NBA Greatest Duels: Scottie Pippen vs Hakeem Olajuwon (1994)
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- Hakeem Olajuwon, David Robinson and Scottie Pippen were the top ranked players on the MVP list in 93/94 regular season, here's two of them in a great duel in Chicago Stadium.
Hakeem puts on a ''turnaround-fadeaway-jumper'' clinic in this one, great footwork and feel for the game.
Scottie Pippen: 25 points, 12 rebounds, 6 assists, 12/21 FG.
Hakeem Olajuwon: 29 points, 10 rebounds, 4 assists, 12/19 FG.
Bulls won the game 82:76.
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1:25 what a dunk by Pip! 94 was one of my fav seasons
Pippen should have been MVP that year. No one expected the Bulls to be as competitive as they were without Jordan in 93-94. They held their own as defending champs without the GOAT
Pippen did great that season, but Hakeem was on another level. He was fully in his prime, and was a beast. Pippen did very good, but Hakeem was for sure the better player. David Robinson was also fantastic that season as well, and better then Pippen in the regular season.
Considering Jordan had just retired who would ever thought Scottie pippen would have been in the MVP conversation that year. By default due to the circumstance I think he should have been MVP. Hakeem was mvp but I don't think he dealt with the adversity pippen dealt with that year
@@keyturner... The adversity of carrying a team? That was Pippen's job. Olajuwon had the stats, the performance, and innovated as a center as well.
6:08 Hakeem, totally unguardable
no, 9:59 is Olajuwon being completely unguardable. after he did that move 2 or 3 times in a row he would fake fadeaway to the baseline, get the defender in the air then step to the middle for a jump hook. he had about 10 different moves and fakes just from that position in the post. he had about 10 moves for every spot on the court lol. NEVER seen anything like this before and after.
Wow I was overseas missed this, Scottie was the man! !
So was I.....Army stationed in Korea 10/93 - 10/94.....where were you?
I was overseas too! Wow
Who the f cares 😂😂🤔🤔😁😁
@@maintainer747 military?? You're so stupid..
@@staarkilla7123 who the f cares..😂😂
The Pippen-led Bulls actually played better against the Rockets without Jordan.
jaranarm The Bulls prior to this never had options like Kukoc, Kerr, Longley, Wennington or Williams and they actually had to face more of Hakeem in his prime, remember the one that averaged 14 rebounds and 4.6 blocks during a season? He was 27 years old then. This version of Hakeem in the video was 31 years old.
Jxh Nine Hakeem at 31 years old was MVP and Houston didn't add guys like Cassell or Elie prior to this. From 90 to 93 the Jordan-led Bulls (who were the best team in the league and always finished top 4 in defense) lost 5 out of 6 games against the Rockets, a couple games they lost by being blown out. The new guys (Kerr, Kukoc, Wennington) shot a combined 39% against Houston in 94 while Longley and Williams didn't play against the Rockets at all that year, yet the Bulls as a team still evened out that series, with their one loss only because Pippen was out with injury. The Pippen-led Bulls with a bunch of new faces not known for playing great defense held the Rockets to a lower scoring average without Jordan and without team defensive coordinator John Bach that year.
jaranarm He was MVP that year but does that mean anything? Who were his competitors for that title? Jordan was MVP during 97-98 but he wasn't MVP for multiple years in his prime from 86-87, 88-89, 89-90.
I like how you just bring up 90 to 93. That's fine, do you remember there was the Olympics? Do you really think Phil Jackson would ever go all out to add to the wear and tear of his players and also giving team's experience of playing the real Bulls, and having tape for them to study on their defensive and offensive schemes, which would work against them especially against teams with potential of reaching the Finals.
And do you recall when the Rockets won the game at March 25, 1991, at 100-90, and Hakeem only scored 13 points on a pitiful 29% with 6 turnovers and 5 fouls.
And of all 16 official games that they met in before MJ's first retirement, MJ has outscored Hakeem in 12 of the 16 games. And even in his worst shooting game, he was still able to make close to 40%.
jaranarm "The Pippen-led Bulls actually played better against the Rockets without Jordan." Based on one game. You bring up scoring average when it's a one game sample? My...then why don't you just say the Rockets were a better team than first 3peat Bulls since during that time their record was actually 6-2 ( instead of the 5-1 u mentioned) That would make way more sense than your original statement.
