Stockton/Malone played 18 seasons together and were eliminated in the 1st round 9 times

[Armchair Militant]

Yikes

 

[NYC Rebel]

1990. 55 win team. Lost 3-2 to Phoenix, including a 2 pt loss in the winner take all game.

The Jazz had a 9 pt lead with 7 minutes to go in game 5. Then scored 1 pt in 4:30.

Malone was 6-12 from the line and said they were “complacent.” KJ said the Jazz “questioned themselves.”

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I remember Malone clanking those FTs.

 

[NYC Rebel]

By the start of 1991, people were openly questioning the Jazz.

In 1991, they lost to Portland, 4-2. Malone had a turnover to lose game 4. Sound familiar?

In game 5, they gave a 16-0 run in the 3rd period…by not scoring for the first 5 minutes in the second half.

This is why I would never complain about this era of basketball. Scoring drought 90s NBA ball was disgusting to watch.

Jordan pixie dust got folks fooled

 

[NYC Rebel]

Choke artists

 

[inndaskKy]

Malone missed 10 games in 18 seasons

Stockton missed 22 games in 19 seasons

That’s what impresses me

Word is that when Stockton missed that 22nd game Malone started calling him John Street Clothes

Missing more than 1 game per season on average


Malone was like f*ck outta here John

 

[Knights89]

Choke artists

that twitter thread noted 3 of 6 MJ championships were against perennial chockers in Seattle and Utah, but I would add Portland to that list as well. So 2/3 not half . And that's nothing against MJ because he deserves all his props

 

[NYC Rebel]

that twitter thread noted 3 of 6 MJ championships were against perennial chockers in Seattle and Utah, but I would add Portland to that list as well. So 2/3 not half . And that's nothing against MJ because he deserves all his props

Portland may be worse than the Jazz when it comes to choking

 

[mastermind]

Malone and Stockton.

Their legacies are propped up by their longevity, which smoothed over their shortcomings of being passive and not having scoring skillsets and mentalities that were conducive to winning basketball.

Stockton shied away from being aggressive when the Jazz needed him to score; he's given a pass for this because of the bullshyt archaic thinking that was attached to him being a pure PG. Malone didn't have a 1v1 scoring skillset and 'alpha' mentality that many of his peers had. He was a master at capitalizing on easy scoring opportunities, as it was his main source of scoring to make up for a lack of skill. He had a habit of fading in-and-out of games too because he didn't have a demeanor of winning by any means necessary.

As iconic as they were as a duo, they were also the worst kind of duo because they didn't have contrasting personalities to balance each other out.

Yeah. This is it.

I think Sloan was a better coach than those two as players.

 

[Big Boss]

The best team in the 90s that didn't win the championship

 

[Sauce Dab]

Neither of them were aggressive enough when it came to scoring. shyt like that gets exposed in the playoffs

 

[mastermind]

The best team in the 90s that didn't win the championship

They weren’t

The 1992-93 Suns were.

 

[Boogie]

Did they really only score 54 points in an ENTIRE game?

In the finals at that?

But that was real basketball right?

 

[987654321]

I remember someone saying Karl scored more points than anyone in history(other than Kareem at the time) but if I needed a basket with my life on the line there are so many others guys I’d go to because he didn’t have that elite 1-1 scoring skill set

It seems crazy for a guy who scored over 30,000 points but it’s true

Didn’t they have a rule gimmick-y offense.

 

[ReturnOfJudah]

Jazz were floppers and played hoe ball too. That style works in the regular season

 

[Osmosis]

MJ's comp