Inferior team? This Blazer team had talent! Drexler, Porter, Buck Williams. Whoever said Blazers where an inferior team is crazy! This team could beat the Bulls for 1 or 2 games. But they never had the championship mentality the Bulls had. But they had the talent to beat the Bulls.
@GreatkingAlexander: The Blazers were known for choking, but it was an unfair rap. In fact, they won a lot of close playoff games during the early 90's. In fact, they had 12 wins and only 5 losses in playoff games decided by 3 points or less or in overtime between 1990 and 1992, including two double OT victories and an OT Game 7 win. Before the loss to the Lakers in 1991, they were known as perhaps the most clutch team in the NBA. But all the media cared about was the loss to LA.
Classic Jordan, did you see the move he put on Terry Porter, damn, simple but effective. This T-Blazers team was a decent team.. I actually like Terry Porter and Clyde Drexler, but even they had to submit to Jordan in the end.
love how eryone says michal is the king when he loss the game and went scoreless in the last 10 minutes but when lebron scores 2 in a heat win with 4 assissts in the quarter he is shying away from the moment lmao
The glue for this team was Terry Porter and not Drexler. They could have beaten the Bulls if not for one thing. Understanding the moment! The Bulls fully understood it. Blazers had Porter, Drexler, Buck Williams, Cliff Richardson, Kevin Duckworth who were solid pros. But Drexler failed to shove the ball down the Bulls throat. He made great plays but Jordan played great. There is a difference!
@GreatkingAlexander: Yeah, so did a lot of players and teams who aren't remembered for choking. For example, Jerry West is known as Mr. Clutch, but his Lakers lost 7 times in the championship series during the 60's. Many of those games involved colossal chokes. Reggie Miller's Pacers choked numerous times in the 90's, losing in Game 7s as well as that embarrassing loss to a Knicks team in 1999 that had no business beating them. Yet he's known as a clutch player. POR's rep was unfair.
Interesting editing. It goes from Chicago up 73-66 with 10 minutes left to Portland ahead in the final minute. Which is fine, I guess, but completely skips over the 4th quarter, where MJ essentially disappeared. It also ignores the biggest play of the game: when Clyde stripped MJ and laid it in at the other end to give the Blazers the lead. On the other hand, I can see why that would be left out of an MJ highlight video.
okay again most importantly the blazers lost the first game by 33 and then four games by a combined 60 points while the sonics lost game 1 by 17 and then four games by a combined 55 points
@Fortune4290 and I won't argue that, but to act as if LeBron can't come close isn't realistic. Kobe is close to MJ as a distant second, but it's closer than most anyone else. LeBron has the individual talent, but it's gonna take a lot for him to approach Kobe, let alone MJ. But he does have time.
@kdoggjr agreeed but let me sat this the blazers where knowed for chokeing at the end they should have won a title with this incredible team they had at the time with also my top 3 player of all time clyde drexler they where knowed for chokeing up on the biggest stage the finals they did it in 1990 1991 and finally to the man in 1992 damn blazers but they still had a incredible team also with one of my favorite point guards of all time terry porter
True to an extent, but King and Hansen were not great players. Also think about this. Who wins more rings: MJ and Shaq on the same team, or Kobe and Pippen. It's absolutely the former. Shaq will ALWAYS be better than Kobe because in his prime he would absolutely dominate a game whenever he wanted to. Kobe, not so much. However MJ is and always will be the GOAT. And, how many people do you know who averaged 41 pts in the finals like MJ did against the suns the next year? Nobody but him.
To be fair...Jordan's Bulls also blew Game 2 in Chicago...had the Bulls lost this series Jordan's Legacy would have been MUCH different. Think about it, they lose to an inferior team Jordan starts blaming others (somewhat justifibly, but it would have been chalked as bitchiness) Pippen demands trade, Phil Jackson may resign. Jordan doesn't go down as the greatest player ever...just the greatest scorer. But none of it happened, because people don't remember shortcomings when you win the series.
@beanhead8 Now compare the best Jordan's performances with "King" James (LOL at his "nickname") best performances and do the math... reply when "King" (LOL) wins his 6th ring please, ill be waiting...
Lol please..the Bulls should have SWEPT this pissant Blazer squad. Portland didn't give away Game 5, tool. They got their asses handed to them. Game 6, Chicago took it from them with an historic comeback. Any way you look at it, the better team won this series.
Hell, the Bulls bench saved MJ's ass in Game 6. Bobby Hansen and Stacey King of all people led the charge. But it was a one man team...riiiiiiiiiiiiight. The difference between Kobe's Lakers and MJ's Bulls were that MJ ALWAYS had quality defensive help. The Bulls could win a game in the 80s...the Lakers couldn't most games. Pip, Grant, and Rodman, as well as Harper and to a lesser degree Cartwright were ELITE defenders. How many guys on those Lakers teams in the 2000s could you say that about?
i love your videos but i think there's too much about jordan and too little about the game. here, for instance, we don't know how portland took the lead and managed to win the game
