What is Scottie Talking About?

[houheffna]

"That’s a difficult question. If you want to ask me that then I’m going to probably go after the best player in the game and that’s going to be LeBron James. But I don’t know if LeBron James fits with the Chicago Bulls. I don’t know if I want Derrick Rose to give the ball up and let LeBron run the show. There are some great free agents out there. For me, you have to have the right fit. You just can’t go and get the best player. You got to have chemistry in this game."-Scottie Pippen 3/1/2010

Scottie ain't thinkin' straight...

 

[fola]

why people still listen to him, or seek him for soundbites (or nuggets of 'wisdom' in this case.) boggles my mind.

 

[Shakes]

Socttie Pippen was a great basketball player, but he's also an idiot.

 

[pinkizdead]

i think he makes a valid point, but he confuses the apropriate course of action. if you get lebron, you dont build around rose, you build around james. you go after lebron james, then you trade deng for a shooting guard/ a shooting pg, and then you trade rose for a center or a pf.
on the other hand,
rose and james dont compliment each other perfectly, but when you're playing with james ... he's good enough that it doesnt matter.

 

[Diddy1122]

Didn't he write that in his blog about how Amare is the best fit for the Bulls? I think I remember reading that a few weeks back. How he can talk about how chemistry is so important & then suggest the Bulls best option is to get a known team cancer makes little to no sense. But then again this is Scottie Pippen were talking about here. Great player, not-so great thinker.

Just another example of how other than the occasional Swirsky interview, the Bulls site is pure crap.

 

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Diddy1122 wrote:

Didn't he write that in his blog about how Amare is the best fit for the Bulls? I think I remember reading that a few weeks back. How he can talk about how chemistry is so important & then suggest the Bulls best option is to get a known team cancer makes little to no sense. But then again this is Scottie Pippen were talking about here. Great player, not-so great thinker.

Just another example of how other than the occasional Swirsky interview, the Bulls site is pure crap.

Amare's teams have all beeen winning teams since he's been there. The guy is in no way a cancer. He's always went out and played throughout his career, no matter what trade rumors are out there.

I think Amare is a good fit, but so are Bosh and Lebron. Wade's the iffy fit out of the elite guys, but you still sign the guy because of how talented he is.

 

[Kush77]

This is another example of, just because you're a great player, or just an average player, it doesn't mean you're commentary will be great.

LeBron isn't a good fit? LOL What Scottie? Oh man.

I just got finished listening to Bruce Bowen ramble about LeBron changing his number to 6 and it made no sense. Jamal Mashburn declared Derrick Rose the 2nd best Bull in franchise history just for making the all-star team. And Jalen Rose has said some of the dumbest things I've ever heard.

Not all former players can be as good as Kenny Smith.

 

[Kush77]

pinkizdead wrote:

i think he makes a valid point, but he confuses the apropriate course of action. if you get lebron, you dont build around rose, you build around james. you go after lebron james, then you trade deng for a shooting guard/ a shooting pg, and then you trade rose for a center or a pf.
on the other hand,
rose and james dont compliment each other perfectly, but when you're playing with james ... he's good enough that it doesnt matter.

That's a way to look at it. Try to see what he's really saying, but it still sounds dumb on the surface. that's the problem.

He did this in 2000 when he was with the Blazers, and I kinda defended him because it was another case of digging a little deeper.

So in 2000 he said the Blazers (his team at at the time) was more talented that the 1996 Bulls. So of course everyone ripped him to pices because the comment on the surface seemed stupid. How can a team that hadn't won anything be compared to a team that went 72-10 and won the title.

A majority of people took it that way. But I took it as from 1-12 the Blazers had more talent. And looking at it from that point, Scottie was right. Jermaine O'Neal was the third string PF on that team. Who was the 3rd string PF for the Bulls in 1996? Jason Caffey or Dickey? One of the 2. From top to bottom the Blazers had more "talent" but that doesn't mean anything. But I understood what Scottie meant.

Maybe we all go Scottie wrong and he's just a really deep thinker. B)