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I'm at peace. So now, this is going to be part two to the origins and the demise of the rivalry between the Detroit Pistons and the Chicago Bulls. As we can see, Michael Jordan is getting it in in the gym because he understands that he must build up his body. That's what I mean when I say that he understood that he was not physically or mentally ready to defeat the Pistons. And that's what going up against greatness does; it makes someone who's already great get even greater and understand that they could not just do it with talent. They also have to apply themselves. And that's the difference between champions and people who just almost get there but don't get there.
One thing that all champions have in common is that not only are they great, but they also have great willpower and they have great focus and things of that nature. You have people walking up and down the street who are more physically gifted than Michael Jordan, right? You can go to the park and you can see guys who have big hands, that who could jump, and all those other things, had great hand-eye coordination. But what made Jordan different is the focus.
Lost in Detroit, I was beat down because of the physicality of what was happening within the game, and I didn't have the energy to go again. That summer, that's when I really started to physically build my body up and give myself up for that type of beating. That was a year Michael Jordan felt, "This is our moment. We're gonna win it."
And that's interesting. John Salley is one of the main people who states that Jordan couldn't go left. There he goes, blonde left, and finishing over John Salley. I like John, but um, you know, John is a very interesting character. John Salley, by the way, also won a championship with Michael Jordan on the '96 Bulls, and he was on record as stating that Michael Jordan was the greatest player that he ever played with while he was there.
He told a story about how Jordan came to practice one time with just a pair of, of, I believe he said, like loafers on. He didn't even have sneakers on. He came with like dress shoes on and actually came out on the floor. I started dunking over guys and dominating the practice in dress shoes. In the corner, John Salley, he called his mother. John Salley called his mother and stated that he just saw the greatest player in the history the NBA. That's what John Salley said.
Now, in the aftermath of that, he's gone on record stating that J. West is greater than Michael Jordan. [ __ ] It's obvious that John is doing that for controversy so that he can get clicks and he can get more notoriety and make his way in the sports analyst world. But the reason why John is not able to stick on many of these networks is because he's a weed head. And you might not like that. Well, that's the reason why he can't stick in the sports analyst world because, you know, it just, it permeates him that his focus is not where it needs to be in regards to his ability to make really cogent points. And he is an advocate for marijuana.
You know, I had a few brothers trying to message me and go hard with the marijuana stuff. Look, if you smoke marijuana, that's what you do. But that's not going to, that's not going to assist the so-called black man in making his mind sharper. Sorry. And an example of that is John Salley. That's why he cannot stick on any networks. It's very, very obvious that his brain is all over the place when you hear him speak.
They would have three of the most physical guys ever at the basket waiting for Jordan. [Music] You had to be mentally tough and physically tough to beat him. Jordan rules tonight. [Applause]
Now, Mika, see, Phil Jackson is not the coach. By the '89-'90 season, he was put in charge of the team. They fired commas after the '89 season, even though they went to the Conference Finals. Phil Jackson was a plant who was put on the Chicago Bulls coaching staff by Jerry Krause, who never really was sold on Doug Collins. Doug Collins, by the way, never truly trusted Phil Jackson. He understood that Phil Jackson was a plant. When I say a plant, meaning he was Jerry Krauss's man, which is ironic because Phil Jackson and Jerry Krause fell out in a very public way by the early to mid-'90s.
But initially, Phil Jackson, who even had success with the Albany Patroons, and let me say this: the people who claim that Phil Jackson was only successful because of the great talented players that he had, well, you could say that about every great coach. But success followed him wherever he went. Being involved with the New York Knicks front office was the first place that he went to where he didn't win a championship. He was even a championship coach in the CBA with Albany Patroons. That's where he caught the eye of Jerry Krause, and he was placed on Doug Collins's coaching staff.
The cons did not want him there because he had a suspicion that he was Jerry Krauss's men. And yes, Phil Jackson would go back and report to Jerry Krause the things that doug collins was doing. And Phil Jackson was also a source for the book, "The Jordan Rules." He was doing, going back and telling long Michael Jordan in regards to the things that Jordan was doing in practice. He was a major source for Sam Smith. He was the one telling Sam Smith that Michael Jordan would freeze out Bill Cartwright, and he would knock out Will Perdue in practice, and he would dog out Scottie Pippen and, you know, try to run Scottie out, I know, off the team. That the things that Jordan was doing, the Brad cellars, how he was cursing out Horace Grant, all those things, Phil Jackson was the source on that information.
