The Houston Rockets 'SUPERTEAMS' Failed Miserably, This is Why 👀
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Nigeria born players might be 4-5 years older than their registered ages. From my 15 years experience working in tier 1 pro soccer club.
That sounds about right. And it makes a lot of sense.
Pippen saying that he wasn’t trying to win a championship for himself but for Barkley is laughable. Anyone with a brain knows he wanted one more than Jordan. Come on!!😂😂
It wouldn’t have changed anything cause it was never a debate who was the bus driver on those bulls championships. It’s totally different than Kobe winning 2 rings after parting ways with Shaq
@@Bonescratcher yall overrate Kobe *waaaaay too much.* Kobe had a top 5 center *and* power forward, as well as a *top 10* small forward(Artest who replaced Ariza the previous season), and a very serviceable Derek Fisher *and* Lamar Odom. He better had won without Shaq.
@@benyah3390 yeah you act like Jordan didn’t have Pippen, Rodman, Steve Kerr (who still holds the all time record for 3 pt % career average). You act like Lebron didn’t have D Wade and Chris Bosh, then Kyrie and love. You act like Duncan didn’t have Robinson, then Manu, Parker and Kawhi. Do you want me to continue? So what’s your point? Most championship teams have a stacked roster.
How is Kobe overrated when he won 2 more rings and 2 FMVPs after leaving Shaq??
@@Bonescratcher I will say Kobe is overrated because he never shot over 50% from the field even once in his career, whereas for example Jordan shot over 50% just about every single year.
No doubt Kobe was a great player-one of the best of all time and I would take him over LeChina for his killer instinct and defense, but he was a poor shooter percentage wise.
Edit:. A poor shooter compared to MJ and Larry Bird and pretty much most of those high-scoring shooters from the 80s and 90s who all shot a higher percentage from the field than Kobe.
@@fitness..moveyoullgetit5832 MJ is the GOAT no doubt. But I still have Kobe in the 5-10 range All time. There is no question he had poor shot selection which is mainly why his percentage is crappy (like Iverson & Melo), but let’s not forget how great of a defender he was. Shaq wouldn’t have won those 3 rings without Kobe and Vice versa. Ultimately any player who wins 5 rings with 2 FMVPs, a regular season MVP, 11 All NBA first teams and 12 All defensive teams belongs in the list of the All time greats and does not fit in the “overrated” category
Past their prime and injuries played a factor
If Phil Jackson was able to trade for him when he took over the lakers I think he would have had a career renaissance. He is probably the best at using the triangle offense to his benefit.
Them old rockets jerseys and that old logo are pure 🔥🔥🔥
Pippen not winning after Houston was not a knock on him. He ran into the Lakers’ Shaq and Kobe. Portland has us until that fourth quarter run and alley oop.
That was all the refs and when i realized it was rigged
Pippen got robbed by the refs in Portland.
Yes it is Pippen choked in the 4th quarter. Kobe and Shaq had won nothing at that point and were swept out of the playoffs by the Jazz and Spurs in 98 & 99.
@@karmaisreal261 of course it was the refs. The nba can't continue casting their "MJ the goat" propaganda on the sheep if Pippen wins without Jordan.
@@benyah3390 The NBA pushed big market LA because viewership plummeted after MJ retired. They did not want small markets Portland & Sacramento to defeat Shaq & Kobe.
I don't call those Rockets teams from 1996/97 to 1998/99 a super team, they were old aging all-stars and slow and had nothing left to give in the playoffs.
Those late 90's Rockets teams were long past their prime after their 93/94 and 94/95 back to back NBA titles.
This was only a Super Team by NAMES ONLY! ALL OF THOSE GUYS WERE PAST THEIR PRIME!!!! Just like the Lakers when they had Malone, Payton and those guys who were Once Again PAST THEIR PRIME!.
The Lakers were a superteam. Payton was a All-Stars the yr before and Malone avg 20-8-5 before they joined the Lakers. Rockets were a big 3. Hakeem was All-NBA, Pippen was All-Def and Barkley avg 16-12-5. The Rockets were in the WCF in 97.
