Now, I know you gotta be young.
THE WHOLE WORLD considered Scottie Pippen to be soft until they won in '91
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2. Yes, The Bulls were BARELY over .500 in an East that was nowhere near what it was in the heyday of the Celtics, 76ers, and Pistons in the '80s. Jordan came back and lifted them to only the 3rd place team in the Central Division.
They were running on empty
3. And yes, Scottie was in his rookie year, but he didn't even make the ALL-ROOKIE team his rookie year. He wasn't even one of the 10 best rookies in his draft class at the time.
Derrick McKey had a better rookie season than he did.
And since when is averaging 14 and 16 points per game make you all that in the NBA? Especially back then when teams used to regularly score 110 points a game?
Like I said, he was nowhere near a great player until his 3rd and 4th years after years of Jordan and Oakley bullying him and pushing him to get better, or else
So, wait?
Clyde played with Shaq, LeBron, and Chris Bosh caliber players now?
I don't think so.
Any one of those players is better than ANYBODY Clyde played with until he got to Houston to play with an old Hakeem Olajuwon.
HAHAHAHA
Shaq alone deads that argument, and so does Pau Gasol and Andrew Bynum.
Please.
The best backcourt of the time was Isiah Thomas and Joe Dumars
1. They never made it out of the first round of the playoffs. End of discussion.
2. Who else did they need to make into a Hall of Famer?
Jordan came in '84, Oakley in '85, and Pippen in '87.
It's not like they had 10 years or something to mold other players. They just realized with Pippen and Horace Grant that the Bulls were never gonna get them any help and so they stopped bytching about it and got to work on Pippen.
Once Pippen finally stopped playing like a bytch in the playoffs in 1991, it was on. Unfortunately, Oak had to leave before that, but Pippen himself will tell you about how big a role Oak had on those old Bulls teams.