Dr. Alan O'Sullivan

64 games versus 82.

He wasn't a big point getter.

We know that.

So 351, tiny relative to Jordan and Pippen.

But look at his percentage, his stats for offensive rebounds, ORB and defensive rebounds.

That tells you something.

A particular level of skill, a particular attribute was hugely important to increasing the probability of the stars in the team

getting another shot what we want to know though if we're trying to get to real rigor we want to see was he consistent looking at the 96-97 season look at Jordan's points nearly two and a half thousand points over 82 games total rebounds 482 over those 82 games what about Dennis Rodman

We look at Rodman's stats for that period, we can see much fewer games again, points not great, 311, but look at the rebounds.

Again, points, 311.

Total rebounds, 883 versus Jordan's 482.

So that, again, that was the second winning championship season.

Then we come to the final season, the three in a row, 97-98.

Again, Michael Jordan, 82 games, very consistent with his points.

huge point score.

But I am contesting that a lot of those points were as a result of the likes of a Dennis Rodman doing the dirty work, getting the ball back, increasing the probability.

Let's look at his statistics.

We can see that Rodman played more games in the last, the final season.

The points were

were consistently low.