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burninmylight on 21 June 2016
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Chris Hu said:
burninmylight said:

Those two expansion teams were in it to win it. The Sixers and Lakers were not. Philly's former GM felt the need to write a 13-page memento explaining why his philosophy and plan to tank year in and year out was justified. The Laker's took the entire year off to dedicate it to a long washed up Kobe. The '96 Grizzlies and Raptors were just plain bad with no way around it. Damon Stoudamire didn't do shit with his career after padding stats on a horrible team. That team had Zan Tabak starting at center, FFS. Stoudamire is comparable to Brandon Jennings at best.

Also, please explain what makes the NBA better then than it is now.

So you pretty much agree with me that those two expansion teams where better then this years Lakers and 76ers.  The NBA is better then it is now because the overall talent pool was better and most teams actually still played defense and didn't really heavily on the 3 point shot to get wins.  Pippen said earlier this year that the '96 Bulls would sweep this years Warriors team in a seven game series and I totally agree with him.  Also one position that is clearly a lot better in the mid 90's then it is now is centers there is no one playing right now that is even close to being as good as David Robinson, Patrick Ewing, Shaquile O'Neal, Alonozo Mourning and Hakeem Olajuwon and the '96 Bulls eliminated three of those in the playoffs (Ewing, Mouring and O'Neal).  Plus they eliminated the defensive player of the year Gary Payton in the finals.

Just because I said the Lakers and Sixers weren't trying to win doesn't mean that I agree with you. You can have your words back, but you might want to wipe off my saliva first. Either way, why are you still arguing this? Both the Bulls and the Warriors played and lost to some very bad teams. The '96 expansion teams only had nine more wins than the '16 teams designed to lose. If you really want to pit those four teams against each other, it'd look something like this:

 

Pippen said earlier this year that the '96 Bulls would sweep this years Warriors team in a seven game series and I totally agree with him.

"WE WOULD BEAT THE SHIT OUT OF THOSE YOUNG CATS!"

-Every former player ever

Also one position that is clearly a lot better in the mid 90's then it is now is centers there is no one playing right now that is even close to being as good as David Robinson, Patrick Ewing, Shaquile O'Neal, Alonozo Mourning and Hakeem Olajuwon and the '96 Bulls eliminated three of those in the playoffs (Ewing, Mouring and O'Neal).  Plus they eliminated the defensive player of the year Gary Payton in the finals.

The 90's NBA favored centers and post games. The modern NBA favors pace, space and perimeter shooting, so one position that is clearly a lot better in 2016 than the mid-90s are point guards. The Warriors eliminated Damien Lillard and Russell Westbrook, ran roughshod over the Rockets (who didn't have an elite PG) and lost in the finals to an elite PG in Kyrie Irving. Having a dominant center in the NBA these days just ain't what it used to be. Demarcus Cousins and Karl Anthony-Towns sat at home for the playoffs, while Lemarcus Aldridge lost in the second round to the Thunder.