Rockets vs Lakers - 1999 playoffs (Game 3)

Except scoring off the ball or in iso.

ruckus tried to put together a ridiculous superteam lol barkley pippen hakeem and mark price same team

Ya

@@Nocap69 who tf ruckus? and it would've worked if it was 1994

I START FRANCHISE WITH HIM OLAJUWON OR GARNETT. THEY ARE COMPLETE

Pippen and Duncan are my 2 favs

not in Houston idiot

Easy to defend when you are fouling every time.

Seann Cruz mine 2

Definitely the best defensive wing man ever.

This was when basketball was ball not glorified shootarounds

kawai

Well said!

don't forget that he was one of the best ball stealers at this time

Yah i agree with u but remember that Kobe was just too young at that time. Massive respect for Mamba. But Pippen was on fire. Dammm what a player he was. Without him, MJ da GOAT wouldn't win so many titles.

Mário Jorge Caldeira dude mj can win a title obviously not 6 ...dont think mj just a normal player ... ive never seen pippen double team ir triple tram anytine he catches the ball like mj pippen is lucky in his role

yea kobe was 2 year baby in nba. Next year with the blazers, you saw a shift. Kobe crossed his ass up and alley to shaq LOL.

Watch the next game tho, and get back to me 😂 Round 1 Game 4

@@tgresh3192 still Bryant was in prime and it is normal that in prime you should be better than older player. But still he couldn't guard Pippen as old player.

@@DeserteagleMS in prime bro? Kobe was a young pup. Pippen had all the experience. What happened in 2000? Scottie couldn't win with hakeem and barkley. Even jordan said he isn't losing to anyone other than kobe bryant.

@@user-zk4xu8tv4k this was Shaq’s team buddy, the Trail Blazers as a whole choked in 2000. But Kobe was already at his peak by 98, already regarded as one of the best SGs and two way players in the league. Quit making excuses, Kobe struggled one on one against quicker guys and great footwork…

they still didn't win the series lol

@@MrSus-qz9hg and?

@@mrbigbankbudda7931 its just kinda disappointing pippen was so talented but they couldn't pull through for the dub, then again the team they played was amazing so can't say too much about it, pip still a legend regardless

@@MrSus-qz9hg both pip and barkley were out of their playoff primes. they had so many battles before that they were not who they used to be. but still good players

Ahmad2423 it wasnt that, it was the offense the rockets ran. They totally misused scottie in that offense. They ran the same shit they did wit kenny smjth and vernon max. Throw it to Barkley and hakeem and scottie just stood on the perimeter. If they ran a offense around ball movement that rockets team would hsve competed for a chip. Esp. Since charles and hakeem can shot the ball. Too bad . Oh and barkley wasn't in shape that year

They didn't even like each other lol

If Hakeem and Barkley were younger too . They older than pippen 😂

Pipen The best, betwen 50 all time

Bulls vs Spurs for 99 NBA Finals would have been interesting

Shut up nerd. No one asked you.

Exactly pippens is so underrated

@@marklucas3900 this was his only good game, dude shot like 37 percent for this series. Charles played better than both him and Hakeem. At least on offense lol

Atlas Lion
And defense
Aka......a complete player!
Aka champion!

Better than who?

aaron you the man pippen my fav player of all time

No doubt bro, I think he is the most complete all round player to ever play the game and that includes mj who is my fave player and let's be fair the best and greatest ever but where mj may have had very slight weakness pip had none.

+aaron G Honestly, Pippen and Michael are tied for the Greatest in my book. Pip shot better, played better D, and played in the league longer than Mike did. Even in his older years (like in this vid, because Pip had a back surgery before the 1999 season started), Scottie could still torch you if you weren't careful.

luke bryce I wouldn't say he was a better shooter but I agree with everything else you say bro

Thanks, man! As MJ himself once said, not many people will realize how good Pippen was for a long, long time. If he hadn't gotten screwed in 2000, more people might have agreed with us, and maybe, just maybe Pip wouldn't be underrated.

and a real quitter.

Seriously! Like 2 pitbulls looking to kill everything!

