He is an unbelievable shooter. He even doesnt need the board and he wasnt even tall. He is a sniper. And not only a great athlete, he did stand for what he believed and gave up NBA to make himself a legend like Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X and Dr King.
Putting Dr. King in the same list as those guys is quite strange. Yes King was impressive but nowhere near the level of guys like Malcolm and Muhammad Ali. Putting Rauf on that list is strange as well.
stockton can't be mad at his own defensive performance, he was right up on mahmoud on lots of those shots. the crazy thing is how much mahmoud elevates on a lot of them. so fun to watch.
Considering this guy is no where close to Curry on the stat sheets or in the NBA record books... I say Phil had to be completely out of his fucking mind to be tweeting such a piece of fucking shit tweet.
+U Kneecorn Curry has done this 4 games in a row now. And several other times this season, and several other times other seasons. I'm biased because I didn't actually watch Abdul-Rauf play, but you can't compare a guys best game to what another does semi-regularly, especially when Curry is the reigning MVP, reigning champion, probably next years reigning MVP, having one of the best winning and statistical seasons ever. Plus Abdul-Rauf was playing with a shorter 3pt line. Curry is pulling up from the parking lot.
This man was (and still is) a legend around Mississippi and Baton Rouge...he is honestly the best shooter I have ever seen....this man had to be guarded after he passed half court just because he had such range...I hate how people are slighting him because he never averaged more than 19 pts in the NBA during an era in which defenses were so tough that it prompted the league office to change rules so that it made scoring much easier...this IMO has helped Curry to be able to have such gaudy stats....also the offense GS runs is tailored for Steph unlike the offense Denver had where Mahmoud wasn't featured...
curry is obviously the better shooter and the best shooter on planet earth, he reinvented the game of basketball but for his era mahmoud was one of a kind the way he could shoot
@@TrevorHamberger How much would you pay ? If your dollar is right ?, perhaps he would do it and donate the money to charity ? What is your skill level ?
Abdul-Rauf was amazing, he would've been a sensation back in the 90s if they had social media, internet, and smart phone availability like today. He was was cool, took care of business, and did not show boat.
This guy was black balled because of his beliefs. This is America you have a right to believe in whatever you want as long as it doesn't bring harm to others. He is the definition of creating space and scoring as well as an assist leader. Amazing skill beats athleticism any day.
Jeremy Thuraisingham his beliefs didn't harm anyone. The media portrayed him wrongly and the NBA bought that bullshit and took his career away from him. That is America.
I don't disagree that he got black balled, he did. But his skills & numbers did decline after he left Denver & went to Sacramento. He just wasn't the same player, averaged 7 points a game his last season before going to Europe. So while I do agree he still had a place in the NBA at that time as a bench or role player, he wasn't some killer player lighting up the league when he got black balled like some make it out to be.
I think he has great athleticism as well as amazing skill. He was in the dunk competition at least once and looks about 6'1'' at best. Unmatched quickness, great vertical, super coordination are all part of athleticism to me...
+Bad News Brown since you have the answers, let us know the minutes he averaged at that time. I will wait! Promises were made that weren't kept! ...But I will wait!
If anyone here knows Islamic history he reminds me of a warrior by the name of Khalid ibn Waleed - he never ever backs down and is like almost not human in his abilities. Pure God given talent that can't be developed to reach that potential, you got to be given it. Mahmoud abdul Rauf reminds me of Khalid ibn waleed. In his prime, no one can check him and he will drop 35 at minimum even if you have your "A" game on and there is nothing no one can do about it.
What a gem of a video. This performance along with the one against the Bulls later in the season in which he scored 32 points are among my favorite basketball highlights.
To think that this guy from the 90's got his career taken away and could've still been playing in the NBA right now he might go down as the honorary GOAT.
Y'all have to realize that the style of play is completely different in this current era that we are watching now. Steph takes more threes by himself than WHOLE teams did in the late 80s and 90s era. The legendary 88-89 "Bad Boys" Detroit Pistons (who were Champs that year) attempted 400 threes that year. Steph attempted 889 by himself last year!
