Flashback: Scottie Pippen 24 Points vs Cleveland in 1988

[RoundMoundOfReb]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M79eJyW_T0M

Jordan and the Bulls had gone 1-9 in the last 3 playoff series...Enter: Scottie Pippen. In his rookie year, in a do or die game 5 in the first Pippen put up 24 points, lifting the Bulls over the Cavaliers and past the first round.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e4/Lipofsky_Pippen.jpg

:applause:

[dubeta]

:applause: :bowdown:


What should we nickname thick d*ck Pippen? I was thinking we name him Mr. 9-1, the opposite of MJ

[HylianNightmare]

He shouldn't have gotten called for the reverse but he traveled on the tight rope

[LeFraud James]

OP doing everything he can to discredit Kobe and MJ just in case LeBron loses in the Finals yet again.

Pathetic.

[Taller than CP3]

Doesn't count, Lebron was only 3 years old back then.

[Roundball_Rock]

What makes this more impressive is this was Pippen's first career start. Collins, after Chicago blew a 2-0 lead, rolled the dice and inserted Pippen into the starting lineup hoping for a spark. Needless to say, it worked. Without Pippen's performance the Bulls would have lost in the first round for the fourth consecutive year.

[3ball]

Enter: Scottie Pippen


Exactly, the minute MJ had just 1 player even remotely close to all-star caliber, he went 6/6..

Think about that last sentence for a second.

[Trollsmasher]

Pip made Jordan into a winner

(even though you really aren't a winner if you need to made into one)

[Straight_Ballin]

Exactly, the minute MJ had just 1 player even remotely close to all-star caliber, he went 6/6..

Think about that last sentence for a second.

Got em. RoundMound you make it too easy....

Jordan made Pippen through his personal home training sessions. Common knowledge at this point.

[juju151111]

Exactly, the minute MJ had just 1 player even remotely close to all-star caliber, he went 6/6..

Think about that last sentence for a second.
Allstr? What are you smoking? Pippen was a roleplayer on 88.

[juju151111]

What makes this more impressive is this was Pippen's first career start. Collins, after Chicago blew a 2-0 lead, rolled the dice and inserted Pippen into the starting lineup hoping for a spark. Needless to say, it worked. Without Pippen's performance the Bulls would have lost in the first round for the fourth consecutive year.
He was a role player. No just needed someone to do something other then himself. Pollen stepped up that game. He was noting but a role player that year tho not even a allstar.

[DonDadda59]

Pippen the savior... averaged 8 PPG coming off the bench while Jordan put up 35/6/6/3/2 on 54% and won MVP, DPOY, the scoring title, first team all NBA, first team all NBA defense, All star MVP (even won the dunk contest), and became the first player in league History to record 200 steals and 100 blocks in a season.

The series against the Cavs... MJ averaged 45/5/5/3/2 on 56% shooting... Pip 11/5/2 on 47%... Pip = Goat :bowdown:

[riseagainst]

big thick d1ck Pippen. But MJ is the better player.

[97 bulls]

Pippen the savior... averaged 8 PPG coming off the bench while Jordan put up 35/6/6/3/2 on 54% and won MVP, DPOY, the scoring title, first team all NBA, first team all NBA defense, All star MVP (even won the dunk contest), and became the first player in league History to record 200 steals and 100 blocks in a season.

The series against the Cavs... MJ averaged 45/5/5/3/2 on 56% shooting... Pip 11/5/2 on 47%... Pip = Goat :bowdown:
Calm down Dada. No one is saying that one game made Pips career.

[DonDadda59]

Calm down Dada. No one is saying that one game made Pips career.

Just filling in the blanks for the kids. :D

Scottie Pippen in 1988 = Kobe in 1997 only with less airballs, more migraines.

[Hey Yo]

What makes this more impressive is this was Pippen's first career start. Collins, after Chicago blew a 2-0 lead, rolled the dice and inserted Pippen into the starting lineup hoping for a spark. Needless to say, it worked. Without Pippen's performance the Bulls would have lost in the first round for the fourth consecutive year.
Can't front on that.

[DonDadda59]

What makes this more impressive is this was Pippen's first career start. Collins, after Chicago blew a 2-0 lead, rolled the dice and inserted Pippen into the starting lineup hoping for a spark. Needless to say, it worked. Without Pippen's performance the Bulls would have lost in the first round for the fourth consecutive year.

