Oh hell yea... I'm a diehard Bulls fan, but I never considered Pippen better than Worthy, at least not comparing them in their prime. Worthy was a monster!
@@drizzejohnson5767 Zero Lakers fans who watched the 91 Finals claim Pippen was better than Worthy. That's just young idiots who listen to Nick Wright.
Same here Die Hard Bulls Fan but Pip ain't no where close to Worthy, sorry but he just got out shined by Magic & Kareem and hey this is wht those LECHOKE fans cannot do, which is Accept the Truth.
Funny thing is Pippen almost did get moved prior to the trade deadline in 1990-91 and had they not beaten Detroit that season, Pippen would have been gone from Chicago.
@@conditionallyunconditional5691 cylde wouldn't have slandered mj out of jealousy 25 years later. Pippin isn't a good person he's bitch made. He would fit in with this knew generation.
Keep up the good work. I bet the likes of Nick Wright has never really watched MJ played. I did! I became a fan of playing and watching basketball solely because of MJ since 91’.
Indeed, most of us were basketball fanatics because of MJ. Like my 1st jersey was Larry Johnson Charlotte Hornets but when #23 came on or it was a inside stuff segment on him especially as a child everything stops. MJ taking the game global is something no player in the age of social media could've done. Michael Jackson reached out to Jordan for the jam video that's how big Jordan was without social media/internet.
Bro the defense without fouling is like glue, now when do these dudes in this era have time to shoot these 30 three point shots per game when the guy not only makes you work for every shot today but you have to earn it with dudes glued too you. Example is Reggie Miller having to run around 3 screens just get off a shot off still with a hand trying to block you. I mean this is body to body but today you will get suspended by the league if you even try to practice defense in practice 😅
Thanks! There are a few of you(which is sad🤣).who speak the truth and bring that truth to light. Plus, your style of commentary is exceptional. You’re plugged in. You’re not alone and you are appreciated
Cartwright deserves more love as well. Bill cut opposing centers scoring and rebound numbers in half, and as much as Mike HATED getting rid of Oakley, he has always maintained that the Bulls don't win without Cartwright.
I understand the hate for Pippen but he was a solid second. Love watching these games and thanks for the upload. There will never be another Mike, Kobe was the closest thing I've ever seen, pure drive and determination.
I agree, I would even go more than solid and say Pippen is one of the greatest seconds in a great team. But we have to understand what this video is trying to point out -- 'this is an answer to the narrative that MJ couldn't guard Magic and Pippen had to switch to Magic which made Bulls beat that Lakers team' -- and this has proven that narrative a big lie. The switch was necessary in protecting MJ from getting into early foul trouble which is always done by all coaches and teams for their star players. And it was not because MJ was struggling against Magic, in fact he was making Magic tentative -- for one, Pippen was struggling to guard Worthy and all he did was do a decent job against Magic. Magic even started to become aggressive once Pippen picked him up.
@@teslasneighbor3583missing shots doesn’t mean he’s a bad shooter or scorer. That’s a lame argument. It’s like saying LeBron is a shitty passer because he’s first all time in turnovers. Neither of those things are true.
I watched the entire series. Had to go down memory lane and rewatch game 1. Pundits never mention that Magic won the MVP the season before and in 91 he was second in MVP voting. The 90 season for Magic he won it with out having Kareem on his team. It could be argued that Barkley was robbed for the award but I believe the Lakers had a better record. The narrative that the lakers and Magic was old is a complete lie and narrative. Jordan and the bulls in the 91 season played lights out
His court vision & playmaking ability combined with the crazy unique style is poetry in motion. Magic did have one deficiency (lateral quickness) that thankfully didn't hinder him as much in his era. He would have some issues covering today's quicker PGs. I mean look closely and they hiding Magic on D having him cover Bulls weakest Offensive threat almost every D possession. Magic wasn't a bad defensive player cause his size n athleticism but he had real issues with quicker guards. MJ would blow by Magic 1v1 cause MJ 1st step was legendary
AOF. Love the video. I disagree with pippen not playing good defense. But you highlight how mj actually played better defense. And I like you breaking down classics like this. So Peppin good defense, but mj help defense was insane to match his on ball defense.
