Go back about 3 years. They won 47 games the year before, 45 in 78 (with kareem missing 20 games), and 53 in 77 which was good for the best record in the league. And kareem was the best player in the league.
And I never called that game magic scored 40 pts "strange" lol. What I meant was that its a lot easier to rally the troops for one game as opposed to doing it on a nightly basis for the duration on 82 games.
And what wrong with me using FG%? If the league acknowledeges FG% then why is it not a feasible way to determine a players "impact". Not saying advanced stats are good too. But no stat tells the whole story.
You call call my view on barkley backwards if you want, but we all have our opinions. I've acknowledged barkley was a great player. But I feel he could've been better. I mean, if he plays defense at a high level, to go along with his scoring ability and rebounding you don't think he would be a better player? And what's more is that he saw it as a joke. I can't tell you how much respect I lost for him when he said as long as larry bird was still in the league, he wouldn't be the worst defender in the league. If I was his GM and heard that, I would've traded his ass that same day. Let him go somewhere else and get his 40 pts and 18 rbds with an L.
And I've also admitted pippen should've been a better ft shooter. Go back and reread my post before this one. I said his inabilty to hit Fts is what kept him from being a 23-24 ppg scorer.
And that trade fell through because jordan saidd if pippen was traded, he would retire. And I guarntee you if he traded jordan, he would've been shot that very same day. He didn't want jordan there either. It was reinsdorf that stepped in and kept that team together. If krause had it his way, he would've traded jordan too.