+Jxh Nine don't forget about the year the Bulls won 72 games, 1 of their 10 losses came from the Rockets while Barkley was injured.
Pippen owned Horry.
To be fair this was Horry's 2nd year in the league while this was Pippen in his absolute prime.
Horry was always a scrub compared to Scottie. He was supposed to be the next Scottie Pippen, but he was never ever better than a 2000 old Blazers Pippen in his prime.
Bro! Facts!!
Horry played just 16 minutes, how did Pippen "own him" exactly?
goodness how many times did hakeem just turn for the fade
Pippen was always Jordan's mvp, no other honor needed.
Magic Hands you’re my mvp dawg
If the bulls had a decent SG-eg ron harper for retired MJ instead of pete myers, they could have gotten to the finals..
"bulls had a decent SG-eg ron harper for retired MJ instead of pete myers" I thought harper left the Clippers at the end of the 1993 season ... maybe I'm wrong
NameCallingIsWeak after 93-94 season. 94-95 season they grabbed Harper to replace Jordan but he struggled in Chicago and couldn’t steal time away from Pete Myers. Until Jordan came back and Jackson considered a big PG for defensive purposes Harper was out of a defined role in Chicago and may have been Melo’d out of the league sooner than 00-01 retirement from Los Angeles. Oh yeah Jackson saved Harper from wasteland servitude
Hakeem is just unstoppable every time you just can’t guard him
Thx for these videos !!
Pip should be MVP this year
Pippen was great this season, but Hakeem and Robinson were better. Hakeem’s offensive and defensive performance in 93-94 was much better then Pippen although Pippen still did very good. But Hakeem was the best player for sure.
@@romanramirez7847 they already were /#1 player for they team for 3-4 season it was Pip first season as they guy. He was MVP for the reason of who they lost.
@@michaelallen8112 It’s not the “MVP because he kept the Bulls good without Jordan” award, it’s the MVP for the WHOLE league. Hakeem was better and more efficient then Pippen all season.
@@romanramirez7847 yep that what should of been the narrative was they wasn't gonna be playoff team with MJ23. Scottie was riding MJ coattails. What he did was in his 1st yr guy didn't need to score 25+ point Horace and BJ were all star that yr. He he should have been MVP. I get it anything not give credit to any one but MJ23 next
@@michaelallen8112 Good golly. Not every MVP needs to be a narrative thing. Hakeem deserved it 100%, and I’m sad that so many people try to downplay his success that season to glorify Pippen. I know Pippen was still great that season, but Hakeem was just better in every way.
This was of course WGN-TV Channel 9
Great footage
There's no way that horry could shut down pip for an entire 7 game series
Bob Robinson he wouldn't have to. Jordan would've shut Pippen down by taking the ball out of his hand!
Horry only played 16 minutes this game though, he was 6'10 with the speed of a traditional SF that's obviously a very difficult matchup for Pippen.
@@armandodelossantos736 Jordan did not take ball out of pippen’s hand. Jordan can playoff ball.
Yeah. That's what Charles Smith thought.
@@jaysonadams4962 Charles Smith wasn't a SF he was playing out of position.
They had fun without the mighty one. I miss these guys.
Bulls were that stupid "phantom foul" away from the Finals. Even the ref admitted it that summer. SMH, Pippen was torching the league that year. This woulda have been a great series
Rockets-Bulls would have been a great series for sure. I don’t know who would have won (Both Hakeem and Pippen stepped up their games considerably in that postseason) and they both had solid supporting teams. It’s one of the biggest “What-Ifs?” in NBA history.
Very good video, that was the 1990s basketball, the greatest era in the history of NBA. So many great players playing in all the clubs and their focus was to win the title. The love of game was at its peak and you only have to watch each game played in NBA and the 'dream teams' in the Olympics in 92, 96 and 2000 to appreciate the caliber and the class of the 1990s players. The current crop of players, they moved around from club to club looking for bigger pay packet. They demanded on the fans to appreciate their game, no way. There only few who have earned fans respect Steph Curry is the first name that comes to mind but LeBron will never be in that list.