@@1khardimon 🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂
Absolutely correct

I mean Jordan didn’t win ish without Scottie. Scottie led the bulls to 53 wins from 55 the year before without MJ. For sure Jordan was the alpha on the team but Scottie was no robin, he was a 1a.

@@lnd1998 Just stop it wit this Dumbshit! Jordan didn't win until they started putting real NBA talent around him instead of a bunch of drug addicts.
An those 55 Wins you're referring to were because of a system that was in place an all they're starter's playing 80 Game's or more that season. Because when that exact same team came back in '94-'95 minus Horace Grant they were the 11th seed til Jordan came out of retirement an brought them up to the 5th seed. So who was really responsible for them goin 55-27? I'll wait...

That was a veteran pippen playing against a stacked laker team. Imagine on his 91-96 days with jordan the damage they could've done with that laker team with sir charles playing as well. I don't know why nobody talks about how he schooled kobe on that series.

it wasn't the chemistry , they had it despite what it was said and written about it, the reason behind it all was the bad , bad , bad referring , i was there watching when it happened ... never miss a game, and you know how they show the reviews of plays, well the calls were just awful , also when Pippen was with the Blazers ...
very bad , i don't understand it .

nahor88 absolutely. how the hell do you not win a ring with those three???

Olajuwon seems to be the odd one of the group

nahor88. The big 3 of the Rockets were past their prime

Specially olajuwon and barkley

Joe De La Cruz AN OLD PIPPEN

@Joe De La Cruz Another Kobe fan boy. That was Pippen out of his prime, and owning Kobe. Even when MJ was playing baseball, Pippen was considered 2nd best player behind Hakeem.

Could be that 1999 Kobe's rookie year? I can't understand why LA's coach paired Kobe vs Pippen in d-fence. Pippen was taller, pretty more experience, heavier, and in a wide range of basketball skills better than Kobe in 1999. Once, twice, ...20 times posted Kobe without any tactical change by LA's coach. I think could been playing 2 more quarters and Scottie would been playing with Kobe all night long. 😎

That's BS Kobe dominated every series against pippen

U high or something hahhahh

Prime Pippen?
Wtf

Still lost the series though

@@bdub1934 You crazy. Pippen is the best second fiddle or Robin in history.

Kobe is the best second fiddle ever.

Was his prime before the '96 back surgery?

ppipen mató a kobe en esa serie REAL

ppipen jugaba mejor que Durant sin jordan lo que pasa que Durant tiene un all star a su lado ppipen resolvia casi solo y era mejor defensa que Durant mil veces

y era mas robador de balones k durant aunque durant tiene los brazos mas largos y es mas alto

You do realize that they they both averaged 18.3ppg in that series right? And kobe averaged more ast more stls more blocks and had fewer turnovers.. And kobe held Pippen to 32% shooting in that series.. So actually kobe locked him down in that series

Todd Jones yeah but Scottie was well out his prime around this time.

RODMAN

Dope

jimmy fabs and that’s why kobe crossed his ass up the next year and prevented him from winning a ring without MJ.

kobe is like 19 in this or 20 lmao

Kobe was peaking the next yr, while Pip was 35 yrs old Tre.

The NBA needed the Lakers Portland couldn't get a call in 2000, just like the Kings

NICK actually in 1999 Kobe was 21 years old, he already played three years in the league, but pippen was 34years old at that time, pippen was not on the top that time.

and by this time he had had so many surgeries. Way past his prime. At his best he was one of the best players ever

You dont have to imagine. Theres others video of him on KRplus.

Well pip was trained by jordan. We seen that in the last dance

@@MoeJaxon NO HE WASNT. PIPPEN IS BORN TO BE GREAT. IF JORDAN CAN MAKES OTHERS BETTER HE WOULD DO WITH KWAME. WELL NOBODY CAN MAKES OTHER GREAT IF THEY ARE NOT BORN. PIP IS BORN GOAT LEVEL.

