What did Jordan experience in the most difficult championship?

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Jordan won 6 career titles, with the lowest average score in the finals being 27.3 points against the Supersonics in 1996, but the progress was not difficult.

After the first three games, the Bulls have already led 3:0; the Supersonics G4 and G5 fought back to death, but failed to drag the series into Game 7.

That year, the Bulls won the best team in 72 games. Pippen averaged 19.4 points, 6.4 rebounds, 5.9 assists and 1.7 steals per game. The Bulls' offensive and defensive efficiency was the first in the league; rebounds, assists, steals and even three-point shooting percentages were all the top five in the league...

That year, they lost 3 games in total, and they were all leading their opponents with big scores in the series: G3 lost to the Knicks in the second round, and G4 and G5 lost to the Supersonics in the finals.

So it is difficult, this year is probably not really worthy of.

The real difficulty is still 1998.

After all, the core members of the Bulls that year, 29-year-old Kukoc and Lucklongley: Jordan was 35, Pippen was 32, Rodman was 37, Harper was 34, Cole was 32... It was too old.

Jordan averaged 28.7 points per game in the regular season, which was only slightly higher than his rookie year in the full season, and his shooting percentage was the lowest performance in the full season - even if he was a god, he would get old in the end.

To make matters worse, Pippen was injured at the beginning and was missing for almost half a season; the Bulls lost 8 wins and 7 losses at the beginning of the season, and it was difficult to make a move.

The team is not very harmonious, Pippen's intention is decided, and the management is also preparing to demolish and rebuild, and terminate the cooperation with the Zen master... Internal and external difficulties, the dynasty is at the end.

But the Bulls finally won 62 wins in the regular season, which was on par with the Jazz - relying on the defense of the third place in the league and the rhythm of the league's countdown, they kept biting and strangling one round after another, grinding them all.

Of course, although Jordan's production has declined, he is still the league's scoring champion.

And, there were 82 games. The bull's offensive end is far from the previous two years. In the past two years, 1996 and 1997, the Bulls' offensive efficiency was the first in the league; from 1998, it fell to eighth - so although Jordan's score dropped, its share increased again

1996 to 1998, Jordan's personal score accounted for 28.9%, 28.7%, and 29.7% of the team respectively - the final championship was really relying more on Jordan's personal ability.

After all, Pippen fell and the triangular tactics were unsustainable, so I could only ask Jordan to come to a few more superstars.

So in addition to playing for the entire 82 games, Jordan averaged 38.8 minutes per game, still the highest championship in the last three consecutive championships - Hart, who averaged the most playing time in the league this year, was 37.6 minutes.

In the playoffs, there was no problem facing the Nets and Hornets in the first two rounds;

But in the Eastern Conference Finals, the Pacers played 7 games with Reggie Miller - that was the only time Jordan won the last three consecutive championships, and the only tiebreak in the series. In the tiebreak battle, the Bulls' shooting percentage was as low as 38.2%, but they still passed the game with a narrow margin - Jordan and Pippen worked together to score 11 frontcourt boards and won 24 free throws, eliminating the Pacers by only 5 points.

Then in the finals, the Bulls, who had no physical strength, lost G1.

That was the first time Jordan lost to the Finals G1 after 1991.

But the Bulls still won three consecutive games afterwards - in addition to the problems with the G3 Jazz themselves, G2 and G4 Jordan scored 37 and 34 points respectively, and only won 5 and 4 points.

to G5, the postman scored 39 points, 9 rebounds, and 5 assists, winning a game;

Then G6, Pippen suffered another back injury, and returned to the locker room for treatment in the middle of the journey. After that, although he returned, it was obviously impossible to get full.

So Jordan fought for 43 minutes and 41 seconds, scoring 45 points with 35 shots - including the last moment, stealing the postman, dribbling the defender, and shooting into the mid-range shot that killed the game.

In that game, the Bulls fell behind almost the whole game; Jordan scored 15 points in the second quarter and 16 points in the fourth quarter, first stabilized the score, and then took the game away strongly. Behind the

, there is no help from thousands of men - the team scored only 87 points, and Jordan scored more than half of the points. After 6 games in the

series, Jordan averaged 41.7 minutes per game, leading all players on both sides.

scored 33.5 points, 4 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 1.8 steals, with a shooting percentage of 42.7% + 30.8% + 81.4% - it is not very efficient, and it has nothing to do with team cooperation.

relies on personal ability to create a second three-game winning streak.

Bulls' second scorer Pippen averaged 15.7 points per game in the series, 17.8 points less than Jordan;

Shi Airport averaged 26 points per game, 8 points ahead of Terry;

Da Meng averaged 26.9 points per game, 13.5 points ahead of Maxwell.

If you want to talk about single cores, Jordan's final championship can be considered as - Pippen missed half a season, only played 25 minutes in the last game of the finals, and G5 still only made 2 of 16 shots...

So, it's really difficult.