Superteams are more than just names. There's a vast difference between the Warriors and the other so called Superteams. If you ask someone why the term Superteam didn't spread throughout the media until the Warriors they couldn't give you a good reason why. The Warriors had things that no other team had before them. A current championship team, two 3-point shooting champions, a 4 times scoring champ, two MVP caliber players, and bench players who could start for other teams, all in their primes.
They were past their prime as much as Lebron, Kobe, Jordan were past their prime when they were 33.... meaning they were still top players in the league.
@@cubbdacrossfacecrippler The 80s Celtics, Lakers and Sixers with Moses had the talent level of KD Warriors. KD Warriors felt OP because their wasn't really a team as talented as them at the same time, unlike the Celtics, Lakers and Sixers of the 80s who were at their prime/peak at the same time.
@@xxwhatevahxx no they weren’t. All players don’t age the same. They aged much faster.
That team went to the WCF the first year and ran out of gas. If these 3 had teamed up in 1990 they would have played the Bulls in all those finals and those would have been some epic battles.
They never woulda played together in 1990 smooth brain
@@nonamewillbegiven9989 You don't know that moronic brain
I blame Rudy Tomjanovich. He never put Pippen at point forward, his true position where he played his best ball in Chicago and played well in Portland in 2000 and 2003.
There’s a reason Rudy T isn’t in the Hall of Fame for coaching despite winning 2 titles.
Yeah he is smooth brain
@@nonamewillbegiven9989 You call everyone smooth brain. Are you a troll or just really unoriginal?
87-92 Charles Barkley was the greatest power forward of all time but after that his body let him down. He could barely dunk anymore by the time he retired.
Totally agree.
No
@@joemamma137be quiet
@@nonamewillbegiven9989you haven't actually watched 87-92 Barkley have you?
@@barryjb enough to not claim as the greatest PF of all time
Those Houston Rockets weren't a "Super Team" due to them trading away their best young players [Sam Cassell and Robert Horry] who were vital contributors to the Rockets two championships, to acquire Charles Barkley. Barkley's bad back was causing him to decline steadily. The NBA moved Barkley to Houston to give him a chance to get a championship and hopefully face Jordan and the Bulls again in the finals. I remember the NBC promos for Rockets games calling them "Charles Barkley and the Houston Rockets. I'm sure that didn't sit well with Olajuwon and Drexler.
Years prior to Barkley joining the Rockets, Barkley had used the "Dream Team" experience in 1992 to be recognized as the NBA's second best player [although he was never better than Olajuwon] and most colorful personality. As a Rocket, Barkley's performance was sporadic. He could still rebound with the best, and sometimes he would erupt with big scoring games. But he was unable to sustain the level of play he demonstrated early in his Phoenix Suns days. Drexler was willing to be No. 2 behind Olajuwon, but being pushed to No. 3 behind Barkley was a problem. After a couple of seasons of playing on Barkely's Rockets, Drexler retired.There was still an icy-ness to their relations years after they retired from the NBA.
The Rockets then threw the big money bag to Scottie Pippen to form another "Big Three." Problem was Olajuwon and Barkley were a year older and Pippen couldn't help them. The Rockets soon found out that Pippen's best basketball was left in Chicago. Despite contributing to six Chicago Bulls championships, Pippen couldn't do much to elevate the Rockets. For him to point to Olajuwon's diminishing ability and Barkley's laziness as the causes for the Rocket's failure to win a championship is just throwing them under the bus. The problem for the Rockets stemmed from their trading their future away to acquire two players who were over-the-hill.
Pippen may be be a hall of famer but he has been shady for a while. Throwing Hakeem under the bus when he himself was a bust in Houston,, just looks bad on him. Jordan said he would have never won those titles without Pippen yet he says he does not feel recognized enough on the last dance, Pippen seems to like blaming others for what he could not do after Jordan left his side.
Pippen wasn't used the same way in Houston as with Chicago. They wanted him to be a catch and shoot guy. His shot attempts went down from 16 to 12 per game. Scoring went from 19.1 to 14.5 a night. Over a third of his shot attempts were 3 pointers. Seems weird that a guy averaging 40 minutes a night wasn't getting the ball.
@@danlower7834 How else could the Rockets use Pippen, given they had Olajuwon and Barkley on the blocks. Hakeem and Charles were also good mid-range scorers. If you can't be a good catch-and-shoot player on that team, then the team made a bad signing.