See this is just a small sample size of what type of player Pippen was. Those of us who saw this real time know that Pippen had A LOT of wholes in his game. All the praise he got was only because he played with MJ. Would he have been on the dream team without MJ? One of the 50 greatest players without MJ? Top 75 without MJ? No! If the bulls didn't Pick him up draft night he would have been out the league in 3 years.
if they never played together and neither ever won a chip, when talking about Jordan people would say he was the greatest player never to win a chip. when talking about Pippen people would be saying "Scottie who?"
@ritchierich6133 this is facts...think about this for a sec. Remember that loaded blazers team Pippen played for. With Rasheed Wallace... bonzi well... Rod Strickland...Arvydas Sabonis...Steve Smith and more? Imagine if jordan was put in place of pippen on that team. That's 7 rings easily for jordan. Pippen being on that team they was eliminated by the lakers.
I used to think lebron was the goat cause I grew up watching him This channel has helped me realise how disrespectful it is to mention him with anyone else
I was only able to watch the 2nd 3-peat, but from what I remember, MJ looks lije he carried the team to win, yeah it is a team game, but as an eye test from pov of an 11 year old viewer, he carried the team.
So where does this “MJ didn’t guard Magic in game 2” come from? And in the short time pippen guarded magic in this quarter, Magic was taking him to the hole. It is also funny when people say that Magic cooked Jordan in that 1st game. If anyone watches the game, you will see Magic did 90% of his damage against other players or when MJ was off the court.
19:11 Scottie Pippen, what are you doing.. 🤦Terrible defense, and then a turnover? Lebron fans really tried to make it seem like Scottie carried Jordan.
I want people to go listen to Scottie Pippen post game interview after game 5 in LA when the Bulls won. Listen to what he said 👂🏾 so what LeBozo fans will say? Oh uh uh uh the audio fake so what if Scottie lips moving it isn't real 😒
@@Tdouble-y4b Bob Costas Immediately After Game 5 Asked Scottie About Game 2 👉🏾 Scottie Pippen Michael was able to PUT ALOT MORE PRESSURE ON MAGIC THAT'S WHY PHIL STUCK WITH HIM 👉🏾 THAT'S WHY PHIL STUCK WITH HIM 👉🏾 THAT'S WHY PHIL STUCK WITH HIM. See what people have done was used Game 2 of Pippen picking up Magic full court as something that happened the whole series and 👉🏾 IT DID NOT 👉🏾 IT DID NOT 👉🏾 IT DID NOT happen the whole series it was Game 2 when Jordan got into foul trouble, now for the series Jordan was the primary defender on Magic an this has never even been questioned until LeBozo fans came around. Same thing I tell my sons I'd tell anyone regarding this era go back an watch it we are in the age of technology, go watch these damn games man an see for yourself alot of lies an half narratives about Michael get thrown around when most of it isn't even accurate. Pippen out his own mouth said the coach stuck with Michael because he put more pressure on Magic, Scottie said this ok not me. I knew this already but telling LeBozo fans something is like talking to a damn wall.
@KingBreeze07 Well, that's the thing, Brontards dont watch the games. They watch highlights. The dude has more followers on social media than most folks, you would think it translates to the NBA getting more views than they're getting.
@@trowabarton321Absolutely, it's pitiful. Especially alot of things they say you can tell these guys didn't watch MJ, 1st 3Peat or 2nd probably not even his wizards years they do exactly what you said, highlights Shannon Sharpe an Nick wright an think these are actual NBA masterminds.
