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

PURE

 

Well we just had someone who said that 1994 didn't exist then got banned.
So, I don't know for sure.

Love how Horry still reps Clutch City

 

The irony in all of this is that the person speaking, Horry is the X factor which the Bulls couldn't handle.

That early 90s Horry was extremely athletic and could defend many positions and shoot 3s. Not regular 3s, pressure, playoff series 3s.

Sorry should have said he would have done Scotty like he did him against Portland vs the Lakers.

 

That was one of the most watched playoff series, the Bulls vs Magic, yet like in Men In Black fashion, everyone forgets what happened.

 

Dude we Rockets fans in the 90s watched Maxwell harass MJ.

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These games did happen.

Rockets stop Bulls, Jordan/Defense keys 94-83 victory
By EDDIE SEFKO
Staff

Rudy Tomjanovich was ecstatic after what might become one of the most important victories of the season. Michael Jordan was slumped in disappointment.

Yet they reflected on the Rockets' thorough 94-83 slamming of the Chicago Bulls on Thursday night, and came up with the same analysis.

"We were very focused and very intense," said the Rockets' coach. "I just wish we could be that way against some of the sub-.500 teams. If we could, we'd be sitting up there with a great record right now."

Countered Jordan, "Maybe if they played us every night, they would have a better record."

It was just like old times. The house was full, the Rockets were rolling and the Bulls were beaten soundly.

The Rockets knocked off Chicago in front of the first sellout of the season at The Summit, a gathering that included former President George Bush and a squad of stunned, lifeless Bulls.

The Bulls lost for the fifth consecutive season in their annual visit to Houston. Only one of those five Rockets wins was a nail-biter.

Overall, the Rockets have won five of six from the Bulls over the last three seasons. This year's two-game sweep was by an average of 12.5 points.

Thursday's win was as dominating as one over the twice-defending world champions could be. Chicago needed to score the last eight points just to make it respectable.

"This is the most unspectacular of all the wins Houston has laid on us," Bulls coach Phil Jackson said.

Presumably, he meant the Bulls were at their worst. They certainly looked it, although the Rockets had plenty to do with that.

Chicago shot just 42 percent from the field, had its second-lowest point total of the season and gave up 51 percent shooting to the Rockets.

Vernon Maxwell led some of the best defense the Rockets have played by clamping down on Jordan. With Hakeem Olajuwon playing goalie under the basket, Maxwell was able to confront and, at times, agitate Jordan into 12-for-27 shooting. Jordan's 26 points were six less than his season average, and none of the other Bulls had their shooting lenses on.

As a result, the Rockets humiliated the Bulls for much of the game. And they did it without Olajuwon scoring a basket in the second half. But he was ever the force with his shot blocking, intimidation and rebounding.

When it was done, the Rockets had halted a two-game losing trend before it became one of those all-out streaks.

"Obviously, this is a very big win for our franchise," Tomjanovich said. "We had our first sellout crowd and after the way we played those last two games, the timing was perfect to do this.

"Our team needed to get back to this level of intensity."

The Rockets did what they had to to stump the Bulls. They kept Chicago from getting out on the fast break by outrebounding the Bulls 46-33. The Rockets got good shots and they got to the free-throw line 25 times compared to eight for the visitors.

And, of course, The Maxwell Spell on Jordan continued.

Two segments capsulized the entire game. The first came at the end of the first half.

With the Rockets up 38-34 2:53 before halftime, Scottie Pippen (17 points, 7-for-17 shooting) was called for an offensive foul under the basket. At the same time, Jordan and Maxwell got tangled up and pushed off each other.

The pair exchanged angry glares and even more angry words. Maxwell could be heard saying: "You're going down. You're going down."

Jordan responded constantly, although his words were inaudible.

Maxwell said Jordan elbowed him in the neck. "I just told him if he did it again, I was going after him," Maxwell said.

What followed was three minutes of impressive one-on-one battling.

Robert Horry took a nice lob feed from Maxwell, who made the right decision by not trying to force something silly on Jordan, who was guarding him tightly.

Horry was fouled and sank one of two free throws. Olajuwon connected after a Pippen turnover, but the Bulls came right back with a lob from Pippen to Jordan that resulted in a beautiful slam on a play on which Maxwell was fooled.

Maxwell then worked on Jordan and was fouled on a move to the basket. That tied the individual score at 1.

The next two possessions ended in turnovers. Maxwell forced a bad pass by Jordan, then Jordan stole a pass from Otis Thorpe to Maxwell.

The Maxwell-Jordan scorecard stayed tied; the game certainly didn't. The half, which ended with the Rockets holding a stunning, and well-earned, 48-38 advantage, ended with a Jordan jumper and four Kenny Smith points.

The Rockets finished the half with a 17-8 run. Jordan said the second period sealed the Bulls' fate.

"It was frustrating when Houston had a terrible quarter and we had even a worse quarter," Jordan said. "They've got our number right now and Houston is playing extremely well.

In the third quarter, the Rockets built a 15-point lead, then saw it reduced to 66-60 when the Bulls opened the fourth with a bucket.

But the Rockets had avoided the pitfall. In the final two minutes of the third quarter, the Bulls were shut out. The Rockets got only two points, but they came in dramatic fashion.

A bucket by Horry was disallowed when the acrobatic forward hung on the rim to fire in his own missed dunk. That's a no-no.

But when Thorpe followed Scott Brooks on a fast break, it paid off because Thorpe got a tip-in at the third-quarter buzzer. That bonus bucket changed the tone of the game.

"Scottie took it to the basket and got nothing," Jackson said. "Then they got a tip-in at the buzzer. That changed the energy."

The Rockets buried the Bulls with a 12-2 run early in the fourth quarter, a surge capped by Maxwell's 3-pointer.

The Rockets never had to sweat down the stretch.