Michael Jordan Highlights 1989 ECF G3 vs Pistons - 46pts, Jordan Rule is Nothing! 

The one thing that goes unnoticed about Jordan, was his stamina. It’s like he kept going, no matter what.

Young Jordan had the mindset of a running back. Find the holes, gain as much ground as possible, fight for every inch.

Kobe and LeBron are extraordinary players, MJ is an alien

Finishing, fadeaways, jumpshots, spin moves, footwork, fakes and feints, first step, quickness. Is still the greatest scorer I've ever seen 🐐🙌🏽

This man jordan did not care who was under the basket he was driving

Love those Jordan 4's he's wearing. Seemed like he soared in those shoes like no other. Dreamed of having a pair as a kid.

People do not understand just how great Detroit was in that Era. It literally took everything in him just to get those two victories for Chicago...Just a phenomenal talent and basketball player!

Still the quickest first step I've ever seen

Man, MJ’s triple threat into a rip through where he is able to get by a elite defender with ease is one of the most potent moves I have ever seen in any NBA game.

Perfection. We should compare upcoming great players to LeBron and Kobe because those players are within reach of someone who is on the verge of greatness. Michael Jordan was perfection and nobody will come close....maybe.

Ever game is it's own highlight real. Almost every basket from Jordan seemed spectacular

All this incredible moves inside against perhaps the best defense ever, unreal!😍

The Goat

Thomas basically picked off Rodman on that last basket. Jordan was just so quick, his movements were cat like.

The greatest player was also the greatest scorer: Michael Jordan. If they called foul every time he was fouled, he would have 60+ easily...

MJ the greatest of all time

People who don't know but just repeat bs they hear say MJ couldn't beat Detroit. Losing to them those years was all about building the Bulls roster and toughness as far as the other Bulls besides MJ. They didn't get their last starter, Bill Cartwright until either the year they won or the year before. More importantly, Phil and the Triangle came the year before they won. These Jordan Rules were about doubling and tripling and brutalizing MJ and forcing any other player to perform and bring the Bulls a win. They particularly focused on demoralizing and physically brutalizing Pippen who was a rookie in their first playoff matchup. It was when Scottie had developed enough, plus the integration of the Triangle, that the Bulls were able to beat Detroit. But MJ always performed in every series against Detroit - even in 88.

Its amazing how he made those Piston defenders look like they weren't even there.

Man, Mike just kept attacking and attacking the basket like a boss!

Don’t care how fast he was... His sharp brain allowed his swift play n improvisation....all in the mind...!!

Just watch how slick he leaned his body when he drives to the right and changes direction to the left.

1:52 dam he's fast!👀

Stamina, quickness, and gracefulness. That’s Michael for ya

the GOAT!

This version of MJ would kill everyone in the modern game, would make Lebrun Kobe and all the rest bow to him and weep. Relentless and supremely talented

Michael Jordan the greatest of all time ‼️

This dude was just different man🐐

4:57 was a great play. That team ball was amazing

NOBODY comes close to MJ. Not Kobe not Lebron.

jordan goat no more arguments

It is still a mystery to me there aren't any awards named after Michael Jordan the NBA or College he's not only the greatest basketball player to ever play who's the greatest athlete to ever live

Most would agree that MJ was the greatest, yet like every other all-time great player and champion before and after him, he wasn't able to win it all until he had the right pieces around him, not to mention a coach who knew how to best utilize him and the team. We tend to remember single game performances like this where his efforts were extraordinary, but the fact is the Pistons did not lose another game in the series after this one. They had a better team and a great TEAM will almost if not always beat 1 great player with an average or Jordan's case, undeveloped supporting cast.

The gift that God gave Michael Jordan was basketball and he dominated that in several different ways and showed people the right path without any interruptions you know you're going to have ups and downs but this is amazing I'm 40 years old and if it wasn't for you to a lot of you young people out there would be missing out the greatest basketball player ever

This era can never be replicated or matched, the physicality, the intensity, the crowd noise.

“He couldn’t go to his left”-John Salley

The bottom line is Jordan did MORE with LESS against TOUGHER competition than any superstar in NBA history. THAT is why he is virtually unanimously considered The G.O.A.T.

Goat!!!

1:47 THAT DEFENSE!

Jordan da goat.

Prime Rodman couldn’t stop Jordan either.

