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MJ was one of the best playmakers ever and a better defender than Pippen too. Pippen could guard larger forwards like Barkley better or Magic who was forward sized that's about it
Pippen would be Philly Iguodala if it wasn't for MJ. When Pippen was the #1 option he was getting embarrassed on both ends of the floor by Ewing in the 2nd round, getting benched for the final play for Toni Kukoc when they would've been down 3-0 if it went to Pippen, and wasn't even the Bulls best player in that series with Horace Grant badly outproducing him and playing better D
And MJ was MVP, 4th in DPOY and 1st team all defense in 98 when Pippen missed half the season. Bulls were a top 3 defense despite Pippen missing half the season. Scottie was also unreliable in the playoffs offensively their whole run but specially late. MJ basically won in 98 with Toni Kukoc being his 2nd option on offense with how inconsistent and injury riddled Scottie was that season he'll he even closed playoff games with Scottie out
MJ played with the absolute worst bums pre-Scottie going up against all-time great teams that's why he wasn't getting out of the 1st round. MJ won 50 with rookie Scottie/Grant when they weren't even starter level players and made it to the ECF against an all-time team with a sophomore Scottie, while leading his team in every category from points, rebounds, assists, steals, blocks. Scottie with a greater role in the triangle expanded his passing game but MJ could've easily had primary vall handling decision making duties and did numerous times with Scottie out, like Kobe did in the same system. Scottie was ass in the halfcourt tho and MJ is one of the GOAT offball players too unlike Lebron so he doesn't need the ball in his hands and milk the possession for the majority of the time on ball to be effective. That's also a big reason MJ led so many dominant teams in comparison despite Lebron playing with some of the most talent of any star ever
And as far as the pre Scottie/Grant Bulls ppl who bring up the 1st round thing, they can't even name a rotation player on the pre-Scottie/Grant Bulls outside of Oakley and Paxson, without searching basketball reference
Lol @ reading all that shit
I've posted before on Jordan being overrated and not the GOAT.