@@danlower7834 He should have played more like in Chicago but that didn’t happened and he quickly bailed.Would have like to see him there for at least another season
Finally someone who knows what they're talking about. They never recovered from those two trades after winning back to back titles with the Horry and Cassell. What were they thinking.
I said as many times the Pippen should’ve Went to where Allen Iverson was. It was a better fit and a familiar situation.
That's interesting and never heard that before
Pippen and Iverson would have been nice.
@@alecsanderhamilton9224 they would of Fed off each other well in a game. Not sure about practice…..lol
Maybe, but was no longer in his prime, and people seem to forget that he was 1 year removed from back surgery. He was never again gonna be the player we remember from the mid-90s, no matter where he played, or who his teammates were.
@@joemamma137 he would of been fine after a year or 2. It was a similar environment he was use to.
This is why i laugh when people said Pipen carried Jordan lol give Jordan those 2 teams and the chip would have been a cake walk ..no Team beating Barkley Jordan and Akeem or Portland with all those talented young players sheed smith wells ..
Jordan had Pippen during his pirme. So he still needs Pippen. I saw that era Jordan taught Pippen to think about himself.
@@JamesHardenoverKobe no doubt Jordan needed Pipen like everystar need a sidekick however Pipen got the best chance to win without Jordan because Jordan disnt have the luxury to play with players like Pipen did ...this whole argument about prime though is misleading because Bulls won 1998 and pipen coldnt win 99 with Akeem and Barkley
@@jazzyjames58
keep it real. The east was weak in 1998. Jordan was supposed to get out of that conference. Anything short of that will be a choke.
@@jazzyjames58
Ha. So not only did Jordan play in the easy east. I guess you never noticed that Hakeem only had four seasons in his entire career where his second option (Sampson &Drexler) played at least 60 games. Four. Jordan had Pippen from the age of 22-32 with Pippen playing at least 72 games in every season except one. Jordan had way more helps during his prime. Tex Winter made the team better. Not Jordan.
The east was good what you smoking...Knicks and Pacers were very deep and Jordan had to face them ...Weak is what Lebron had during his prime just like the cavaliers that
Got swept ...weak conference ..unlike Jordan who had bird and isiah to overcome ...Jordan would have make the finals too if he had that weak ass east that Lebron had ...and to prove it he got swept in the finals ...lol
There were also deals being made behind players backs in that organization. The Rockets took a pay cut out from Charles Barkley, without him knowing, for Scottie Pippen to get to Houston.
U can't do that. Especially not to Barkley.
Not much of a super team considering they were old and injured.
Friday mrn - March 24, 2023.
They were too old, that Houston team wasn't a super team.
Exactly.
Pippin is behind Barkley by a mile in the SF category. Still, Jordan doesn’t have more than 1 or 2 titles w/o him.
The best shot he'd have had was in '97 & '98 against Utah, but that could've went in Utah's favor or a split.
Nonsense. If the Bulls drafted R.Miller instead of Pippen in 87-88 the Bulls would've had a realistic shot at winning 6 or more chips.
Barkley is a PF not a SF like Pip
Barkley was a power forward so that makes no sense. How many titles Jordan would have won depends mostly on who would have played the SF in Pippen’s place. And since we’ll never know…
Jordan may not have any titles without Pippin
Pippen basically admitting he didn't want to be a leader, preferring to take a backing role instead of a leadership role. He left Houston, salting the earth behind him, because Houston wasn't perfect. Instead of inspiring them to do better, he whined and cried about everything. This, despite the fact that Houston brought him in precisely because they thought they were getting a championship experienced leader. Instead, he threw his teammates under the bus because, as we all know, nothing is ever Scottie's fault. After quitting Houston, he searched for a team loaded with so much talent he figured all he had to do was be a figurehead leader and they'd win the title. The team was so loaded that if they lost, he wouldn't get blamed for it. Perfect situation for Mr Passive Aggressive: credit if they win (He won without MJ!) and no blame if they lost. He found what he was looking for but it didn't work because in the 2nd half of Game 7 vs LA, the guy with all the championship experience went ghost just when the team needed his leadership the most. His teammates stumbled and bumbled all over themselves before coughing up a 15 point lead to the inexperienced, upstart Lakers.
