Charlie Broadway
Greg Ward Jr. SZN
Folks are gonna believe what they want since the series never happened but just to address a few things...
Ppl bringing up Jordan shytting on Max outside of the Rockets championship years...No shyt! We're talking about when Max was "Mad Max", the crazy, country mfer that jumped on moving cars like he was in a fukking movie. During that short time-frame he was one of the best guys you could put on Jordan. Max lost his soul after the Drexler trade. In the video I posted on the first page he openly says he didn't get over that trade until the past few years. Again he wasn't gonna shut down the gawd but you would've had a difficult time finding guys that frustrated Jordan more than Max.
As for the Jordan/Pippen combo...lemme again say nobody was shutting both of those guys down at that time. That said the Rockets had some good perimeter defenders then, Max, Elie, young Horry. The Rockets had guys to throw at them. On the flip side the Bulls had NOBODY to put on Dream. It would've been fun to see for sure.
Also crazy coincidence that we have someone using KJ going off to make a point about Jordan going off. It just so happens Rudy T spoke about that last night. Rudy was asked about his relationships with his players and he mostly talked about how difficult it was when trades happened and situations like that. Out of nowhere he talked about how he always felt bad about the position he put Kenny in when they played Pheonix. He talked about Kenny always being a team player when most would've bucked back because the gameplan made him look bad. Rudy said under no circumstances were the guys supposed to help him out on KJ. He said they purposely let KJ do whatever he wanted because he knew KJ wasn't going to beat them by himself. Rudy said he was more terrified of KJ getting other guys like Majerle, Ainge getting going because that was when they were at their best. So who knows how Rudy would've decided to guard Jordan but i doubt it would've been the same strategy.
The only other thing I have to add is that I'm not sure everyone understands that Dream was a demigod back then. In my lifetime the ONLY 2 bigs that I can honestly say were completely unstoppable were prime Dream and prime Shaq, that's it. There's way too much "who's guarding MJ/Scottie" and not nearly enough "Hakeem would've annihilated Chicago's bigs".
But anyways, just to echo what others have said, it is beyond unfortunate those teams didn't play in the finals. There is zero doubt in my mind some wild shyt would've went down and we would still be talking about it today.
Ppl bringing up Jordan shytting on Max outside of the Rockets championship years...No shyt! We're talking about when Max was "Mad Max", the crazy, country mfer that jumped on moving cars like he was in a fukking movie. During that short time-frame he was one of the best guys you could put on Jordan. Max lost his soul after the Drexler trade. In the video I posted on the first page he openly says he didn't get over that trade until the past few years. Again he wasn't gonna shut down the gawd but you would've had a difficult time finding guys that frustrated Jordan more than Max.
As for the Jordan/Pippen combo...lemme again say nobody was shutting both of those guys down at that time. That said the Rockets had some good perimeter defenders then, Max, Elie, young Horry. The Rockets had guys to throw at them. On the flip side the Bulls had NOBODY to put on Dream. It would've been fun to see for sure.
Also crazy coincidence that we have someone using KJ going off to make a point about Jordan going off. It just so happens Rudy T spoke about that last night. Rudy was asked about his relationships with his players and he mostly talked about how difficult it was when trades happened and situations like that. Out of nowhere he talked about how he always felt bad about the position he put Kenny in when they played Pheonix. He talked about Kenny always being a team player when most would've bucked back because the gameplan made him look bad. Rudy said under no circumstances were the guys supposed to help him out on KJ. He said they purposely let KJ do whatever he wanted because he knew KJ wasn't going to beat them by himself. Rudy said he was more terrified of KJ getting other guys like Majerle, Ainge getting going because that was when they were at their best. So who knows how Rudy would've decided to guard Jordan but i doubt it would've been the same strategy.
The only other thing I have to add is that I'm not sure everyone understands that Dream was a demigod back then. In my lifetime the ONLY 2 bigs that I can honestly say were completely unstoppable were prime Dream and prime Shaq, that's it. There's way too much "who's guarding MJ/Scottie" and not nearly enough "Hakeem would've annihilated Chicago's bigs".
But anyways, just to echo what others have said, it is beyond unfortunate those teams didn't play in the finals. There is zero doubt in my mind some wild shyt would've went down and we would still be talking about it today.
