Let down with the blazers?

What he did with the blazers was beyond incredible , which is why he always gets commended for it, considering with what he had to deal with it.

- He had an old Sabonis, whose body was taped together with duck tape. Now what was impressive is that he was he still killing cats at his age, which shows you how great he was. But with a prime Sabonis lakers would have been destroyed.

- they were called the jail blazers for a reason. Pippen was working with a young Wallace, a young Randolph, a young Wells, a young stoudamire. Cats were constantly in trouble with law, etc. just imagine if Scottie had those guys when they became mature. It was because of Scottie they got that far. Scottie’s leadership kept it together. Jordan wouldn’t have dealt with it. It wasn’t his character to help other teammates, which is why Scottie was needed to keep players involved and get them involved. Go read that Jailblazers book on how crazy those dudes were. jR rider was even on that team at one point.. And they even had Greg Anthony and Jermaine O’Neal....just a bunch of young crazy cats at the time.

- Scottie was wayyyy past his prime, which made what he did impressive. This was after leaving the rockets. He was 34 years old and in his 13th season. Just imagine if Scottie was with this team in his prime. Plus that was his first season with the team

- lakers were the favorites in the series, and Phil would have gotten fired had he lost that series. I still remember Magic Johnson being angry that the lakers were down by 15 on national TV.. The lakers were stacked and Portland had no business even being there.

His stint with Portland puts his greatness on even a higher level. Paul Allen stated it himself.

Jordan without pippen didn’t go well and the triangle would rarely get run. This is why Jordan talked about how Tex winter would come down on him about breaking the triangle in his hall of fame speech. “ there is no I in team” ...Jordan: “ but there is an I in win”.

The bottom line: Jordan never advanced without Pippen or Jackson. Pippen has won without both and Jackson won without both. Just stating facts