HawaiiYou wrote:
The Hawk wrote:
FukNuggitt wrote:
whistler wrote:
strong words by Reggie atthe end. "To this day" they believe they were the better team.
Not surprised at that. I believe I've heard him say that before. Looking forward to Episode 9 which will cover that series.
No bigger Bulls & Jordan fan than me, but that '98 Bulls team was so beat up by the time they met up against Indy that Miller was probably correct.
At full strength,
no way, but, like I said before, after Games 1 and 2, I totally thought that we could very well - and deserved to - lose that series.
Nah. There is something called GUTS that sometimes finds itself with beat up very tired people. Others call it adrenalin but it is the same thing. The Bulls had that in some veteran and immensely tough players. Miller was great in that series and I can see his point but teams that on paper are better than their opponent very often lose. And the fact that basketball games are decided mostly be a few players in any given game, the Bulls had some players that could absolutely "rise to the occasion" better than pretty much every other team ever.
yup. to compare to contemporary times you can look at the warriors and rockets. rockets talk a lot of shit and strut their fake bravado about wanting to play the warriors in the playoffs but when it's crunch time in the playoffs vs the warriors, all those houston tough guys pass wide open shots in crunch time because they are chokers.
Thats a very good point. Some people talk about Scottie Pippen never make a game winning shot. Well, guess what? Scottie was never a good shooter in any situation let alone when a game was on the line. It was his weakest part of his game. So, the Bulls were smart enough to put good shooters into the game when the game was on the line. Jackson was masterful in switching players on the fly at the end of games. So he saved his timeouts which enabled Jackson to put guys like Kukoc, Kerr, Paxson, etc. around Jordan while having guys like Rodman, Pippen, Grant, etc. to get the rebound and feed it back to the shooters.
I think that a lot of credit for the Bulls success misses how clutch both Rodman and Kukoc were in the title runs. Both made great plays in totally separate ways to win those championships.