the subject is touchy, because those debating wont allow the argument to have a middle ground.
i in no way am saying pippen was a scrub. what i was pointing out was on the premises of what the thread starter said, jordan did not have a team that kept him from being doubled teamed. rodman was no scoring threat. teams laid off him all the time. pippen was not dynamic enough of a scorer to bring all the attention of the defense on him enough to keep jordan from a double team. jordan still dealt with many nights of teams doubling him. this is not calling pippen a scrub, this is just a fact. if you watch many of the older bulls games jordan still dealt with heavy double teams on most nights. it was only a few teams like the knicks, heat who would go man to man and not send the double cause they really feared the open shooters like bj, hodges, paxson, then later kerr, buchler, kukoc. but it was no other player on those bulls squads that commanded a double every night, enough to keep mj single covered.
and none of what im saying is to totally agree with the premises of what the op is saying, but when this argument is made, many people keep bringing up pippen and rodman, and act like it still wasnt many of nights jordan had to go complete ham to get wins.