NBA Jam 1994 Jordanless Edition
Pippen 1-0 vs Hakeem in 1994
Hold up. Robert Horry said that HE would lock up PIPPEN? Lie number one
Then Kenny Smith says that the rockets could BEAT the Jordan led bulls? YOU could not even beat the PIPPEN led bulls!
Erik Hopkins the bulls were a better team without Jordan! Jordan avg over 30 against the rockets during the first 3 peat and lost by an avg of 11p a game! Having Jordan on the team would've taken away Pippen's effectiveness and it would've been an easy series rockets winning in 5!
Because the Pippen led bulls didn't make it haha. Neither did the Jordan led bulls the next year
@@IronMan_thno The Pippen led Bulls were robbed in New York on a bogus foul...Pippen ran past Hubert Davis shooting a 3 and was called for a foul that no one else saw....go find the replay......otherwise, the Rockets may only have one ring...IMHO
@@maintainer747 man, I've watched basketball since the late 80's, I've seen all this shit. Those bulls even with Jordan wouldn't have beat Houston so doesn't really matter.
@@IronMan_thno So this game was a fluke???
if that is thee Larry the Legend from Indiana/Boston?! what up& God bless!
This was supposed to be the '94 finals matchup.
+DAB901 why? what about the pacers?
Naw bruh naw.
DAB901 Houston Rockets would win
If Michael Jordan the G.O.A.T. hadn't retired from the NBA in 1993. The Bulls would've beaten the Rockets in the 1994 NBA finals in 7 games.
Horry was no match for Pippen at small forward.
this was when scottie still had a field goal percentage
aka before he hurt his back. After he hurt his back he slowed considerably (last two years bulls run)
1:21 OOOPH!
4:15 watch this play
It was in the Chicago Stadium
fixed, thanks for the comment!
0:31 I like that dunk that Robert Horry does.
Pip play like mini MJ that year!!!
Robert Horry completely was goaltending
So no Pippen, you would not have guarded Hakeem in the finals. They were double and tripling him here and he made these shots. Great defender, but that would have been asking to lose.
Smart guy. He didn't say he be guarding The Dream. He said he would cut the head off first, meaning he going after who feed the ball to The Dream. The point guard. Stop trying to troll people.
@@tonyjohnson4347 The Rockets didn't use the traditional point guard system the rest of the league used their system consisted of team ball which would've made it more difficult to really gameplan for the Rockets. Plus Pippen would be matched up with Horry often and that's actually an advantage for the Rockets. Horry had even longer arms than Pippen and he usually played off the ball compared to Pippen who handled the ball, Pippen would more likely be fatigued down the stretch by Horry's defense than vice versa.
Why does this game looks like a 1988 or 1989 game
there is no doubt that olajuwon would give the bulls a fit in the paint, even with the 2nd 3 peat team hakeem was superior ( far superior than the early shaq the bulls faced). but to say the rockets could beat this bulls is a bit exaggerated. hard to imagine any guys from rockets could contain both pippen and jordan at the same time.
+popeyeisgood The greatness of Hakeem came from the fact that he probably had the shittiest teammates for a championship winning team in 94, give Hakeem Rodman and Pippen, he could've 3 peat too.
don't forget Horace Grant!!!
popeyeisgood go back and watch the tapes from 1990-1993. Rockets were 5-1 against them!
DJVijilante go back to watch the last 50 years or so of nba and tell me how regular season wins always counts!
popeyeisgood you're exactly right and more so for the reason to say it's a myth. Look at how the Rockets did in the regular season and then how they stepped it up in the playoffs! 6th seed beating 3 60+ win teams and a 59 win team!
The Jet was not that good, don't let him fool you on TV
Tim S he burned Stockton up pretty good in 94
Jordan just played well talent wise against Maxwell but Jordan didn't have malice against and I don't know why...Maxwell is a John Starks some times great some times not ...
This NBA Jam edition : No Jordan
WTF. Bulls won this game or not?? Anyway they played well against this very tough, packed Houston!! Even without MJ. Pippen played very well!!!
0:31 Damn, what the fuck.
Pippen jukes Olajuwon twice on the perimeter
Horry would have locked up Pip. Right.... not.
Walt Grace no he wouldn't have but with Jordan on the bulls, he would've shut Pippen down by not letting him shoot!
