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[QUOTE="Knicks411, post: 3392572, member: 767"]
Zach Lowe made the point when the Last dance first premiered that in some ways the Bulls were one of the first teams to play a smaller type lineup; if they are playing the Warriors you have to think they basically anchor their big guys to the bench.  Their best 5 man lineup is probably Harper/Jordan/Steph/Rodman/Kukoc.

Those are some really interesting defensive matchups; my first instinct would be to put Rodman on Durant.  I could totally see Rodman doing something to get into Durant's head.  Plus I think it works better for the Bulls with that matchup.  For Chicago, I do like the idea of putting the length of Pippen on Steph to try and bother him.

Ideally, you would try and give Michael the easier defensive option (Iggy?  As opposed to running around with Klay off screens) but then again, Jordan would probably demand to check someone better than that, either Klay or Steph.

A bunch of fascinating matchups really.  Steph would be an outlier, there's really no one else like sized to him (unless the Bulls are going to the bench and bringing in Kerr).    And then you have a ton of wing type guys with similar size between Jordan, Klay, Harper, Durant, Rodman, Pippen, Green; I could see really any combination of those guys guarding each other.

My gut would say to me the Bulls would start with Rodman guarding Durant, but when you get to crunch time, Pippen would move to Durant and Jordan would take Steph.
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