The POP-EXPOSE ‘1995-96 BULLS VS 2015-16 WARRIORS’ by Mitchell Smith!
The POP-EXPOSE ‘1995-96 BULLS VS 2015-16 WARRIORS’ By Mitchell Smith
Scottie Pippen stated earlier in the week the 95-96 Bulls would sweep the current Warriors in the best of 7 playoff. Warrior’s coach Steve Kerr is a part of both historic teams, and states that the game is different today then it was 20 years ago. Many people have hopped on the ban wagon and try to break the teams down. I thought it would be interesting to compare the starting lineups and major bench players in my own fashion. I watched a ton of basketball back in the 90’s, but I have been a little out of touch as of late, so I may need help from any of you NBA watchers. I’m not convinced that Pippen and this great Bulls team could sweep the Warriors. A question hard to answer, but if we could get Bill and Ted and take a little trip in the phone booth, I think Bulls would win but we might see game 6 and game 7.
The Warriors chase the Bulls record of 72-10 season record, which they have a good chance of beating, but even if they don’t their record will still be a remarkable feat at this level. I’m not going to go into a lengthy discussion of numbers and what if this, what if that. We could go back and ask if the Syracuse Nationals would have got a championship against the 1st NBA champs in 1947, the Philadelphia Warriors, but that was a completely different style as well as the 24 second clock was created by Syracuse’s Danny Biasone, which stopped teams with a lead from just holding the ball and running around with it at the end of the game.. The game was sped up, so there was a different comparison of how those teams played the game. But back to modern day, and the hypothetical. First the Bulls had MJ, enough said. Then there is Pippen, I’m not sure a sweep is in store but Pippen was a great player in his own respect. The unmistakable face of Scottie Pippen, he isn’t one of those guys that could slip past the mob, oh and I guess he is pretty good at basketball. Down low the Bulls have an unmistakable, crazy Detroit original bad boy, scooped up by the Bulls and you might be able to spot him dressed in full drag with some funky died hair and maybe will be snagging a dozen or two of rebounds per night.
you had Ron Harper – didn’t he help the Lakers win a championship out there with his walker, LOL – something like that I guess. Then you had Luc Longley, Tony Kukoc, and Steve Kerr to fill the rest of the void. What happened to Bill Cartwright, he was one of the slowest players on NBA showdown for the Nintendo, loved it though he could always drop one in for you when you needed it (in slow motion), oh yeah right 95-96 not 91. I can’t leave out Phil Jackson, one of the greatest coaches of our time, so weighing in on the bulls I think we have a team that if they played Golden State today the young legs of Stephen Curry and company would beat the old legs of the Bulls, but if they played back in 95 the Bulls would have stomped all over a bunch of 1st and 2nd graders hands down, so Pippen’s Sweep is a 100% accurate. I haven’t watched much NBA the past few years, so if MJ, Pippen, and Rodman were sitting in a restaurant next to Curry, Barnes, and I G U O D A L A ( how do you pronounce that???), well I’d be coming out on top with 3 signatures from the 90’s, guess I’m just old school.
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