Horry played just 16 minutes he wasn't the primary defender at least half the game, if not more than that.
wow I never knew the bulls beat the rockets without Jordan! The bulls would have won without A doubt in 94 and 95 if Jordan never retired; and I would even pick the Bulls to win in 99,00 and 01 if the team stayed intact boy were they great
Horry played only 16 minutes, besides the Rockets lost 23 other times that season losing this game didn't really mean much.
Record set straight ‼️🙏🏼
in 94-95, with the Bulls @ their weakest during the Jordan/Pippen "6peat years", 87-88 to 97-98: the Bulls split with the Rockets 1-1. This, without Horace Grant 🏆🏆🏆(Orl), without Cartwright 🏆🏆🏆(Sea), without Scott Williams 🏆🏆🏆(Phi). This, against the 1994 defending champion Rockets pre-Drexler for Thorpe trade. This, with Perdue 🏆🏆🏆, who was discarded in 94 because Williams, Cartwright, Longley, and Wennington were all more useful. This, also with Longley (0 rings by 95), with Corie Blount (no Rodman or Grant), with Wennington and Simpkins. The Bulls had a combined 3 trophies amongst their big men in 95, as compared to 12-15 trophies amongst their 94 big men. These center-challenged '95 🐂Bulls🐂 held Hakeem to 2/18 shooting, .111 % ‼️‼️‼️1 ast, 1 stl, 1 blk and won 100-83.
Meanwhile the Bulls retarded tandem of Purdue, Blount, Longley, Wennington and Simpkins went for 27 pts, 23 rebs, 8 assists and 4 steals vs Hakeem, Thorpe and Herreras combined 27 pts ,15 from Hakeem, 23 rebs, 2 asts, 1 stl, 1 blk.
Not to mention 1993-94 , the biggest year in question for the Jordan and Chicago vs Hakeem and Houston "what if?"... The Bulls were again 1-1 with Houston and they were 1-0 with Pippen vs Hakeem, 0-1 with Grant vs Hakeem. The Grant game: when Houston was in the middle of their 22-1 1993 start to the 94 season and playoff.
Houston didn't really own Chicago in 94 or 95. In the only two seasons in the 90's where Houston proved they were even good enough to challenge Chicago, they were 2-2 vs a transitional Bulls team without Jordan for all 4 games, without Pippen for 1, Pippen 2-1 vs Hakeem & Houston, and without Grant for 2 games, 1-1.
Another major caveat is that the 94 Bulls were adding Kukoc to Jordan, Pippen and Grant. Which is the second best 4some Chicago would have ever had with potential to be no.1 because it is only arguable that Jordan, Pippen, Rodman, Kukoc are better than the former (but 72-10 and 🏆🏆🏆 is hard proof to surpass 🤣).
The 1994 Bulls with Airness, Scottie, Horace and Toni, may have been the best Bulls team of the 90's and maybe their best offensive team ever as Kukoc / Grant > Rodman on offense.
The 1994 Rockets were not facing the 1993 Bulls. It would have been 1993 Bulls plus Kukoc and Airness back for a 4 peat. The Rockets would have played a different Bulls team in 94 and 95 finals then their regular season foe from 91-93 in Chicago... in regards to those seasons of 91 and 92, and the 61-21 and 67-15 Bulls vs 52-30 and 42-40 Rockets... in the playoffs? Good luck to Houston even winning a game.
The only realistic chance when it counted, that Houston ever had was in 1993 when Houston was 55-27, and Chicago was 57-25 (still Chicago has home court 🤣) . The 1993 Bulls were already fortunate enough to upset NY and PHX teams with home court advantage. Not saying Houston wouldn't have done the same upsetting of Chicago in a 93 series, just saying no guarantee and that Chicago already climbed greater mountains in 93 playoffs than facing Houston would have been.
Just saying that the Bulls 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 proves their pedigree really well. And if they faced Houston in every final from 91-95 with Airness in all finals, with Kukoc in 94 and 95, Pippen in all finals, Grant in all finals, the Bulls would have been the favorite. They would have had home court, and they would have had the better team with question mark over 93.... All that considered, the Bulls are @ worst 4-1 vs Houston in finals from 91-95, potential to be 5-0 like 60's Celts on Lakers tip, and had they gone to 8 straight from 91-98, and with combinations of rosters with Grant, Rodman, Kukoc, Harper, Airness, Armstrong, Cartwright, Pippen, the Bulls would most likely be 7-1, if not 8-0 vs Houston in all finals.
