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http://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/199803220TOR.html Chicago Bulls at Toronto Raptors Box Score, March 22, 1998 <PRE> Basi Starters MP FG FGA FG% 3P 3PA 3P% FT FTA FT% ORB DRB TRB AST STL BLK TOV PF PTS Dennis Rodman 44:00 3 5 .600 0 0 3 3 1.000 9 9 18 3 0 0 1 4 9 Scottie Pippen 43:00 13 23 .565 1 6 .167 6 6 1.000 0 5 5 5 2 1 4 4 33 Michael Jordan 41:00 13 28 .464 0 2 .000 7 7 1.000 0 4 4 3 5 3 2 3 33 Toni Kukoc 36:00 4 11 .364 2 5 .400 0 0 2 3 5 5 1 3 3 2 10 Ron Harper 22:00 2 7 .286 0 1 .000 0 0 3 4 7 3 1 1 1 1 4 Reserves MP FG FGA FG% 3P 3PA 3P% FT FTA FT% ORB DRB TRB AST STL BLK TOV PF PTS Steve Kerr 26:00 4 9 .444 0 1 .000 1 1 1.000 0 1 1 5 1 0 0 0 9 Randy Brown 13:00 1 4 .250 0 0 0 1 .000 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 Jud Buechler 4:00 1 1 1.000 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0 0 0 1 2 Scott Burrell 4:00 0 2 .000 0 1 .000 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 2 0 Dickey Simpkins 4:00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 1 0 1 0 0 Bill Wennington 3:00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Team Totals 240 41 90 .456 3 16 .188 17 18 .944 15 29 44 28 12 8 13 17 102 </PRE> <PRE> Basi Starters MP FG FGA FG% 3P 3PA 3P% FT FTA FT% ORB DRB TRB AST STL BLK TOV PF PTS Doug Christie 41:00 8 18 .444 1 4 .250 3 4 .750 3 6 9 4 0 0 3 1 20 Marcus Camby 38:00 11 21 .524 0 0 1 2 .500 5 3 8 1 0 4 4 3 23 Chauncey Billups 37:00 3 12 .250 0 4 .000 5 5 1.000 1 1 2 4 2 0 0 2 11 Tracy McGrady 35:00 4 10 .400 2 2 1.000 2 2 1.000 3 6 9 8 1 5 1 0 12 John Wallace 31:00 10 23 .435 0 0 6 7 .857 4 2 6 2 2 1 3 3 26 Reserves MP FG FGA FG% 3P 3PA 3P% FT FTA FT% ORB DRB TRB AST STL BLK TOV PF PTS Dee Brown 29:00 2 7 .286 0 1 .000 0 0 0 3 3 2 1 3 1 2 4 Reggie Slater 15:00 0 1 .000 0 0 0 0 3 3 6 0 0 0 1 2 0 Oliver Miller 8:00 2 3 .667 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 2 1 0 2 2 4 John Thomas 4:00 0 1 .000 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 Chris Garner 2:00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 Team Totals 240 40 96 .417 3 11 .273 17 20 .850 21 26 47 24 7 13 15 16 100 </PRE>
You know T-Mac was primarily used as a defender that time? Posting his boxscore makes no sense, even more when he's new to the league and Jordan in his better years. Not defending T-Mac's comments, but you postin that boxscore makes no sense.
Michael Jordan still scored 33 points, so did Scottie Pippen. Tracy McGrady (the defender) was in that game
Not a T-Mac fan at all, but that box score is actually kinda beastly for a young player... a near triple double with 5 blocks? Yikes... That being said - his comments were obviously idiotic, and as atomicanderz suggested, him and the rapist should get a room. Maybe at a Colorado hotel so Kobe can really do work on T-Mac.
He was still a rookie though, plus MJ only had a 46.8 fg%, not lighting it up. I also love how you nitpick that one game out of their three(T-Mac only played in 3 games vs. them 97/98) in that season. Jordan was 4-16 for 11pts on Dec 13. Jordan was 5-9 for 16pts on Feb 19. What's your point now?
That example I used still shows Jordan vs Tmac. You pointed out other games, those are good examples too, but they don't tell the whole story nor discredits my example. Jordan can be defended. Nick Anderson did it in 95, Maxwell, Dumars.. Tmac faced Kobe more often and in Kobe's prime. Tmac never faced the younger Jordan, so he's not making a logical comparison. That was Jordan age 34. He averaged 28pts/game and won a championship. Tracy is 32 now. Tmac is just running his mouth on the comments, funny stuff
3 games tell more of a story than one game, you probably hoped no one would look up the other games and think Jordan dropped 30+ in every game they met. At least admit your example doesn't prove **** or discredit McGrady.
you realize Jordan was 34 at the time right? His supposedly last year. You do realize that McGrady now at 32 is a chinese basketball league player or bench rider in the NBA. you know what Jordan did that year? he won a championship..
look, i hate t-mac as much as the next guy because he quit on us and everything but he was once a rocket your hate toward t-mac is unbelievable. and i don't agree with t-mac about kobe being tougher
That doesn't explain anyhow why you nitpicked one boxscore to "prove" something and left out the bad ones. Love how you always run away to other points when your original point gets busted.
That game still happened. He still gave up 33 points to MJ or Pippen. McGrady is still running his mouth. And that's my point.