5:52 gotta love the pointer sisters rocking the arena during the timeout.

Michael jordan and steph curry are the greatest players i've ever seen moving without the ball

The Black Cat

That Dumars was about be Finals MVP in a couple of weeks .....he looked like an highschool player in front of the Goat

Pistons had some dirty players

Chuck Daly's reactions are priceless..haha RIP Chuck

Laimbeer got MJ's head in a vice in that thumbnail. Hilarious! Lol

This is his most underrated game -- he took on the best defense in the league and won by himself

So Jordan basically had to play championship team's virtually by himself and he always put up great numbers and loses but LeBron play's 41-41 team's in the playoffs every year and his fan's label him the goat 😂😂😂😂 what kinda logic is that

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Ice In his veins.

The amount of times this guy scores over double and triple teams is insane

Just watched the game went off in the 4th

You can just feel the tension on the court. These two teams absolutely hated each other and it made for such great basketball.

Jordan putting up a shot against 2 or 3 people gave you a better shot to win than giving it to one of his teammates. Thats how great this dude was.

I will love to see MJ playing in this era where Noone can touch him, hell be scoring like crazy, more than harden, Jordan was a defender scoring, everything and his moves and dribble better than anyone in the league right now, LeBron sucks

These highlights are amazing. MJ was unreal.

Really good game.

These are the series that Jordan haters point to to say Lebron is the GOAT. As if MJ individually isn’t giving his all. As if he gave up on his team. As if he joined up with other superstars on other teams. Oh wait thats not what MJ did. He improved every year and took it head on. Yes he lost this series but do you see him not trying? Getting outplayed? Never.

Wow !

See this is what being clutch and taking over games means.....When the games in the balance do u get the ball again & again & again til the game is decided either way but most of the time in your favor. People always wanna compare who’s more clutch buy they only think just the one very very last shot,which does matter obviously... But sometimes u gotta get to that point first before the last second shot can even matter. MJ did that all the time,there were countless times he’d just flip a switch and bring the bulls back and then win the game too.And he always had that in his game.I mean shht look at this video,MJ had a little hair lol.So this still young Mike.This was when he was still a mutant,before he became just a ‘regular’ superhero.

2019 LeBron drives down the lane as the defenders move away from him leading to an uncontested dunk for James. As he runs down the court he whines to the ref that someone touched his hand. 1989 Jordan drives down the lane as the bad boy defenders converge on him with the goal of taking his head off leading to an uncontested dunk for MJ. As he runs down the court he intercepts a pass leading to two more points for the Bulls.

Jordan 🤷🏼

Imagine LePussy going against this defense with these rules.

that's talent...In hard defense era..MJ will just lay-up . if bron played in this Bad Boys Era..he will flop back to back..

This game is but one example. Watch every single game MJ has ever played in, pay attention to how much he moves around the floor, with and without the ball, and then pay attention to how his team's offense is moving if it's stalling or free-flowing and how often one of his teammates would have a high percentage shot after an extra pass. Also pay attention to how long he holds the ball when he's caught in isolation and how much time he spends thinking about what to do with the ball if he will overextend his possession or he will do something immediate to maintain the teams offensive movement. Also pay attention to how much he moves around the court on defense, in playing the passing lanes, how much effort he puts in grabbing offensive rebounds for second chance points, and how much effort he puts on help D, and contesting shots, inside or at the perimeter. Now imagine doing this every game, for 82 games in a season. His game is high effort, like RIDICULOUSLY high effort, and high risk of injury. His play style would literally destroy someone's knees, and feet, there's no way he would have played 20+ seasons playing like this all the time. Heck, even 10 seasons playing like this can damage your legs joints.

This game was the reason the Jordan Rules were born.

If anyone says someone else is the greatest player of all time other than MJ they got rocks 🪨 in their head

Jordan got out of the Jordan rules with sheer grit. LeBron will come out of "LeBron rules" with flops and complaints

No other player in history made the opponent coaches draft a whole playbook to stop him!!

Who’s here after episode 2 of the last dance?

Mj loves to crash his defender to the other when someone comes in to double team hahaha.

How sick are those Jordan IVs as Mike's getting busy?

