Put Pippen on Barkley's Suns, how many titles?

[Akrazotile]

Assume you are removing him from the Bulls and adding him to the Suns

[SamuraiSWISH]

C - Miller
PF - MVP CB34
SF - Pippen
SG - Majerle
PG - KJ

Bench:

Ainge
Chambers
Dumas

Why on earth wouldn't they win? Even without Pippen they were the most explosive offensive team in the league, and favorites to win the 1993 championship.

[oarabbus]

0 titles.

[ImKobe]

C - Miller
PF - MVP CB34
SF - Pippen
SG - Majerle
PG - KJ

Bench:

Ainge
Chambers
Dumas

Why on earth wouldn't they win? Even without Pippen they were the most explosive offensive team in the league, and favorites to win the 1993 championship.

What's the point of this thread.

"Put the best defensive wing of the 90s on the best offensive team in the league that took the Bulls to 6 games in the Finals"

No shit they win the title. You're taking the best wing defender, 20 ppg scorer, playmaker away from MJ and you're putting him on a Finals team without giving anything in return?

They win 2 in a row at minimum with the Big 3 of Pippen-Barkley-KJ from 93-96 IMO.

[Milbuck]

Of course they win it all..they were already a finals team...and now we're giving them a guy who was 1) a 6'8" point-forward who could not only score for himself, but also help feed Barkley and take ballhandling/playmaking pressure off KJ, and 2) a hyper athletic GOAT-level perimeter defender who could put the clamps on the vast majority of wings in the game?

[robert_shaww]

they win in 93, 94, 95, 96, 97 and 98.

and in 99 they are in the west finals vs the spurs, not sure who wins.

then its all over from 2000....

[Akrazotile]

But I thought the bulls always won bc of GOAT MJs inhuman competitiveness and desire for victory, his unparalelled determination to claw his team to the finish line and completely obliterate all competition in his way until he stood triumphantly on the mountain top with his arms raised in glory and yadda yadda yadda?

[iamgine]

But I thought the bulls always won bc of GOAT MJs inhuman competitiveness and desire for victory, his unparalelled determination to claw his team to the finish line and completely obliterate all competition in his way until he stood triumphantly on the mountain top with his arms raised in glory and yadda yadda yadda?

That's only part of the reason, not the only reason.

[AnaheimLakers24]

But I thought the bulls always won bc of GOAT MJs inhuman competitiveness and desire for victory, his unparalelled determination to claw his team to the finish line and completely obliterate all competition in his way until he stood triumphantly on the mountain top with his arms raised in glory and yadda yadda yadda?

go get laid

[Soundwave]

Seeing Barkley + Pippen together (with Hakeem on top of that) in 99 really didn't inspire much confidence, but I think they still win a couple.

In this scenario though IMO Jordan asks for trade out of Chicago and ends up in either LA or New York or leaves as free agent (his contract was up after his fifth season).

[Lebronxrings]

2/5

[andgar923]

How can they win if they won't even make the Finals?

[Taller than CP3]

Umm yeah, how about no.

Pippen was a role player, Barkley was a superstar.

Winning with Pippen is like trying to win with Shawn Marion as your #1 guy, it's just not going to happen.

[Soundwave]

But I thought the bulls always won bc of GOAT MJs inhuman competitiveness and desire for victory, his unparalelled determination to claw his team to the finish line and completely obliterate all competition in his way until he stood triumphantly on the mountain top with his arms raised in glory and yadda yadda yadda?

As much as it gets your panties in a wad, that is a pretty huge part of the reason why they won so often. Winning titles isn't a glamorous thing, sure maybe the first one or two is fun, but it starts to get pretty f**king hard and ugly after that, something I'm guessing your under-18 self learned the hard way last June.

[Beastmode88]

2/5

We're talking about replacing sir charles with pippen not Lebron.