“Still, the Bulls' worries for the long term lingered. Although
Jackson conceded that Chicago had reached "its lowest ebb in
three years" last week, he reserved final judgment until
seven-time All-Star Scottie Pippen, who underwent surgery on
Oct. 6 to repair a soft tissue injury to his left foot, sees his
first action of 1997-98, probably in mid-December. "I'm not
going to beat these guys up over losing games we would have won
with Scottie," Jackson said last Friday.”

If Scottie was there, Bulls would have won those games, because no
one else could run the triangle like Scottie. That was stated in the last dance
when they were covering the time Jordan retired. Jordan was forced to play point and ,
even though Jordan put up some insane all around numbers, didn’t run the triangle like Scottie

Hell we see it with Rondo on the lakers. Rondo makes lebron life easier, and
gets all players involved. He is better at running the point and facilitating. It’s like against Houston, Lebron went off scoring, but it was the PG play of Rondo that won games 2 and 3.

Kareem once considered the greatest of all time, but magic ran the offense,
and the system couldn’t run without magic.

Mike will always be the INDIVIDUAL GOAT, The Closer, the most dominating player on the court, the efficient assassin.......but Scottie was the center piece of that system, making sure other players contributed