Dr. Alan O'Sullivan

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.

But look at the rebound stats.

Triple the rebound stats.

Okay, Scottie Pippen played less games in the final in the 97-98 season.

But total rebounds, Dennis Rodman, 1,200 rebounds.

1,201 versus 475 for Michael Jordan.

Very interesting in the context of looking at the team and having different players doing different things in the team.

Now, I want you to keep that in mind when we talk about portfolio construction.

To emphasize this, I've created this dynamic chart.

And this dynamic chart is titled Why Every Portfolio Needs a Rodman.

Michael Jordan got the glory, but Rodman...

The dirty work, okay?

And if we look at this chart, this dynamic chart, we can see that Jordan, we got on the left axis total games, points Jordan is way up big peak.