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Transition Game: An Inside Look at Life With the Chicago Bulls
Transition Game looks at what happened as the team ventured into the unknown with Scottie Pippen struggling under the mantle of leadership; Horace Grant trying to perform under the pressures of impending free agency; and Phil Jackson grappling with fans' expectations.
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228 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1994
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January 15, 2010
I bought this book to learn more about the "lost" season in the annals of the history of the 90's Bulls. There is plenty of coverage of the every season from 1990-1998 due to the prominence and popularity of Michael Jordan but the great 1993-94 season is mentioned only in passing if it all in most basketball books on this period. Unfortunately, this book came up short of my hopes.
The biggest problem with this book is that it focuses little on basketball. The Hue Hollins call, which cost the Bulls a likely trip to the NBA finals, is mentioned only once. Their regular season record is mentioned at various points but there is nothing, aside from a passing mention to a loss in the penultimate game of the season, about the stretch run which saw the Bulls battle the Knicks and Hawks for the #1 seed. She spends about two pages discussing the Bulls' efforts to acquire a legitimate starting two guard to fill the void left by Michael Jordan before the trade deadline.
When it comes to the playoffs you would think Jim Mora wrote this book! There is no substance about the playoffs. She spends plenty of time on "1.8gate" but that is pretty much it for her coverage of the playoffs. We are told about a jacket Corie Blount wore but told absolutely nothing about the Bulls' sweep of Cleveland and given about four sentences worth of substance (Myers frustrated Starks, Pippen had no help, Cartwright had a good series, Hue Hollins made a controversial call. That is it!) about the great Bulls-Knicks series.
She does a good job talking about the various personalities on the team and you learn about their backgrounds, what they were like, what they were thinking but the problem with this is she spends as much time talking about Pete Myers as she does talking about Scottie Pippen. I liked the chapters on Horace Grant's clashes with management and his consequent desire to leave the team and Toni Kukoc's transition to America and the NBA.
There was no coherence to the book. It was not chronological. It was divided based on the personality she focused on. There is a weird chapter on her life as a sports reporter that had nothing to do with the Bulls.
All in all it is a decent book. If you are a diehard Bulls fan this book is worth reading. It is short and you will learn some things. However, if you are not a Bulls fan reading this book is pointless.
The biggest problem with this book is that it focuses little on basketball. The Hue Hollins call, which cost the Bulls a likely trip to the NBA finals, is mentioned only once. Their regular season record is mentioned at various points but there is nothing, aside from a passing mention to a loss in the penultimate game of the season, about the stretch run which saw the Bulls battle the Knicks and Hawks for the #1 seed. She spends about two pages discussing the Bulls' efforts to acquire a legitimate starting two guard to fill the void left by Michael Jordan before the trade deadline.
When it comes to the playoffs you would think Jim Mora wrote this book! There is no substance about the playoffs. She spends plenty of time on "1.8gate" but that is pretty much it for her coverage of the playoffs. We are told about a jacket Corie Blount wore but told absolutely nothing about the Bulls' sweep of Cleveland and given about four sentences worth of substance (Myers frustrated Starks, Pippen had no help, Cartwright had a good series, Hue Hollins made a controversial call. That is it!) about the great Bulls-Knicks series.
She does a good job talking about the various personalities on the team and you learn about their backgrounds, what they were like, what they were thinking but the problem with this is she spends as much time talking about Pete Myers as she does talking about Scottie Pippen. I liked the chapters on Horace Grant's clashes with management and his consequent desire to leave the team and Toni Kukoc's transition to America and the NBA.
There was no coherence to the book. It was not chronological. It was divided based on the personality she focused on. There is a weird chapter on her life as a sports reporter that had nothing to do with the Bulls.
All in all it is a decent book. If you are a diehard Bulls fan this book is worth reading. It is short and you will learn some things. However, if you are not a Bulls fan reading this book is pointless.
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