I'll be 42 in July and am so glad I grew up in Indianapolis and we got WGN "Chicago's network" so I got to see most of their home games. Everyday b4 school, I'd look in the newspaper and if they were on tv that night I knew to be parked in front of the tv and not outside. I've watched hundreds of Bulls games and know that what I watched was the greatest. Jordan was unreal, kids just don't understand how good he was. U cannot compare him to players from today's WNBA 2 who launch 15 3's a night. Jordan could drop 50 on ya quick without a single 3 point attempt. Back when they actually played defense and were allowed to "hand check". I personally don't think we'll ever see another Mike. Best ever in my opinion.
Basketball is a team game. This video just proved it. We saw how unstoppable Jordan was in that game with 53 points and yet his team still loss. A star player doesn't need a great supporting cast just one that is good enough to compete for a title. When Michael Jordan got that type of supporting cast it was a wrap for the reest of the nba.
Jordan COMPLETELY transcended the game of basketball and constantly reinvented himself!!! He was beyond ahead of his time and inspired hundreds of millions and influenced countless generations of future NBA stars... There's a reason why Kobe patterned 99 percent of his game after Mike!
Of all the years MJ did'nt win MVP, this was the season he most deserved the MVP, 32.5ppg,8.0rpg,8.0apg, insane,that's damn near a triple double. Sometimes we can forget just how well rounded of a player MJ was because we get so damn caught up in the points and highlight reel moves. Man that dunk over Chambers and Gilliam(R.I.P) at 8:08, wow.
The old debate...Lebron has played more games yet Jordan still has almost 300 MORE offensive rebounds, that imo makes him just a good rebounder as him. MJ was a very underrated rebounder.
Honestly I feel like 1989 could be Jordan's absolute prime as a player. Normally I'd go with 1991 but there's something about him in 1989, he was making the most incredible moves and was moving smoother. Of course he did develop tendinitis in his knees in 1990 and then had to deal with ankle injuries. 1989 Jordan was still extremely springy
@@GoGetYourShinebox You can argue so many years for him because he was so amazing. I literally have seen like 5 or 6 years of his careers argued, and they were all amazing for different reasons. This year makes sense to me as well, but a lot do.
watch it in 0.25 speed. that's a force of nature! he's so high and powerful it's incredible. to know that these were his last points in the last minutes of the game in which he scored 53 points and still got power to make one of the most spectacular dunk you will ever see in the game is just amazing
@mnkhan2020 I'd add 2-3 years more that he should have takenn mvp awards. He was the most valuable player every season. The bulls were blessed to have him in their team. There will never be someone like Michael, for many many years, the least.
i never see a player like that , mike is so great , he play so hard, in my life since his retired ,i will not see anymore a player like that , mike my life
53 points, 14 boards, 8 assists... damn ... those stats right der are unreal! he woundn't have had to play another game, and still would've been the GOAT!
Look at how he fakes 3 defenders out at 6:11 with the shake towards the baseline lol. He gets them all going towards the baseline while he spins and fades towards the middle. Nice.
8:57… And yet the tv clowns always say Mike was just a scorer, didn’t pass, not a complete player, ball hog, etc. Saying Mike wasn’t a complete player is like saying Lebron lacks longevity.
I think that there's an argument for Jordan at his peak versus Olajuwon at his peak. They were both unstoppable offensively and for as good as Jordan was defensively, Olajuwon arguably constituted the best defensive player since Bill Russell. But at shooting guard? Forget it.
at 4:11 you can see in slow motion how great Jordan coordinates his body and the ball. The defender doesn`t dare to go for the block, cause the ball is moving too fast for his eyes!
Patrick Sobb - actually, it's more common than you think although very few actually can score 50 or 60. More like 40 something but teams lose - when one guy has to score that much, teams often lose.
There's a good case to be made for Olajuwon in 1993; he didn't possess a co-star like Pippen (remember that the Bulls won 55 games the next year without Jordan) and he dominated both ends of the court and the glass in leading Houston to 55 wins. Jordan amounted to a great defensive guard, but great defensive guards don't make the same defensive impact as elite defensive big men.
It's obvious (from this showing at least) that the 'Suns have no idea how to guard him. They (the Bulls) might as well be playing against a high school varsity team.
The bulls were trash back in the day. Mj had to score like crazy to keep them in the game. People forget how much he carried them. Scottie wasn't doing shit yet.
Johnny "Red" Kerr was one of them. An old NBA player who was a Bulls announcer. He passed away in 2009. Born and died in Chicago. I know him from the hundreds of Bulls games I watched growing up as a kid.
@@eddieanderson9399 i watched it again and everything looked fine to me, even slowed it down like you said, it looks like a gather step he hoped and didnt move his feet till he dribbled again after landing
@@MicroWave233 if u slowed it down to .25x then you'll notice. Otherwise ur watching a different play. Ur not allowed to shimmy ur feet three times or jump while ur dribbling unless maybe you lost the possession.. a step a step. The refs will probably never call it though cause they can't even comprehend wth he just did 🤣
@@eddieanderson9399 you are allowed to hop a bit or gather step as long as you are in the motion of dribbling, its in the nba official rules. Its when you pick up the dribble and stop dribbling then its considered an up and down thus a travel, like i said mj in this possession did a long pause with the ball before dribbling again, it looks like a travel if you are not used to seeing it but a lot of players take advantage of it, just look at Jason williams, he would do that hop gather alot when shooting.