And I think that Phil Jackson was doing that as a way to tacitly attempt to humble Michael Jordan so that he would be more coachable. Because Phil Jackson's first year coaching the Bulls was '89-'90, and there was a great deal of resistance that Phil Jackson faced for Michael Jordan when Phil tried to implement the Tri offense. Had Michael accepted the Triangle offense with more verve early on, they might have won the championship that year. Keep in mind that they went seven games with the Detroit Pistons that year. Had Jordan accepted it from the jump, who knows? They may have, they may have had home-court that season instead of the next one, and may have gotten even one more championship. But either way, Phil Jackson was someone who, who was viewed as a plant, and, and for good reason.
It worked because Michael is an all-star, and the sidekick had to be dealt with. Your mocha gua was so dirty, but that too was dirty. The big bully, supposedly, if I remember correctly, supposedly he challenged Pippen to a fight outside of Chicago Stadium, if I remember correctly, during that series. If you, if one of you brothers remember, you can, you can inform me on that. I remember, I think it was after Game One or Game Two in Chicago. Well, he challenged step into a fight outside the stadium.
You see Michael, I buzzed him in his back. See all these guys that come on the internet talking about all what, you know, the boys want because they change the rules. The Pistons were still dirty, foul in '91. They just couldn't beat him. I can, Bill Laimbeer, did you see what happened there? Scottie got frustrated, hit lamby. lamby pushed him. And I said Thomas put him in a bear hug, put Pippen in a bear hug so that Piven couldn't fight back, acting like he's breaking up the fight, but he really put him in a bear hug so, so lambic could still on, yeah, I see a mad strong man, swung it through Pitman like a rag doll. That's off, you know, in this, in this day and time. I said Tom lip and kicked out the game for that.
That series was evil because the Pistons were not willing to give up the belt. So now you had these two Titans colliding with each other, and, you know, it went to a seventh game. But even before Game Seven started, the damage had already been done. The morning that I woke up, I was starting to feel it coming on. I had never experienced a migraine headache in my life. Howdy, Tiffany, spent some of the first half of the game with an ice bag on the back of his neck. The reason for this is that he was suffering from migraine headaches, cognitive vision to blur. He was suffering from a flood of [ __ ] energy. The man bitched out.
You know, for all these guys who ran rave about how Scottie Pippen is the reason why Michael Jordan won championships, all these guys, they're so hilarious. Scottie was a great, great, multifaceted player, but it took him years to become that guy. It really wasn't until '91 that Scottie became a great complementary player. The 1991 season, '89-'90, he stepped up and started to achieve All-Star level play. 1991, it's why he became a an extremely, an extremely proficient wingman, complimentary play to Jordan. Played great defense, all-around play, good offensive player, especially if the in transition, could rebound.
You know what series Scottie Pippen was great in? If you really want to see how great he was, if you brothers want to check out how great he was with Jordan, look at the '93 Eastern Conference Finals against the Knicks. Jordan struggle shooting in that series, and Pippen was great in every game. He was great in every game except, I think, Game Four, but he was phenomenal every game, especially Game Five, the game that Jordan got that got the triple-double, and they were able to stop Charles Smith at the end. Pippen was dominant in that game. Him and Jordan were dominant, but Pippen was great that entire series in '93 against the, against the Knicks, and the '93 Conference Finals.
"The pressure of the game, the pressure grew, the pounding group." Did you hear that? Scottie Pippen said, "As the pressure grew, the pounding grew." In other words, what Scottie Pippen is not an all-time leader. He's just not a lead player. That's why I call my all-time great complementary player. Gasps get mad at me when I say that, but it's the truth. He was a great complementary player. Him and Jordan did not have a partnership. Sorry.
But, you know, all-time great lead players, they don't say that. You're not gonna hear Kobe say, "I couldn't answer the bell. The pressure was too great." He's not gonna say that. Those are his rec, that, that, that's him saying that. Scottie Pippen saying that, that is his official record of events. He was not able to answer the bell. All you guys who want to act like Michael Jordan old Scottie Pippen for all them championships, okay, he said that. Now, he grew on to become a very, very impactful player, but that's him saying he was not able to answer the bell. I [Music] can't speak for Scottie Pippen.
