What was the 90's Bulls reason for success?

Question

I'd got to give all the credit to The Greatest Of All Time, Michael Jordan. After MJ developed to his elite best there was no one stopping him. There are some MJ haters that don't understand that when a player first enters the NBA they got to go threw an developing process. They got to learn the rules in the league, learn the new team they're playing with, they got to work on their weakness & what people criticize them about, they got to get use to the schedule of the NBA, from coming out of college they got to learn how to play against the bigger & stronger vets in the league, and they're going to make mistake that they'll learn from. You're just a college kid entering a mans league with vets that knows all the tricks that you don't know anything about yet. The NBA is a growing up process. From the start of MJ's career he was a playoff player, then 7 years later he became a championship player, & throughout his championship run he became a dynasty player. MJ at his peak was the Bulls!

To all you MJ haters, don't even mention Magic or all them other players who won their first year. Because MJ was put in a different situation. MJ got drafted to a Bobcat like Bulls team whereas Magic got drafted to a team where they already had a championship legend, Kareem. People who won there first year are considered fortunate. Because they were drafted to a good team.

Roni 26,
you must be out of your mind. Pippen is overrated. If it wasn't Pippen it would of been another side kick....and the Bulls didn't have a bunch of offensive options, MJ was the offense..lol. How do you think MJ got all of them scoring records? Your basketball I.Q. is 0.

Answer 1

I agree that all of the Bulls championship wins were because of Michael Jordan. The rest of the team was mediocre at best, even Pippen.

Answer 2

Early-90s championships were won by two men. One was, of course, Michael Jordan. The other? Bill Cartwright. That's right. Offensively-inept Cartwright was directly responsible for the first 3-peat. Why? He understood that his only role on Chicago was to be a defensive stalwart, and embracing his role enabled him to stifle Patrick Ewing those years.

Late-90s championships were won by Jordan's offensive genius and a new defensive weapon: Dennis Rodman. When the Bulls lost Horace Grant, they had to replace his rebounding, and they added a superior rebounder in Rodman, and an added bonus for Chicago was that Rodman also improved the D at the PF spot.

For all this talk of how great Scottie Pippen is/was, he's overrated for the simple reason that he couldn't lead a team to a championship. His Bulls teams didn't win the big one without MJ, and his stints in Houston and Portland yielded nothing more than playoff berths. His contributions may have aided all 6 championship runs, but if they didn't have him, they would've found somebody else because the SF position almost always has 20 good starters and another 5 good backups.

Answer 3

MJ was the man but I don't think he wins even one championship let alone six without Scottie Pippen. Those two plus the fact that they were a pure team was the reason the bulls were so successful. This was a team that had several scoring options and played serious team defense. Yeah MJ was the Bulls' best player but he didn't win those championships on his own.

Answer 4

I think Magic is a better player than Jordan only because he alone revolutionized the game. The keys to the Bulls success is not the skill of Jordan (although he is top three greatest all time arguably the greatest) are hte heart and basketball IQ of Jordan. He was only selfish when he needed to be (clutch situations). Phil Jackson's brilliant mins, and Pippen's willingness to be a role player. Also the little credited factor, there were very few boards Rodman gave up without a fight.

Answer 5

That and a weak league that had been leveled by the salary cap.

And I say that because throughout their run, the toughest playoff competition they had was from the Knicks. And the Knicks were not that great a team.

If the 1990s Bulls had been put into the 1980s NBA they might have won one or maybe two championships at most.

Answer 6

Simply everybody understood their role. MJ was the leader and that was beyond question. Pippen was the Robin to MJ's Batman and Superman. Paxson and Kerr job was to make 3's. Grant, Rodman, Cartwright jobs where to rebound the ball, play hard defense, make shots when they get the ball, and defer to MJ first, unless he told them different. MJ, unlike Kobe knew when to take over the game and when to defer to his teammates. He had confidences in his teammates and didn't try to show them up in front of the media.

Answer 7

There were two major keys to the Bulls success in the 90s...

1) Scottie
2) Phil

Michael COULDN'T get out of the first round until Scottie got there...and they never won a title until Phil got there.

The key to the 2nd three peat was Dennis Rodman.

Answer 8

MJ was on all losing teams before the Zen and PIP arrived.So those three parts are all equal to the bulls success.

Phil =33%....Pip =33%...MJ = 33%(actually I put this down to make U mad ...hope it worked)

Great players come in and impact teams right away...Magic..Bird..Kobe(winning titles when most guy's would still be in colledge)

Answer 9

a combination of factors...the 80s strongest teams were far past their prime(any one of these teams could win titles and did at that time, not at all like the early 90s( Docs 76ers (who swept the playoffs) the Lakers, the Celtics, and the Pistons) when no team made consecutive finals except the bulls...the league had gotten watered down...coach collins was dropped in favor of coach Jackson who utilized a system that took less than superstar players and had them learn their particular responsibilities (how else could you have bill wennington at center and paxton playing guard(defense?) or luc longley and kerr (defense) and make out) and maximize their efforts by creating motion isolation(triangle) that left the premier scorers one on one with weak side help only and complimented that with one of the premier 3 shooters(paxton, hodges, kerr)on the other side...then, of course, there was Mike, who was hugely talented...at the right time...

Answer 10

It was a perfect team; first you had MJ who scored like crazy; Rodman(perhaps the best rebounder of his time); Pippen was decent; and Kukoc pulled it together. Not all teams had this type of balance and that's why the Bulls stomped all over them.