@@KingBreeze07 they also spout the same things. "Oh Magic cooked MJ, that's why Scottie switches onto him." They watched that highlight, thats probably on the espn flashback show or something and never watched the whole damn game/series otherwise they would know that Jordan defended Magic 80% of the time throughout the series. They talk/mostly parrot things they know nothing about and haven’t watched/researched first hand. And not all Bron fans are Brontards a lot of Bron fans are cool. But the Brontards out of other crazy fans are among the worst.
@12:38 + Commentator says, "Put Pippen on Magic, to give JORDAN a break on Defense." Then MJ immediately picks up someone else's man and BLOCKS the SHIT out of his shot! Jordan doesn't take rests on Defense! (Also, moments earlier, look how much Jordan is sweating compared to Pippen. The Full court defense of MJ guarding Magic, caused him to sweat excessively. Then after switch, MJ still doesn't rest, but continues playing TENACIOUS defense! That's 2 huge blocks already for Jordan in the 1st quarter alone. And yeah, they didn't count that block on Divac, which they called a foul.) Then after the block sent ball out of bounds, MJ intercepted the inbound pass to Divac! He is the greatest defender of all-time...IMO unbiased opinion. About PIP, at 14:4, Pippen even fumbled the uncontested rebound of Magic's missed shot, after Grant's assistance forced Magic to miss. Yes, it was good "D" from Pip, and I heard the CROWD suddenly getting HYPED UP. But You are so right, the reason Magic challenged Pip, but NOT MJ, is because he was afraid of Jordan, but unafraid of Scottie. Everyone probably overlooked this alarmingly obvious aspect, until you pointed it out for us! @15:33 when Scottie AIRBALLS the open jumper, it confirms that he was obviously crumbling under the pressure! Mental weakness; which explains why he fumbled the excellent alley-oop pass from Jordan earlier.
Imagine the construction workers today with the latest power tools making fun of the construction workers in the 60’s because they did most work by hand and very little power tools of today . That is what the nba does to their past players, they make the rule’s easier to pass, rebound, assist and score but then the nba let’s the nba criticize their own great past players saying they weren’t athletic as this era today. Well if you didn’t change the rules to help todays players out and they played under the same past rules and were better players then ok but after the Lebron era got beat twice in the Olympics, the first time ever by American nba players is when the league knew that this Lebron era of guys lacked the really skills and fundamentals to even beat international plumbers. Thus they had to change the rules of defense to a no touch era just to make these dudes in the Lebron era look better than they are. Bro wtf we received two bronze medals in a row on teams Lebron played on. Not dissing Kobe but Kobe was not playing on the level he was in the 90’s or early 2000’s before this new no touch defense era happened when he started scoring 8 40 point games in a row.
I see what happened here. MJ was the best at guarding Magic. But at one point there was a switch, Pippen was left on Magic and did a good job. On the next possession, he played Magic full court, and put so much effort into it that it got the crowd going. When Phil Jackson saw this, he took out a guard (Paxon) and put in a small forward (Livingston) to guard Worthy. Jordan and Pipen became the guards. Pippen was now guarding Magic, not as good as Jordan but good enough, and this gave MJ greater freedom to roam around on defense and do his thing. So overall, the defense became tighter. This is why collective memory remembers that Pippen taking Magic was the turning point.
You cant watch this and still be seriously thinking that Scottie shut down Magic. Magiv is taking him all the way to the hole, no resitance whatsoever. Scottie is getting saved by help D of his teammates. Heck, even Jordan took a charge for him, and wheres Scottie? Standing 3-5ft away from his man who just blown past him. Scottie the Best Defender... woah.
I love Magic but the man was NOT a great defensive presence. Avg D but his size and athleticism helped make up for it a bunch. I mean if you watch closely the Lakers are literally hiding him on D. He dont cover any1 but Paxson or Cartwright cause like him they both lacked lateral quickness. Whats even more ridiculous is it just shows how on another level Magic was offensively. Man was a avg defender yet, rightfully so, goes down as 1 of they greatest players in NBA history.
