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Quote Originally Posted by TheluckyDC:
Its actually well documented that Pippen left the bulls amidst MAJOR back issues. It was expected that he would have missed game 7 in the 98 finals if it went to game 7. There is a lot of documentation on it. My point was that there were a lot of things that went right for Jordan to emphasize his greatness and that his 6 for 6 is more of a team accomplishment instead of an MJ alone accomplishment which is what most MJ supporters make it out to be. It NEVER fails that you hear that, 6 for 6 statement in MJ's favor.
When he came to the rockets, my hometown team, they were all washed up Hakeem was on the backend of his career as well as drexler and barkley. Pippen was coming off of back surgery. Talent in names but not much else.
The 1 for 11 thing is something I came across reading an article about two clock violations that ended up helping the bulls in game 6 of that 98 finals which resulted in a (5 point swing in the bulls favor) therefore allowing Jordan to shove Russell to the baseline and hit that shot lol! Otherwise; game 7 maybe and maybe no pippen, maybe no 6 for 6....... how would his legacy look different? its cool to look at things like that and how the league works.
yep,well understood...you dont need to convince me that its a number of factors and circumstances that have to conspire for any player to win championships,that goes for ALL of them.lebron and anyone else also needs sum things to fall their way,like that ray allen shot for example....most of the dolts around here think that any star controls his own destiny entirely and thinks that they make a good case by simply spouting off number of rings won...anyone with a brain knows better than that.
now jordan was undoubtedly the absolute darling/golden boy of the league,moreso than any other player ever i wud imagine,and he got EVERY call possible on offense and defense and whilst i dont think his finals run was "easy" at all i admit he didnt face any historic dynasty type teams in their prime...cant argue against that.
but even still,in saying all of that,one absolutely HAS to concede that 6-0 is one heck of an accomplishment..no-one else has come even close to that in a really competitive era of basketball........of course jordan needed pippen but any sane person knows that jordan carried those teams (not on his own obviously but to a large degree)and it was undoubtedly pippen that needed him more.
i do remember pippen ailing in that series but didnt know his back was that chronic....hard to imagine that they wudnt have just shot him full of watever was necessary to get him out there for game 7 tho??
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James prototype baller. Jordan prototype winner. Simple
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