Do you see any team competing with 72-10 Bulls?

**Fantomex** · Mar 6th, 2009 6:06 AM

In the last 5 years? Competing meaning taking them to 6 or 7th game.

And why.

**TNAfan121** · Mar 6th, 2009 11:34 AM

I vote Bucks!!! *is laughed out of AO*

**Cartesiantheater** · Mar 6th, 2009 6:44 PM

No. And in fact I don't think there has EVER been a team better than them. Yeah, yeah, people like to think that players were better "back in the day," and maybe it's true that they were more fundamentally sound, but the way the game is played today, as physical as it is, that Bulls team is just the best I have ever seen. Every single one of their starters were defensive aces, and a few of them (notably Pippen, Jordan, Harper and Rodman) deserve to be talked about in the "best ever defender" discussion. And of course, Jordan and Scottie's offense, together with their bench?

There is a very obvious reason they finished with the best record ever. They were near or were the best ever.

http://www.nba.com/features/bullsbestever_top10.html

Originally Posted by link

Go by the numbers and again, the Bulls rank at the top. As mentioned previously, the Bulls led the lead in scoring 105.2 and ranked second in defense at 92.9 for a 12.2 point differential. The differential for the ’67 Sixers was 9.4 and the ’86 Celtics was also 9.4. The ’72 Lakers posted a tad better mark than the Bulls at 12.3 but when a team averages an impressive 121 points per game but gives up an unimpressive 108.7 on the defensive end, the 12.2 is more impressive thanks to the Bulls defense and the nod goes to Chicago

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Combined Regular Season and Playoff margin of victory
'96 Bulls - 15.0
’87 Lakers -14.8
'86 Celtics - 13.7
'67 Sixers - 13.4
'72 Lakers - 12.84
’64 Celtics – 12.6

The greatest team of all time? No argument here.

**Fantomex** · Mar 6th, 2009 9:01 PM

Originally Posted by Cartesiantheater

No. And in fact I don't think there has EVER been a team better than them. Yeah, yeah, people like to think that players were better "back in the day," and maybe it's true that they were more fundamentally sound, but the way the game is played today, as physical as it is, that Bulls team is just the best I have ever seen. Every single one of their starters were defensive aces, and a few of them (notably Pippen, Jordan, Harper and Rodman) deserve to be talked about in the "best ever defender" discussion. And of course, Jordan and Scottie's offense, together with their bench?

There is a very obvious reason they finished with the best record ever. They were near or were the best ever.

http://www.nba.com/features/bullsbestever_top10.html

Thanks for the reply. I don't necessarily think the players were better. Some of them, of course, but I think teams were overall more sound.

Agreed on all accounts. I think acquiring Rodman was the key to all those victories. Like him or not, he can really play mind games to a t. What do you think about these matches?

Utah Jazz (Stockton, Malone era) vs San Antonio Spurs

Bad Boy Pistons vs Detroit Pistons (one that killed the Lakers)

Showtime Lakers vs Kobe/Shaq era Lakers