That's a hell of an assumption. :lol

The Bulls biggest win of the series came when Pip had 0 points on 0-5 shooting (Jordan put up 50/6/7).

[OldSchoolBBall]

Based on this logic, we can say that ANY star in history would have not advanced had player X not had a good game when any of their teammates has a good game in a deciding game of a series. That's the kind of bullshit logic we're dealing with here.

[Roundball_Rock]

Can't front on that.

Exactly. :roll: at how insecure MJ stans are, ignoring the fact that the Bulls would have lost in the first round again that year absent Pippen's clutch performance in his first career start.

[Duncan21formvp]

Pippen the savior... averaged 8 PPG coming off the bench while Jordan put up 35/6/6/3/2 on 54% and won MVP, DPOY, the scoring title, first team all NBA, first team all NBA defense, All star MVP (even won the dunk contest), and became the first player in league History to record 200 steals and 100 blocks in a season.

The series against the Cavs... MJ averaged 45/5/5/3/2 on 56% shooting... Pip 11/5/2 on 47%... Pip = Goat :bowdown:
This

[DonDadda59]

Based on this logic, we can say that ANY star in history would have not advanced had player X not had a good game when any of their teammates has a good game in a deciding game of a series. That's the kind of bullshit logic we're dealing with here.

:applause:

Jordan had one of the absolute best individual seasons an NBA player ever had- won virtually every award outside of coaching and carried a shit squad to 50 wins and a playoff victory against the ultra talented Cavs. But somehow bench scrub Pippen with his 8 PPG 'taught MJ how to win' by having one good game in the playoffs? :lol

Here are the facts, Bulls first 2 wins:

Game 1: 104-93, Pippen 0/2/2 (0-5 FG), Jordan 50/7/2/2/2 (54% FG)

Game 2: 106-101, Pippen 8/12/2 (50% FG), Jordan 55/6/4/3 (53% FG)

But no way the Bulls win without Pip having his one good outing that season. Horace was just as valuable, probably more so as he was more consistent.

[Spurs5Rings2014]

Pippen the savior... averaged 8 PPG coming off the bench while Jordan put up 35/6/6/3/2 on 54% and won MVP, DPOY, the scoring title, first team all NBA, first team all NBA defense, All star MVP (even won the dunk contest), and became the first player in league History to record 200 steals and 100 blocks in a season.

The series against the Cavs... MJ averaged 45/5/5/3/2 on 56% shooting... Pip 11/5/2 on 47%... Pip = Goat :bowdown:

He was coming off the bench.

:facepalm

You act like he was averaging that getting starters minutes. The first time he was allowed to start he threw up 24 (greater than 23, no coincidence) and carried 1-9 to his first play off win.

:oldlol:

[DonDadda59]

He was coming off the bench.

:facepalm

You act like he was averaging that getting starters minutes. The first time he was allowed to start he threw up 24 (greater than 23, no coincidence) and carried 1-9 to his first play off win.

:oldlol:

Stop it. :oldlol:

Tim Duncan's first playoff series win closeout game:

Timmy: 11/5/2
Avery Johnson: 30/2/7 (73% FG)

AJ teaching Timmy how to win, carrying him in the playoffs :applause: :bowdown:

[DonDadda59]

Flip Murray and Donyell Marshall showing LeBron, AKA Mr. Couldn't make the playoffs his first 2 seasons, how to win. Carrying him to his first playoff series win.

Game 6, 1 point win against the mighty Wizards.

Flip: 21/4/2 (58% FG)
Donyell: 28/8/1 (73% FG)

The dynamic duo :bowdown:

[Roundball_Rock]

He was coming off the bench.

:facepalm

You act like he was averaging that getting starters minutes. The first time he was allowed to start he threw up 24 (greater than 23, no coincidence) and carried 1-9 to his first play off win.

:oldlol:

:applause:

The fact is without Pippen's performance the Bulls would have lost in the first round like they did every year during that period. Why are MJ stans so insecure about MJ finally getting out the first round? Shouldn't they be celebrating it?

[guy]

:applause:

The fact is without Pippen's performance the Bulls would have lost in the first round like they did every year during that period. Why are MJ stans so insecure about MJ finally getting out the first round? Shouldn't they be celebrating it?

But that's not a fact. And it wasn't even like the Bulls choked anything away. The home team won every game that series. That happens frequently, especially in the best of 5 series.