interesting question. even though i liked the early 90 teams, i think our best and complete team was the 99 team. they had many weapons and they were deep. their bench could hang with almost any team's starting five that year. we had so many weapons and i believed that if it weren't for the injuries of ewing and lj, we would have won that year.

In my lifetime, I would say the '96- '97 team. It had it all and COULD have won it if it weren't for the brawl. Still a sore subject.

I'd say the '92-93 squad was better than the 93-94 team, and while I always like to think the 1997 team could have won, the Bulls were unbelievable then. I think that 1997 team would have given Jordan, Pippen and co. a good run, and could have beaten them, but we would have been heavy underdogs while we were better than the Bulls in 1993. We had won 60 games that year, dominating the league. That team was not as inconsistent as the later Knick teams who used to only show up at important moments.

You could make an argument for the 98-99 squad as well, because of the lockout, and Van Gundy's inability to comprehend the term offense. His treatment of Camby and Spree during the season was horrible, but once Ewing was injured in the 1998 season (another year that we could have won) his game really deteriorated. Ewing's numbers had already been dropping slightly, but when he hurt his wrist, he was never the same. His beautiful jumper was never what it was before the injury. Check his career stats. Because he was so accustomed to being "the man" when Spree, Camby & Allan came, I think Ewing had a hard time adjusting to a role change, as well as JVG.

Not for nothing, but this clown ripped off that question from me......on RealGM.



Real nice dude...... While you're at it, why don't you atleast give them the link.


http://www.realgm.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=416734

Posted by Elite:

deff the 96/97 team when Stern suspended all our players, we had a healthy ewing, a youung houston and a prime LJ... we woulda taken chicago all the way wit that squad, FUCK PJ BROWN!!!

thats crazy, no way would we have beaten jordan. its just like how everyone gets upset at Charles Smith for not dunking the ball in that playoff game. Although that game wasnt the deciding game, and even if he did dunk it, i doubt we still would have won the series. Jordan always, ALWAYS, stepped it up against us.

93/94 was our best chance. If ewing never hurt his wrist, i would have liked to see what camby and ewing could have done against duncan and drobb in '99.

[Edited by - jaydh on 09-19-2005 1:37 PM]

Posted by Elite:

deff the 96/97 team when Stern suspended all our players, we had a healthy ewing, a youung houston and a prime LJ... we woulda taken chicago all the way wit that squad, FUCK PJ BROWN!!!

wow FUCK didn't get edited

anyway I would have to agree.

99 team was fatally flawed.

We had Miami's number and made Indy cry big time!


We had no answer for Duncan. Perhaps with Ewing in his prime we could have done it, but the variable of Camby vs. Oak also must be present.

The 92-93 team was better than bulls, and it was cruel we could not advance.

But that's howit works. Time has a way to glorify those teams, but they were flawed in many ways

Posted by Nalod:

WOw, thats a stretch! Game 7 team!

Might be the "charles smith dunk it" team.

Would have to also include 1971 and 1972 teams. 1972 lost to the Lakers with Willis hurt and Jerry Lucas up against Wilt. 1971 Earl just F**ked them up good. Clyde could not stop him.

Hence, Trade for the guy!

[Edited by - nalod on 09-19-2005 10:50 AM]

[Edited by - nalod on 09-19-2005 10:51 AM]

You go back a lot more years than I do. That's probably why you have so much wisdom. I wasn't born 'til 79. I'd probably list the team that lost to the Rockets in the finals where Starks had the game-winning shot of game 6 blocked and shot 2 for 17 (or something like that) in game 7. There were many other close years with big Patrick too, though. Those were the good old days; we just didn't appreciate it at the time as much as we should have.




[Edited by - Bonn1997 on 09-19-2005 4:08 PM]