Pippen and Jordan

[Alex Wang <awang@mit.edu>]

Let's get the facts straight.

Jordan's Bulls were 38-44, 30-52, and 40-42 in the years before Pippen.
They were certainly not a "championship type of team" the year before Pippen. 

Pippen's Bulls were 55-27, 47-35 in the years without Jordan.

The statement about Pippen taking a championship team to the playoffs seems 
misleading to me. It was pretty impressive that Pippen led a team that had
lost the greatest player in basketball to a regular season record that was
only two games worse than the season before.

And certainly this year, I would think that anyone who watched the Indiana
series would realize that Jordan couldn't have won it without Pippen.

Alex


Shawn Roth writes:
>    Lets get straight to the point.  The teams where very different in the
>    Pippenless era VS the Jordanless era.  The Jordanless team had just won a
>    championship WITH JORDAN.   The Pippenless team, well they didn't just win a
>    championship.  As a matter of fact, if I can remember that far back, they
>    were not all that great before Jordan showed up, and were possibly a
>    Championship type of team the year before Pippen........

>    So, Pippen took a championship team to the playoffs, and Jordan took a awful
>    team to the playoffs.... Seems like Jordan without Pippen is much better
>    than Pippen without Jordan.