98 Bulls sans Jordan or Current Bulls Sans Rose

[FirstTimer]

I think the bench makes a huge difference here. 98 Bulls had an okay bench because of Kukoc and Kerr and Wennington to an extent. The current Bulls have a far superior bench, but not nearly as much power in the starting lineup. Though I don't think the gap is ridiculous outside of Pippen. Yeah Rodman was probably the best rebounder in the game when he played, but Boozer, Noah, Asik, and Gibson are all great rebounders themselves. One on one Rodman can beat them, but against two of them? I doubt he'd be getting his 15-18 rebounds easily. Outside of those two, no one on the 98 Bulls is miles better than anyone on this Bulls team. Harper would probably give Watson all kinds of problems with his length though. Randy Brown is kind of like a Tony Allen type player so he could give Rip some problems. Noah is definitely better than the Longley/Wennington duo. Kukoc is the best bench player, but on the whole the bench mob wins that battle.

After all that...I think this Bulls team could pull it out, but it'd be tough. Very very tough.

I think you are underselling Longley and Wennington a lot here. Also leaving out a guy like Burrell and Caffey who could play needed minutes as well.

Frankly, I think the 98 Bulls make easy work of this years team.