But this myth that the 5-1 reg season records of Houston vs Chicago in 91-93 affects the 94 Bulls or even upsets 91 and 92 Bulls teaams is ridiculous, far-fetched, short-sided and ultimately disrespectful and ignorant.
Which is why Maxwell and Horry woofing is as annoying as a Trump rally. It's called being wrong and not caring how stupid you sound.
i thought Horry said he would lock Scottie up?
He only played 16 minutes this game.
@@ChrisM07 Scottie gave him buckets for 16 minutes.
@@efrain926 Pippen scored a lot of those points with Elie guarding him that was a better matchup for Pippen with Elie being the size of a guard Horry was 6'10 in comparison. It's just interesting they show a game where Pippen actually plays well against the Rockets and there's boasting about how Pippen "owned them", he didn't have these type of games often when playing the Rockets.
@@efrain926 The Rockets had double digit losses to the Bullets and Celtics who were lottery teams in between this game, losing to the Bulls by 6 isn't really that big of a deal tbh.
@@ChrisM07 Horry was talented and they dont call him big shot Rob for nothing, dude had ice in his veins. I still will take Scottie Pippen everyday of the week and twice on Sunday over him.
How come Rockets never won a championship in 91 92 93 96 97 98, they only won when Jordan retired 2 years, some comments here about Rockets having the Bulls number ?
The Bulls core was usually kept intact while the Rockets kept trading players away. They even had the worst winning % out of all the contending West teams of that era they weren't known for being a consistent regular season team, this season where they won their 1st championship was actually the only time they were in the top 5 both before and after the All Star break.
hue hollins was sweating Knicks gave Hubert Davis a call that was supposed to be no call corny F. k
where is MJ?
Playing baseball
Playing baseball
Riding the 🚎 bus playing ⚾️ baseball for Birmingham Barons, a triple A team and the White Sox in exhibition vs the Cubs. Living life a little bit.
tell Kenny Smith that kukoc 6:11 pippen were not guradable ..Thorpe horry couldn't guard both . so no way rockets win
Robert Coca you're forgetting that Jordan would've taken away about 25% of their shots so it would've been easier for the rockets to win, if Jordan was on the bulls!
Horry only played 16 minutes, also the Rockets had very athletic forwards they would've been a terrible matchup for Kukoc who wasn't much of a physical player.
Rockets lucky bulls best them ..easy ....kukoc Kerr pippen we're spots Houston had no answer for
1. The Rockets lost by just 6 points.
2. Horry played less than half his usual minutes this game.
And the Rockets fans still believes they can defeat Bulls with Jordan.....NO WAY
You're basing this off one game? Cool.
@@tdvu I am based on the fact that Chicago sent 3 players to all star game in 94 + Kukoc and Kerr arrived and you add to this equation de GOAT....Houston was extremely lucky he retired
@@carlosgarcia8342 "extremely lucky" such a tired argument. Rockets wouldnt be able to contain Jordan. Bulls wouldn't have contained Olajuwon. One team and its superstar came to play both years. Not their fault MJ decided to do something else.
@@carlosgarcia8342 sending 3 players to the all star game =/= title. By your logic, the 2011 Miami Heat with their trio of all stars won the title against the Mavericks 🤷🏻♂️
@@tdvu just remember Pippen took the Knicks to a 7 game battle, the same games it took Hakeem to beat the knicks....sorry but I dont buy it MJ would have won 8 if he want to do it PERIOD
Too bad pip aint have one more piece that year other then pete meyers. Even if they had ron harper that year they prolly wouldve beat the rockets in the finals, barring that bullshit ass call against the knicks in game seven
Harper actually wouldn't have had that much of an impact against the Rockets they relied more on team ball rather than guard play in getting the team involved, that meant it varied from game to game who led the Rockets in assist.
Pip couldn't hold a candle....actually neither could MJ.
not even close. olajuwon is a great Player, pippen is a supporting good player to Jordan. that's pippen's legacy.