I couldn't have said it better myself!👍
Refs 1, Portland 0
@@danlower7834Guess the refs made Portland miss all those 4th quarter shots, many of them wide open.
I **** with Scottie’s sarcasm. 😂
Winning a ring is like baking the perfect 🎂 cake 🍰 .
This 🚀 team had way too much “SUGAR”
Teamwork, NOT egos ... win championships.
pippen coulddnt win shit without jordan
But Jordan couldn’t win any chips without Scottie
@@DMallthewaytry harder trolll
@@nonamewillbegiven9989 Nah he's right. Without an above average supporting cast Jordan isn't winning anything.
As great as Scottie Pippen was, he could never carry a team on his own. When MJ retired the first time, that was Pip’s time to really shine. Yeah he got MVP at the All Star, but the Bulls didn’t get too far. IMO, Pip was a really great role player to MJ. Barkley came into the league to an aging crew of legends, breathed life into the Suns, then became a great with the Rockets during a time when there was monumental competition ahead of him. If you look at the decade of the 90’s who do you knock off for Charles Barkley to win? what year would have been best? I don’t think there ever would have been a year that Barkley could’ve won a championship considering the teams he was on. His best bet was when he was with the Suns but ran into MJ and his Bulls team.
Pippen almost led that team to the finals without Jordan. How would Jordan have done without Scottie?
@@acornsucks2111He lost to the Knicks in the 2nd Rd.What is this bs almost went to the finals tok bruh Ur take tells me u still a puppy boi
D vandal must be one of those stats nerds. Clown.
@@acornsucks2111 I seem to recall Pippen getting all in his feelings because he wasn't going to get to take the last shot in that playoff game against the Knicks
@@michaeljenkins8679 still doesn't take away from his greatness.
What happened with the 1999 rockets were Hakeem and Barkley were at the end of their careers and pippen after the back surgery in 1998 was no longer a high level player nor an athlete anymore that's why the didn't go no where
Last time Pop ever smiled at Tim lol
I'd like to have seen pip and MJ stay in Chicago for that 99 season under maybe Doug Collins or something like that. They would've run thru the east at the very least
Pippen talks tough now but MJ always attempted to help him
Scottie just didn’t want to listen
Mj told him not to take the deal while they were in Chicago
Scottie ain’t listen
MJ told him not to go play w Barkley
He ain’t listen
Now MJ is seen as the villain & Scottie as the victim
Even though it’s Scottie out here dragging everyone except himself for what results he’s experienced
My problem with Pippen has always been accountability... He mostly out of three wasn't same player esp due his back. To say Dream wasn't same is laughable as he was still most consistent player by far on that team. They just didn't have supporting players and scheme to fit them. They were better with Glide and Barkley before Pippen came. The Jazz had a better scheme and more continuity.
Nice to read a comment from someone who knows what they’re talking about. People act like he never had back surgery, and was still in his prime when he left Chicago.
@Joe Mamma I hear u loud and clear
@@joemamma137yawn smooth brain
@@panafrocanam2100no you dont
The fax don't lie
0:15 Oh. Barkley was hungry all right.
Even at whatever age he would have been at the time. Pippen would have been a great fit on the 04 Pistons. Just because that team seemed to have the same Trail Blazers blueprint.
No way. I say that only because Pippen has aged WAY past his prime by that point. If he had been on that team, he wouldn’t have been able to replace Tayshaun Prince as the starter. And Prince was the weakest player of the starting five.
Prime Pippen on the other hand, he would have been the best player on the team.
Nope
@@joemamma137nope. Take your head off his lap why dont ya
@@joemamma137and weakest player not smooth brain
If they had load management, they woulda still been fresh those years, that being said, fuck load management
How was it a super team when they were all past their prime?
IKR?
I'm sitting here listening to Barkleys rebound numbers with is height and age an injuries.
They was all old then. U put thus team together with them all being 5 years younger things would be different
Hell yeah
@@Bonescratcherhell no smooth brain
Barkley and Pippen remind me that Alabama still somehow has a better education system than Arkansas. And well, Olajuwon reminds me Nigerians are geniuses comparatively to Alabama and Arkansas children of the United States.
Woof. Pippen has a Puerto Ricans way of trying to articulate English to the masses. He always just misses the right word placement and almost backtracks a statement 3/4 to the point.
