3. "Please stop with talking up those milk-toast ass Karl Malone teams" In response to In response to 1
they were not that good.
None of those second three-peat finals teams were that good, that's the reason the Pacers were the only team that gave them a battle.
They were up 3-0 on those Sonics, then started filming public-service commercials pleading for the fans not to riot after they win & took their eye off the ball while out in Seattle basically ditching Game 5 to win at home.
The Sonics had lost first-round the year before to the Eddie Jones Lakers.
Those Jazz teams got there by *hanging around*. They weren't really any better than the Jazz teams getting carried in the first or second round the entire ten years before except that there wasn't anybody left to play them out West.
Suns/Blazers were done, Rockets were old, Sonics were choking & couldn't beat the Rockets, the Dell Harris Kazaam Lakers weren't ready yet.
Please.
I don't hold any of those teams in high regard, Jazz included & the only reason anyone would is to pump up MJ's legacy.
That mid-to-late-90s era was probably the weakest competition era team-wise of my lifetime outside Chicago.