100% agree the entire 5 were not gonna let him score. He was probably fouled at least once, but it was the best defensive sequence in the games history.
@Mark Macauley Knicks were trying to copy the bad boy Detroit Pistons. Knicks were similar to the Pistons but without the success. The Bad boy Detroit Pistons and the Pat Riley coached NewYork Knicks are criminals walking the streets.
What a hell of a game! For us guys who are a little bit older and grew up watching the NBA in the 90's, this is what it was about. Great fundamentals, physical, intense games. The 90's was the golden era of NBA basketball and I think this game is one of the best. Great teams, great battle in a great arena. They just can't do it like this anymore.
@M AA This here. As an huge MJ fan, I'd have to say this is my all time favorite Bulls playoff game. This was the only series during the Bulls championship era that I wasn't sure we'd win. The Knicks had taken us to 7 games the previous season, and were hungrier in the 1993 season. They had home court AND jumped out to a 2-0 lead on the Bulls. But this game...whew! What. A. Game. I was at a bar with some friends from high school and this game was on the TV. Back then, I had a routine of not watching the Bulls playoff games live because I couldn't enjoy watching them. I'd tape the games and watch them only if I knew the Bulls won by checking the scores after the game. Well, being in the bar with no way of controlling the TV, I tried to ignore the game, but people were getting hyped because the game was so good. So, I wound up watching it and that ending...DAMN.
@M AA - It's truly good to hear an honest take from a Bulls fan like yourself. As a Knicks fan, I was nervous about game 5 because of course, it's the critical game when teams are squared up in a 7 game series. This game 5 was personally in my opinion the most brutal, most intense game 5 I have ever watched. And to cap it off, the game went down to the wire. As a Knicks fan, I was in a bit of agony and a bit drained just watching this game. But overall, I praised the Bulls because that victory was hard earned.
Man two of the biggest stars in the bulls make the play. Jordan strip, pippen blocks 2x, and Marc Albert didn’t miss a word. Best call I’ve ever heard in a basketball game.
I remember this Series. The Bulls were going for their 3rd trip to the Finals in the first 3-peat run. The Knicks were a MENACING team, and very physical. They were up 2-0 in the series, and the Bulls won 4 straight.
NOW THIS WAS A PLAYOFF SERIES!!! WOOO!!! I watched every game, every minute!! Had my doubts when we lost 1st two games..at home but the last 4 games were AMAZING to watch by both teams!!
Ewing for smith, smith, smith ,smith stopped smith stopped smith stopped again by pippen, what a play by Scottie Pippen. Final seconds jordan for Armstrong and the bulls have defeated the Knicks.
@@Kicks-iw2xe nothing against him he was a great commentator as well but NBA on CBS was the shit with Dick Stockton and I forget the other dude's name, the chubby guy.
Agreed, the absolute best series I ever saw him play throughout their dynasty run. An if he didn't play like this IMO the Bulls lose this series to a deeper Knicks team. Because people forget Jordan had that bad wrist injury right before the playoffs an it affected his shooting and it showed throughout the playoffs. So he needed the sidekick to show up an that he did.
Man this brings back memories. What a great era of basketball. That sequence at the very end where Jordan stripped smith, then pippen blocked two follow up shots from him was just incredible defensive pressure.
I "genuinely" miss the 90's, Jordan NBA.....I'M 38 YEARS OLD NOW....I ABSOLUTELY "HATE" THIS NEW, LEBRON/STEPH CURRY NBA.....I CANNOT LITERALLY REMEMBER, THE LAST NBA GAME, THAT I'VE WATCHED, FROM START TO FINISH.....I MISS THE 90'S NBA, "HONESTLY," AND I'M NOT TRYING TO "HATE," I'M JUST BEING TRUE TO MYSELF, AND THE REST OF THE WORLD!
I remember this game like it was yesterday. That was a heart-breaking lost for NY with the series being tied at 2. This was a swing game with game 6, which was the clincher, being plsyed in Chicago...
Darius Olfus As a big knicks fan, I still have nightmares where I hear Marv say those words.... freaking Charles Smith!!! Should’ve stayed with the clippers.
