re-Anti Bulls sentiment

[Dan Forant <dforant1@nycap.rr.com>]

No spinning from me. While I'm not a Bulls fan, I do respect and admire
what they've done for basketball, not to mention generating 10billion for
the world economy. I've said it before and I'll say it again, Michael
Jordan is the best all around player the game has ever seen. He is not just
athletic, he is a brilliant thinker on the court. Remember Jordan didn't
show these qualities early in his career. He has developed into this super
stardom quality through hard work. He's respected, carries himself well,
dresses well, and articulates well. 

Why do some dislike the Bulls? jealousy. Their the best were not. A true
sportsman would respect Chicago's accomplishments, but not necessarily like
them. 

Indiana lost the series because they were outplayed and out coached. Utah
will lose because Malone is a choker. The best money players in my
estimation:  Bird and Jordan in that order. Why would you be on a Celts
mailing group? Well anyway, the Bulls are on the way down, yeah really
down, father time thing. The Celts are on the way up, have an energized
team and coach. Antoine Walker will put up figures in all departments
better than Malone's.

Sat, 6 Jun 1998
 17:11:02 EDT
>From: JThorneST@aol.com
>Subject: Anti Bulls sentiment
>
>I understand that a lot of people are against the Bulls and thus are biased.
>Also I am pro-Bulls and thus I am biased the other way. But some of the
>comments from this board during both this Utah series and the Indiana series
>are ridiculous. Sure MJ gets his fair share of calls, and the refs aren't the
>greatest, but it's both ways, don't complain about a Kerr flop off a Malone
>screen, which BTW I don't even think was a flop, but fail to mention Malone's
>flop on Longley early in the 3rd quarter that gave him 5 fouls and made him
>sit for about 15 minutes(game minutes). Utah also gets away with quite a lot
>of illegal screening by their guards, although they haven't been screening
>much for Malone in this series because Malone thinks he is god's gift to the
>art of jump shooting. Don't even get me started on Malone kicking his legs
out
>when he shoots, when he looks like a scared 13 year old, but yet he is 6'9"
>255 pounds and can do a lot of damage.
>And in particular the anti MJ sentiment doesn't make any sense, because he is
>not a trouble maker, is arguably the greatest player of all time, plays both
>ends of the court, and is a big time competitor who is all about winning,
>unlike many of today's players. He doesn't blow off interviewers, and makes
>his teammates better. I could understand disliking a number of Bulls such as
>Rodman, Pippen, Jackson, and others, but MJ is an entirely different story in
>my book. The only thing that I could see disliking the Bulls for is
perhaps an
>over-saturation with their winning 5 titles, but that shouldn't be enough to
>be so against them. 
>Just my opinion-I'm sure I'll get killed on it and people will spin things to
>their hearts content.