“We were confident that we could …

“We were confident that we could dethrone the Bulls. … We got a squad,” Jalen Rose says after listing the Pacers’ collection of talent and brute force. “That series with Indiana was the hardest playoff series we had,” Bulls center Bill Wennington says. “They were big, they were strong, they were physical.” And then this from Jordan: “If I had to pick a team that gave us the toughest time in the East, Indiana was probably the toughest — outside of (Bad Boys) Detroit.”