C'mon Scottie. Just say whats on ur mind for real.
Scottie Pippen: Top 5 small forward.
Lebron James, Larry Bird, Elgin Baylor, Kevin Durant, and Scottie Pippen.
Nope
Scottie Pippens mouth since retiritng has taken him from a very high estimation and one of my favorites to me not hardly being able to stand him.
I know exactly what you mean. I thought for a while that he was the most underrated player in basketball. Then I was very happy to see that people started showing him the respect he always deserved, as time went by.
But then he showed the world what a complete jackass he is. And that retroactively ruined my good memories and opinion of him in so many ways.
We were past our primes regardless of age. Anybody who saw those rockets teams knows this.
And yet Chicago
And who is we
They Should’ve let Hakeem finish his career as a rocket .
1997 Rockets were good when completely healthy.
I don't think 50 games is enough to get chemistry down for a real shot at the title.
They won with Drexler coming in at midseason in 95
Pippen is the reason I wore 33 when I played Ball
So you’re a quitter too?
@@TL2354 hell naw
I’m referring too when I was younger I wore 33 because of Scottie
@@floydwalker37yawn
Instead of getting Pippen they should have went after a quality PG.
1:42 Bro Retired
2:08 Big 3? 🤨
Scottie better watch his mouth before chuck goes up in it lmao
They were way pass their prime. This was not a superteam.
it wasn't even a superteam bcuz none of them was in their prime they all was washed up at this point of their careers.
I rank Scottie as small forward wayy down behind Lebron, Larry, Dr. J, Elgin baylor, John Havlicek, at the 6th all time best small forward
Bird better than Lebron
He my number 1...
This how u know Pip was not better than MJ…if u put Mj on that rockets squad who beating them..Mj prolly have ten rings
Most disrespected Robin in NBA History…!!!
If Barkley had played with Jordan they wouldn't have won a championship. Barkley was a ball hog. He's a much better commentator.
They were old that's why they failed
Shows that Pippin should of never been a top 75 player 😅
Best small forward of his era!! No doubt
Fur sure. But that’s in large part because he came after the Bird Dr J Wilkins era, and before the Lebron era.
No
@@joemamma137sure not smooth brain
Best small forward ever 6 rings yo what forward can match that
@@SmilingDolphins-ye4zm no. Trolll
That Houston team was old far as basketball age
So was the 98 Bulls
Pippen is top 20-25 All time
That’s a stretch.
@Beery casual fans have trouble understanding why he is top 25 all time. He is one of the greatest defenders ever with 8 All defensive 1st team selections while putting up around 20 ppg in his prime years with career 47% shooting. He got 3 All NBA 1st team selections!! And he did all that while being overshadowed by MJ. He would have been the main star on almost any other team in the league
Not even close
@@Bonescratcherno he wouldnt had
Remember when LeBron tried to use the old Rockets as one of the excuse for going to Miami when he was 25.
That was KD when he got butthurt that chuck said his (Kd) rings weren’t legit
@@Dapame
LeBron did the same. LeBron used this when asked about his Heat3. KD used this when asked why he had to join a 73-9 team.
I'm a fan of Chuck but he hardly played any defense! Remember when Stockton drilled that 3 to ice a trip to the finals.
Barkley just stood there looking at Stockton and watching him drain the 3! Instead of throwing a hand up to try to mess up his shot!
But nobody brings that up!
so... barkley couldn't win a title as a bus driver or rider..lol 😏
They've never recovered after trading away youth for Barkley and Pippen.
Then explain Yao Ming and T Mac smart guy
And that youth wasnt gonna lead them to a chip
Pippen is top 5 small forward
How?
Off top of my head pippen isn't better than lebron, Durant, Elgin Baylor, or Dr j, or Larry Bird, maybe Kawhi or pippen, Giannis probably end up definitely better all said and done. People overrate rings that's team not individually
Never been a fan of Giannis. He will fake humble for sympathy. Have you ever noticed Giannis is the one who will start the trash talk and when people say something back he acts like the victim. Giannis plays Bully ball like Shaq. Just a smaller version.
