Wow... being a UNC Tar Heel & Chicago Bull fan obviously Michael Jordan gave me soo many many amazing moments but to hear guys like Barkley, Ewing, Miller, Malone, Stockton tell the other side of the story you realize that guy broke more hearts & ended more dreams than anybody ever. For a guy like Charles Barkley to go home after scoring 40 points in an NBA finals game, a feat 99.9% of players will never come close to, thinking I am not better than this guy... wow. There's many ways to define greatness. The fact that so many incredibly proud men were forced to concede Mike was better is as telling a testament as any that Michael Jordan is the greatest
Why the hell is Scott Williams commentating! It's like he is driving a knife thru suns fan with that goofy laugh of his knowing he beat the sun's but on the bench
emma bach Shaq needs to stop making fun of Charles for having no rings he played with Kobe one of the greatest players ever and a bunch of great role players as well and also Dwayne wade in his athletic peak. Dan Marley and Kevin Johnson were all stars but they weren’t good enough to close out games.
That game 2, they both had 42 pts with triple doubles but Jordan down the stretch just torched the suns with his isolation moves and jump shooting. Barkley played his ass off but you're playing Michael in his peak. Very similar to Clyde and the 92' Blazers, like Chambers said - Jordan just elevates his game to the highest plateau
Kevin Johnson was not very existent in that game, and losing Ceballos to a foot injury in game 6 against Seattle in the Western Conference Finals wasn't exactly the best timing. No one expected Barkley to outperform Jordan. Barkley didn't have the help. The Suns were pitiful at home, especially in game 1. Game 2 cost the Suns the series. Kevin Jonson was a totally different player on the road (in Chicago), and so was the Suns team. That Suns team didn't even come close to showing up in the first two games in Phoenix...not even close. The Suns screwed themselves royally because they should have won all 3 games in Chicago. Kevin Johnson coughed up the ball and turned it over at the end of game 4 (The Suns only won games 1 and 3 in Chicago).
@@mathewhorodner2000 I remember the series like it was yesterday cheering for the Suns. Kevin Johnson was my favorite player at the time, but I liked the team, and Barkley in a different way too. KJ needed to rush back for Game 2 a bit early w/ his still sore knee, since the Suns lost Game 1 in the Lakers series. He was much better as the playoffs went along, but still I'd say only about 85% in the Finals. Also, Frank Johnson's boneheaded decision to get underneath Barkley at end of 3rd quarter of Game 2 to try and get a rebound, instead of just get the hell out the way so Barkley could get it (as KJ would've done), cost the Suns that 2nd game. And despite KJs struggles in Game 2, I still would've played him a bit more during the middle stretch of that game than Paul Westphal did, being that he makes smart decisions, and da Bulls still have to honor his ability to penetrate to the basket, where he's good at drawing fouls, or finishing w/ either hand. Frank Johnson you don't have to worry about breaking down your defense. Barkley finished w/ 42pts & 13boards, but he wasn't the same that whole 4th quarter. He was outplaying MJ in that one through 3, and would easily have finished w/ at least 45pts & at least 15boards in the contest if not for the bummed elbow in the 4th quarter, which affected him the rest of the series. He couldn't shoot a shot from outside the paint from that point forward, and it made him just a tad less fierce crashing the boards, being as he had to protect that shooting elbow. I believe the Suns were the best team da Bulls beat in the Finals (when at full strength), but you need some luck to win 6 championships in 8yrs, as great as Jordan is. He's better than Barkley, even in Barkley's MVP campaign, but I believe the Suns w/ even just Ceballos, or no Ceballos, but Barkley at full strength, would've beaten da Bulls in 93, for da Bulls weren't deep that yr. like they were in 92.
@@arsonhakobyan Good analysis. I'll go in a little different direction: if Barkley would have been traded the year before, the Suns would have won the Finals in '92 against the Bulls because Tom Chambers had aged A LOT over the course of that year. By the time the spring of '93 rolled around, he was a shell of his former self. The Suns needed the old Chambers, not the new "old" Chambers.
