The performances with injuries are what impressed me most about Jordan. Impossible and yet, his focus and determination allowed him to transcend his aches and pains.
Kevin Calabro was wrong. Jordan with 1 bad leg was better than 100% of the league in 1993... no disrespect to hakeem, barkley, malone, robinson, shaq, ewing, drexler, wilkens, stockton etc... lmao
It's debateable with the first 2 considering how dominant they were that season, especially Dream who the Bulls had a very difficult time defending in those 2 games.
Payton was great defender but it annoys me when some people call him the Jordan stopper. Lol Jordan in his prime destroyed Payton he once had a game where he scored 35 in 1992 and had 21 points and no misses when Payton was guarding him. Even Jordan after his prime dropped 45 and 40 on payton.
The numbers don't lie. You can't really stop Jordan, but Payton handed him his worse finals performance in 96'. To Say The Greatest Defensive PG in history didn't have an effect is just simply ignoring reality. The Bulls beat The Sonics in 96' but MJ didn't and wasn't the one who was the key factor in beating them.
Jordan did work really hard, as well as being supernaturally gifted. That's a fact. All you have to do is watch him play to know that he is the greatest of all time. At the same time, the masonry gave him the inside connection to become an icon (idol). His imaged was practiced and packaged. The same thing that they're doing now with Lebron, who is also a mason.
@5:30 RI-DICULOUS, and he makes it look so DAMN EASY. Spin move to get rid of the double team and then a rainbow shot to avoid the block of the reign man...Michael Jordan...on one leg...
Not as much with Lebron.. he has been given much without accomplishing much. On the other hand, Jordan, he did have accomplishments even when not being a champion in my opinion. i think of this, MJ still so successful even without playing basketball. That just tells you about how great the man is.
I just thought that he just worked really hard to earn and obtain what he got. It seems like now he just got a free pass because of his Freemasonry connection. Also, I can't believe he can practice and believe in what he does.
Yes. Why do you think he has been exalted to such a high degree? It wasn't just because of his greatness on the basketball court. For him to get all of those endorsements and to be a black man that was packaged to white America as "clean and wholesome", he had to sell his soul.
No quite 50%. Actually 49.5%, but when you acknowledge that he had wrist injuries the majority of the season on his shooting hand, that is a phenomenal percentage. Especially from a man that shoots 23 times a game and receives hard double-teams.
I agree. In my opinion, 1993 was the year that MJ started to just *gradually* decline from his prime form. The 67 wins in 1992, the championship, the Olympics, and of course age--all of that was starting to get to him. Considering all those things, the fact that he still helped the Bulls win 57 games (including this one) and a title this year, and 72 games three years later, showed that his body was still in great shape, if not the best.
@GreatkingAlexander Alex, I'm sorry. I didn't know I shouldn't have offered my own opinion on his performance, as you are entitled to as well. I did mention that "he still helped the Bulls win 57 games (including this one) and a title this year, and 72 games three years later," but I just noted that before that his body (not neccessarily his skills) was starting to feel the pressure. I wasn't dogging his performance; I agree that he did look and play different in later years. Thanks for asking.
What a tremendous pass at 3:16. I think that's the pass I saw on a highlight video once in slow-mo and could never find the actual game it was from. If not that, it was a similar over the head zip pass with one hand. Thanks for getting this rare game up, FE23.
