Actually, neither Gan Guoyang nor Jordan had expected that their official match partnership would be this effective.
You could say it wasn't until the twilight of their careers that they truly found teammates who could sync with them on the court.
In the past, they were always rivals, leading their respective teams and studying and confronting each other.
The teammates they'd collaborated with each had their own strengths, but also their unspeakable shortcomings.
Take Jordan, for instance; Pippen was his best partner, but he often let him down at critical moments. During major games, he either got headaches or caught a fever, either disappeared during crucial moments or made dumb mistakes.
That missed dunk in the 1992 Finals was something Jordan remembered vividly; even till his last breath, he never forgot to say, "Pippen was an amateur; he couldn't even make a dunk."