@@PIP...33 Dude KB had no drive and no work ethic. Pip grew under the Phil and mikes watch. I guess you forgot pip was regarded as soft and not tough coming into the league or did you forget

@@MoeJaxon DID U FORGET LEN BIAS IS 500X BETTER THAN JORDAN ?? DID U FORGET JORDAN NEVER WON 35 GAMES IN CAREER OR 1ST ROUND ?? JORDAN IS NOBODY. PIPPEN S GOD.

@@MoeJaxon STOP LIE HERE BY YOUYR OPINION 15 YEARS MORE THAN 200 PLAYERS IN HORNETS AND NOT A SINGLE HAVE WORKING ETHIC. WELL ITS NOT TRUTH. TRUTH IS JORDAN NEVER MAKE ANYONE BETTER. SELFISH PPL DONT DO THAT. THATS WHY PPL GOES TO OLAJUWON PRIVATE SCHOOL TO LEARN. JORDAN TRUE FACE OF HELPING IS KWAME BROWN. PIPPEN IS BORN TO BE GREAT. HE WAS STEAL ON DRAFT. U CANT MAKE A STRONG GUY FROM SOFT PLAYER. PIPPEN IS BORN TO BE STRONG MIND AND BODY AND SKILLS.

@Roosevelt Darbey 😁😁😁😁😅😅😅😅

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I remember that.

Brahman Bull I looked at stats and no 62%

1 he wasnt a sg, i dont know wtf that guy was talking about.
2 it was for the first 2 games of the series.

I can’t even watch the nba this season every game goes above 120 with moving screens and travels being uncalled

Joe Dumars is up there too

This is exactly why I laugh when KB fanatics say Kobe could beat MJ one on one. I don't even think he could beat Pippen in a game of one on one. Pippen has the D to at least give KB some problems, and clearly on offense he's too much for Kobe posting up.

Meg butterfly In Kobe's defense- This was only his 3rd year in the league. He wasn't the player that he became a few years down the road. Granted, Pippen was a year or 2 past his prime.

hartsickdisciple Yeah, Kobe was a young up and coming player mixing good games with horrible games and Pippen was on his gradual decline. Pippen's athletic prime was '94-95 so he was actually 4 years past his prime here. After '96 his body broke down more and more every year requiring multiple surgeries after every playoff run. He had his second back surgery after the '98 Finals which stole a lot of the athleticism he had left. You could tell he wasn't the same player in '99 after that particular surgery.

hartsickdisciple be that as it may. Even in future years I always thought that KB's Achilles heel was his ability to guard in the post. Over the years we've seen him struggle to guard down there against guys like Bonzi, Patterson, Pippen, Magette, Melo, etc. I mean I understand Pippen and Melo are tough down in the post but guys like Bonzi, Patterson etc? C'mon. Even today this is still evident in his game. Watch out for it this season and you'll notice it. KB is great but I'd be shocked if anyone told me his weakness was something other than his low post D. Of course some might say his leadership but I don't think it's true and even if it were, it's considered an intangible not a tangible skill.

Yep, Pippen went "grown-ass man" on Kobe.

donald church I’m a Bulls fan but no not better than Larry and definitely not Lebron, he’s prolly top 3 tho

No my at all over larry or lebron

@@stanvan4290 over Larry for sure but not lebron

I agree Pippen is better than LeBron to me

Ghetto-Cee Tha General G.F.M.R how in the world would u come to that conclusion

kobe in his prime would light pippen & anybody else up he was young & still learnin at this time plus they only really showin pippen highlights this video was made 2 make him look good

+jayshine27 u people that dont know sh*t about basketball always coming with excuses now he is too young there haha but when we talk about his rings ohhh u will say he did help when u do know it was all shaq and yes kobe was young lol ..now then lets put kobe in his prime then..how about lebron winning 4 season MVPs during kobe prime era? what will be ur excuse?....kobe only won 1 season mvp in his career ..every player who is in the top 5 greatest of all time have more than 1 season mvp....and about pippen yesss pippen in his prime will stop kobe..thats an old pippen giving kobe comp soo wat that hell thats huge he is stopping young legs mann..nobody was able to stop jordan at that age

