[GrandmamaParticipant]

 I was looking at some Pistons’ stats for that year and came across the ECF stats from the 89-90 season.  I was intrigued to see what happened in game 7 of the ECF and how Jordan performed.  The Pistons won handily, 93-74.  Jordan had a great game while the rest of the team stunk up the joint.  Jordan put up 31 pts, 8 rbs, 9 ast, 13-27 FG’s.  The rest of the team though, 15-63.  Pippen was 1-10, Grant was 3-17, Hodges 3-13, Armstrong 1-8.

 

The thing that came to mind though, had these guys played anywhere near like they should have, and the Bulls win the game, it’s likely they win the championship that year as well.  It was Portland from the west that year, and essentially the same team the Bulls would go on to beat two years later in the finals.  Jordan was that close to 7-7, teammates just didn’t show up game 7 vs the Pistons.

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1tjPC15bSk

[Robb_CParticipant]

 That Series turned MJ into the Machine he became, those guys use to punish MJ, I truly believe Jordan wouldnt have been the same player without the growing pains that were the pistons

[Robb_CParticipant]

 That Series turned MJ into the Machine he became, those guys use to punish MJ, I truly believe Jordan wouldnt have been the same player without the growing pains that were the pistons

[ExumInfernoParticipant]

 The If Game can go both ways.

Called for a foul on Russell, Bulls lose one.

Charles Smith dunks a ball, Paxson misses a shot, the Cavs play well in the playoffs for a change, the expansion draft doesn’t take Mahorn from Detroit, the Lakers were not all injured in the finals against the Bulls, someone for Portland is calm under pressure, the Bulls lose some more.

All that 1990 series against Detroit showed was that the younger Bulls, like Pippen and Grant, just needed a bit more experience and they got it.  It also helped that Detroit suddenly got old the next year and lost a lot of their depth.

 

 

 

 

 

[ExumInfernoParticipant]

 The If Game can go both ways.

Called for a foul on Russell, Bulls lose one.

Charles Smith dunks a ball, Paxson misses a shot, the Cavs play well in the playoffs for a change, the expansion draft doesn’t take Mahorn from Detroit, the Lakers were not all injured in the finals against the Bulls, someone for Portland is calm under pressure, the Bulls lose some more.

All that 1990 series against Detroit showed was that the younger Bulls, like Pippen and Grant, just needed a bit more experience and they got it.  It also helped that Detroit suddenly got old the next year and lost a lot of their depth.

 

 

 

 

 

[ItsVictorOladipoParticipant]

The thing that came to mind though, had these guys played anywhere near like they should have, and the Bulls win the game, it’s likely they win the championship that year as well. It was Portland from the west that year, and essentially the same team the Bulls would go on to beat two years later in the finals. Jordan was that close to 7-7

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Playing with theoreticals 26 years later is always problematic. If you wanted to go that route we could say that Wilt was that close to 5 championships, ’68 with Philly and ’69 and ’70 with the Lakers. And if we had 5 chips, maybe people to this day would argue between him and MJ for GOAT.

Also it’s a bit unfair to just claim they would have beaten the Blazers in the finals. Sure the Bulls series against the Pistons went to seven games. But this was a very strong Portland team While it was essentially the same team that the Bulls beat in ’92 that was a different Bulls team that had more mature prime versions of Pippen and Grant.  

The Blazers did win 4 more games than the Bulls during the regular season. It would hardly have been a guarenteed victory for Chicago. 

 

[ItsVictorOladipoParticipant]

The thing that came to mind though, had these guys played anywhere near like they should have, and the Bulls win the game, it’s likely they win the championship that year as well. It was Portland from the west that year, and essentially the same team the Bulls would go on to beat two years later in the finals. Jordan was that close to 7-7

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Playing with theoreticals 26 years later is always problematic. If you wanted to go that route we could say that Wilt was that close to 5 championships, ’68 with Philly and ’69 and ’70 with the Lakers. And if we had 5 chips, maybe people to this day would argue between him and MJ for GOAT.

Also it’s a bit unfair to just claim they would have beaten the Blazers in the finals. Sure the Bulls series against the Pistons went to seven games. But this was a very strong Portland team While it was essentially the same team that the Bulls beat in ’92 that was a different Bulls team that had more mature prime versions of Pippen and Grant.  

The Blazers did win 4 more games than the Bulls during the regular season. It would hardly have been a guarenteed victory for Chicago. 

 

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