92' Blazers and 91' Lakers had better defense, rebs, and FAR more scorers than Bulls

[ShawkFactory]

Let's look at players 2-4 on each of these respective teams just for fun.

1991 Bulls

WS/48:
Grant- .188
Pippen- .179
Paxon .140

BPM/VORP
Pippen- 5.8/5.9
Grant- 2.5/2.3
Paxon- 0.3/1.1

1991 Lakers

WS/48
Vlade- .173
Perkins- .153
Worthy- .143

BPM/VORP
Worthy- 2.5/3.4
Vlade- 2.3/2.5
Scott- 0.9/2.0

And you yourself admitted that Worthy was hurt in the finals. I mean the Bulls cast was clearly better despite that, but given the injury it's 91 Bulls > Lakers without question.

1992 Bulls

WS/48
Grant- .237
Pippen- .198
Armstrong- .117

BPM/VORP
Pippen- 6.1/6.4
Grant- 5.3/5.2
Armstrong- 0.6/0.7

1992 Blazers

WS/48
Porter- .182
Williams- .175
Kersey- .128

BPM/VORP
Porter- 3.7/4.0
Kersey- 1.7/2.4
Williams- 1.2/2.0

This one isn't even close. 92 Bulls >>>

1993 Bulls

WS/48
Grant- .159
Armstrong .144
Pippen- .132

BPM/VORP
Pippen- 4.0/4.7
Grant- 1.8/2.6
Armstrong- 0.2/1.4

1993 Suns

WS/48
Ceballos- .186
KJ- .148
Majerle- .147


BPM/VORP
Majerle- 2.5/3.6
Ceballos- 2.4/1.8
KJ- 2.0/1.6

So this one is a little closer. But I'll give the edge to the Bulls because they have clearly the best #2.

In summary: The Bulls supporting casts from 91-93 were better than each of their finals adversaries'.

[ImKobe]

90s defense was turrible

NBA has broken records in ORTG for 5 straight seasons, it has never been easier to put up numbers.

[HoopsNY]

I also wish these clowns would lay off the Worthy injury argument. Worrhy had a minor ankle sprain according to Gary Viti (the lakers Dr). This was in a Los Angeles Times article.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.lat...l%3f_amp=truee

"He doesn’t have an apparent injury,” trainer Gary Vitti said. “There’s no hitch in his gait. But as soon as he starts to bear weight, to explode off it, that’s when the trouble starts."

Besides, no other teams has ever had so much scrutiny because a key player was "injured" or missing for the other team like the Bulls. All these teams get full credit for their finals Championships in spite of key players either being missing or injured

82 Lakers beat the Sixers without Moses Malone
83 Sixers beat the Lakers without James Worthy who had a season ending injury.
84 Celtics beat the Lakers who lost Jamal Wilkes to an injury
85 Lakers beat the Celtics with Larry Bird hurting his hand in a bar fight and Cedric Maxwell going down with a season ending injury.
87 Lakers beat the Celtics with Kevin McHale playing on a fractured foot
88 Lakers beat the Pistons with Isaiah Thomas hurting his ankle
89 Pistons beat the Lakers with Magic and Byron Scott both going down.

I'm sure if I went back and looked, every team that has won, has beat a team that had key players injured or missing along the way. And let's not even get on players being too old or too young.

Excellent point.

[Ne 1]

Jordan didn't win without Pippen, but Lebron didn't win without BEING the "pippen" to AD, or without super-teams (2 perennial all-star teammates).

So Lebron needed more help to win titles and he also needed more help to make the playoffs or have deep runs - he needed high seeds and teammates with all-star resumes to make the playoffs or have deep runs, while MJ made the playoffs and had deep runs with a low seed and no help (89').

To summarize - Lebron needs more help to win titles (super-team or play 2nd fiddle) and he also needs more help make the playoffs or have deep runs (high seeds and teammates with all-star resumes).

Pippen ain't never won a ring being the leading scorer in the Finals or won Finals MVP... Not even close, pick another comparison man that one is horrible 😂😂😂😂😂

[JBSptfn]

One of the worst finals teams of all time. Both of them.

I'd rank them next to the 2001 Philly and 2002 Nets teams.

Are you serious?