What if MJ never retired and the Rockets Played them in 94 and 95?

i don't think bulls could of hung with us.

hakeem was to dominate back then.

and the whole team was just so good. we couldn't be stopped

 

Had the Rockets met the Bulls in 96,They would have won, Its a same the NBA had to do a no call on that foul aginst drexler, Im telling you Houston could have taken ANY bulls team.

But I guess its like a midget useing mouthwash, Who would know?

 

TexasG -

I have never before been insulting to an individual on this Board. However, having said that - this is ClutchCity.Net... you are a gigantic ASS

Jordan got more than one of this "game-winners" on obvious push-offs (see Craig Ehlo) !! To say as fact that the Bulls would have won is in your "illustrious" hindsight demonstrates entirely too much ignorance and conceit!! It is sad that you have to improve your self esteem by trying to push garbage and revisionist history down the throats of people who know better.

God, I hope you're not a parent

 

i think dat the bulls could have won more champ than ne team in conservative years. The bulls would have won if MJ didnt retired and played baseball. He got weaken because he went to play baseball. The bulls would have been the best team on nba history. Mj ruined it. It was a stupid decision for him to play baseball.

 

The ROCKETS would still be 2-timing World Champs!!! Joop! Joop! Joooooooooop!

 

well if nixon could've pulled out the 1960 election then maybe the celtics would have won more than anyone in conservative years. and of course clinton was the president so the bulls had no chance to set the conservative record. i guess the showtime lakers must hold the conservative record.

 

Wait wait wait, you expect Jordan to take 1 and 3/4 years off from basketball, come back with no offseason training or practice and dominate the way he did before? C'mon that's ridiculous, he's human, which means rust will set in, especially when you're away from a game as long as he was. Once Jordan was given an offseason, look what happened; he tore everyone up in route to a 72-10 record (Rodman's acquisition was big as well). A rusty Jordan still won 2 games of that series...the next year, once Jordan had an offseason to train, he made Penny look silly in route to a sweep. BTW, Shaq is a dominant low post presence right ?

As to who would win between the Rockets and Bulls, noone will ever know, so it's pointless to argue these ifs, would haves, etc.

 

You're an ass? Is that all you got? Come on now, you can do better than that can't you?

And yet to say that the Rockets would have clearly beaten the Bulls is not showing ignorance and conceit?

Maybe you should take some time off from posting because you're only making yourself look bad.

 

and we had Mad Max and Clyde at the 2 who both played tough D and were as good at anyone at slowing Jordan down.

I like Clyde as much as the next man but let's be serious. Clyde was not a very good one on one defender by the time he came back to Houston. MJ would have made him look worse than he did in the '92 finals when Clyde was a good man defender. That being said, Dream would have willed us to victory and would now be regarded as the man that Mike couldn't beat. How sweet it could have been.

 

Without a doubt in my mind 'THE ROX ALL THE WAY BABY'I know this will just kill some of you Chicago Fans but the 94-95 Rox had their number!
Every year arround thoes years the 'Rox RULED THE ROOST',both in Chicago and Houston, make no mistake I have every game on tape and know what I am talking about.

 

Damnit, where is RockHEAD to post a pic of Hakeem swatting Jordan when you need him.

 

MJ always finds a way to win.

 

Jordan's Bulls vs Hakeem's Rockets would have been amazing series. Damn Sonics/Jazz!



I don't know what would have happened if Jordan never took the 1 and a half year sabbatical to baseball (I'll tell you this, though, the Bulls would not find it easy to win), but if the Rockets did not have this huge achilles heal in Seattle, the Bulls would not have won eight titles in a row. The Rockets would have pulled off at least one title. Jordan vs. Elie(I think the Rockets would have avoided playing Drexler against Jordan, as there were tensions between Clyde and MJ) would have been a bad matchup(It is Michael Jordan, afterall), but Elie held his own against Jordan(Relatively). Pippen would have an edge over Drexler(Not a huge one, though), but Hakeem would have had a field day(4, 5, 6, or 7 field days, rather) against Perdue, Longley, Wennington, and whoever else the Bulls put on Hakeem. Neither team had a dominant PG or PF.

 

Jordan scored 55 points in his third game back in 95. He was hardly rusty.

If Jordan had played in 94 and 95, the Rockets would still have two titles and the Bulls would still have six.

 

The key to answering this question is to first find the answer to the following question:



Do you think Mighty Mouse could beat up Superman?

 

If that is true then why did they lose to the Magic in 95?

 

Did you watch Jordan's comeback at all? If you did, you would have seen that he was indeed rusty. That 55 point outburst was ONE game. Let's just take a look at the entire 17 game stretch that he played in '94-'95 and compare it to his last season before retirement and the season after where he had an entire offseason to train.

'92-'93: 32.6 ppg 49.5 FG% 83.7% FT% 2.8 spg
'94-'95: 26.9 ppg 41.1 FG% 80.1 FT% 1.8 spg
'95-'96: 30.4 ppg 49.5 FG% 83.4 FT% 2.2 spg
That tells the whole story right there.

You try taking a year and 3/4 year off of a sport to concentrate on another sport and then come back without a period of training and see how well you do. It is not possible to not be rusty. Just check the Bulls' performances in '95 compared to '95-'96...it's that simple. How about the Bulls losing to the Magic 4 games to 2 in '95, and in '96 sweeping them? Yes, Michael was rusty. In no way am I saying that the Bulls would have won in Michael's 2 year absence...as I said before, I don't like discussing these if's, would have's, etc. because I think they're pointless, but to say Michael Jordan wasn't rusty after taking almost 2 years off from basketball is just ridiculous.

 

So what? 27 points per game is still excellent production. His shooting percentage was down a bit, but the guy still put up great numbers. You'd think he would have been able to do something in the playoffs, but no, he was beaten by the Magic, who were soundly beaten by the Rockets.

Combine that with the Rockets' superior record against the Bulls in the 90s, and you have a recipe for two Rockets titles over the Bulls.

 

If Jordan's the player you all claim he is, he should be able to be in top shape after almost two months of intense basketball games and practices. In 91-93, the Bulls had Horace Grant in his prime. In 96-98, the Bulls had Dennis Rodman. In 95, they had neither. That's the reason they lost to the Magic; not "Jordan not being quite 100%" or whatever.

 

This is a ludicrous argument but enjoyable. Regardless. I'm remembering Choke/Clutch City of '94. Please, anyone, give me the '93 stats of bulls vs. rocks games and the line of mad max vs. mj. I'm suspecting that the line will prove my point of 94 champs: (rocks would have taken it anyway).

In 97, I remember in the locker room after the bulls won, someone asked mj what about the rockets. MJ said something to the effect: they're a great team, match up well against us but they didn't make it to the finals. Well, the bulls didn't make it 94 or 95. Moot point.