Pistons in, unless you can't physically walk or you need to carry off the court, you're playing basketball. Great defensive play by Isaiah there. [Applause]
I don't think that migrate incident had any bearing on the outcome of the series. The game was in our building. They didn't know how to win. I agree. I agree with everything that Bill Laimbeer said there. The Bulls were not ready. They had Game Seven in Detroit, and Pippen clearly was not mentally able to, to, as he stated, answer the bell. But pay attention to how Michael Jordan, like a man, walked up to Isiah Thomas and shake his hand and congratulate the Pistons. All right? That's what men do.
Okay, so now we're at the start of the 1990-91 season, the season in which Detroit is now defending themselves as two-time NBA champions. It's also the season in which Isiah Thomas claim to Magic Johnson that prior to the season he was working out for 25 hours a day, shooting jump shots for 23 hours a day, and eating for an hour and resting for an imaginary hour. The season where he claims that he missed 83 games in an 82-game regular season. Anyway, let's see how things actually transpired here.
The Detroit Pistons had played in three straight NBA Finals and won two championship rings, but the grind had taken a toll. Hey, look at this now. I believe that this is the hallway in Chicago Stadium, maybe, and maybe in Detroit. Either way, it doesn't really matter. Point being, pay attention to the color scheme in this hallway here. They have the walls painted white and red, and of course, the floor is the checkerboard floor.
And I may have mentioned this, I believe either in the Wicca video that I did or the Kyrie Irving Christmas video, but I believe it that it was the wick of video that the checkerboard floor and the splash of red, or the colors of white, black, and red, are used by the Catholic Church and how they adorn their priests because those colors are representative of the bringing together of opposites, of opposing forces, as well as the color of red, which is in veneration of the blood sacrifice that is demanded by bilal Molech, aka Nimrod, or in his, in one of his names, as Mars or Murdock (Amerodach), the rebel.
If you guys were to look up the Michael Jackson "Blood on the Dance Floor" album cover, you will see that same color theme of white, black, and red. Michael Jess, Michael Jackson is dancing on the checkerboard floor, and they, and of course, they intermingled the color red and the out, and the title of the album once again is "Blood on the Dance Floor." That's all.
And as the 1991 playoff started, something felt different. For many years, Isiah Thomas told me that the pistons were this tightly wound ball of yarn. You could never get the end of it, start pulling on it. But we knew that 1991 the strands were unlike. Age caught up the Detroit Pistons in some ways. No, not age, that's an excuse. What caught up to you guys is attrition.
Attrition, and I touched on this and the previous video that I did, the three-part series on Magic Johnson and Isiah Thomas. The Pistons were not built to age well. They were just not. They were not built to age well because they were a little bit too small, and they oftentimes tried to get over on teams by, by thuggery. When I say thuggery, meaning over physicality. After years and years of runs into the Conference Finals and Finals, you just can't get up for teams anymore. And during the regular season, that leads to winning less games during the regular season, which means that you don't get home court in the playoffs. And then when you have a team that's on your ass like the Chicago Bulls were, it's hard to continuously beat them when they're becoming acclimated to the level of intensity of those matchups and they're more motivated than you.
Point being is this: Isiah Thomas in 1991, I believe, was 29, about to turn 30. Joe Dumars was the same age as Michael Jordan, 27, 28. They were not an old team. Same thing what Rodman. Rodman was about 27, 28. They were not old. It was just their time to lose. And I will give them the excuse of attrition from constantly going deep into the playoffs. They had been going into the Conference final since '87 at the very least. Two Conference final study went to the Conference Finals in '87, the Finals in '88, '89, and '90, and once again back to the Conference Finals in '91.
And a lot of people might not know this: in '92, they faced the New York Knicks in the first round, and that series went five games. That Knicks team was the team that, that took the Bulls to seven games in the Eastern Conference Seminar, the more, or probably the most intense second-round matchup that I can remember. And, you know, in all the time that I've been watching basketball, that '92 Eastern Conference Semifinals between the, the Bulls and the Knicks, that seven-game series was extremely intense.
Injuries, it's tiring. In '70, the '89-'99, like five straight years, you plan until at least early June. It was just mental fatigue, physical fatigue. Also, please keep in mind, Dennis Rodman, and I'll probably do a separate video on him, there's no doubt in my mind that he's an asset. He's constantly being sent to North Korea by the CIA, in my view. I have little doubt that Chuck Daly was his handler originally, and that's why he lost his mind when Chuck left. He also had a series of issues with his teammates. Vinnie Johnson allegedly slept with his wife, and he just fell out with many of his teammates. He no longer trusted them.
