Former Rocket Vernon Maxwell Wanted Finals' Matchup With Jordan

[Brozay]

If this was 1st Take I'd be like SAS and tell you how blasphemous that last statement is. Don't you dare put Hakeem The Dream Olajuwon in the same class as ringless HOFer's like Barkley, Kemp, Stockon & Malone. How dare you!

Haha, your right, you right

 

[Houston911]

@houston911 in this thread knowing everything I said is truth

Michael Jordan disagrees with you breh

 

[Brozay]

Michael Jordan disagrees with you breh

we both know that's not true

you doing well bruh? haven't seen you posting

 

[Gravity]

"I tell everybody 'Google it,' " Maxwell said. "Michael Jordan goes around telling everybody we never would have won the two championships if he wouldn't have went and tried to play baseball.

What is Maxwell talking about here? This can't possibly be true. There's no way that Mike tells people that Dream's Rockets only won because he was retired. Right @Malta?

 

[Hiphoplives4eva]

regular season games and finals are TWO DIFFERENT WORLDS!!

Bulls had a hard time with toronto during Jordan's last 3 years there and the Raptors weren't even a playoff team, so in his logic, the raptors would have knocked the bulls out of playoffs huh?



Jordan had the ability to TURN UP during the playoffs and EVEN MORE during the FINALS

These bitter nostalgic players

So did Olajuwon nikka. And no ONE on the Bulls is stopping Olajuwon.

 

[Houston911]

we both know that's not true

you doing well bruh? haven't seen you posting

jordan said the rockets were the one team he feared cuz of hakeem

i'm good breh just been busy. you?

i cant wait for 2k16, i thought 15 was pretty average.

will they ever top 2k13?

 

[Hiphoplives4eva]

MJ & the Bulls beat Magic, Drexler, Barkley, Payton, Kemp, Malone, Stockton in the Finals

I got respect for Hakeem, but he would have just been another HOF Finals victim

 

[Sonic Boom of the South]

what about them other years

 

[I_Got_Da_Burna]

LOL the Rockets could barely get past the Sonics and Jazz

FOH

 

[Brozay]

jordan said the rockets were the one team he feared cuz of hakeem

i'm good breh just been busy. you?

i cant wait for 2k16, i thought 15 was pretty average.

will they ever top 2k13?

Ive been good. Just started a new gig, so Im expecting a busy summer

I still have faith they ll get 2k right some year, but thats probably giving them too much credit

2k13 was a masterpiece

At some point they ll put out a proper 2k for new gen, but yeah, 2k15 was very average (not to say I dont play the shyt out of it though)

 

[jwinfield]

People bringing up the fact that Hakeem would kill our centers like the Rockets didn't get knocked out by teams that were starting Ervin Johnson, Greg Ostertag and Greg Foster.

In 93 he put up 23/13 on 52% against Seattle

He averaged 18/10 on 48% against Seattle in 96.

27/9 on 59% against Utah in 97 and 20/11 on 39% in 98.

Hakeem would've got his, but that doesn't mean his team would win

 

[Tha_Mac]

People bringing up the fact that Hakeem would kill our centers like the Rockets didn't get knocked out by teams that were starting Ervin Johnson, Greg Ostertag and Greg Foster.

In 93 he put up 23/13 on 52% against Seattle

He averaged 18/10 on 48% against Seattle in 96.

27/9 on 59% against Utah in 97 and 20/11 on 39% in 98.

Hakeem would've got his, but that doesn't mean his team would win

Jordan didn't win every series either bro. Detroit owned Jordan and the Bulls.

And nikkas tripping bout Jordan did this and Jordan did that shyt we got our TWO rings. Back-to-Back don't throw Greg Ostertag or Ervin Johnson at us how many rings they got? SA still haven't done that. All the real Champs repeat the next year becuz that feeling is SO good you don't wanna let it got.

This debate is a moot point.

 

[I_Got_Da_Burna]

People bringing up the fact that Hakeem would kill our centers like the Rockets didn't get knocked out by teams that were starting Ervin Johnson, Greg Ostertag and Greg Foster.

In 93 he put up 23/13 on 52% against Seattle

He averaged 18/10 on 48% against Seattle in 96.

27/9 on 59% against Utah in 97 and 20/11 on 39% in 98.

Hakeem would've got his, but that doesn't mean his team would win

Exactly, and if you look at the matchups, the Bulls had advantages almost across the board, except for power forward, where Thorpe and Grant were about even. Admitttedly, the Rockets bench was better, but that wouldn't have won or loss the series.

Armstrong > Smith
Jordan > Drexler
Pippen > Maxwell
Grant = Thorpe
Olajuwon > Whoever was at center

 

[I_Got_Da_Burna]

Jordan didn't win every series either bro. Detroit owned Jordan and the Bulls.

you dumb as shyt breh. Jordan was just getting his feet wet in the playoffs when the Pistons were winning.

Dude took a sabbatical during his prime...there's no way the Rockets were winning against the Bulls in a series. Be real, the year the Rockets beat the Magic 4-0, the East was shyt and they barely got by the Suns that year.

 

[Edub]

The Rockers and the Spurs used to be tough on the Bulls during the first 3 peat years, but who knows what would've happened in the Finals. Kenny Smith said in a n interview once that everytime they played the Bulls Maxwell would try to start a fight with Jordan so he could get him thrown out of the game.

A Bulls/Rockets series in '94 would've been a classic.

Crazy...I remember this like it was yesterday, but with the addition of Rodman Bulls wouldve spanked dat ass...Rodman would've had Hakeem blocked out to the semi circle...but in 94 my Bulls may have been vulnerable...but I'd still put my money on MJ and PIPP in any finals during that period.