Giannis champ is over-hyped. Just to put it into perspective. The Bucks played the Lakers who didn't have Jerry West and a 42-40 team in the NBA Finals. Yet Im still taking Bucks 1971 champ over Giannis weak run. Keep in mind the Bucks advance without Giannis vs The Hawks. Imagine the Sun's winning playoff games without Charles Barkley let alone advancing without Charles Barkley. Now I'm hearing "it's because he's a international player". Cute. I'm a huge international fan. Giannis is going to need more than a weak 2021 run to get past even Charles Barkley.
Giannis is not a SF, so I wouldn’t count him. But other than that, you’re spot on.
3 past their prime stars is NOT a superteam, a superteam is three prime superstars joining forces to create the least resistance to winning....
Lmao... They'd have to be somewhat past their prime for a team to afford all three of them at same time lmao... They were a super team still they just ran into Jazz and Lakers whom had their nucleus in tact longer at that point.
@@panafrocanam2100 that was not a superteam and was never seen as a real threat to win it all...all three had big names and were past their prime....the term superteam is being used so loosely these days because the real superteam era started in 2010......after that Houston team had that fast start of the season they practically played .500 basketball the rest of the way....Pippen left after one year and joined Portland that had an even deeper team than Houston
The problem wasn't age, it was them having 2 dominant low post players on the floor at the same time. It caused a dilemma as far as who would be the go to guy in the 4th quarter sometimes. That ended up being the reason they still needed 7 games to beat the Sonics after winning both G3/G4 on the road and also played a factor in them losing the WCF. The main reason the Jazz eliminated them was the PG matchup though Smith and Cassell were clearly missed that series.
@@ChrisM07 the year Pippen was on the team they lost in the first round to the Lakers.....Barkley and Olajuwon was a shell of themselves
Pippen was supposed to have been been an upgrade for the aging Clyde Drexler who retired the year before where Houston lost in the first round too in 98
@@scorpionJB It was talking specifically about 97 which was the last year they were an actual contending team.
Pippen is a great small forward, perhaps in the top ten, or maybe 5 of all time. He almost led his team to the finals the year Jordan left. He might have been a better defender than Jordan, but not being a big time offensive threat was his only weakness.
Yet keep in mind Pippen and Jordan spent most of the 90s years in the easy east.
The 3peat Bulls that added 5 new players lost in the 2nd round. They beat a injured Cavs team missing 3 of their 4 best player while their best player Price was injured.
@@JamesHardenoverKobe Shaq and Penny Magic, Hardaway and Alonzo Heat, Price, Nance and Daugherty Cavs, Webber, Howard and Strickland Bullets, Ewing Knicks, Miller's Pacers, Nique Hawks, LJ and Alonzo Hornets, Bad boy Pistons, Lewis, Bird, McHale and Parish Celtics etc.
@@sideshowbobsaget8876
Funny how you had to include the 80s. Keep it real. The East was weak in the 90s. 80s sure. Yet Jordan wasn't in his prime in the 80s.
@@JamesHardenoverKobe Every team I named was a Playoff team in the 90s
If Jordan. Not of retired those last two years. I believe . It would have been a great playoff with Houston. and Thay would of beat the bulls. Olajuwon was just to powerful in the middle. Mario Elie, Clyde drexler, Kenny Smith, blood and gut players. Or they would have split a championship a piece. But I'm sure Houston would of beat them at least one championship each.
Except he came back in 95 and lost to Orlando despite playing lights out ball and better than 91, 97 and 98 playoff years statistically.
So the Patrick Ewing Knicks took them to 7 games, but the Bulls would have lost? I don’t think so.
But it would have been extremely interesting to know what would have happened with Horace Grant, and Jordan NOT retired.
@@DMalltheway Funny how crucial the under appreciated Horace Grant was to that team.
@@joemamma137 Grant made a huge difference, sucked he got hurt the next season
Nope. Keep dreaming smooth brain
What really happened in Houston was Pippen inability to carry the Rockets, he was always just a sidekick
What a dumb comment
Why would he carry Houston when they had Hakeem?
@Duane Wade umm Scottie is younger than Hakeem, and at the time, that's what Houston signed Pippen for
@@dmccray144 More nonsense. He’s 1 year younger. Age was not relevant to them signing him.
