@@ZayFITT yes sir, I remember watching these games, the back to back championships. A native houstonian and rockets fan of that era. IMHO, the 80s-90s was the golden era of the NBA, the NBA of today is complete and total garbage.
Bull was scared to meet the Rockets in the 1993 Finals. So scared that on national TV Pippin and Jordan begged Jordan’s Daddy - NBA VP and Head of Operations to make sure the Rockets didn’t make it to the playoffs!
@@AnHebrewChild In a post game interview after one of their losses to the Rockets, both of them said “[the Rockets are the one team we do not want to see in playoffs!]”, hence the Finals! Rockets were 5-1 against the Bulls during their first three-peat and after every loss, Jackson and Jordan were always quoted with how they always had issues with the Rockets. I think I’m going to make a video on this and what would be sweet is if I could find that video of Jordan and Pippin saying that.
@@DJVijilante oh yeah, now that you jogged my memory... I think I know the clip you're talking about! The thing is, every team has their kryptonite, everyone has their BAD match up. Top to bottom, as u know, Sports is all about matchups. The Rockets' kryptonite was run & gun teams with a deep ball threat (eg Suns, Blazers, Sonics) The Bulls had an awful time against dominant centers, especially highly skilled ones. Ewing, Shaq, Robinson, Smits, Hakeem... Hakeem is the very best of those centers, and the Bulls big men were GARBAGE so it's no wonder the Rockets were a tough match for the Chicago For eight straight seasons,one or the other team was in the NBA finals... for eight straight seasons the other team couldn't make it out of their conference. A pity this one never happened. It would have surely gone 7 games and, imo, gone down as the most competitive tooth& nail finals ever. We'll never know tho.
@@AnHebrewChild Yeeah man but go look at how well the Rockets played across two seasons. It started after Chaney got fired and Rudy T took over and Hakeem finally felt comfortable with his coach. I think Hakeem was always afraid of his coaches like Fitch for example, so he finally came into his own after practicing so hard in the Summer of 1992 thinking he was gonna get traded and then Rudy T at the helm. From about the All Star Break from 1993 to 1994 the team won 60+ games before going into bit of a slump, but still winning the Championship. So in the end of 1993, they would’ve beat the Bulls, but the NBA wanted a Bulls Suns Championship. Go watch the last 30 seconds of the last game of the Rockets 1993 season where they lost to the Spurs because of a bad call by the refs which gave Seattle home court. But that wouldn’t stop the Rockets, but then yet again the refs stepped in..Just go watch the end of 7 of the 1993 Playoffs where the refs gave more than one obvious call to the Sonics to make sure the Rockets didn’t advance. Well Seattle was next to get this FU treatment as the Suns went to the charity stripe like you wouldn’t believe when they played the Sonics in the Western Conference Finals! www.sonicsforever.com/blog/sonics-v-suns-a-rivalry
We could have seen a Bulls-Rockets matchup seven times. One time though, the JordanBulls weren't good enough to make it to the Finals. The other six times the HakeemRockets weren't good enough to make it to the Finals. A pity...
I disagree the rockets would've beaten the bulls at least one of those championships. The bulls had no answer for Hakeem not to mention Houston was a very mentally tough and clutch team unlike the Knicks unlike the Cavs unlike the Phoenix Suns, Portland trail blazers, Utah jazz, Seattle Super Sonics Not to mention a lot of those players on Houston could shoot the three really good. Kenny Smith, Vernon Maxwell, Mario Elie, Robert horry, Sam casell, Scott brooks, Chris jent, Larry Roberson, Pete chillcut. Also there's probably another team who would've beaten the bulls. I just said Portland wasn't the most clutch team when it came down to it in the championship, but probably their best most complete all-around team was the 1991 Portland trail blazers they had the best record in the NBA and swept the bulls during the season in the 2 games. That Portland team that got to the finals the next year in 1992 was still good but clearly inferior to the Portland trail Blazer team in 1991.
Whats Interesting About This game...And This was NICE!! Most of The Scoring was Below The Free Throw Line!! And Most of The Outside Shooting was Below The 3-Point Line !! In The Game Today at Every Position, PG, SG, SF, PF, and Center Can Shoot 3's and From The Outside Wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy Better !!
They are just shooting more 3s. Overall, Point guards, Power Forwards and Centers were better in the 90s. For today's game, in the 2020s, the guards and small forwards overall are more valued and skilled overall than in the 90s.
