jacoby1us wrote:infinite11285 wrote:If Penny Hardaway, Grant Hill, Chris Webber, Allan Houston, Bobby Hurley, Jamal Mashburn, Rodney Rodgers, and Eric Montross found a way to beat the Dream Team, I'm sure the Redeem Team could find a way to beat them as well.
Don't leave out the other main fact that MJ didn't play real minutes against the team as Chuck Daly purposely sat him throughout the scrimmage. The next scrimmage was a 180 with MJ in the game.
Interesting. Why did Chuck purposely sit MJ? Wouldn’t you want him to play so the team could gain some cohesiveness? Sitting MJ to “prove a point” is completely counterproductive to establishing team chemistry. And if MJ sat, why did he say this in an interview after the loss?
Michael Jordan gave a frank account to the Los Angeles Times afterwards.
“We got killed today,” he said. “They beat us and they played well. We’re so out of sync and so unsure about things that we feel comfortable with in normal situations. We don’t have any continuity at all.
“If they were in the Olympics, they’d win the silver medal.”
The claim of throwing the game was also disputed:
Yet the staggering result may not have been all it seemed. Team coaches later claimed the fix was in, to keep the megastars humble before the Olympics.
“He threw the game,” assistant coach Mike Krzyzewski claimed in the documentary, apparently told by Daly during the scrimmage: “We’re all right.”
“If you look at how much Jordan played and how he subbed the guys in, not picking up, not making any adjustments; he knew what he was doing.”
Yet Daly did not tell his assistants of the plan and Hill isn’t having it.
“Coach K said they threw it,” Hill said. “I love coach K, but I’m not buying it.”