@Joe Mamma dude that's not non sense and Olajuwon was drafted in the same class as MJ while Pippen got drafted three years later! The Rockets signed Pippen to be the guy not to be the sidekick
1. Lebron
2. Larry Bird
3. KD
4. Dr J
5. Pippen
U think Scottie pippen is better than Paul Pierce?
@@roxjaw2895 piece more clutch and a slightly better scorer that's bout it fr
@@roxjaw2895 I would say it’s close enough to go either way.
@@roxjaw2895 For me, choosing between those two would be extremely difficult. Bob Ryan actually said that Pierce might be better than Bird. I thought that was a ridiculous thing for him to say, but the fact that he had enough game to make Bob Ryan say that, says a lot about his game. I actually think Pierce is underrated.
@@toptier6132Bird is better than Lebron
Greatest small forward ever 6 rings yo you really have to understand and no the game of basketball to appreciate the game of the great Scottie Pippin remember no Pippin no rings for Jordan and Pippin had more success without Mike Jordan than Mike Jordan without Pippin Scottie Pippin would pitch 8 strong innings and all Mike Jordan had to do was do what he does best come in in the ninth inning and close the deal just like in baseball
Nope. Try harder trolll
The fax don't lie fanboy
@@SmilingDolphins-ye4zm has no fax trolll
Obviously Scottie was right in his statement. Pippen in the top three small forward of all time
No he's not
Yeah video game shit🙄😳
Pippen’s a quitter
Honestly, Pippen always belongs on my top 5 because of his defensive capabilities. I'd pick bird over Pip or Lebron over Pip, but Durant? I still need time to think. Pippen is too valuable in his prime than Durant who can only score.
KD and Doc both better than Pippen, peak higher in the R.S, P.O and Finals, both MVPs that led their team to the Finals. KD can fit into any system effortlessly and make them great, Pippen can't.
@@sideshowbobsaget8876 Probably doc is better than Pip. I heard that he can score in his prime ABA and average 20plus rebounds. KD is not better than Pippen. He is a better scorer than Pip but not better all around. I've seen the prime of 2 players and Pippen was amazing. Can defend 1,2,3,4. Pippen is a better all-around player than KD. If I have a good scorer on the team like MJ or Kareem or Wilt, I'd take Pippen over Durant. But if the team sucks, Durant is better since he is a better scorer.
@@mukhanglarochannel4774 They're both better and more impactful than Pippen, they performed at a higher level. CP3 is more all around than KD but he isn't better. I would take Jordan and KD over Jordan and Pippen. If Pippen and KD were on the same team it would be KD's team
@@sideshowbobsaget8876 cp3 is a point guard, of course and he is not a 3 guard. But he is not all around either.
Pippen was the best SF of his era by far. Had he played 10 years earlier, he would have battled Wilkins for third place, behind Bird and Dr J. Ten years later, he would have battled Carmelo for third place, behind James and KD.
Personally, I have him winning both of those battles. I don’t agree that he’s above KD. But he was so good that I can totally respect your opinion, if you think he is.
Barkley acted like AI, refusing to adapt to a lesser role in his decline for the betterment of the team. That's the chemistry issue both Clyde and Pippen were dealing with.
Scoring 18 pts and 13 rebounds with the first or second highest shooting percentage. Sure. Ok kid
@@Youralwayswhining4367 They needed him to rebound and play strong defense. Karl Malone destroyed him each year in the playoffs. And his insistence of running the offense through him disrupted the strengths of the other 2 stars because he played a much slower pace.
@@sishaq12is that why Barkley came off the bench in 98?
@@sishaq12and because you're clueless, Barkley got hurt im game 4 of the 98 series and didnt play in game 5 smooth brain
That Portland team with pippen should have won it all. But insert a cheating referee...
Yeah that ref that threw the lob to Shaq and forced the blazers to miss multiple shots in a row was crooked
@@Ted_Bell NBA's scripted...
Pippin was total shit without Jordan. During and after his career
The amount of ignorance required to make a shit for brains statement like that is staggering.
@@joemamma137 Explain please
@@TiagoGomez-hb9te This is quite strange but for some reason my comment that you are replying to is not visible to me. Can you please tell me what I said so I can explain?
Yes I know that sounds crazy, but it’s 100% true lol.
@@joemamma137stop crying