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The University Daily Kansan
Thursday, October 9, 1997
Scottie Pippen injury may force Jordan to pick up slack
DEERFIELD, III. — The biggest problem with Scottie Pippen's injury is not that the Chicago Bulls might lose too many games but that Michael Jordan must expend too much energy.
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"Twenty percent of our scoring is off the floor. Someone else is going to have to fill it up," coach Phil Jackson said yesterday, the day after the team announced that Pippen had undergone foot surgery and will miss up to three months.
"And if Michael has to take it up, it's going to put a lot of pressure on him to play physically tired, do more things at the beginning or middle part of the game and not save his efforts for the end — when we need the critical points he gives us."
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Jordan, the nine-time NBA scoring champion and four-time league MVP, resents losses, regardless of how meaningless a regular-season game might be.
"We know what Michael's going to do with Scottie out," said Toni Kukoc, who might start in Pippe's place at small forward. "He is not a man who is going to let down. Even if he's by himself on the court — one against five — he's going to trv to win."
That's a wonderful characteristic, but it worries Jackson.
"We may have to (endure) loss; that may end up being a win situation for us later on. So I'm going to have to measure how important it is to win and how fast everybody else gets out in the Eastern Conference." Jackson said.
The coach wants Jordan to be healthy and fresh next spring when the Bulls go for their third consecutive NBA title and sixth in eight years. And if it means sacrificing some victories in November and December — and, perhaps, home court advantage in the playoffs — so be it.
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"You'd like to ... measure his minutes according to how we win. And the kind of margin we won the last two years, it was real easy to pace the kind of minutes this guy played," Jackson said.
going to try to do is incorporate different players into the situation to relieve some of the tension off myself."
Jackson will choose among Kukoc, Jud Buehler and newcomer Scott Burrell, depending upon the matchups each night. In Saturday's exhibition opener against Seattle in Allen Field House, for example, the 6-foot-11 Kukoc would match up best against 6-10 Detlef Schrempf.
"But if you're not going to be winning games by 10 points, everything's a battle, then it puts pressure on a coach to keep a player out there on the floor to help win games. That would hurt.
When Dennis Rodman missed 27 games because of suspensions and injuries last season, Jordan gave himself more rebounding responsibility. Now, the Bulls are without Pippen, a 20-point-a-game scorer, their top assist man and their No. 2 rebounder.
"Sure, there's a natural tendency, from a competitive standpoint, to try to do all the work," Jordan said. "But I think what Phil is
Jackson said that Rodman's new contract was all set, though some technicalities remain before the six-time NBA rebounding leader can join the team. But even after Rodman arrives, he won't be in game shape. In addition, Kukoc is coming off a serious foot injury, and Luc Longley and Ron Harper have chronic knee conditions.
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It all could add up to a tough first couple of months for the Bulls, who used fast starts to go 72-10 and 69-13 the last two seasons.
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