He is killing everyone in the Big 3 while being older than most.. he would've been a multiple all-star if he played in this era, would be in top 3 PG every year.
Phil Jackson got NBA fans irritate with his twitter comment saying that Steph Curry reminded him of Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf! The man is CLEVER and always has been with things he says on Social Network! They have always been subliminal... Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf and the Denver Nuggets are the ones who broke the Bulls 18 game winning streak in their 95-96 season, which is also the 72-10 season. In that game, Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf destroyed Steve Kerr on offense. He scored 32 points. Phil Jackson's comments were likely an inside joke to Steve Kerr who probably never forgot that game, to former Bulls players who remember that being the end of the streak, to educated NBA fans, and the hype around the Warriors season, and them surpassing 72-10 record. Fans are throwing insults and acting like robots yelling out stats against Phil to prove him wrong...
❤🔥Abdul-Rauf wasn't on fire...he is fire! 💥 One of the best shooting performances I have ever seen. Remember CJ burned the Bulls in 95-96, destroying their 18 winning game streak, to beat the greatest team of all-time! CJ was unguardable, and the fastest release and first step. Before Steph Curry and Allen Iverson, there was Abdul-Rauf!
The similarities to Curry are very real. Obviously Curry is on another level but it's interesting to see a guy from the "golden era" playing like this when the older guys say Curry wouldn't be able to score back then.
+CaliCool91 Of course he could score then as well. But games at that time usually ended in the 90's. Few years later when they started bringing college players in the NBA earlier and earlier it dropped in the 80's. If they kept those rules, they would play in the 70's today. So he would score a lot less. Fact is, the rule changes allow for more freedom for offense. Mahmoud never had that. Most games he was handchecked to death which makes it very difficult to get good shots off. Bigger and stronger guards could dictate where he was going. You put somebody like Barkley in the post with these rules, and it would be damn near illegal. The paint is wide open, there are no talented big guys (outside of one or two names) and fundamental basketball skills have deteriorated, by a lot. That's why many guards still struggle to shoot over 45%. Stockton shot 53 percent (I think) in his last year when he was 40+ years old.
I thank god that you took time to watch the video and educate yourself. This man deserves so much credit that he doesn't get because as good as he was as you see know one knew he was. He absolutely humiliated not only Stockton but the whole entire team. Let me share this with you something a lot of people probably didnt NOTICE !! During the game he actually STOLE Stockton CONFIDENCE!! Only great players can do that to so called good players lolbs.
@@davidpouncy8471 Anyone with half a brain noticed that Stockton was questioning himself and his ability to defend this guy. No way someone could keep hitting those shots over and over on you, forcing you to feel helpless and not lose confidence
@@williamdavis9562 Everyone doesnt understand the mental side of the game or the players and every players is affected differently due to their personalities. Do you think lebron has the confidence of Jordan Iverson or kobe ?? Hell no he doesnt so that's my point if isiah was defending Mahmoud he would never lose his confidence he didnt even lose his confidence with jordan !! 😉
@@davidpouncy8471 Anyone who has played competitive sports understands those aspects of the game. And yes Lebron doesn't have that killer instinct Jordan and Kobe had. That is why he keeps switching teams looking for a super team so he can have a free ride to the finals. Also in that era that type of shooting was very rare. Even Isiah would lose confidence after a while. Everyone except Jordan do have a breaking point. For some it's much higher than others but everyone has it. I've seen Isiah lose confidence in a few games vs Magic after being bullied by Magic's size.
yeah, he played against real D, also the biggest issue was what position he would play. His body said PG, but his game and scoring ability said SG. The league wasn't doing the AI or Curry thing at PG across board the yet.
i love seeing people getting offended that this guy was the steph curry before steph curry, playing in a tougher era of basketball, abdul rauf would get curry numbers every jight if he played in todays era where you cant lay a finger on the ballhandler
DaveNBAFan bro Mahmoud is not overrated, I saw him this summer and he is still ANAZING, he were it consistently from the logo, he's probably better than all the guards in the NBA currently
I'm a Laker fan, I remember when this guy was a handful in those years. That's a good feat just because Utah's PACE was always so controlled, not so much because Stockton was on him for a lot of it. It was hard simply for an opponent to get that many shot attempts by himself against them, especially at that building. Your team's shot attempts, at least the Lakers, were always pretty low there, even in the late 90s.
