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Jumping off from the discussion in the Finals Thread...
Mine would be the '93 Suns. I believe they were the best team the Western Conference produced from about 1988 to the emergence of the Shaq-Kobe Lakers in the early 2000's.
They are a bit forgotten in a sense because they only had a one year run but these Golden St. Warriors remind me of an amped up version of them.
The team ran incredibly deep and could play multiple styles with ease.(Barkley, Kevin Johnson, Dan Majerle, Dumas, Ainge, Ceballos, Tom Chambers, Mark West, Oliver Miller)
They were the only team during the Bulls run during the 90's that really scared me. The Jazz never concerned me. Big props to Kenny Smith for putting it really well on an Open Court a while back as to why those Rockets teams feared the Suns more than the Jazz. His explanation was that they never really felt the Jazz, as a product of their system, would or could run away from you. You always felt you'd be at worst in a 7-8pt deficit and they weren't going to explode. Those Suns teams could explode and put a lot of point on you really quickly and in a matter of minutes run away with the game. The Suns were more dangerous in more ways. That 93 Finals you never really felt like the Bulls had control. Every other Finals series, even when the games were tight, you had that feeling.."Ok the Bulls are going to pull this out...they can control this team..." Against the Suns you were kind of white knuckling it every game until the horn hoping the Suns didn't go off.
Thoughts?
Mine would be the '93 Suns. I believe they were the best team the Western Conference produced from about 1988 to the emergence of the Shaq-Kobe Lakers in the early 2000's.
They are a bit forgotten in a sense because they only had a one year run but these Golden St. Warriors remind me of an amped up version of them.
The team ran incredibly deep and could play multiple styles with ease.(Barkley, Kevin Johnson, Dan Majerle, Dumas, Ainge, Ceballos, Tom Chambers, Mark West, Oliver Miller)
They were the only team during the Bulls run during the 90's that really scared me. The Jazz never concerned me. Big props to Kenny Smith for putting it really well on an Open Court a while back as to why those Rockets teams feared the Suns more than the Jazz. His explanation was that they never really felt the Jazz, as a product of their system, would or could run away from you. You always felt you'd be at worst in a 7-8pt deficit and they weren't going to explode. Those Suns teams could explode and put a lot of point on you really quickly and in a matter of minutes run away with the game. The Suns were more dangerous in more ways. That 93 Finals you never really felt like the Bulls had control. Every other Finals series, even when the games were tight, you had that feeling.."Ok the Bulls are going to pull this out...they can control this team..." Against the Suns you were kind of white knuckling it every game until the horn hoping the Suns didn't go off.
Thoughts?