Our 93-95 championship rockets vs a Jordan equipped league..

First you say this:

Then after jcage says this:

You say this:

So you are contradicting, because first you said is silly think that the Rockets beating Jordan in the finals, but then you say if they have met in 95 finals, then the bulls probably would lost. So where is the sense in your posts?? You dont back your previous words??

Then in other of your posts you say this:

and if Jordan is a God and the bulls were so great, why they didnt play in 95 finals, and lost to "inferior" teams in the East so they couldn't get their hands on the rockets.

 

Can you make any sense out of your post? I never said Jordan is God. I really have no time to further answer your incoherent post.

 

the funny thing is this dude keeps talking about school, which the Rockets did to the Bulls when they met in the 80s and early 90s

they schooled them and Dream was the bus driver.


Paper: HOUSTON CHRONICLE
Date: FRI 02/02/1990
Section: Sports
Page: 1
Edition: 3 STAR

Rockets crush Bulls 139-112/Chicago's newfound unity fades into thin Air Jordan

By EDDIE SEFKO
Staff

If this were golf, the Rockets today would be deflecting accusations that they are sandbaggers.

Whether or not it was by design, the Rockets set up Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls for a big fall, then slugged them Thursday night with a 139-112 haymaker that must have caught the visitors from the blind side.

The Bulls, after all, had spent the night before doing homework. They had watched the Rockets on television blowing a fourth-quarter lead, missing nine of their last 10 shots and losing at Dallas.

It was enough to give anybody a serious case of overconfidence.

"I think that they thought we would come out timid," said John Lucas. "And we didn't. We came out strong, hitting our shots.

As a result, fans at the sold-out Summit saw the best of both worlds. Jordan was airborne much of the night, scoring 35 points. And the Rockets got a runaway win.

It was a great game all the way around, unless you were a Bull.

"I don't think we showed up," Jordan said. "I don't call that a game. There wasn't any ball played on our part.' Considering the Rockets plowed through the Bulls' defense to a 41-21 first-quarter lead and widened the gap to 34 by the fourth quarter, Jordan was right.

The Rockets established season highs with 41 first-quarter points, 77 first-half points and 139 points for the game.

In their eternal pursuit for the .500 mark, they now are 21-23.

Otis Thorpe had 30 points and 13 rebounds, playing his best overall game of the season. It was his best point production since he had 33 in the fourth game of the season.

He had loads of help. All five Rockets scored at least 16 points. Akeem Olajuwon had 23 points. Sleepy Floyd had 20 points, hitting all three of his three-point shots in the process.

Sometimes, the Rockets can look pretty good when they play five-on-five basketball.

Playing five-on-one, they can look downright invincible.

They ganged up on Jordan.

The Rockets breezed by the Bulls like they were nothing but Air. And, on this night, Chicago was nothing but Air.

The Air Jordan show was magnificent as Chicago's superstar scored 25 points in the first half. He could have posted a remarkable scoring night had the score not gotten out of hand. He sat almost the entire fourth quarter.

"I have only one thing to say," Chicago Coach Phil Jackson said. "This was one of the longest nights I've ever spent in the NBA. And I've been in the league 18 years.

"The Rockets were terrific. And we were equally as bad.' Affirmative on both counts. The Rockets hit their first seven shots, fired in 72 percent of their attempts in the first quarter and hardly slowed down the rest of the way.

For the game they knocked in 62 percent of their field-goal tries.

"It's really amazing what a day will do for a team," Coach Don Chaney said. "Last night (Wednesday against Dallas) we couldn't buy a basket.

"Tonight, we shot the ball from all over and made everything.' In a way, it was no surprise. The Rockets continue to be a good home team and an awful one when they step outside the city limits.

"It's driving me crazy," Chaney said, "because I can't figure out why we can't hit a shot on the road. At home, we take shots and know they are going in. On the road, we're a different team.' But for one night, the Rockets successfully stole the spotlight from Jordan, although he had his moments.

He scored 15 second-quarter points, mostly on swooping drives to the basket, levitating above and beyond the Houston defense when necessary.

And while the Bulls may have subconsciously been underestimating the Rockets, Houston certainly got a boost by Jordan's once-yearly visit to The Summit.

"There's no question that when you've got a great player like him, your intensity level rises," Chaney said. "I was worried about this game because of the fatigue factor.

"But I don't care how you feel. When you go against somebody like Jordan, you get up for those games.' And the Rockets were never in trouble. They steadily increased the lead. Their shooting was as good as it has been all season.

"When you shoot the ball like we did tonight, everything falls,"said Mitchell Wiggins.

Including the Bulls.

But then, they were set up for the putdown.