And please keep in mind that Dennis Rodman never had a real family. His mother was abusive. Eventually, he moved in with a Caucasian family. The, the, the dynamics of his relationship with them, I don't think, will ever truly be revealed, the time period that he spent with them. Anyway, he ends up in the NBA pretty much a pilgrim, never really having a place to stay until he gets comfortable with that, with that team framework, that's a quote unquote, that quote unquote team family atmosphere. And then he gets betrayed by them. That led to him really having a mental breakdown, which makes one easy to be programmed.
But like I said, I'll touch on Dennis Rodman later, but I have little doubt that he's being used as an asset to gain intelligence with Kim Jong-un. And I'm sure that Kim Jong-un is as knowledgeable of the fact that Rodman is being used, but as long as he stays in his place when he comes to visit Kim Jong-un, you know, they'll just use him as entertainment. I always remember that the genius can play the fool, but the fool cannot play the genius.
And there is a history of the United States using athletes as intelligence agents. I believe that there was a catcher named Moe Berg, if I remember correctly. The name was Moberg. Your brother could look it up. I believe his name was Moberg, and he was involved in a series of very in-depth missions involving intelligence gathering for the forerunner of the CIA, known as the OSS. I believe he took a lot of footage in Japan, and he took some tours throughout Europe trying to convince some scientists there to come to the U.S. But once again, you brothers should look him up. His name is Moe Berg, first name M-O, last name B-E-R-G.
Well, please keep in mind that athletes being used as intelligence operatives is nothing new. They've been doing it for many, many, many years. And as I've stated, they do have many assets sprinkled throughout the professional sports world. I know a lot of brothers poop, what they might think that is ridiculous, but it's very real. All right? Some of them are monarch athletes. As a matter of fact, most of them that would be used for intelligence gathering will be monarch athletes. A lot of the high profile bots, I've mentioned before, a lot of the high profile thoughts like, what's this girl's name, blac Chyna and Amber Rose and these other females, a lot of them are involved in monitoring the monarch athletes. You know, the Kardashians, I'm on record as saying that there are witch Colven, but they're also utilized to monitor many of these high-level monarch athletes. But, you know, it is what it is. But looking up a name is Moberg, and I have no doubt that Robin is being used for the same purpose in regards to U.S. relations with kim jeong-hoon, or he may be a courier. Who knows? He may be someone who was involved with relaying messages to kim jeong-hoon and then, of course, getting their response to it and bring it back to the U.S. [Music]
They managed to get back to the Conference Finals, and one more time, the Bulls were waiting. [Music] Jordan was Jordan. He the best player on the planet. This good is good to get an honest admission.
Let me say this: the '91 Bulls team is pride the most underrated championship team that I can think of in league history. They were dominant in the playoffs, dominant. Like, they blew through teams. They lost one game against Philadelphia in the second round where Jordan had tendonitis in his knee, and I think he still score like 45, 46 points. Came in which game? That was Game Three a game for. I was in Philadelphia. And then they lost a game in the Finals, Game One, where they came out nervous, and Jordan missed a jump shot that, I believe, what it took the lead in the game. I would have tied the game up. This was after Magic hit Sam Perkins for wide open three in transition. Other than that, they, they blew the Lakers off the floor. They blew the Pistons off the floor. That team was dominant. And the playoff that you had '91 Bulls team was something else.
And that '91 series, Scottie Pippen guru. Well, how simple, Michael or Scotty? I knew that we can beat the boss. We couldn't beat him. And why won't we? Did see that once again, they were still doing the same dirty files. Guys send it they changed the rules so that the Bulls could win. That didn't make any sense. They were still falling dirty. The difference was the Bulls were just matured, physically, mentally, and they would not allow Detroit's tactics to throw them off their game. They were just ready. And um, you know, the best Bulls team against the best Pistons team, the Bulls beat them. You know, say the '91 or the '92 Bulls team against the '89 Pistons, the Bulls still win. It's just what it probably was seven. But Pistons were a great team, but they were not built to have a long run. They were too small.
"We were so much more mentally strong. We were so much more physically ready for any challenges that they threw at us. They weren't a fragile mental weak team anymore. You couldn't mentally fatigued." [Applause] They were obsessed with winning at that point.
