MJ 44 pts, 5 blks, 5 stls vs Dream and the Rockets 1988

[sportjames23]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiBQ05cXt04

1988 was the breakthrough year for MJ and this young Bulls team. 50-win season, MJ winning All-Star & regular season MVP and Defensive Player of the Year, beating a very good up and coming Cleveland Cavaliers team in the first round (the beginning of a great rivalry), losing to the eventual Eastern Conference champion Detroit Pistons (the beginning of another great rivalry), but the future looked bright, with two young horses in Scottie Pippen and Horace Grant. The championships were yet to come, but enjoy watching the future GOAT in the dawn of his prime go to work.

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[3ball]

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^^^ this is from the beginning of the OP video.. Apparently, MJ scored half his team's 4th quarter points in 1988.. That makes sense since Pippen and Grant were rookies that didn't start (they only played 20 minutes per game each) and their averages were 8/4/2 and 8/6/1, respectively.

In 1989, Pippen and Grant improved to 14/6/3 and 12/9/2, but Pippen's 14 ppg wasn't much for a 2nd option and he was wildly inconsistent - overall, the team was worse talent-wise because they'd lost Charles Oakley.. Consequently, they only won 47 games in 1989 (less than 1988) and only managed a 6-seed going into the playoffs.

However, MJ played better than any player ever has in the 1989 playoffs, which allowed his underdog team to make the ECF - he averaged 40/6/8 against a 57-win Cleveland team, who had the #2 defense and 3 all-stars (Daughtery, Nance, Price) plus 20 ppg budding superstar Ron Harper.. In the 2nd Round, MJ averaged 36/9/8 against the Knicks... In the ECF, the Bulls fell to Detroit, despite MJ's 30/6/7 against the "Jordan Rules" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIY_4vIxGEE&t=22m49s) and greatest defense of all time, featuring All-NBA defenders Rodman and Dumars..

Unfortunately for MJ, Pippen only averaged 10/7 on 40% in that series and provided very little help - this would become a trend - in 1990 ECF, Pippen disappeared in Game 7 of ECF.. In the 1996 Finals, he was abysmal with 15 ppg on 34%, which was similar to the 1998 Finals, where he averaged 15 ppg on 41%, including 8 and 6 points in the final 2 games.. During the 1996-1998 playoffs (2nd three-peat), Pippen averaged 17/7/5 on 40.8%.

[sportjames23]

http://cdn.makeagif.com/media/6-25-2015/0X7oDr.gif


^^^ this is from the beginning of the OP video.. Apparently, MJ scored half his team's 4th quarter points in 1988.. That makes sense since Pippen and Grant were rookies that didn't start (they only played 20 minutes per game each) and their averages were 8/4/2 and 8/6/1, respectively.

In 1989, Pippen and Grant improved to 14/6/3 and 12/9/2, but Pippen's 14 ppg wasn't much for a 2nd option and he was wildly inconsistent - overall, the team was worse talent-wise because they'd lost Charles Oakley.. Consequently, they only won 47 games in 1989 (less than 1988) and only managed a 6-seed going into the playoffs.

However, MJ played better than any player ever has in the 1989 playoffs, which allowed his underdog team to make the ECF - he averaged 40/6/8 against a 57-win Cleveland team, who had the #2 defense and 3 all-stars (Daughtery, Nance, Price) plus 20 ppg budding superstar Ron Harper.. In the 2nd Round, MJ averaged 36/9/8 against the Knicks... In the ECF, the Bulls fell to Detroit, despite MJ's 30/6/7 against the "Jordan Rules" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIY_4vIxGEE&t=22m49s) and greatest defense of all time, featuring All-NBA defenders Rodman and Dumars..

Unfortunately for MJ, Pippen only averaged 10/7 on 40% in that series and provided very little help - this would become a trend - in 1990 ECF, Pippen disappeared in Game 7 of ECF.. In the 1996 Finals, he was abysmal with 15 ppg on 34%, which was similar to the 1998 Finals, where he averaged 15 ppg on 41%, including 8 and 6 points in the final 2 games.. During the 1996-1998 playoffs (2nd three-peat), Pippen averaged 17/7/5 on 40.8%.


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