WMBD feature on Geno Ford and the Bradley Braves

[tornado]

Wrong. He actually played...the 1994 season (Feb-Sept

..Any Bulls fan born before 1988 knows that the 97-98 team was running on absolute fumes, somehow won the title....

MJ was out of pro basketball for two full seasons -- if you want to get picky about what he was doing, so can I..
he played one full summer season with the Birminham Barons..
he then played the Fall Seasons in the Arizona Fall League with the Scottsdale Scorpions...
but regardless -- he was out of baseball for TWO full seasons and came back and was still the best player in the league -- he did NOT take a full year to get into playing shape.

"somehow won the title"...hmm....they were a bad team and lucked into the NBA Championship??
They won 62 games, almost 50 more than they did the following season when they no longer had MJ, and were only minimally challenged in four post-season series...3-0, 4-1, 4-3, 4-2..

all teams should be lucky to have those fumes.....

 

[srw]

Was thinking the same thing and they come w/a great work ethic also

What if they are rail thin?

 

[Canton BU fan]

The 2006 Cardinals are a better example of getting lucky and winning a championship.

 

[Bradleyguy10]

The 2006 Cardinals are a better example of getting lucky and winning a championship.

Hey watch it...that team was decimated with injuries that season and finally got healthy in the end before the playoffs.

That 2006 was almost unchanged from the 2005 team which won 100+ games and the 2004 team that went to the world series...it wasn't THAT much of an accident.

 

[JMM28]

MJ was out of pro basketball for two full seasons -- if you want to get picky about what he was doing, so can I..
he played one full summer season with the Birminham Barons..
he then played the Fall Seasons in the Arizona Fall League with the Scottsdale Scorpions...
but regardless -- he was out of baseball for TWO full seasons and came back and was still the best player in the league -- he did NOT take a full year to get into playing shape.

"somehow won the title"...hmm....they were a bad team and lucked into the NBA Championship??
They won 62 games, almost 50 more than they did the following season when they no longer had MJ, and were only minimally challenged in four post-season series...3-0, 4-1, 4-3, 4-2..

all teams should be lucky to have those fumes.....

I wasn't going to end this, but you won't give up.

By the way, he was out 1 2/3 seasons. Not 2. Big difference there. Even MJ himself said he wasn't nearly the player he wanted to be in 94-95. But I guess I should believe you over the man himself. Go check the MJ rides the bus, Bulls championship videos from 95-96, or any other interview he did in the offseason after 96.

I am not sure where I said lucked into or whatever. Oh that is right I didn't. Those are your words.

The fact is they were runnning on fumes. They had played 300+ games in the 3 seasons. The big 3 were 34-32-36 years old. They only had their regular starting 5 a handful of games. Their odometer was getting pretty high. Pippen had a bad back that flared up in the finals, Rodman was off doing WCW shit, and MJeff was carrying the load.

Saying they were minimally challenged in 4 series tells me you didn't actually watch that postseason. I am not sure where 4-3 is "minimally challenged" either. They came very close to losing that series to the Pacers. 6th man of the decade Toni Kukoc stepped up huge in game 7.

And bringing up the 99 team really doesn't mean...anything. At all. Any Bulls fan knows that season never existed.

 

[shaunguth]

The 2006 Cardinals are a better example of getting lucky and winning a championship.

They weren't lucky! They were clearly the better team.

 

[Canton BU fan]

Hey watch it...that team was decimated with injuries that season and finally got healthy in the end before the playoffs.

That 2006 was almost unchanged from the 2005 team which won 100+ games and the 2004 team that went to the world series...it wasn't THAT much of an accident.

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