"What it made me think about was us with Boston." I looked at, "Missing there, us." "Well, wait a minute, Isaiah, what happened to your wrist?" You Nazi not saying in this documentary, you didn't bring up your wrist. You said they wouldn't have fragile II weak team. You wouldn't, they were not a mentally fragile team anymore.
The Bulls won the first three games and weren't shy about letting the press know how they felt about the Bad Boys. Once again, this was the consensus amongst those players. That was never really the consensus back in the mid-'80s when he came to, you know, in the early '80s with Philadelphia, to mid-'80s with Boston, that all, "Well, you know, everybody will be happy when they're going." Now, don't get, don't get it twisted. The Celtics, they were a team that told the line also in regards to physical, borderline dirty play, but nothing that's flagrant as the Pistons. And you had so many players from that era talk about the Pistons. They don't talk about those other teams. So there was a difference in the style of play that the Pistons utilized as opposed to other teams. And cats can get mad about that. "Oh, they just, they know, they just scrutinizing the Pistons. Everybody played that way." That's not true. The Pistons took it up to another level. And then on top of that, they were also better than everybody.
"I had never seen a team speak about a champion that they were getting ready to dethrone." When Michael Jordan said, "The Pistons were bad for basketball. There were poor champions," that struck the Pistons in the heart, struck Detroit in the heart. Isaiah Thomas is coming out of the game. [Applause] [Music]
"And the runs over. You know, it's over." "And who's over, France?" "What we were doing was just giving respect to each other as a brother who's been down with me in this struggle, in this battle. Thank you." Very touching. Sigh of relief. Carrying heavy dirt all season long. It's 112-89 Chicago with the van left of the Vista. The season, Jordan, Pepin's is chillin'. "Which club we going through after the game?" "Oh, no, the one on 8 Mile got the best host, mark iguana."
All right, mentioned this in the previous series when I was there Thomas and, uh, Magic Johnson. You could read Michael wise lips. He's, he's a [ __ ] them. And Lam bears just on the bench chillin'. He's not even thinking about, there's not even a question for him what he gonna do. [Music]
This is the guy right here that people should be blaming for Isiah Thomas not making this so-called dream team, not Michael Jordan. Michael Jordan didn't want to play on its own, the dream team. Michael Jordan wanted to, wanted to chill and play golf that summer. That's all he wanted to do: chill out, play golf, work out, and go bowling some of his side chicks. He wasn't trying to go to Barcelona, but they talked him into it because that was part of the image that the NBA wanted to convey and to, you know, push the league globally. And Dick Ebersol was one of the architects of that in concert with David Stern. But those are the guys who, who kept Isiah Thomas off the team.
And, and Chuck Daly, Sean, how dish law he was. He didn't give a [ __ ] that Isiah Thomas wasn't on the team. I think Chuck Daly realized that the Pistons run was over, so he might as well go get his, go get his personal glory as coach of the dream team. And as that time, we'll just have to get over it for the possibility of a true passing of the torch. And what they got was nothing like that at all.
When the Pistons began to walk off the court, there was one problem: there was still time left on the clock, and the cameras were following them. What a, what a sleazy way to leave the court. You gonna walk past Jordan and put your head down? That's why I said, looking, and I'm, and I'm a, I'm an admirer of Isaiah Thomas's great skills. All right? I give him credit for his great skill level and his ability as a basketball player. But when you do something like that on national TV, you have to be prepared for the repercussions. Because this, this is not like you, you guys in the park, and you've had a physical game, and you just leaving without know what I'll dampen up. It's on national TV. Millions of people are watching, and you cannot allow yourself to be led astray on some fake gang [ __ ] like, "Now we're not gonna recognize them [ __ ] 'cause they don't claim our set." Like, come on, man, you got to think a little deeper than that.
And I think that Isaiah Thomas realizes now, what, 20, almost 27 years later, that had he just shaken those men's hands and thought on a more macro cosmic level, that everything after that would have been different. He would have been on the dream team had he shaken Michael Jordan's hand and exciting Clippers hand. He would have been thought of closer to Magic and Bird as being emblems of that era in the, in the '80s than he has been. He's been a very much a forgotten figure, all because of this moment right here.
