John Stockton was a lowkey Thug on the Basketball Court

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Outside of the Bulls, 90s NBA teams were of lower quality compared to the 80s. Heads can get mad. I said this during the 90s.

Coaches and players said the same thing during that time. Rodman said during the 95-96 that winning was so easy because the league was watered down. Expansion made the talent more spread out. MJ said he thought he could “steal” a title in 95’ when he came back from baseball because the teams were weaker.

Sometimes it’s used as an argument against MJ, but I don’t put much stock in it. The teams he beat were less deep than the 80s top teams, but so were the Bulls

All I know is he is currently shout out on the #1 song in the world

Never seen a rapper spit about CP3

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The Game name dropped Chris Paul (what a shock lol). Luda also.
 

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The Malone-Stockton Jazz had complete stability for a decade together from 1985-1995, and during that time they were a horrible 6-10 in playoff series. They lost in the 1st round 6 times, only made the WCF twice, and didn't make the Finals once in their first decade together.

They weren't even losing to good seeds for the most part. They lost to the 4-seed Mavs in the first round '86, got upset by the 5-seed Warriors in the first round '87, got upset swept by the 7-seed Warriors in the first round '89, got upset by 5-seed Mavs in the first round '90, lost to 3-seed Sonics in the first round '93, upset by 6-seed Rockets in the first round '95, even got taken to Game 7 after blowing a 3-0 lead against the 8-seed Nuggets in '94.



That's embarassing for what was a LOADED team. How you have two HOFers who are supposedly among the best-ever at their positions with a HOF coach and a solid supporting cast and yet you're losing in the first round every year? Karl Malone was already 22 and Stockton was 23 when they came together, they joined a squad coming off a WCSF appearance that had Adrian Dantley, Thurl Bailey, Rickey Green, and Mark Eaton. Adrian Dantley left after a year, but that team always had very good swingmen (first Thurl Bailey and Darrell Griffith, then Jeff Malone, then Jeff Hornacek) along with a DPOY at center in Mark Eaton and a deep bench, plus Jerry Sloan came in 1989 and they had coaching consistency from a HOF coach for a decade. And all they did was LOSE.


Jazz finally made the Finals in 1997, but that wasn't because they got better after a decade of fukking up in the playoffs, it was because everyone else aged out and the Western Conference got weak as hell for a couple years. Once Duncan came in and Kobe grew up with Phil it was all over for them again.
Jordan's toughest comp was this bum ass team :dead:
 

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Always had that stone look on his face. No buddy buddy shyt. Played in a very physical, even dirty era as usually the smallest guy on the court, but was tough and durable as hell. Rarely missed any games.
 

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Jordan's toughest comp was this bum ass team :dead:



You tweaked't.

Plus from this talk.
You need to say what channel and network.

you saw all these bulls game on.
Imma put you throughed't it.

If you say flaug.
Lying about wgn.


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Always had that stone look on his face. No buddy buddy shyt. Played in a very physical, even dirty era as usually the smallest guy on the court, but was tough and durable as hell. Rarely missed any games.

That part wasn't actually true, at 6'1" 175lbs he was very much a normal size for a point guard in that era. First year I checked was 1997, that year there were 37 players in the league that were 6'1" or shorter, another 23 who were 6'2". Almost 15% of the league. Most of those were starters or at least major rotation players too. And even some of the taller players were skinny as hell - Ennis Whatley was 6'3" 177, Kenny Smith was 6'3" 170. So for the most part he was being matched by someone the same size as himself.
 
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