Rodman -This league is so filtered and watered down, we can beat anybody with our eyes closed - 1996

[LexDiamonds]

NBA ROSTERS DILUTED THANKS TO EXPANSION

There are no great NBA teams this season.

There are some pretty good teams - Chicago, Orlando, Houston spring to mind - but no great ones.The reason? Expansion.

This is not an isolated viewpoint. All around the league, people are saying that the NBA, in its rush to take advantage of an expanding fan base, has diluted its product.

The prime evidence is in Chicago. The Bulls are on their way to a 70-plus win season, causing some people to call them a great team.

Bulls forward Dennis Rodman, for one, won't be impressed if Chicago smashes the NBA record of 69 wins in a season, set by a great Laker team of the early '70s.

"This league is so filtered and watered down, we can beat anybody with our eyes closed, pretty much," Rodman said.


Is that 72 win Bulls team overrated based on their competition?

 

[broller]

 

[Long Live The Kane]

Overrated in the sense that regular season wins is definitely overstated as a marker of greatness...expansion year or not....the expansion shyt IMO gets grossly overblown as it’s turned into a narrative driven talking point...largely inconsequential as it pertains to the contenders and who won championships and what not

 

[Scottie Drippin]

There is no way around it. Expansion greatly diluted the spread of talent around the league.

 

[Eastside Get The Money]

Idk why I’ve never really looked into this but was Houston still nice after the two peat?

 

[FS4LFE]

That’s funny cause I thought every team in the 90s played at a high level and would clothesline you if you got within 3 feet of them.

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

Overrated in the sense that regular season wins is definitely overstated as a marker of greatness...expansion year or not....the expansion shyt IMO gets grossly overblown as it’s turned into a narrative driven talking point...largely inconsequential as it pertains to the contenders and who won championships and what not

This was a talking point back then because it had a whole lot of merit... you had a lot of really good players spread across bad expansion teams....... diluting the competition..... and that was just fact...... That Bulls team had no control over who they played.... but that talking point is not overblown at all

 

[Hey_zeus]

91' Bulls were better and the expansion did hurt the league.

 

[mastermind]

One of the episodes of the doc supposedly touches on this.

 

[Juggalo Fred]

Idk why I’ve never really looked into this but was Houston still nice after the two peat?

They got Barkley so they were kinda fun to watch.

 

[Primetime]

Idk why I’ve never really looked into this but was Houston still nice after the two peat?

They were 47-35 in '95 (6th seed) and won the title.
They were 48-34 in '96 (3rd seed) and got swept in the 2nd round by Seattle.

You can argue they had no business winning the title in '95 but they simply had one of the miraculous GOAT runs.

In 1996, they ran out of miraculous juice. 2 of those 4 Ls to Seattle they had the lead late and fukked up. Could've been a 2-2 series.

 

[Primetime]

Hakeem averaged around 27 & 11 both seasons (95 and 96) so it wasn't that he was flabby, either. The team itself just wasn't the same after 94, but they were able to flip the switch once more in 95.

 

[staticshock]

That’s funny cause I thought every team in the 90s played at a high level and would clothesline you if you got within 3 feet of them.

According to the coli, teams now would shyt their pants and forfeit at the mere sight of a 90s team

 

[Regular_P]

It's not any different now. shyt, the East been watered down since Mike left the Bulls.

 

[Fortunate Lee]

Not saying he’s right or wrong..but Rodman in the 90’s???? Lol