"To my business walking on up like this." Yeah, because that's his character. That's who Bill Laimbeer was. Isiah Thomas is a person who, as I've stated previously, has a lot of passive-aggressive traits. So even when he was trying to stand with, stand, you know, along with the team, he put his head down 'cause deep down he knew that, you know, he shouldn't, that he's different from Bill Laimbeer. He's not Bill Laimbeer. He's one of the, one of the touchstone figures of the league. He should have shaken the man's head around. But the way it looked, it looked like Isiah was trying not to be seen watching them. He went dipping around nobody. He was putting his head down so that he couldn't make contact with Jordan eye contact. He didn't even want to, he didn't want to see Jordan in his periphery. Not even have the dignity of razor head up hands anyway. [Music]
Great champions usually do the right thing. To be honest, they look like they were doing a perp walk. These guys themselves like Street Bullies. Those who look at the Pistons as villains, seeing it be correct in for a villain. Like a joy, and joining just like his head. Like, "These [ __ ] met the villain. Goes down. See, we never liked them. And look, when they don't win, look how they behave." The Pistons' reputation was cemented when they walked past them in 1991.
I agree. I mean, to a degree, they stay consistent with their brand. Their brand was that they wore a white hat, I mean, part of me, the black hat. They acted as the anti heroes for, you know, a five-year stretch, and they went out like they came in. They claimed that image of being bad boys, and they had to stick to it. A lot like how to park, you know, he stopped playing Bishop, and he started to actually live out that character. You know, he'd know he did not know how to come back into reality, and that led to his demise. But that's all other issue for another day, right? Very similar to the Pistons and Isiah Thomas, especially if they fed into that bad boy mentality, and they had a hard time getting out of it.
"People around the league will rejoice that this is the end of dirty basketball except for Detroit." "I mean, you saw what type of class they had walking off the court in defeat." "But in the best interest in nature, we expected it. It was straight." "Nobody here would have believed they won. They won. You knew someday was going to come to an end. Did you think it would feel this way when you did? I mean, is this the way it's supposed to feel?" One that was the original. "Both teams played hard."
As why I said, there's nothing new Under the Sun. You know, guys, guys were doing that way back then, just repeating the same phrase over and over again to the media. It was men knew when Rasheed Wallace did it. But that shows you once again the importance of having a top level coach. That's the difference between going out in the second or third round and winning championships. Phil Jackson what's the difference with Chicago in regards to his ability to stabilize them mentally and to be able to attain a trance-like state of serenity on the court where they did not get nervous in big spots. That's what brought them down the previous year when Pittman could not deal with the pressure. So kudos to Phil Jackson. But as always, everything pointed back to the star.
"He'd been the face of the Pistons since the day he was drafted ten years earlier. It cost him that he wasn't a beloved character in the history of." I agree. The following summer, when the dream team dominated the Barcelona Olympics, Isiah Thomas was left off the roster. Yes, at the behest of Dick Ebersol, and also at the behest of Mr. Magic Johnson. That's why I'm happy that that whole issue between him and Isiah Thomas came out. They've been blaming Michael Jordan for that for years. Michael Joe, of course, Michael Jordan did not want him on the team, but Jordan himself didn't even want to be on the damn team. He wanted to chill out at home.
All right? Magic Johnson wanted Jordan to be on the team because he was trying to use a lot of the energy that would have been Jenner rated by Jordan being on the team to get attention for himself. Even in his photo, look at who Magic Johnson is looking at. He became infatuated with the energy of Michael Jordan, who seemed to almost have lichen like a Tony Stark, like Tony Stark has that, has that generator in his chest. That's how Jordan was. Isiah Thomas was on record years ago, I stayed at the difference between Jordan and all the other guys at that error is that Jordan seemed to have this interminable level of energy, and Magic was trying to feed off of that. That's why he desperately wanted Jordan beyond the dream team.
"In more than 20 years later, no one's forgotten what was seen as his final act." "Well, you're supposed to be used to be a reporter, so you're not supposed to get on TV and say in your mind. You're supposed to get to the bottom of it. Was it Isaiah Thomas's idea or not?" A lot of times people will attribute the genesis of ideas to a certain person who they feel like has mastermind traits. So I understand to a degree why he feels like Isaiah Thomas came up with it. But I mean, it's a, it's a possibility that other somebody else came up with it, and as that time was just said, "Okay, no problem." [Music]
"Oh, yeah, I was the one who was the instigator of walking off the court." Now, lambier says that he was the instigator walking off the court. But keep in mind, Lambie, the, the pistons were like the military in that era. They would literally take bullets for each other, especially for Isaiah. So who knows if flam beer was actually the instigator or the originator of that plan? Because even if he wasn't, if Isaiah was, I have no doubt that he would take the blame for it. He said that long pause. You can tell he regrets it because he understands to a great much greater degree, two plus decades down the line, that he should be considered as a possible top 10 all-time great NBA player. But often times he's not even his name is not even mentioned.