I really liked that call by the referees. One saw one way the other saw it a different way, so let's do a jump ball and keep the game going. If that was today's it would have taken the referees 5 minutes to review the play slowing the game to halt
Phil made the switch because Jordan ran out of gas defending Magic, who at the time was legitimately a top-five player in the league (MVP in 1990, First-Team All-NBA and 2nd in MVP voting in 1991 behind Jordan). His offense suffered as a result. The big gamble in defense was switching Jordan out to guard Vlade. Pip did his darndest best, but his defense on Magic was overrated. He just happened to be the best substitute because the Bulls had problems with the mismatch Magic presented, he was too quick for most of their forwards, whom they also needed to defend the big Laker frontline, and only Hopson among all their guards was tall enough to match up against Magic.
Good to see this footage. But saying LeBron hasn’t denied and defended guys is an ignorant and not true statement. I’ve watched that with my own eyes too, especially before getting older. And this isn’t a MJ vs LeBron argument, I like both
Chicago was weak; the Lakers gave them that series... Worthy and Perkins helped out their UNC teammate, mainly Worthy in being a non-factor in this series.
When I was watching in the early 90’s, it’s pretty clear to me and to most people that James Worthy was actually better than Scottie Pippen.
Oh hell yea... I'm a diehard Bulls fan, but I never considered Pippen better than Worthy, at least not comparing them in their prime. Worthy was a monster!
Yes it is comical when Laker fans claim Pipp was better
@@drizzejohnson5767 Zero Lakers fans who watched the 91 Finals claim Pippen was better than Worthy. That's just young idiots who listen to Nick Wright.
Same here Die Hard Bulls Fan but Pip ain't no where close to Worthy, sorry but he just got out shined by Magic & Kareem and hey this is wht those LECHOKE fans cannot do, which is Accept the Truth.
I would take worthy over pippy anyday.
Mike went off in this game. Scored 13 consecutive field goals, talk about impressive...
Mj treated Pippin better than Bron treated any of his teammates. Bron would have had Pippin traded.
MJ said no Pippen, no Jordan. They kept scottie. Shouldve traded for Clyde Drexler. You know the rest.
Funny thing is Pippen almost did get moved prior to the trade deadline in 1990-91 and had they not beaten Detroit that season, Pippen would have been gone from Chicago.
@@conditionallyunconditional5691 cylde wouldn't have slandered mj out of jealousy 25 years later. Pippin isn't a good person he's bitch made. He would fit in with this knew generation.
Tracy McGrady said the Bulls wanted to trade Scottie for him but Mike wasn't having it.
When a man brings receipts, He brings receipts. Can’t be mad about that.
Boom, straight to the film again. AOH is the truth
Jordan for the 91 finals averaged 31ppg 56% and 11assist
He also registered 14 steals which is a finals record (pretty sure it hasn't been broken yet anyway)
MJ with those super crisp passes that the mid 80s Celtics constantly made, where I was always like "Damn, I would have dropped that."
Jordan had decent success defending Magic, but Magic had ZERO success defending Jordan.
Keep up the good work. I bet the likes of Nick Wright has never really watched MJ played. I did! I became a fan of playing and watching basketball solely because of MJ since 91’.
Indeed, most of us were basketball fanatics because of MJ. Like my 1st jersey was Larry Johnson Charlotte Hornets but when #23 came on or it was a inside stuff segment on him especially as a child everything stops. MJ taking the game global is something no player in the age of social media could've done. Michael Jackson reached out to Jordan for the jam video that's how big Jordan was without social media/internet.
Nick Wright has probably never dribbled a basketball in his life. If he did, I bet it went out of bounds off his foot.
