Vegas: Warriors would be favored over 72-10 Bulls team

[HacheMan]

[h=1]Vegas: Warriors would be favored over 72-10 Bulls team[/h]Ben Fawkes
ESPN Staff Writer

The Golden State Warriors know all too well what can happen when a team looks too far ahead while up 2-0 in an NBA Finals.
But that doesn't mean Las Vegas can't have some fun comparing them to another all-time great team.
ESPN spoke with six Vegas bookmakers and asked them to set the odds in a game and series between this year's Golden State and Michael Jordan's 1995-96 Chicago Bulls squad that went 72-10 en route to an NBA title.
Four of the five had the Warriors favored, from as high as -8 at the MGM (per Jay Rood, vice president of race and sports at MGM Resorts) to as low as -3 at the Wynn (per Johnny Avello, sportsbook manager at the Wynn).

Chris Andrews, sportsbook director at South Point, wasn't crazy about the comparison but said "it would have to be pretty close to pick-em, point spread and series. It would depend on [which team] could force its style on the other."


Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook manager Jeff Sherman set the line at Golden State -6.5 and a series price of Chicago +300 and Golden State -360.


"It's a different era now, and today's game is played at a pace unlike in the 1990s," Sherman told ESPN. "Players are bigger, faster and stronger than back then."


Aaron Kessler from the Golden Nugget also favored the Warriors, at -4.5.


Matthew Holt, COO at CG Analytics, said it would be a matter of contrasting styles and rules as well.


"The biggest factor is what rules is game being played under," Holt told ESPN in an email. "Being able to hand check would make the Bulls favorite and their roster was built for that. In the no-hand check era the Warriors' current roster is much better suited and would have some serious speed and shooter advantages at several key positions."


The 1995-96 Bulls went 46-33-1 against the spread during the regular season. (Two games had no line, according to game archives at sports betting website Covers.com.) The Warriors went 40-39-3 against the spread during the 2016-17 regular season.


Golden State has been a favorite in every postseason game this year and opened at Westgate as a 2-point favorite for Game 3 at Cleveland. That line has already been bet up to -3.

 

[HacheMan]

I would take the Bulls.

Jordan would avg 55 per game against this Warriors team & Pippen would go off as well.

Rodman would easily negate Draymond Green.

Ron Harper would hold his own against Curry & Klay Thompson...

 

[LivintheFamilyLife!]

I'll take Bulls moneyline

 

[FairWarning]

I always like these hypotheticals,people always use today's rules. Would today's GS team be favored if they played in that era with the defensive rules?

 

[tatehill2000]

I always like these hypotheticals,people always use today's rules. Would today's GS team be favored if they played in that era with the defensive rules?

This is absolutely true..

But having said that.. the 3 point line is 2 feet closer in? She would be shooting FREETHROW 3 pointers

 

[Willie99]

what NBA rules will they be playing under?

if it's the modern day "freedom of movement" that also encourages players to take "drama classes" and three point flopping, a game that doesn't even call double dribble anymore, a game where more fouls are called 23 feet from the paint than in the paint, advantage Warriors. Although Michael & Scottie would have a lot more freedom too.

if it's a game played by pre Y2K rules, where physical play is allowed and rewarded and there are no touch fouls 23 feet from the hoop and players are not rewarded for throwing the ball in the air after the whistle blows on a touch foul 30 feet from the hoop, yuuuuuge advantage Bulls, only Dramond Green could adapt. But with all his trash talking and groin kicking, somebody would just take him out anyways

In all seriousness, I often times don't even recognize the game anymore

 

[lolz_69]

what NBA rules will they be playing under?

if it's the modern day "freedom of movement" that also encourages players to take "drama classes" and three point flopping, a game that doesn't even call double dribble anymore, a game where more fouls are called 23 feet from the paint than in the paint, advantage Warriors. Although Michael & Scottie would have a lot more freedom too.

if it's a game played by pre Y2K rules, where physical play is allowed and rewarded and there are no touch fouls 23 feet from the hoop and players are not rewarded for throwing the ball in the air after the whistle blows on a touch foul 30 feet from the hoop, yuuuuuge advantage Bulls, only Dramond Green could adapt. But with all his trash talking and groin kicking, somebody would just take him out anyways

In all seriousness, I often times don't even recognize the game anymore

:aktion033

 

[festeringZit]

I would take the Bulls.

Jordan would avg 55 per game against this Warriors team & Pippen would go off as well.

Rodman would easily negate Draymond Green.

Ron Harper would hold his own against Curry & Klay Thompson...

I think Pippen is way over-rated.

I think the GSW bench is better than that Bulls bench.

Michael would get a ton of points, but I'd lean towards GSW, Durant and Curry would be too much.

I'd love to see it play out.

 

[CarolinaKid]

if it has not been for MJ, Pippen would just been another average nba player, that we would never thought of

 

[pathologist]

if it has not been for MJ, Pippen would just been another average nba player, that we would never thought of

Pippen an average NBA player, lmbo

 

[festeringZit]

1990 Eastern Conference finals game 7.

Pippen doesn't play. Why?

Headache. WTF.

Before Pippen had ever won a championship, his defining postseason moment came in 1990 when a migraine headache kept him out of a Game 7 loss against the Detroit Pistons in the Eastern Conference finals."Well, there's always a little bit of regret. But things happen in life, different situations, and that was just a learning situation for me," Pippen told ESPN.com.
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[festeringZit]

1994, Playoffs against the Knicks. Tie game with 1.8 seconds left.

Pippen doesn't play. Why?

Because he refused to go into the game, because Phil Jackson drew up a play for Tony Kukoc to take the last shot.

WTF.

BTW, Kukoc hit the shot. AND, Pippen refusing to go into the game caused Phil to have to call an additional
timeout, possibly costing them the game (what an asshole).

 

[festeringZit]

1994, Playoffs against the Knicks. Tie game with 1.8 seconds left.

Pippen doesn't play. Why?

Because he refused to go into the game, because Phil Jackson drew up a play for Tony Kukoc to take the last shot.

WTF.

BTW, Kukoc hit the shot. AND, Pippen refusing to go into the game caused Phil to have to call an additional
timeout, possibly costing them the game (what an asshole).

The Knicks went on to beat the Bulls in that series.

 

[TomGshotput]

By that time Rodman was only a great rebounder, not the same great defensive player he was with the Pistons. You're going to have him, Kukoc, and Longley trying to run around guarding a team with four guys on the floor who can shoot, dribble, and pass? Curry was the best player in the world in both 2015 and 2016, he doesn't see any drop off and now he is the second best player on the team?!

Obviously we have to see the Series play out before making a determination on the best team ever. But Chicago lost twice to Shawn Kemp led Sonics. If the Warriors sweep a Lebron Cavs . . .