The sonics played illegal defense against the Rockets and the refs couldn't call it every time. I still think each team is different and we've beaten them with different variations of the Rockets We never got to see Sam Cassell / Mario / Drexler combo vs the Jordan Bulls
The Toni kukoc matchup would have been a problem just like how kukoc put up 21 on the pacers in game 7 of east coast finals in 1998. Kukoc scored more than pippen in a game 7 ecf! Jordan had a way of setting up the opponent. Jordan was gonna get 10 free throws regardless.
I don't want offend the KENNARD WINCHESTER ONLY FANS but Mario Elie and or Sam Cassell are much better than his 3.4 points a game Yes , that was Kennard Winchester in that video against a championship Bulls team.
Jordan was looking for kukoc the entire game 7 against pacers in 1998. 1st kukoc score...mj passes to kukoc, mj sets a down screen and never asks for ball. 2nd kukoc score..mj comes off down screen passes to kukoc and doesn't move 3rd kukoc score...free throws 4th kukoc score...kukoc shoots off down screen 5th kukoc score...off offensive rebound 6th-9th---kukoc scores multiple three's off the triangle with mj getting double teamed.
spoken like a true bulls fan and you fail mention the 3 refs that were on the bulls side in that series
I just watched Dream bamboozle Robinson again. I was thinking, had Robinson outplayed Dream that series, would he be considered better than Dream today by a causal fan? Robinson was doing some special things around that time like quadruple doubles and 71 point games and a scoring title. I think for a much as that series catapulted Dream's legend status, it really tarnished Robinson's legacy. What are time that was to be an NBA fan. Every game had a buzz to it. I think the NBA should have an Old Timers game during the All Star Weekend. Have the 95 West play the 95 East. Half the guys could probably use the money. Would love to see who still had game.
Kukoc ran a basic end line down screen like basic Sprint drills that people run. Kukoc just scored about fifteen or eighteen points moving without the ball in 98 ecf. Kukoc was about 6' 10'' or so feet tall.
Bulls would get rockets into foul trouble for sure like they did trailblazers in a nba finals. Drexler did lose to jordan in a finals. In the finals, Drexler was in foul trouble, fouling out of game 2. I was surprised to learn Clyde drexler fouled out of game 2. As did Kersey fouled in game 2. Duckworth, the trailblazer center, fouled out of game 3.
Actually, Clyde drexler fouled out of two games in the 1992 finals, games 2 and 5. Clyde drexler almost fouled out of game 6 of the finals with five fouls in 1992 versus bulls. https://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/199206140CHI.html Jordan had the power to get you fouled out of a finals or playoffs game. The bulls got three Portland players fouled out of a nba finals in 1992. Ducksworth, jerome Kersey, and Clyde drexler got fouled out of a finals.
