Jordan was definitely a clutch mofo, there are no arguments about that.
For the 91 Lakers, Worthy was hobbling and Scott was in a huge shooting slump (likely because he had to exert so much energy guarding Jordan). The Lakers were leading 0-1 until Pippen started to guarded Magic and forced the Lakers to slow down the offense, it was a great masterful move, which brings me back to the original point of Pippen being a unique player that couldn't be replicated (again, other than Lebron or a healthy in-his-prime Grant Hill). Pippen basically played the role of Kawhi in 14 or Iggy in 15, but with strong offence to go along with it. He is now getting massively underrated because of the Jordan myths.
Sonics was great, and should have won. Rodman on Kemp really changed that series. If it wasn't for Rodman Kemp would have gone nuclear. Which brings me to another point, the Bulls have issues with good bigs. Ewing really wasn't that great but he gave the Bulls some trouble, even Rik Smits gave the Bulls serios trouble. If the Bulls were out West, they would have to face Olajuwon and Robinson, not to mention Kemp and pedo every year just to get to the finals. As history has it, they only had to go through Ewing and Smits instead (Shaq for a few years before he went to the Lakers).
Again, Jordan did very well for himself and I think he took advantage of the situation, but to say that Jordan was undisputedly the best player ever is largely due to narratives. Lebron has the stats and accolades to back up, so does Wilt and Kareem. Jordan is definitely NOT the easiest superstar to build a championship team from scratch. Shaq, Duncan, Hakeem, Lebron, Wilt and arguably Kareem were all easier to build around.acc