Olajuwon destroyed Jordan with blocks😮😮😮
What a move from Vernon Maxwell
Gave MJ a taste of his own medicine lol
He did very well against Jordan.
Hakeem was all day long in this game, wow what a phenomenal player.
Olajuwon was the bulls worst nightmare of the 90s.
And Bulls still would have won in 94 and 95
@@dionsanchez2775 I don't think so, not twice, Olajuwon would be too much in 1 NBA Finals, but the bulls get 1 from the rockets.
@@dionsanchez2775not when Shaq was beating them.
@@FuShengAlexlol cuz Jordan retired and came back rusty, why people act like they don’t know the history
@@carloszepeda8960 ohhh boo hoo. Not Houstons problem. Chicago still lost and it counts as a L
Wow! What a game! Imagine this being an NBA Finals game!
Hakeem the best center the leauge has ever seen. 💪🏻
Dream and MJ had a few 1 on 1 in this game...Hakeem was the man and win the game with that defence at the end.
Hakeem was a nightmare for Jordan...MJ wanted nothing against the Nigerian nightmare!
how many players could block Micheal Jordan 4 times in one game? No one. The dream was the best ever
Dream was special.
Dream was getting BUSY man
Gave MJ the business with what, about 3-4 blocks???
@@ARod-br2ui was a factor for every second he was on the floor. He covered some insane ground from the paint to the perimeter. Hakeem was special.
@@ZayFITT yes sir, I remember watching these games, the back to back championships. A native houstonian and rockets fan of that era. IMHO, the 80s-90s was the golden era of the NBA, the NBA of today is complete and total garbage.
i dont get how people think todays player are more skilled and talented?
because you are a nostalgic old head with declining eyesight
low IQ + media brainwashing
Exactly
Because you have 0 understanding of the game
How do people say that players were less athletic back then?
That was a spectacular dunk by jordan when pippen missed it.
Rockets 5-1 against the Bulls from 1991-1993. That last block from Hakeem on Jordan’s three says it all.
In a nutshell this game shows why NO ONE EVER questioned the Rockets taking Hakeem #1 instead of Jordan.
ok that make sense...Rockets can have that game and Hakeem. The Bulls and Michael are on the Pantheon of the Greatest Team and Player of all Time.
the only player in nba who won both DPOY and Finals MVP on the same year
and MVP
What a game !!Jordan came on at the end but too much Hakeem the dream and to much Vernon Maxwell Rocket's hold on 👏
I miss 90's basketball so much.
Those putback dunks from the miss free throws are always awesome
Les rockets aurait du gagner plus de 2 titres car c etait vraiment une super equipe,ils ont dominer chicago durant plusieurs match de saison🤩👍🤚
6:48 "Bulls lookin for a phone booth... Superman is coming..."
What follows is seriously awesome.
7:50 even more awesome. Superman runs unto kryptonite
@@FuShengAlexYeah, Olajuwon is A PHENOM. Lots of mutual respect between him and Jordan.
Rockets didn’t even make the playoffs that year. They were a matchup nightmare for the Bulls but they just weren’t good enough to get there.
Isn't it refreshing to watch players not take 5 between the legs dribbles and a step-back on every offense?
Yeah, 90s basketball had so much less wasted motion.
Vernon maxwell dismantling the bulls.
@1:12 Vernon Maxwell did a MJ 😁😁😁
It was a total massacre😮
massacre? They beat them by 3 points at home...
"Massacre"
奥拉朱旺把乔丹防成了科比
Mj be Like: And I took that personally
Not against Hakeem/Houston 😊
MJ did, and he promised a win the next game in Chicago, and Houston won by 14. Chicago had nothing inside for Dream.
Bull was scared to meet the Rockets in the 1993 Finals. So scared that on national
TV Pippin and Jordan begged Jordan’s Daddy - NBA VP and Head of Operations to make sure the Rockets didn’t make it to the playoffs!
Well, the Rockets did make the playoffs in 1993, but lost to Seattle in the second round.
"on national TV Pippen & MJ begged NBA VP to make sure the rockets..."
what are you talking about? I'm genuinely curious.
@@AnHebrewChild In a post game interview after one of their losses to the Rockets, both of them said “[the Rockets are the one team we do not want to see in playoffs!]”, hence the Finals! Rockets were 5-1 against the Bulls during their first three-peat and after every loss, Jackson and Jordan were always quoted with how they always had issues with the Rockets. I think I’m going to make a video on this and what would be sweet is if I could find that video of Jordan and Pippin saying that.