+eduar ed Kobe have been viewed as a bad guy by many ppl thru his career so thats some of the reason Y he dont have many MVP & the trouble he got in with the rape case... the reason MJ & Lebron get praised as the best ever so much is bc the league favor them & they promote them 2 be viewed as the best with all the commercials, deals etc Kobe, Kareem, magic, Bird never got praised & advertised as the best player & thats Y alot of ppl dont view them as they view MJ & Lebron

+eduar ed U seem 2 be a Kobe hater but if U R im sure U R smart enough 2 know that Kobe deserve more than 1 MVP... i never go by MVP's when comparin players anyway bc steve nash got 2 & its alot of players that never got 1 that was better than he was

+jayshine27 see what im saying? u full of excuses now u saying kobe suppose to have more than 1 mvp haha thats a joke see...u slow as hell when nash got his mvps he was for sure the best in the game...and when shaq was in LA he was the main guy...sooo when did kobe deserve an mvp? the year he was scoring a lot of points he didn't make the playoffs helloooo somebody there?do ur homework then talk to me..when kobe scored 81 points it was against the worst team in the nba that year TORONTO!...kobe have 1 mvp because he never dominate his era the way lebron and jordan did...so stop lookin for excuses...bye im done with u ..u kind of slow...lol and i dont hate kobe he is a good player but its reality im a basketball fan love to see reality not a blind fan like u...peace kid...pippen shining

Curry .m.j .KD .Larry .wilt

They were on the older side of things at that point

Wow. Pip sure had a great game, didn't he? He started off a little slow, missed a few easy buckets, but he kept on plugging away and helped his team to a much needed victory over a powerhouse Lakers squad.
My favorite part of this clip was near the 10 minute mark, where Charles Barkley and Shaq are standing next to one another, waiting for the play to resume. Barkley gives him a look as if to say, "What do you think about that, big man?" Priceless. Only Sir Charles could get away with that. Anybody else who would give Shaquille a look like that would most likely have swift and painful retribution coming his way
By the way... Who ended up winning the series in the end? Did the Rockets pull off the upset, or did the Lakers come back and snatch the victory away?

lynchie137 The Lakers ended up winning their 1999 Western Conference Quarterfinals (first round) matchup versus the Houston Rockets because Hakeem Olajuwon, Charles Barkley and Scottie Pippen were all Houston's superstar players in their mid-30s.
Plus, what did you think about the post that documented Scottie Pippen's behind-the-scenes background during his one year with the Houston Rockets in '98-'99? Was he really a good fit for Rudy Tomjanovich's decidedly slow, half-court game?

+Filipo Sooa I think he could've thrived in Houston's system if he'd been given the time of day, and been placed in his proper role as the primary scorer. The sad thing is that everyone in the 1990s saw him play second fiddle to Jordan, so he was miscast as a secondary player. Portland placed him back in his proper role, but he couldn't get very far after 2000. He should've won that year, but the refs took advantage of Portland's 4th Quarter screwups and missed some fouls (like Shaq knocking down Steve Smith).

lol Inside The NBA & Ernie Johnson goes way further back than this...

Since 89

Hahahahaha
Nobody liked Shaq or kobe that's why

davcar35 What's funny about that is that in the 1999 offseason, when Pippen made it known that he wanted to be traded (especially to the Lakers, since Phil Jackson had just been hired there), one trade possibility that was always discussed was trading Scottie for Glen Rice. Imagine Pip getting ring #7.....that Lakers squad would have been terrifying.

@@JBBGeek well we got ac green Devin George Brian Shaw ron Harper kept key players

"Pippen is shooting fire from his ass !". Wish he would of sed it that way.

Agreed

Although I guess Hakeem had something to say about that

Olajuwon was way better

And 1995 too. Better than 94.

@SuperCushcush in 94 the bulls won 55 games and rockets won 58. Pippen missed 10 games and the bulls lost most of those games. If pip wasn't injured the bulls would've won 60+ games, which was more than 93 when they had jordan. That's y pippens special. He can b the most valuable player of a game without scoring a point. He doesn't care about scoring like kobe or stats like westbrook, he cares about winning.