[SCOOPBRADIO]Bulls WOULD NOT beat Olajuwon's Rockets in NBA Finals says Robert Horry

You should change your screen name if you believe any of that . This isn't a stanning moment either because if you pick any of the first three-peat Bulls they wouldn't roll 94 or 95 Houston over. OT would have held Horace Grant in check and while Jordan is surely going to drop 30+ a night, it wouldn't have been a cakewalk against MadMax. Maxwell would have chipped in his 16-18 points as well. Pippen? Who's he going to guard? Maxwell? Good, have Jordan switch over to Horry and let MJ waste his energy guarding a bigger/taller player. Pippen guarding Horry? Horry would have been ready for that matchup on the defensive side too. They got role players? So do we-Carl Herrera, Matt Bullard, Sam Cassell and Mario Elie.

This isn't even looking at the most dominant player during that two year stretch either. Hakeem would absolutely annihilate anyone Chicago throws at him. This guy went to war against Shaq, the Admiral, Patrick Ewing, etc and came away a winner. Bill Cartwright, Luc Longley, Will Perdue? Please. Rockets in 6

 

Phil Jackson wrote in his own book that there was no way they would've won in any of those 2 years because the team didn't have it in them to do it again whereas the Rockets were the hungriest team in the league.

 

Well said, and true. It doesn't help that the league, the media, and the shoe industry, of course, were intent on making Jordan a "god." Those who didn't see the teams actually play each other are influenced by that largely successful effort. Houston? We weren't New York, Chicago, or Los Angeles. We were "down there in Texas," which might as well have been the Moon.

We didn't fit the "narrative." We don't today. Today's media darlings are Oakland and now Los Angeles, something the nation's media have yearned for since that team cratered. Today they think that LeBron is returning LA to prominence. They have the name, let's see if they have the game.

 

I understand we dominated them during the regular season. But I don't think it would be the same during the finals

 

Are we doing witch hunts here? There's one user who claims to be a diehard Houston fan but still calls them asterisk championships.

 

As much as despise the arrogance of Phil Jax, there's alot of things that he is right about. This is one of those things. The fatigue factor was setting in with MJ on the Bulls. They barely beat the Knicks in previous seasons The Knicks had a physical, in your face defense with that rugged style of play that Detroit was big on. But, the Knicks were too offensively-challenged to beat any team with fairly good to great offense. You can rough team up, but you still have to out score them. Though, it would've worn Chicago out to play a team like Houston that had a dominant big, with great shooters everywhere with athletic players on the wing who could also defend.

That Bulls had absolutely no one to guard Olajuwon, unless they decided to commit Horace Grant to him, which would've been a good Thorpe. The Knicks were able to neutralize everyone on the Rockets, except Olajuwon and Cassell in a few of the games. But, Houston was able to pull it out.



I I know MJ is arguably an untouchable GOAT, but the Bulls as a team were very beatable for a team that had dominant big or deep roster of full-weapons.

 

The only option Chicago might have tried to stop Dream would be to put Pippen on himbc Pip was a damn good defender. That being said, he would still have gotten destroyed by Dream and basically handicaps the perimeter defense for Chicago, allowing Kenny MadMax or whoeverto drain threes

 

My dad used to speak highly of Horry, he always swore he was a taller version of Pippen who could hit 3s, which Horry could in those days. I don't think Horry worked on his game, like that to develop into that type of player.

 

In '95 we did our part. Bulls failed to make it happen.

So very much fail in that post, I don't know where to begin. So I'll just focus on showing the idiocy of that last line by flipping it:

They were too reliant on Jordan which would eventually hurt them.

WTF? When you have one of the 10 greatest players to ever suit up, you rely on him. That's the way it works!

 

But Horry said this about a year or so ago too...

 

And then Scottie Pippen's Response to that year ago comment … comes in at about 1 min into video …