Bro the defense without fouling is like glue, now when do these dudes in this era have time to shoot these 30 three point shots per game when the guy not only makes you work for every shot today but you have to earn it with dudes glued too you. Example is Reggie Miller having to run around 3 screens just get off a shot off still with a hand trying to block you. I mean this is body to body but today you will get suspended by the league if you even try to practice defense in practice 😅
Thanks! There are a few of you(which is sad🤣).who speak the truth and bring that truth to light. Plus, your style of commentary is exceptional. You’re plugged in. You’re not alone and you are appreciated
I'll never forget watching this game. After game 1 I was so disappointed and worried... but after this game, everything changed.
It's funny how young fans slobber over Pippen but never give Grant the credit he deserves for his contribution on offense and defense.
Cartwright deserves more love as well. Bill cut opposing centers scoring and rebound numbers in half, and as much as Mike HATED getting rid of Oakley, he has always maintained that the Bulls don't win without Cartwright.
I understand the hate for Pippen but he was a solid second. Love watching these games and thanks for the upload.
There will never be another Mike, Kobe was the closest thing I've ever seen, pure drive and determination.
Solid second isn't really saying much when you compare it to most other super star help.
Kobe is #1...
In all-time missed shots! (14,481)
Close to MJ in how he played, not what he was as a player to me.
I agree, I would even go more than solid and say Pippen is one of the greatest seconds in a great team.
But we have to understand what this video is trying to point out -- 'this is an answer to the narrative that MJ couldn't guard Magic and Pippen had to switch to Magic which made Bulls beat that Lakers team' -- and this has proven that narrative a big lie. The switch was necessary in protecting MJ from getting into early foul trouble which is always done by all coaches and teams for their star players. And it was not because MJ was struggling against Magic, in fact he was making Magic tentative -- for one, Pippen was struggling to guard Worthy and all he did was do a decent job against Magic. Magic even started to become aggressive once Pippen picked him up.
@@teslasneighbor3583missing shots doesn’t mean he’s a bad shooter or scorer. That’s a lame argument.
It’s like saying LeBron is a shitty passer because he’s first all time in turnovers.
Neither of those things are true.
@@J23LA24 LeBron is a shitty passer and is massively overated. So... that's lame and shitty argument at the same time!
It’s awesome to rewatch those games again…miss those days….that’s was my very first NBA finals series I watched as a teen! ☺️
me to. lol.
That's what kills me about Pippen. He missed more easy shots than he made. That guy used to aggravate the hell out of me!
I watched the entire series. Had to go down memory lane and rewatch game 1. Pundits never mention that Magic won the MVP the season before and in 91 he was second in MVP voting. The 90 season for Magic he won it with out having Kareem on his team. It could be argued that Barkley was robbed for the award but I believe the Lakers had a better record. The narrative that the lakers and Magic was old is a complete lie and narrative. Jordan and the bulls in the 91 season played lights out
The announcers were saying MJ was the best guy to guard Magic Johnson, but you might have to pick and choose the minutes.
Magic's passing is like Jordan's scoring to me. Every time I see it, no matter how many times I've seen it, I just go wow...
His court vision & playmaking ability combined with the crazy unique style is poetry in motion.
Magic did have one deficiency (lateral quickness) that thankfully didn't hinder him as much in his era. He would have some issues covering today's quicker PGs. I mean look closely and they hiding Magic on D having him cover Bulls weakest Offensive threat almost every D possession. Magic wasn't a bad defensive player cause his size n athleticism but he had real issues with quicker guards. MJ would blow by Magic 1v1 cause MJ 1st step was legendary
Jordan averaged 11 assists this series.
@@adamm8136 every great pg was an awful defender
AOF. Love the video. I disagree with pippen not playing good defense. But you highlight how mj actually played better defense. And I like you breaking down classics like this. So Peppin good defense, but mj help defense was insane to match his on ball defense.
I really want to see Q2,Q3, and Q4 haha your commentary is pure GOLD!
