The 1997-1998 Jazz are an awful example. They only made it to the finals because the Suns, Sonics, Lakers, Blazers, and Rockets fell apart.
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Sikma, Ellis, The X Man, and Chambers. Those guys pushed the Lakers during their prime of Show Time basketball.
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that Jazz team was still CLEARLY better than the Bulls that year...

they were even favorites to win against the Bulls because of Pippen's back injury...

and Jordan single-handedly won game 6...

if that goes to game 7...

the Bulls lose.
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:-), You let hootie get under your skin, so you start a thread showing your butt hurt. Then you say some pretty foolish shit within the thread.

Let me put it this way, if someone else were to make a thread like this, or post some of the shit you have, you would be one of the first in calling them every belittling word you could think of.

Matter of fact I think someone made a Peyton manning thread and you jumped their ass.

I respect you as a poster but COME ON MAN
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Wilts teams had equivilant talent? Are you insane? Russell had like 6 Hall of Famers playing with him. The only times Wilt had talent around him equal to the Celtics was in 66-67 with the Sixers and he went 68-13 and with the Lakers,where he went 69-13.
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like I said...

I could post a 50/20 stat line if I played a team of 5th graders.
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Scoonie Penn would be unstoppable in the WNBA.
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I honestly would rate them 1a and 1b. Oscar was the first big PG and really started that trend. It is hard to discount averaging a triple double for a whole season.
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The Rockets made two finals, winning 0. Same thing the Blazers did.

The Celtics and the 76ers were unquestionably great teams.

Let's not forget the ass kicking that Jordan's 90 Bulls laid on the Pistons, or the Lakers.

That Suns team had Kevin Johnson, Charles Barkley, Tom Chambers, Dan Majerle, Cedric Ceballos, Danny Ainge, and a skinny Oliver Miller.

That's a damned good 1-7.

Again, they weren't winning 55 games and ekeing it out against a diluted league, They won 65+ games 3 times.
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It is when teams shoot the ball 40 times more a game than they do now.

Read The Book of Basketball.

An example: Chamberlain and Russell, in seasons where they averaged well over 20 RPG, had a lower percentage of their teams rebounds than did Dennis Rodman when getting 15.

You cannot compare eras in basketball.
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Wait a minute. He never SAW Montana play? How old is this guy?

Some guys you had to see play to appreciate instead of relying on stats. A lot of younger fans only know the Larry Bird fromn the later years when he got bulkier and had the short hair. But if you never saw the younger Larry night after night you would never appreciate how truly great he was.
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Again, like I told Dirk, read The Book of Basketball. There is an entire chapter devoted to Wilt vs. Russell, including an entire section debunking the myth that Russell had better surrounding talent.
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You guys were geniuses for trading Olden Polynice for Pippen, BTW.

However, Sikma's blonde afroperm is the definition of win.
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Hamas just revealed it, but I was about to say I can tell who's read Bill Simmons book in this argument... :-)
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some of the guys who made it into the HoF... made it because of the amount of rings they had... its like they gave congrats to the whole team because of there success they had during that time period..but the one constant was Bill Russell

KC Jones never even average 10 points (the closest was a little over 9)...never made an allstar team... yet made it into the Hall as a player...

Russell even outdid Wilt in college despite playing for an unknown college team... while Wilt played for a big time college... Russell just knew what it took to win...
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