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Do you still remember the food poisoning during Jordan's second three-in-a-row championship? It happened on June 12, 1997 in the battle between the Bulls and the Jazz Finals in the Tianwang Mountain, obviously the first four games were good, why did the food poisoning suddenly occur, and then take us into the 1997 Finals.
My father passed away and I lost my motivation for basketball
Jordan's first season as a god started with the first triple championship in 1991, what did he experience during the second triple championship? At the end of the 1995-96 season, Jordan played only 17 games after returning from retirement for the first time, that is, at the end of the previous season, when the team barely entered the playoffs.
It seems that everyone thinks that Jordan is no longer as dominant as he was back then, but in the 96 season, Jordan staged the return of the king, because after a long time without a competitive level, Jordan founded the famous "breakfast club"! Barkley, Ewing, Olajuwon, Magic, Bird, Marlon Stockton, etc. are all superstars, and after the end of the flying pig Barkley walked out of the arena with a big grin, I couldn't help but sigh that Jordan's success was not without reason, this is simply masochistic training is extremely painful!
Because of this training, Jordan is like a fish in water in the new season, and he has led the Bulls to an amazing record of 72-10 in the regular season, easily defeated the Miami Heat 3-0 in the first round of the playoffs, defeated the Knicks 4-1 in the second round, and met the Magic team that defeated Jordan last year in the Eastern Conference finals. With the perfect data of 4.8 assists and 2.3 steals, in the face of the Magic's young guards, Jordan taught them a good lesson with skillful back-to-back singles and step-back jumpers, and came to the fourth game, when the Bulls had a 3-0 lead.
At this time, the Magic team also understood that they were sworn to fight to the death, but how could the god of basketball give the Magic a chance and directly swept the Magic team to avenge last year's one-shot victory! In the Eastern Conference finals, O'Neal averaged 27 points, 10.8 rebounds and 4 assists per game, and the performance was extremely eye-catching in G2 O'Neal got 36 points and 16 rebounds and the Bulls fought to 6 fouls to leave, from the round series our most intuitive feeling is that Jordan is evolving year by year, on the other hand, the young Magic team lacks rich series experience, especially O'Neal's mood in the game will be greatly affected, as well as his bad free throws, in addition to Jordan, the Bulls Pippen's performance is also remarkable.
The average of 18.5 points, 7.3 rebounds and 7 assists and 2 steals per game helped Jordan share the pressure to a greater extent, and in the third game, when Jordan did not play well, Pippen delivered an all-round performance of 27 points, 6 rebounds and 6 assists, whether it was organizing offense and rebounding and scoring, the other is Rodman who rose from the Bulls, not only can actively fight for rebounds, but also can easily eat cakes on the inside, and from time to time he can spit trash on the young O'Neal to affect his mentality, and the three of them have also formed a good chemistry, so the Iron Triangle was born！
The first comeback entered the finals, against the supersonics
The opponent of the finals is the SuperSonics team led by Payton, and the game has officially begun! G1 Jordan shot 9 of 18, cut 28 points, 7 rebounds, 2 assists and 2 steals to easily win the first game, and in the second game, Jordan appeared to play iron, Payton's stalking affected the shooting rate, but he still relied on free throws to score a total of 29 points, 6 rebounds and 8 assists, but the shooting rate was only 9 of 22 shots, and there was still a thrilling game to win the game, and when they came to the home court of the third supersonic, they didn't seem to have recovered from the first two games, and were beaten by the Bulls by 22 points, with a big score of 3-0, Jordan cut 36 points, 3 rebounds, 5 assists and 2 steals。 Easy to win, at this time the Bulls team showed a relaxed freehand thinking that the supersonic was going to be swept away, the turning point of the next game appeared, Jordan crazy iron gave the supersonic a chance to steal the hard-won victory, the fifth game supersonic is still very tenacious, from the big score of 0-3 to 2-3 to move two games in a row, Jordan scored 22 points in this battle, it seems that he is going to be moved back to play seven No, Jordan can't play seven in the finals.
In G7, Jordan is even more ironclad to a new height, 19 shots 5 of all, the shooting rate is only a pitiful 26.3%, but he still cut 22 points, 9 rebounds and 7 assists, this game Rodman was extremely brave and grabbed 19 rebounds and contributed 9 points, of which 11 were frontcourt rebounds, and it is not an exaggeration to say that Jordan won the championship in the last game, and successfully won the O'Brien Cup!
Peyton's height and size are close to Jordan's, and it's not an exaggeration to say that his strengthened version of defensive titan Tony Allen is against his old rival Utah Jazz!
suffered from food poisoning and scored the winning goal with super willpower
In the 1997 Finals, Jordan won not easy, and the Jazz team with Col Malone and Stockton had three games with particularly close scores, namely the first game of the Finals where the Bulls narrowly defeated the old rival Jazz 84-82, the G5 Bulls defeated the Jazz 90-88, and the G6 Bulls narrowly won 90-86, Jordan's average playing time in the entire series was as high as 42.7%, and he could hit 32.3 points, 7 rebounds and 6 assists In 6 games, Jordan scored 31 points, 38 points, 26 points, 22 points, 38 points and 39 points.
The most classic battle occurred in the 5th game, the outside world reported that Jordan had the flu, but in fact, according to Jordan's recollection, someone poisoned his food and caused food poisoning, plus he was still playing away from home in the Jazz's chassis, which probably coincided with Jordan's point of view, in this game, Jordan went on the court with food poisoning, desperately cut 38 points, and led the team to a narrow victory over the Jazz by two points, and at the end of the game, Jordan could no longer support the weak lying in Pippen's arms, and this scene has become an eternal classic. For the Jazz, Malone is undoubtedly the team's No. 1 offensive originator, averaging 23.8 points, 10.3 rebounds and 3.5 assists per game while shooting 44% from the field.
may be the first time to enter the Finals and still a little tender to lose to the Bulls, and Stockton, another offensive core of the Jazz, played an average of 37.5 minutes per game, contributing 15 points, 4 rebounds, 8.8 assists, 2 steals, shooting 50% from the field, and 40% from three-point range , The performance is also relatively stable, if the two of them score a little more, maybe there will be a turnaround, the team lacks the backbone to take over the game at a critical time, which leads to the score being tight every time the score is tight, the Bulls will give the ball to Jordan, and the Jazz side is more vague to lead to the loss of the series.
Seeing Jordan lift the Finals trophy, throughout the series, both sides were inseparable, and the efficiency of the Bulls' bench was not high, so it can be said that it was Jordan who won the series and won the championship!