking crew with Jason Terry having the 3 point shooting year of his life...... Shall we bring up how the Heat were beaten to death last year by the aging Spurs? Shall we bring up how that same Spurs team should've beaten them the year before if not for Ray Allen's shot?
We won't even talk about the 2 times he choked in the finals. The Mavs were basically a one man wrecking crew with Jason Terry having the 3 point shooting year of his life...... Shall we bring up how the Heat were beaten to death last year by the aging Spurs? Shall we bring up how that same Spurs team should've beaten them the year before if not for Ray Allen's shot?
Boonapalist
Superstar
I rarely hear people give credit Magic taking a team to the finals that had no business being there.
But they all talk about him playing on stacked teams.
street heat
merchant of death
the bulls never faced a team with any big, explosive athletes on the wing. obviously you dont have a chance against the MJ and pippen without them. but that was an era where there werent many to begin with. the only one i can think of is drexler.
look at the perimeter of every team they faced in the finals. a bunch of short wings with average athletic ability. they always had a huge advantage.
no one ever wants to admit how weak the 90s actually were. what other great teams were there?
look at the perimeter of every team they faced in the finals. a bunch of short wings with average athletic ability. they always had a huge advantage.
no one ever wants to admit how weak the 90s actually were. what other great teams were there?
NYC Rebel
...on the otherside of the pond
That was his heaviest lifting. His best run ever. Rookie Vlade he used to scream on. Terry Teague. I don't know how he did it man
NYC Rebel
...on the otherside of the pond
Those TEAMS were good....not great in the 90s. Yall swear up and down that the Sonics were a HOF team. They were good....NOT great. We saw GREAT teams in the 80s. The fall off in the 90s was stark. Barkley's Suns were not a great....they just faced one in the Bulls...but these 90s squads live off by their association of playing the Bulls....but they were nothing more than good teams.
Bottom line, the best team the Bulls ever faced was a team that couldn't get to a ship in the 80s.
The 80s Mavs were better than any team the Bulls faced in the ship in the 90s
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The Sonics were facing the GREATEST TEAM that ever was assembled.... dude, NO SQUAD from the Lebron era would of beaten the '96 Bulls! Lets be trill about that. But I know you had to be young to even know about 90's ball and how it was played and who the Bulls had to face. The 90's NBA was rough and rugged, rumble and bumble.... not this EURO-LEAGUE today.
Lefty Gunz
Superstar
Every team lebron faced the bulls would beat 
NYC Rebel
...on the otherside of the pond
The Sonics were a GOOD TEAM. They were not better than the Jazz....so what's your point? What's your point other than overrating rough and tumble shytty ball and 77-71 scores where athletes like Kely Tripuka and Dan Majrele were playing the wing?
Boonapalist
Superstar
Pat Riley was gone . We had a rookie head coach. The offense changed and slowed down but he still put up numbers and overachieved.