Let's Settle It...95 Rockets vs. Jordan's Bulls...who you got.

Originally Posted by Jeremy

The Bulls might not have had much at the center position, but they still destroyed Mourning, Ewing, and Shaq in 3 series in a row in the 1996 playoffs.

That’s because their teams had janitors at the SG position

Originally Posted by lefty

He was a ballhogging loser until Krause, Phil and Scottie came along

Before then he had teammates like the only out for self Orlando Woolridge and Sidney Green and really limited guys like Dave Corzine playing heavy minutes. Oakley was really the only solid teammate he had pre Pippen, especially with Ice allegedly thinking the Bulls were supposed to be his team the year he went there.

Originally Posted by baseline bum

Before then he had teammates like the only out for self Orlando Woolridge and Sidney Green and really limited guys like Dave Corzine playing heavy minutes. Oakley was really the only solid teammate he had pre Pippen, especially with Ice allegedly thinking the Bulls were supposed to be his team the year he went there.

Bot agreat team I agree but still, players like Jordan and Kobe are not the type of players that make their teammates better

When KFC took over as HC, he had to negotiate with DeRozan to convince him to share the ball more. Jordan was averaging something like 35-36 ppg or something like that which was too much for Phil over a long season.

Basically it went something like : « ok but if I can average 32 ? »
Phil said yes

So yes, Demar was still worried about his numbers

Originally Posted by ambchang

Who would ever say they are too dumb to pick up a system to defend themselves? It’s much easier to say he was done at that point to preserve his own reputation as a dynamic scorer with the clippers and cavs.

Harper wasn’t a unique talent, nobody argued that, but he was still very important to the team.

As for Howard, it has more to do with his pot problems and him being public enemy number one after joking around during the national anthem than anything else.

Didn't Gary Payton essentially say the same thing about the triangle in his explanation as to why the 04 Lakers did not ring and why he did not play well?

That was sort of a thing for a while, fail and then just blame the complicated triangle.

Originally Posted by Dirks_Finale

Didn't Gary Payton essentially say the same thing about the triangle in his explanation as to why the 04 Lakers did not ring and why he did not play well?

That was sort of a thing for a while, fail and then just blame the complicated triangle.

It’s actually really well do ented that Payton didn’t get the triangle at all. Anybody who ever watched that team can see Payton didn’t understand at all. He was used to dribble drive and shoot. He kept breaking the triangle because he didn’t understand the spacing.