See this is just a small sample size of what type of player Pippen was. Those of us who saw this real time know that Pippen had A LOT of wholes in his game. All the praise he got was only because he played with MJ. Would he have been on the dream team without MJ? One of the 50 greatest players without MJ? Top 75 without MJ? No! If the bulls didn't Pick him up draft night he would have been out the league in 3 years.
if they never played together and neither ever won a chip, when talking about Jordan people would say he was the greatest player never to win a chip. when talking about Pippen people would be saying "Scottie who?"
@ritchierich6133 this is facts...think about this for a sec. Remember that loaded blazers team Pippen played for. With Rasheed Wallace... bonzi well... Rod Strickland...Arvydas Sabonis...Steve Smith and more? Imagine if jordan was put in place of pippen on that team. That's 7 rings easily for jordan. Pippen being on that team they was eliminated by the lakers.
@@visionary515 imagine if Jordan played on Huston with dream and barkley, that would be 7 rings, then do Portland, 8 rings
@@ritchierich6133 easily... that right there is the difference between jordan and pippen.
@visionarythugsta well not the only difference but I get what you are saying.
Prime AD is 5x better than Pippen
Nah man!!! 10x
And Wade is 20x better
Was just about to say
Horace grant ate alot because of jordan constantly passing him tge ball under the goal
Thank you for dispelling mainstream media narratives...mike is an always has been a better Defender then scottie
“Take a little break” they say as Jordan immediately comes over and blocks a shot before they even finish their sentence ha. Some break!
Keep up the good work mate.
Facts 👌🏾 People needed this.
Horace Grant scored Dam Near all of his Points on the Bulls with Assists from MJ.
I'm shocked that you didn't highlight LeFlop James inspiration, idol and the O.G. Flop King Vlade Divac. Lmfao 🤣🤣
Magic taught Vlade how to flop
@@mostmost1 lmfao!!! Maybe but Vlade perfected that tactical move!! Lmfao
I used to think lebron was the goat cause I grew up watching him
This channel has helped me realise how disrespectful it is to mention him with anyone else
I was only able to watch the 2nd 3-peat, but from what I remember, MJ looks lije he carried the team to win, yeah it is a team game, but as an eye test from pov of an 11 year old viewer, he carried the team.
So where does this “MJ didn’t guard Magic in game 2” come from?
And in the short time pippen guarded magic in this quarter, Magic was taking him to the hole.
It is also funny when people say that Magic cooked Jordan in that 1st game. If anyone watches the game, you will see Magic did 90% of his damage against other players or when MJ was off the court.
19:11 Scottie Pippen, what are you doing.. 🤦Terrible defense, and then a turnover? Lebron fans really tried to make it seem like Scottie carried Jordan.
Fun fact: MJ and James Worthy were teammates in college in North Carolina. Jordan assists and passes are of artistry.
Pippen has more playoff games shooting under 30% than he does scoring 30 points
Pippen was reaching and got burned...
Jordan would say you reach I'll teach...
Pippen gambled alot
true but Jordan gambled a lot on defense to and got burnt more than once.
Thanks again for the good work your doing
Priceless
Miss seeing defence.
Thanks!
I want people to go listen to Scottie Pippen post game interview after game 5 in LA when the Bulls won. Listen to what he said 👂🏾 so what LeBozo fans will say? Oh uh uh uh the audio fake so what if Scottie lips moving it isn't real 😒
What he say since we here?
@@Tdouble-y4b Bob Costas Immediately After Game 5 Asked Scottie About Game 2 👉🏾 Scottie Pippen Michael was able to PUT ALOT MORE PRESSURE ON MAGIC THAT'S WHY PHIL STUCK WITH HIM 👉🏾 THAT'S WHY PHIL STUCK WITH HIM 👉🏾 THAT'S WHY PHIL STUCK WITH HIM. See what people have done was used Game 2 of Pippen picking up Magic full court as something that happened the whole series and 👉🏾 IT DID NOT 👉🏾 IT DID NOT 👉🏾 IT DID NOT happen the whole series it was Game 2 when Jordan got into foul trouble, now for the series Jordan was the primary defender on Magic an this has never even been questioned until LeBozo fans came around. Same thing I tell my sons I'd tell anyone regarding this era go back an watch it we are in the age of technology, go watch these damn games man an see for yourself alot of lies an half narratives about Michael get thrown around when most of it isn't even accurate. Pippen out his own mouth said the coach stuck with Michael because he put more pressure on Magic, Scottie said this ok not me. I knew this already but telling LeBozo fans something is like talking to a damn wall.
