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Duncan Ahmet Bury.

The date is May 6 1998 and we all know the city of Chicago is known for deep dish pizza.

Ferris Bueller's Day off.

Really Good Sports, which carry Wood, was earlier today for the Chicago Cubs.

Sure, but Matt, as Michael Jordan famously said, the Cubs have been rebuilding for 40 years.

It is a bull's town.

And as if the pursuit of the 63 weren't pressure inducing enough, Scottie Pippen took it a step further, saying he wouldn't be surprised if they won all their playoff games.

No one's ever been perfect.

The closest.

The 91 Bulls, who were 15 and two in their title run.

Coincidentally, it was a member of that team that stopped Scotty's lofty goals.

Tonight, let's take you to Chicago and I tell you what.

It was a stinker from the start.

The Hornets really struggled to get anything going in this one early on Glen Rice.

He misses the jumper, one for eight in the first half, bad bunnies would go around.

Anthony Mason can't get the short baseline jumper to go either.

Charlotte, 25% from the field in the first quarter.

Bulls not a lot better.

Michael Jordan off.

Well, at least you got Scotty, right?

He's got this thing.

No, he doesn't.

Chicago had do AMs in search to find their shot a 33% from the field in the first quarter in the second.

Looks like the last dance to know it.

Jordan blowing up 14 points in the first half time, winding down.

He's always good for a good buzzer shot and he gets one.

They're up.

Six at the half are the Bulls, which is the lowest scoring first half in playoff history, 36 to 30 in the second half.

Lady Diva.

I'll never let go, Jack, but he does to Mason.

She did let go.

She let Jack sink to the bottom of the ocean.

She's a liar.

Mason, battling for the offensive rebound, gets it to Rice, and he buries the three.

So Charlotte cut Chicago's lead to four.

Then in the fourth quarter, Dave Commons looks to his bench for a spark, and they get it from Dell Curry generational talent there.

13 of his 15 points came in the fourth quarter.

Hornets up by one.

Now, with all a little too close and B J.

Armstrong look at him.

The former bull fighting off the press pulls up cornets on a 15 2 run.

But Jordan has other things in mind in the fourth to spin the late I Own You, Charlotte I own you would be something of a team owner never had under 30 seconds left its Armstrong pulling up off the screen.

He buries it.

I tell you what he got game.

You see it?

I came in like three days ago.

Jesus Shuttlesworth.

I hear, though that is that kid named Ray Allen.

If he's as good a shooter as he is an actor, they're going places.

But look at Armstrong, yelling at the Bulls bench.

Fired up, finished with 10 points, had six points in his previous five games alone and looked at those Hornets.

They go on to win, 17 76 and tie the series at one apiece.

Some basketball should be played low.

Scoring 78 76 will never move into the triple digits on a regular basis.

We're 100%.

That's because defense is what really gets the fans download Certainly does As for that for Mobile B.

J.

Armstrong Will.

You had this to say about taking about his former team for us Right now, we can't be afraid to make shots and shoot shots and not worry about missing shots.

We got guys like deal myself, Glen Rice, who can make shots.

And you know, we have a model that shooters make shots so we can shoot the ball.

We're going to continue to shoot it, And if we can make him, then we'll get will be an excellent position to win a ballgame.

And that's what happened this evening.

We have had the success that we've had over the years, and it's easy to, you know, to to lose focus in situations like that.

And no, we have.

And, uh, and it usually takes something like this to wake us up.