@@xzcsdf9574 W/ Malone in there, especially, the Jazz were very physical. The rest of them were generally tough players aside from maybe one guy like Chris Morris who was there to score. For finesse teams like LAL, opponents like Utah and SA were too much. The Suns, Sonics, Blazers were in LA's wheelhouse. In this season 1995, I was pissed that LA fell into the 4/5 split because they had SA waiting for them after SEA, who I knew they could play with because LA won 4 of 5 RS gms. SA was a whole different ballgame than the Sonics, good as SEA was. Spurs swept these Nuggz in the 1/8 split. I wanted to draw HOU who were the champs instead of SA. Curiously, tho, the Sonics were also a finesse team, but were a problem team for Utah in those years. As far as the Jazz go, 95 was a disappointment to them because HOU beat them in the 1st round. However, the Rox weren't your average lousy 6th seed in 95. They played poorly all season. Lakers swept them in the RS for the last time since 95. Rockets just turned it on late w/ the add of Clyde.
Great performance by the former Chris Jackson. If I remember correctly, the very next game for Utah (I forget the opponent) the Mailman Karl Malone put up 51 points himself.
Uncle Mahmoud, thank you for showing Grandma Jean who was really better. I ain’t ever see her get into a game for ANYONE like that before that day or ever again. Malcom X on double VHS was one hell of a movie. 😂😂 Denzel KILLED IT; on my iTunes permanently these days😂❤
What a baller this man was, plus he would’ve easily been better suited for today’s league... imagine that! They did him dirty though, such a shame. BTW, LSU’s all-time starting 5 is crazy, when you think about it. Would’ve been - at the very least - wildly entertaining to watch... PG: Mahmoud SG: Pistol Pete SF: Ben Simmons PF: Bob Pettit C: Shaq
You don't score 51 points on the Jazz, especially John Stockton, and say Phil is out of his mind with his comments. Goes to show how much NBA knowledge people have about the history of the league.
I used to play Jackson/Raul in the late 90's/00's and he was still great. That whole standing for the flag sure took wind out of his sails but that jumper was effortless. I wonder in hindsight would he have done anything different?
Abdul-Rauf made John Stockton, a Hall of Fame player and all-time leader in assists, look like a complete novice. There are plays during this game were Stockton clearly gives up chasing him.
If u play ball. . .u know the types of jumpers he's hitting are ridiculously difficult. . .like my jumper is legit and I know I'm missing a lot of these
Three three point line was only moved in for 3 seasons during the 90's and not the entire 90's. 1994-95,1995-96, and 1996-97. The three point line was pushed back to it's normal spot during the 1997-98 season. You would notice MJ's three point percentage was drastically higher(42%) during the 72 wins Bulls season and it dropped back down to his normal 23% in his final year with the Bulls(1997-98).