@KingBreeze07 Well, that's the thing, Brontards dont watch the games. They watch highlights. The dude has more followers on social media than most folks, you would think it translates to the NBA getting more views than they're getting.
@@trowabarton321Absolutely, it's pitiful. Especially alot of things they say you can tell these guys didn't watch MJ, 1st 3Peat or 2nd probably not even his wizards years they do exactly what you said, highlights Shannon Sharpe an Nick wright an think these are actual NBA masterminds.
@@KingBreeze07 they also spout the same things. "Oh Magic cooked MJ, that's why Scottie switches onto him." They watched that highlight, thats probably on the espn flashback show or something and never watched the whole damn game/series otherwise they would know that Jordan defended Magic 80% of the time throughout the series. They talk/mostly parrot things they know nothing about and haven’t watched/researched first hand. And not all Bron fans are Brontards a lot of Bron fans are cool. But the Brontards out of other crazy fans are among the worst.
See people like me and you remember and when Nick Wright gave Scottie all the credit
@12:38 + Commentator says, "Put Pippen on Magic, to give JORDAN a break on Defense." Then MJ immediately picks up someone else's man and BLOCKS the SHIT out of his shot! Jordan doesn't take rests on Defense! (Also, moments earlier, look how much Jordan is sweating compared to Pippen. The Full court defense of MJ guarding Magic, caused him to sweat excessively. Then after switch, MJ still doesn't rest, but continues playing TENACIOUS defense! That's 2 huge blocks already for Jordan in the 1st quarter alone. And yeah, they didn't count that block on Divac, which they called a foul.) Then after the block sent ball out of bounds, MJ intercepted the inbound pass to Divac! He is the greatest defender of all-time...IMO unbiased opinion. About PIP, at 14:4, Pippen even fumbled the uncontested rebound of Magic's missed shot, after Grant's assistance forced Magic to miss. Yes, it was good "D" from Pip, and I heard the CROWD suddenly getting HYPED UP. But You are so right, the reason Magic challenged Pip, but NOT MJ, is because he was afraid of Jordan, but unafraid of Scottie. Everyone probably overlooked this alarmingly obvious aspect, until you pointed it out for us! @15:33 when Scottie AIRBALLS the open jumper, it confirms that he was obviously crumbling under the pressure! Mental weakness; which explains why he fumbled the excellent alley-oop pass from Jordan earlier.
Scottie Brickin
Imagine the construction workers today with the latest power tools making fun of the construction workers in the 60’s because they did most work by hand and very little power tools of today . That is what the nba does to their past players, they make the rule’s easier to pass, rebound, assist and score but then the nba let’s the nba criticize their own great past players saying they weren’t athletic as this era today. Well if you didn’t change the rules to help todays players out and they played under the same past rules and were better players then ok but after the Lebron era got beat twice in the Olympics, the first time ever by American nba players is when the league knew that this Lebron era of guys lacked the really skills and fundamentals to even beat international plumbers. Thus they had to change the rules of defense to a no touch era just to make these dudes in the Lebron era look better than they are. Bro wtf we received two bronze medals in a row on teams Lebron played on. Not dissing Kobe but Kobe was not playing on the level he was in the 90’s or early 2000’s before this new no touch defense era happened when he started scoring 8 40 point games in a row.
I'm with you on your points, but gotta remind you the USA only lost Olympics once. 2004.
I disagree with that. Even MJ has said that Kobe would succeed in any era.
