Saturday, December 27, 2008

The Bulls Play The Bulls

Maybe it's just because i grew up watching a generation of basketball players that aren't really around anymore, but i can't help but compare certain things about now to certain things from then. so basically, the Chicago Bulls team from this year pretty much looks like they're casting for a play about the Chicago Bulls from 1995/1996. i've collected some images to help prove my point:

DENNIS RODMAN & DREW GOODEN
Drew Gooden is so absolutely unique that he grew up some wild sea creature beard and got a few sick tats to display during the games. Sick tats are all the rage now, but 12 years ago, Dennis Rodman was one of the only in the league who was covered in such. Dennis didn't have anything more than the expected goatee, but obiously won most unique for his multicolored multifashioned hair work, and to quote a certain "Mista T" Drew Gooden "Whas up with ya ballld hedd? You betta get som'thin' else, or you be dead." Also, Gooden prides himself in rebounds and wears number 90, and Rodman was the rebound king of not only the Bulls, but the entire 90s decade, and wore number 91. not obviouls at all DREW.

SCOTTIE PIPPEN & BEN GORDON
Ben Gordon is the perfect candidate to play Scottie Pippen. similar heights, similar body types, similarly facially strange (Pippen probably more so, i suppose) not to mention the fact that Gordon is getting close to Pippen's 3 point record. they're just in the same positions, the team is obviously very different, but if you somehow somehow make them even, Gordon comes out as being Pippen. he just needs to untuck the jersey a little so the number 7 can show some more.

RON HARPER & LUOL DENG
Besides the fact that Deng wears Harper's old digit, he also shares Harper's so-so dependency. some games, Ron Harper would show some appropriate behavior; making shots, passing correctly, et cetera. But some games you would just get so pissed at him; why is this guy starting? why don't they trade him? why would he shoot that three? et cetera. Luol Deng is in the same spot. He's a bit taller, so instead of shooting questionable threes he just pops some small hooks or missed some put backs, that type of thing. Harper's a bit lighter, but i don't think the audience will notice.

TONI KUKOC & ANDRES NOCIONI
Nocioni is real annoying. i'll just start with that. if this was a comparison straight on looks, or if i was comparing players to cartoons from the 1960s, he'd be matched exactly with Shaggy from Scooby Doo. but in the Broadway Bulls play, Nocioni's playing Kukoc. two European shooters. the fact that Kukoc was better and was the 6th man says something, but in an overall sense, i'd MUCH rather have Kukoc on my team. Kukoc was clutch, Nocioni's a jabbing shag stag who doesn't know the difference between a foul and a high five.

LUC LONGLEY & AARON GRAY

Although Gray wears the classic number of Bill Wennington, he reminds me more of Mr. Luc Longley. is he a son of Longley? maybe not in a genetic sense, but it seems as though as he learned from the Longley School for Caucasian Center Positions. Gray is always pink as a pig, but Longley always played it Australian cool.

MICHAEL JORDAN & DERRICK ROSE
PHIL JACKSON & VINNY DEL NEGRO

i'm going to start by saying that Michael Jordan is nearly impossible to top, let alone be compared to, and i'm not saying that Derrick Rose is going to end up starring in a movie with Looney Tunes, being endoresed by underwear or having a his own brand of almost everything (sorry Em), but Michael Jordan is arguably the best player to ever touch a basketball, so it's sort of an unfair comparison. BUT, i've heard it said a few times that Derrick Rose is reminding people of rookie year Jordan. he's young, he's fast, he involves the rest of the team and makes playes happen which is part of what made Jordan a very special someone. no one knows what could happen in the rest of Derrick Rose's career, so, he could end up being better than ole MJ, but he'll also need a backing band of brothers that will at least do something that resembles helping him out.
Phil Jackson played for the Knicks in the 60s and 70s, Del Negro was a Spur in the 1990s. Vinny is having some trouble making decisions as a first year coach this season, and i think the solution is a mustache. look at Phil's in the picture, and Del Negro just looks like Michael Scott's sourpuss brother. i know mustache's are getting a bit played out, but for a coach, they never will.

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