3Peat vs.3Peat!?

Question

The 3peat Lakers with Shaq & Kobe vs the 3peat Bulls of '91 with Jordan, Pippen and Grant. Who wins in a 7 game series?

Answer 1

The Bulls not only had more role players but better ones. John Paxson, B.J Armstrong, Bill Cartwright. I think the Lakers will be difficult to be beacuse of the brute strength of Shaq but when Jordan is on the other side your chances of winning is slim so I pick the Bulls in 6

Answer 2

i'm a laker fan, so of course i'm biased. if you're talking specifically about the '91 bulls, then that's the best chance of the kobe/shaq lakers of beating them, but it would have to specifcally be the '91 bulls against the '01 lakers. any year after '91 and jordan would just will his way to beat them.

the '91 bulls were the most inexperienced of the 5 championship teams. they also never faced any real opponents in the playoffs other than the pistons who were starting to age at that time. the rest of the league was in pretty bad shape, too. both magic and bird retired in the next 2 years. barkley could barely make the playoffs. stockton and malone were still designing the moving pick.

the '01 lakers streaked like mofo's in the playoffs. this is the year they only lost one game during the playoffs. fish was white hot from the arc and kobe annhilated the spurs by himself. this is also the year that shaq said "kobe is my hero". hah!

so kobe and jordan guard each other. fox gets pip. who guards shaq? jordan was still one of the younger talents in the league so he didn't have the magic or bird status to get the benefits of the ref's calls. at the same time, kobe's rep (whether you believe he deserves it or not) is still intact. as good as pip would become, he's still pretty green at this point in his career (4th year, i think). fox can get under people's skins and he has a pretty good rep for defense. shaq at this point is a star so if anyone gets the calls it's him, especially since the bulls don't have a center whose name carries any weight.

for the specific matchup of '91 bulls versus '01 lakers, i can't say the bulls win outright because i don't believe it. i won't say the lakers win outright becuase i'm not sure how much of that is my heart and how much is my brain. instead, i'll just let others read my analysis and see what they come up with. for now, i call it even money.

Answer 3

Jordan-Pippen Bulls would win in 6 and in Chicago. They would have home court advantage based on their wins in the season. The Bulls had much more depth in their bench. And you would have the Laker team focusing on Jordan and Pippen and forgetting about the other 10 players. For example. 1993 finals, Suns focusing on Jordan to take final shot and John Paxson sinks the jumper for the win. You would also have playing the Greatest Duo in History (bigger than Stockton-Malone). They were unselfish when playing together and it is hard to guard to players with the kind of skills that they posses. Shaq and Kobe were to big egos in one team and that made them a two headed monster. They both wanted the ball and they both wanted good numbers. Jordan-Pippen would let the flow of the game decide who would be the high point man (although it usually went Jordan's way), but hthere where cases when even an another Bull would shine for the night (Horace Grant, B.J. Armstrong, Toni KuKoc, Dennis Rodman). All in all the Bulls would have no problems disposing of the Lakers in 6, maybe 5 if Jordan gets the flu.

Answer 4

That is a tough one you got the greatest player of all time in MJ vs. the most dominant center in shaq. I would have to give the slight edge to Lakers in 7. I feel that the Lakers roll players would decide the outcome better then the Bulls. Paxson and Armstrong had big shots but you can't beat Horry, George, fox, and Fisher.

Answer 5

The Bulls.

Answer 6

Hands down the Bulls.

Answer 7

the Bulls easily.

Answer 8

Whatever team that Phil Jackson coaches will win.

Answer 9

The Bulls would kill them.

Answer 10

no doubt the bulls