Your disgust for pippen is almost as much as “space ice’” disgust for Steven seagal
Fuckin love it
I see what happened here.
MJ was the best at guarding Magic. But at one point there was a switch, Pippen was left on Magic and did a good job. On the next possession, he played Magic full court, and put so much effort into it that it got the crowd going. When Phil Jackson saw this, he took out a guard (Paxon) and put in a small forward (Livingston) to guard Worthy. Jordan and Pipen became the guards. Pippen was now guarding Magic, not as good as Jordan but good enough, and this gave MJ greater freedom to roam around on defense and do his thing. So overall, the defense became tighter. This is why collective memory remembers that Pippen taking Magic was the turning point.
wish u would do more of these.
You cant watch this and still be seriously thinking that Scottie shut down Magic. Magiv is taking him all the way to the hole, no resitance whatsoever. Scottie is getting saved by help D of his teammates. Heck, even Jordan took a charge for him, and wheres Scottie? Standing 3-5ft away from his man who just blown past him.
Scottie the Best Defender... woah.
I love Magic but the man was NOT a great defensive presence. Avg D but his size and athleticism helped make up for it a bunch. I mean if you watch closely the Lakers are literally hiding him on D. He dont cover any1 but Paxson or Cartwright cause like him they both lacked lateral quickness.
Whats even more ridiculous is it just shows how on another level Magic was offensively. Man was a avg defender yet, rightfully so, goes down as 1 of they greatest players in NBA history.
More of these AOF
The Bulls loved slow, lumbering centers.
Good upload
Le Rest is never sweating like a Jordan 😂
I really liked that call by the referees. One saw one way the other saw it a different way, so let's do a jump ball and keep the game going. If that was today's it would have taken the referees 5 minutes to review the play slowing the game to halt
I mis Marv..
Do you kids not see the difference in hustle? The dominance on both sides of the ball?
But they say mj isn't a great passer. Lebron is a better passer
12:41 "take a little break on defense for a while" michael runs over and obliterates klays dad shot 😂
Phil made the switch because Jordan ran out of gas defending Magic, who at the time was legitimately a top-five player in the league (MVP in 1990, First-Team All-NBA and 2nd in MVP voting in 1991 behind Jordan). His offense suffered as a result. The big gamble in defense was switching Jordan out to guard Vlade. Pip did his darndest best, but his defense on Magic was overrated. He just happened to be the best substitute because the Bulls had problems with the mismatch Magic presented, he was too quick for most of their forwards, whom they also needed to defend the big Laker frontline, and only Hopson among all their guards was tall enough to match up against Magic.
Lebalco is the gen Z version of Magic
Do a video on Jokic seal voo plaid.
I guess the film doesn't lie huh?
I remember when sam Perkins came and played for the pacers lol I’ll say that was not the same sam
Good to see this footage. But saying LeBron hasn’t denied and defended guys is an ignorant and not true statement. I’ve watched that with my own eyes too, especially before getting older. And this isn’t a MJ vs LeBron argument, I like both
43 Mychal Thompson for Lakers is Klay's dad, if anyone didn't know
Scottie on second cuz there was no one else that scored fr
there is no way lebron is better playmaker than jordan or bird let alone magic
Lmao Pippen cost Michael an assist???? The pass barely got up to the rim 😭😭😭.
Seems like you dont like pippen 😂
Like u can do better man 😂
Nah what he doesn't like is clowns making up bullshit. The fans today don't know shit about basketball in the '80s and '90s.
AOH is just tired of the BS narrative that Scottie carried Mike, and he's showing proof to debunk that fake narrative.
Chicago was weak; the Lakers gave them that series... Worthy and Perkins helped out their UNC teammate, mainly Worthy in being a non-factor in this series.
Cuckoo cuckoo
Wish scottie never had started his whining, its pathetic. Everyone knows MJ was a far, far, far superior player in all facets of the game.