Jordan's 3pt% dropped drastically that season mainly because of the ailments on his shooting hand & overall attrition, his overall shooting had regressed to the point that he went from shooting .833 FT% in the 1996-1997 season to shooting .784 for free-throws in 1997-1998. His aging and deteriorated form, the amount of attrition he had accumulated by the time he was deep into another 3-peat, the circumstances that he had to play in almost half of the entire regular season without Pippen as he was side-lined. The 1997-1998 season was the only full season where Jordan shot under his average FT% and it was drastically lower. In 1995, when he came back to the NBA and played the last 17 games of the season, he averaged .801% from the foul-line. The 3-point line lengthening back to normal in 1997-1998 didn't have that big of an influence on his shooting as most people believe based on the popular narrative that Jordan couldn't shoot threes. Jordan played almost half of the entire regular season without Pippen, which had a bigger influence on his shooting efficiency than the lengthening of the 3-point line. For his entire career, for every season where he attempted over 200+ 3P FGA over the course of an entire season, he shot at least .352 from behind the arc. And he only had 4 seasons where he attempted over 200 3-point field-goals and 2 of them were during the 1989-1990 and 1992-1993 season with the regular 3-point line. In every single season where he attempted more than 200 over 3-point field-goal attempts, he converted at least 35% and he did this 4 times. Out of all the full seasons that he has played, 1997/1998 season was the only year where he attempted more than 100 over 3-point FGA with very poor 3P% and that's because of his the minor injuries on his shooting hand and knees and back. Every other full seasons that he has played, he has never attempted more than 100 3-point FGA. MJ in his 6th season with the original 3-point line, made 92 out of 245 3 point field-goal attempts at 37.6% shooting and that was highest 3P% he ever averaged for an entire season with the regular 3-point line. The highest 3P% he ever averaged with the shorter 3-point line during a season was the 1994-1995 season where he only played in 17 games and shot 50% of his threes and the following season where he averaged 42.7% in all 82 games he played in. That means that out of 13 full regular seasons that he has played in, 8 of them were years where he never made the 3-point shot a significant part of his game, meaning he almost never ever takes a 3-point shot within the flow of the game unless his team needed a 3-point play to win or tie or there was no better option with the shot clock winding down. So going with that small sample size of 3 point shot attempts with a majority of them either being desperation heaves to beat the shot clock or shots that are in pressure situations, it is not an accurate measure for representing MJ's accuracy from beyond the arc. This is true to a certain extend for a lot of players that played in the 80s and 90s, it was uncommon for some of the best shooters to even attempt as many as 3 or 4 three-pointers a game. Chris Mullin for example, only attempted 2.2 threes a game for his entire career. Larry Bird only averaged 1.9 three point field-goal attempts a game for his whole career.
in light of the dan patrick show discussion and phils tweet: some people in comments sections on some of these chris jackson videos nailed it: this guy is kind of like the world`s "preview" of what was to come 20 years later in the form of steph curry.
Ok, I see some similarities. Most point gaurds wanna beat u with the cross over dribble or hesitation cross over dribble to get back to their dominant hand to drive, but Steph and Mahmoud use the around the back dribble to get back to their left hands because they're shooters.
This was Curry before Curry and honestly it’s arguably he could be the better shooter given his height and ability to dribble better and shoot off the dribble
What people don't understand what Phil is trying to say is he seen players like curry who SHOOT OFF THE DRIBBLE! he never said Chris was better. Phil knows what the fuck he talking about. He been around the game for decades so you expect him to be impressed.
What a great player. NBA blackballed him for saying what the they didn't want him to say. so sad that one of the greatest talents ever was ruined by the NBA.
What most people don't realize when watching match ups with Stockton is that Stockton was the designated double teamer so his man almost always had open 3's and deuces all game, while Stockton ran back to try and get a hand up. Sloan's philosophy to not guard the 3 drove Jazz fans nuts. Sloan would double team even sub par players that any jazz player could play straight up. If Stockton had played other players straight up their numbers would be much lower.
johnn12002@gmail.com check again. he shot 90.53% lifetime and isn't in the records cause he only shot 1161 career free throws and the NBA minimum to make the record books is 1200
people forget the brother did all that and had to deal with full on physical ticks from Tourette's Syndrome....one of the most under rated pure scorers the NBA has ever seen...AND could play D...
Nahhhh I think Phil got it right with their style of play..... Ain't deep but he is pullin the trigger when and where he wants just like steph with ease
no it isnt. Abdul Rauf wasnt allowed to play like Steph does. it wasnt allowed for a PG to shoot like this. Plus alot of people dont rememelber Rauf was black balled for his not standing during national anthem.
+Clark Townsend Yep. Different era, different rules. Steph is great but his numbers would probably be more in line with Abdul-Rauf's if he played in the 90s. That's nothing against Steph, more to do with how the game favors guards nowadays.