@@WobblinGoblin1 I agree with you fully on Tom Chambers, but da Bulls were actually quiet deep in 92, and with both Pippen and Grant having the best season of their careers, I don't think the 93 Suns beat da 92 Bulls with the 92 Chambers. But it would've been them instead of the Trail Blazers in the Finals. Heck, they should've won Games 1, 2 and 4 against the Blazers as it was in 92, but at least two of those.
Nah the quote is Barkley: good wants us to win a championship After loss Reporter: I thought God wanted you to win the championship Barkley: My bad. I didn't realize God was wearing No. 23 for the Chicago Bulls."
Kevin Johnson and Dan Majerle had such a fantastic regular season in 1993, and they didn't play that well in the finals. Kevin Johnson had such a quickness advantage versus the Bulls' point guards and he didn't take advantage of it enough.
Losing Cedric Ceballos to injury at the end of the Seattle series in the Western Conference Finals threw the Suns out of sync against the Bulls. That was the worst time for that to happen. I think that kind of threw off the rhythm, especially the first 2 games.
@@mathewhorodner2000 Still, you can't understate how Kevin Johnson didn't exploit B.J. Armstrong and John Paxon enough. KJ had such a quickness advantage versus those two very slow point guards and he could have penetrated a lot more and the bulls didn't even have a good shot blocker in the lane... And Dan Majerle was hitting everything that year and left his game at home for the finals, and it wasn't all MJ's defense, Thunder Dan was just ice cold except for if I recall one game he was on...
The Suns were struggling all throughout the playoffs, starting with the Lakers. They finally started playing WAY better and well at times against Seattle. The Suns team seemed to play a disappearing act a great deal of the time in the playoffs. Otherwise, they would have won. You, also, have Cedric Ceballos whom they lost to a broken foot in game 6 against Seattle in the Western Conference Finals, and Charles Barkley being injured on his elbow/arm (draining fluid); things couldn't go any worse for the Suns. None of these things were talked about in the media during the Finals.
@@mathewhorodner2000 I recall the Lakers series being tight and the Suns down 2-0 but Nick Van Excel also played out of his mind, he was in a zone and unguardable. I put less emphasis on Ceballos because Dumas was almost interchangeable, again it was Kevin Johnson not exploiting the Bulls PG's, it's not an exaggeration to say BJ Armstrong was the slowest starting PG in the league, and Paxson wasn't quick either.
@@Sassonic Ceballos could get offensive rebounds. That would have made a difference. Also, I realized that Paxson and Armstrong shot about 50% from 3-point territory in the series; they shot the lights out. Barkley's elbow was swollen and had fluid in it, and Barkley wasn't shooting well. He mostly had a bad series shooting from the outside.
The main reason why I think Charles is the greatest Suns player ever is because he did not want his name in that classic and all time Suns team in 2K without that condition about 1M dollars compensation towards all retired players. This guy is just different.
Also, MJ struggled(for his standards) against a very physical, demanding Knicks defense in the previous series). He had much more space against the Suns because they had neither a Starks, nor Ewing.
You couldn't have drawn up a fiercer dagger for the Suns than to have had the best record in the league, the NBA's Most Valuable Player, home court advantage all throughout the playoffs, only to lose it all in six games in the NBA Finals--especially losing all three of your home games in the series at that!
Thought we had it that year. Picked up some old Finals talent with Ainge, had Chambers twilight of his career but could still hit a key shot or 2, had Thunder Dan who looked like he could have been a future star, KJ and Barkley actually had more points on average in the playoffs than in the regular season. But the well oiled machine of Jordan/Pippen (I'd have said Grant, but his numbers were quite a bit lower) rolled into town.
Aquamarinamtl well my rats knows charles barkley even they were born in 2000s but johnson?majerle? are they household superstar like the brand pippen or brand rodman? this is not a joke, its only a fact.
@@scared08ph Pippen had not reached his peak yet, the other best bulls player was Horace Grant... it is well known the suns had the best overall team that year, they just couldnt beat air jordan
