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Yeah, that 's false. No way they get through the 95 Rockets.
I think this is one of the biggest NBA fallacies.
Yeah, that 's false. No way they get through the 95 Rockets.
Dream would have waded into uncharted waters of destruction on them.
Especially with Horace Grant in Orlando and Rodman in San Antonio. 95 Rockets in 6 over the 95 Bulls with Jordan having a full season.
Rockets would have beaten the Bulls once, maybe even both times, tbh.....
No way. Maybe the Bulls could have won 4 in a row, at most 5. With the playoffs as long as they are now, I don't think anyone has the mental or physical stamina to run off 8 les in a row.
I believe he didn't have Rodman yet. No Horace. They would have gotten a Rocket beatdown tbh.
I agree and MJ despite being the GOAT ...was running on "E" ...
he needed the time away ...maybe they 4 one of the 3peats... but no way they win 8 straight.
rockets was a 1 man team
allow hakeem get his and force the **** kenny smith and the shooters to beat jordan and co...
During the 1991-1992 and 1992-1993 seasons, the Bulls got their asses handed to them by the Rockets
They just didnt matchup well with them
- Maxwell, for some reason, always played well vs Jordan
- Horry, before becoming a PF, matched up well vs Scottie
- The Rockets PG's, while not HOFers, were still better than Chicago's
- At the PF spot, Thorpe matched up well vs Grant
- Center position ? Well .......
They would've beaten the 94 Rockets...95--hard to see it.
Agreed. The 94 Rockets were one of the weakest le teams ever, but Drexler really took them to a new level while Horry did a great job filling a lot of Otis Thorpe's minutes.
I think they win all 8 with MJ, Pippen played some serious ball while MJ was out, they still almost made the Finals without Michael and Michael the GOAT in his prime can't lead that team to more les? lol they swept 96 Magic with MJ
but it's all hypothetical, MJ could tear his achilles during that time period or blow out his knee or decline faster with more mileage, I say if 96-98 les are already a lock they could have easily beaten those Rocket teams from 94-95.
It's extremely rare for a team to have enough gas for 4 straight Finals appearances, let alone winning one and subsequently winning more, tbh..
The 90s era of basketball was watered down and terrible, though, so it's possible..
I honestly think so. There's a reason that the two years that the Rockets won the le were the years Jordan was missing.
yeah honestly they probably don't win in either of the years that he was gone, not just because of the Rockets, but Orlando as well. Shaq/Penny would have (or was, since they lost to them in the playoffs even with MJ) been brutal to combat without Rodman.
I think they win it in 1994 without getting tested too much. They won 55 games and played a close 7 game series against the Knicks w/o Jordan that year. Still had a quality big man who could carry the rebounding load in Horace Grant and they added Kukoc. As mentioned already, the 94 Rockets were a weak championship team that the 1994 Bulls w/ Jordan would have beaten. Does anyone really think MJ wouldn't have made enough of a difference to win the Eastern Conference and beat a team that got taken to 7 games by the Knicks team that almost lost to the Bulls w/o Jordan?
I think it's pretty much consensus that the 95 Bulls weren't gonna get by Orlando and Houston with Jordan and Pippen as their two leading rebounders. You can go into hypotheticals about whether or not Horace Grant leaves if MJ is still there but there are too many unknown factors to definitively assume they probably would have won it all.
In '94 the Magic got swept in the first round. Penny was a rookie and Shaq was in his 2nd year, there's no way that team was getting by the '94 Bulls with Jordan. They still had Horace Grant and old ass Bill Cartwright which would have been enough to prevent Shaq from completely dominating.
I think it's hard to say that at the very least the 94 Bulls don't steamroll the eastern conference. You can argue they'd lose in the finals to Houston because of how good Olajuwon was, but imo it's hard to say a team like NY/Orlando/Indiana was getting by the '94 Bulls w/ Jordan.
Brutal? Magic beat the Bulls in 6 games, and that was without MJ. Rodman obviously was a great piece for the Bulls but let's not act like anyone on Orlando could check prime MJ. Bulls were a battle tested team having already won 3 in a row and going against a young Shaq and Penny would have been enough?
Magic beat the Bulls WITH MJ you simple .
MJ came off retirement you dumb
So you admit he played? Gotcha.
I admit my stupidity in that regard, but still I think they would have won in 94 and 95 if MJ never retired.
I know someone is gonna turn this into a strawman, but this site overrates the out of the 95 Rockets. They were down 3-1 vs. the Suns and won the series because Barkley's fatass and Majerle's drunk ass started playing 36 holes of golf and getting drunk the day before games after taking a 3-1 lead. No, that's not me being butthurt as I'm not even old enough to remember the series, it's just the truth.
Probably lose to the Spurs to if Robinson was focused on winning instead of shoving his beliefs down Rodman's throat, but that's a different issue, tbh.
It's not like they have a tainted championship, they were the best team that year, but they weren't the unstoppable force people make them out to be.
Nah. Hakeem took that series personal when Robinson was awarded MVP in his face. Nothing Robinson could have done, Hakeem wasn't losing.
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