SOME PEOPLE DOUBT THAT JORDAN AND BULLS WEREN'T GOING TO BEAT DETROIT, BUT EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW THAT MJ DID SCORE 61 POINTS AGAINST THIS TEAM IN1986-87 OVER HIS NORMAL AVERAGE OF 30 PPG!!! BUT THIS IS NOT THE ONLY TEAM, HE ALSO SCORED 63 POINTS AGAINST CELTICS IN THE 1986-87 SEASON AFTER HAVING AN INJURY AND SCORE 69 POINTS AND 18 REBOUNDS AGAINST THE CAVS IN 1990!!! THIS SHOWS THAT JORDAN AND HIS TEAMMATES ARE GETTING STRONGER AND STRONGER BECAUSE OF THE TEAMS THAT PUSHED THEM TO WORK HARD AND BE TOUGH SUCH AS PISTONS, WHICH COMES TO 1991"THE END OF THE BAD BOYS"!!!

wining bucket off the wrong foot too

When he jumped the grvity turned off

This was the game that caused the Pistons to create The Jordan Rules. The Pistons were finally supposed to win a championship this year, but after this game, they were down 2-1 to the Bulls and looked like they might lose............so Zeke was on the phone all night with Dumars I think it was, and that's when all the rough stuff on Mike really started.

Passing of the guard

hard fought victory. its strange, watching those jordan highlights, but chicago down by 13 anyway at one moment.

Jordan! Scores! How's does he do that?

They one that one... But lost the rest in that series.... But definitely one of the series that started to build on the Bulls becoming a dynasty.....

I want all the youngsters who disparage the competition of the late 80s and 90s to observe who he had to beat just to get to the Finals. There was much less scoring talent, but NOT defensive talent. This was the era of supreme rim protectors, hand checking, clothesline fouls, and NO SPACING. That last bit should stand out, because he dominated from mid-range and driving to the basket during an era when you could double and triple team players with no concern over giving up outside shots. Pay even closer attention to how he's not complaining after any of the hard fouls where guys are grabbing him about the neck. Just walks to the line and only gets hype back when he does something basketball-related like dunking on them.

Man, Craig Hodges was such a liability defensively. Check out how he got caught watching the play and let Dumars get that open look on the Pistons’ final possession of the game. Same thing happened when he let Craig Ehlo backdoor him in Game 5 of the 1st round of these same 1989 playoffs vs the Cavs to give Cleveland the lead on the second to last possession of the game. That miscue defensively did however set the stage for MJ’s “The Shot”, but the point remains.

Old heads be lying out their ass about defense in this era!🤣🤣

I find it funny when he breaks their defense just shows how great he is 😂

Jordan rules were a thing, this game was in Chicago. In Detroit, different story.

What jordan haters don't mention is that the bulls were the only team to be competitive to the pistons that year, they gave them their only 2 losses thoughtout their playoff run and this was when jordan was still running the offense and being heavily utilized. Pippen was still maturing and wasn't a superstar yet.

We gotta stop the Jordan/Bron debate… it’s not even close Jordan is light years ahead of everyone

Just for historical context... Joe Dumars was an excellent defender and Jordan was just straight cooking his ass. David Stern over time and Adam Silver destroyed the NBA mainly by removing the competitive element. Soft basketball scoring a bunch of points with low physicality is entertaining to some... But I miss the competitive narrative and passion. The top paid players today make 3-4 times what the entire salary cap was then or 2-2.5 times adjusting for inflation. Point being the energy was electric back then even for prime time regular season games.

I thought Jordan couldn't go left according to Thomas? He's dominating this game driving left

he was so fast that he seemed like he teleported 3:20

The bulls lost this series regardless of Jordan's greatness,three years in a row.

The Pistons' last loss of the 1989 postseason.

You gotta be special to think Harden can score better than this man

I dont for the life of me get how people even compare his airness to lebron. Ridiculous!

Look at how Mj attacks those big guys underneath the basket. How many times did we see it here? He is basically attacking 3-4 players underneath the basket! Imagine him playing in todays game where the shaded area is wide open. If he can get contested shots fall in, how much more with todays trash defense where players just tends to stand and let other players score on their heads? Easy 50 PPG for Mike.

Your title is off.. This was the game that led to the implantation of the Jordan Rules.

still droped 46 on them

No wonder they instituted the jordan rules. he seems to just do whatever he wants on the court

Until you show me a single player that single handingly destroy teams like Jordan. Please don't compare