Just to add some context to this game...this was 1993 and the Bulls were back to back champs but the NY Knicks finally had home court advantage. After NY won the first two hard fought games at home, many NBA experts believed that the Knicks would finally get over the hump and that the Bulls had run out of gas. Game 3 in Chicago was a Bulls blowout but game 4 was a battle and the Bulls needed one of MJ's 52 point masterpiece, hitting jumper after contested jumper...the Bulls stole game 5 and finished a demoralized Knicks team in 6. Epic series, that my friends, was basketball...
Mario Gutierrez tell the whole story Tell how Jordan shot 16% from the field in game 3 Tell how the knocks got robbed by all of Jordan’s phantom calls and got Rivers in foul trouble for playing legal defense.
I remembered that BJ Armstrong 3 pointer nailed at the baseline. The Bulls being 2 x champions exposed a wrinkle in the Knicks D late in the game. I'm a Knicks fan to this day. The Bulls were the better team - period.
@@MrSlashblade Also, if you're gonna complain about the refs, how about that epic Hue Hollins phantom call against Pippen in 94? Bulls even without MJ were robbed that ECSFs, Bulls would've won that series were it not for that bullshit call.
Ilias Mavromatis they couldn’t even touch Mike, like Rivers fouled Jordan for being pushed by Michael Starks didn’t touch Michael and they still called the foul. Hell in the fourth, Rivers played that tough D everyone always going on about and he got his fifth and everyone and their mom was chanting bullshit in the garden.
@@MrSlashblade bullshit jordan got superstar calls like Ewing but they didn’t baby them. Made them play through most of the tough physical play u clearly were not around
Watch Ewing from 10:30. He dishes out the ball, trips, and falls with 10 seconds on the shot clock. Can't blame him for that. He's on his feet with 6 seconds to go. He stands and watches for about 4 seconds while his teammate gets blocked twice. He only gets in the paint when there are 2 seconds left on the shot clock, and it's too late. All the bulls are in the paint, scrambling for the ball, but Ewing just takes his time getting there. If he'd gotten up faster, and gone after the ball with the same hunger as Grant and Jordan and Pippen, they might have won.
I am blessed to have been born in Chicago in 1971 from beepers, vcr's, black n white tv's etc etc, and last but not least the mad house on madison, to Micheal Jordan winning 6 championships, cellular phones, color t.v's,dvd's to wifi what an era if it doesn't make sense y'all know what im trying to say, real basketball from the heart to fake basketball for outrageous contract's $$$
I'm a Bulls fan....but Lebron wouldn't stand a CHANCE against the Knicks (even WITH Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh). The Bulls had to EARN those victories against the Knicks.
Present and past NBA players said, Jordan and the Chicago Bulls. Yet, fans wanna say the Warriors and Kobe. Nevertheless, the Warriors lost the NBA title that year, Chicago won. And, Kobe tried everything in the world to be like Jordan, even tried to walk like Jordan. Enough said, I get the points.
Charles Smith fault this one for New York. He missed the close out on BJ Armstrong for the corner three & then he let Scottie Pippen get 5 blocks in one possession.
After losing to bulls in seven the year before the knicks won first two games and thought they would get revenge on bulls then once again get heart broken by the bulls. This series was fun to watch as a 12 year old
I watched this game live just like many fellow Knicks and Bulls fans. Watching this consolidated video confirms my belief that the MJ led Bulls are definitely among the best NBA teams ever. Watching the highlights of this game 5 was brutal! MJ and the Bulls executing against the toughest defense in the NBA at that time was insane! I will also confirm, John Starks did the best job possible against MJ. No other player I could think of made MJ work a bit harder for his points during his prime. I can now understand how and why MJ highly respected and even mentioned Starks' name during his Hall of Fame presentation.
MANNN - THAT PLAY BY SCOTTIE IS ONE OF THE ALL TIME GREATEST PLAYS IN SPORTS!!!!! I PUT IT ABOVE THE DUNK ON EWING!!!! THIS WAS A CRUCIAL, CRUCIAL PLAY!!!!
One of the greatest defensive stops at the end of a game. I remember seeing that live. So much for that 0-2 deficit. Jordan was hot after Doc knocked the wind out of his chest lol. Triple double night.
nothing like VHS tapes getting that line down the bottom... lol, god this just brings back so many memories. I used to play rec bball during this when I was a teen, everyone who played... wanted to be Jordan. I used to wear a knee brace just like that too, lol funny.