Once again, I remember two years ago when I was talking about Steph Curry was above him an all-time NBA point guard rankings. This was during the season where stuff was, you know, 2016, when he was having an unbelievable season. But still, he had to do it for, you know, he had to put up a lot more years for you, you could be mentioned on Isaiah Thomas's level. Please keep in mind, Isaiah Thomas still holds the record for assists per game average in a season. I believe he averaged like thirteen point nine one season. Chiming which one it was: '84-'85. Isaiah Thomas was a phenomenal player, and this event here set him back in regards to his esteem.
"And looking back on it, was it the right thing to do?" [ __ ] "We had been bigger." "Yeah, I agree. The walk off may have been controversial, but what wasn't up for debate was this: then was the end of the bad boys." "You're up on top, eventually you're gonna go down. But they were great soldiers." "It had taken Jack McCloskey ten years in 38 trades to build a championship team. After the 1991 season, the demolition began. If the rise was ugly, the break-up had to be ugly too. There was just no pretty way to say goodbye to the bad news."
Over the next few years, the team's aging veterans were dealt away, and Chuck Daly and trader Jack himself headed out the door as well. Everything was falling apart. "I build my life can be short a good with his team and Chuck Daly." You hear that? He said he both did live his life with the team and Chuck Daly. Notice how he mentioned explicitly Chuck Daly. Chuck Daly is a person who I mentioned before has a CIA background. I have no doubt that he understood how to handle Rodman, and I put, and I will capitalize the word "handle." When Chuck Daly left, Dennis Rodman went to self-destruct programing. He considered killing himself. That's what he started with with the excessive tattoos and the dyeing of the hair. Okay, he went to self-destruct programing. Also, he had a mental breakdown because he a lot of thought to fall in love with a [ __ ] quick.
Look at this [ __ ] Rodman, of course, a second NBA life ahead of him in Chicago. Yes, because Phil Jackson, another handler, knew how to keep him in line. I don't all places. As for the heart and soul of the bad boys, the end of their story was almost too fitting. "I said a big hard screen on I say in practice, and he didn't like it. You end up picking the swing and hit me in the head. Broke his hand." Unfortunately for the team, Edge's was another example of how the time had passed, that it was time to go and move on. I agree. And that team, the pistons, they were like piranhas, and when there's no more food in the tank to feed the piranhas, they'll start to eat each other. And that's what happened with the Pistons.
Oh [ __ ], look, look at Bill with the Coogee on. '93-'94 season. Then in the last home game of that year, Isiah tore his Achilles. He was done at just 32 years old. "I had zero left to give mind body spirit soul. I felt like I had given everything that, that I could give." [Music] "I didn't have anything left." You know, it's amazing how many great players have torn Eric ILI's: Isaiah Thomas, Shaq, Colby, Dominique Wilkins. That Achilles injury is something else. [Music]
Joe Dumars stuck around the longest till 1999, which meant he was around to watch Jordan in the Bulls when all six of their titles. Guess what, people? The Michael Jordan that we know, the exalted ruler of the NBA, he wouldn't have happened if not for the Pistons. Absolutely no doubt about it. They made him raise his game. They put the pressure on him to, I wouldn't say turn a piece of coal into a diamond, they put the pressure on him to turn a diamond into an even greater diamond. I agree.
"And the team pushed us to a certain level. I don't think we would have won those six championships without getting over the hump of Detroit." No doubt about it. And that's what I'm going to end this video because that's the theme of the video. You know, a lot of times people want to accentuate certain sides. The Detroit Pistons fans want to claim that they would have kept beating the Bulls if the rules wouldn't change. The other side might claim that, that the Bulls would a better team, but because the pitchers were allowed to play dirty, they lost those syriza's. The fact that the matter is that things went exactly how they were supposed to. The pistons were a great team, underrated in history, and they provided the measuring stick for the Bulls to attain a certain level of proficiency, mental and physical fortitude, that was able to establish them as a team in the NBA. And it also forced them to raise their game and led to their dominance in the '90s. But anyway, peace.