Why is it said that Jordan s final championship worthless?

When we relished the 1998 season, the Chicago Bulls successfully reached the top again and continued to dominate the league with three consecutive championships, we seemed to ignore a fact -

That year, the Bulls were in turmoil and storm, and they really bloomed like a last dance, and then they fell silently and the prosperity came to an end!

In that season, the Bulls were internal and external troubles, and a series of turmoil ran through the entire season. If this situation was placed on other teams, they might have chosen to give up...

But at that time, the Bulls star was Jordan. When the God of Basketball was in charge of the team, the difficult situation was just a small episode on the team's road to winning the championship. Even if there were all difficulties, it would be eliminated and solved.

Now, let's look at the Bulls in 1998, like an elderly legion. When the team's core lineup is obviously aging and its competitiveness seems to be limited, it once again sets off Jordan's unparalleled.

Don't forget that Jordan was already 35 years old that year. Even though the emperor's superstar was like him, in the outside world's perception at that time, he was already very young and heroes were old.

In addition, 33-year-old Pippen, 37-year-old Rodman, 34-year-old Harper, 30-year-old Kukoc, and 33-year-old Cole formed the core team of the Bulls. Perhaps no one at that time had thought that this set of sunset red lineup won the championship that year.

Nowadays, the age factor was considered friendly to the Bulls that year, and it really made the team turbulent, so the reason for the gap was due to injuries. In that season, Bulls center Langli missed 24 games due to foot injury, substitute center Bill Winnington missed 34 games due to injury, and outside shooter Cole missed 32 games due to leg injury, and the team was full of wounded soldiers.

It is worth mentioning that Pippen, the second leader of the team, was dissatisfied with being put on the shelves (Klaus wanted to exchange Pippen for the super new McGrady in the offseason to ensure that the team can maintain competitiveness for a long time in the future), so he deliberately delayed the time of back surgery...

Pippen did not do it until the start of the new season, and eventually missed the Bulls' first 35 games.

The Zen master created a triangular offense, which was nothing more than a huge restriction on Jordan's singles, allowing all Bulls players to participate in the offense, and the three armies united as one.

But when the triangular offense was completely unable to operate, the 35-year-old Jordan regained the singles and led the way to attack the city and save the team from the fire and fire. In that season, Jordan played a lot of tough attacks in one game, and his outside shots dropped sharply from 3.6 per game to 1.5, and he made 8.8 free throws per game. With all his firepower, people were surprised that he seemed to have returned to ten years ago.

You must know that Jordan, who was 25 years old at the time, played so tirelessly.

Jordan is not the only one who is tireless, but Rodman off the field is also tireless and singing every night!

In that season, although Rodman, 37, had excellent rebounding, still had a significant decline compared to his peak. In the regular season, "Big Bug" averaged 15 rebounds per game, and dropped to 11.8 per game in the playoffs. As the playoffs deepened, Rodman became more and more tired, and rebounding battles became increasingly worrying. In the

Eastern Conference Finals series, Rodman averaged 9.9 rebounds per game, and only 8.3 rebounds were recorded in the finals.

When the offensive environment around me is worrying, it is not difficult to understand why Jordan averaged the scores in the last three consecutive championships.

Jordan averaged 28.7 points per game in the regular season, but he scored the most points in the playoffs during the last three consecutive championships!

It is worth mentioning that 28.7 points per game is the season with the least score in Jordan's 10 seasons, and his shooting percentage is also the worst in all the complete seasons of his career.

But in the playoffs, Jordan averaged 32.4 points per game, which was a tough guy to carry the Bulls to beat the team.

Do you still remember the finals G6?

In the end, the Bulls completed the overtake 87-86 and finally won the victory. The second leader of the team, Pippen, only scored 8 points, and his contribution was not impressive. In that game, Jordan contributed 45 points and fired all the way, and scored 16 points in the final quarter. The last "Shot of the Century" is a classic that never faded in the NBA!

After a long time, we realized that the shot of the century turned out to be Jordan's last gorgeous curtain call...