@@DJVijilante oh yeah, now that you jogged my memory... I think I know the clip you're talking about! The thing is, every team has their kryptonite, everyone has their BAD match up.
Top to bottom, as u know, Sports is all about matchups. The Rockets' kryptonite was run & gun teams with a deep ball threat (eg Suns, Blazers, Sonics)
The Bulls had an awful time against dominant centers, especially highly skilled ones. Ewing, Shaq, Robinson, Smits, Hakeem...
Hakeem is the very best of those centers, and the Bulls big men were GARBAGE so it's no wonder the Rockets were a tough match for the Chicago
For eight straight seasons,one or the other team was in the NBA finals... for eight straight seasons the other team couldn't make it out of their conference.
A pity this one never happened.
It would have surely gone 7 games and, imo, gone down as the most competitive tooth& nail finals ever. We'll never know tho.
@@AnHebrewChild Yeeah man but go look at how well the Rockets played across two seasons. It started after Chaney got fired and Rudy T took over and Hakeem finally felt comfortable with his coach. I think Hakeem was always afraid of his coaches like Fitch for example, so he finally came into his own after practicing so hard in the Summer of 1992 thinking he was gonna get traded and then Rudy T at the helm. From about the All Star Break from 1993 to 1994 the team won 60+ games before going into bit of a slump, but still winning the Championship. So in the end of 1993, they would’ve beat the Bulls, but the NBA wanted a Bulls Suns Championship. Go watch the last 30 seconds of the last game of the Rockets 1993 season where they lost to the Spurs because of a bad call by the refs which gave Seattle home court. But that wouldn’t stop the Rockets, but then yet again the refs stepped in..Just go watch the end of 7 of the 1993 Playoffs where the refs gave more than one obvious call to the Sonics to make sure the Rockets didn’t advance. Well Seattle was next to get this FU treatment as the Suns went to the charity stripe like you wouldn’t believe when they played the Sonics in the Western Conference Finals! www.sonicsforever.com/blog/sonics-v-suns-a-rivalry
Olajuwon was better than jordan even fasting, face to face he defeated him
We could have seen a Bulls-Rockets matchup seven times. One time though, the JordanBulls weren't good enough to make it to the Finals.
The other six times the HakeemRockets weren't good enough to make it to the Finals. A pity...
@@AnHebrewChild1986 the Rockets were there and Chicago wasnt. That counts as well.
@@FuShengAlex Oh absolutely. I always want to call balls and strikes. So yeah, good point.
Mj is all there dads including yours s
Not when they faced the Rockets in the early 90's!
Hakeem was no joke against the Bulls back in the 90s, but in a seven game series, the Bulls will win the championship
It will come to the point when the Bulls defense will not double-team him and let him get the point
I disagree the rockets would've beaten the bulls at least one of those championships.
The bulls had no answer for Hakeem not to mention Houston was a very mentally tough and clutch team unlike the Knicks unlike the Cavs unlike the Phoenix Suns, Portland trail blazers, Utah jazz, Seattle Super Sonics
Not to mention a lot of those players on Houston could shoot the three really good. Kenny Smith, Vernon Maxwell, Mario Elie, Robert horry, Sam casell, Scott brooks, Chris jent, Larry Roberson, Pete chillcut.
Also there's probably another team who would've beaten the bulls. I just said Portland wasn't the most clutch team when it came down to it in the championship,
but probably their best most complete all-around team was the 1991 Portland trail blazers they had the best record in the NBA and swept the bulls during the season in the 2 games.
That Portland team that got to the finals the next year in 1992 was still good but clearly inferior to the Portland trail Blazer team in 1991.
@@pp3k3jamail Speak for yourself
@@damienkirksey7026 speak for myself what does that mean that's your rebuttal 🤦🏿♂️
Don't forget, that was not the best version of the Rockets that went back to back.
Whats Interesting About This game...And This was NICE!! Most of The Scoring was Below The Free Throw Line!! And Most of The Outside Shooting was Below The 3-Point Line !! In The Game Today at Every Position, PG, SG, SF, PF, and Center Can Shoot 3's and From The Outside Wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy Better !!
the game today is boring as sh*
They are just shooting more 3s. Overall, Point guards, Power Forwards and Centers were better in the 90s. For today's game, in the 2020s, the guards and small forwards overall are more valued and skilled overall than in the 90s.