Michael Jordan Highlights 1989 ECSF Game 3 vs Knicks - 40pts, GREAT BOUNCE BACK! 

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agree the Warriors style of play really influenced the whole league to play this soft Euro-style basketball. I still watch the NBA daily but the 90s was better. I dont really care for the bad boys so much because it was blatant hacking and trying to injure people when people like Laimbeer for example couldnt stay in front of their man, so they had to result to fouling

K.J Lawrence amen!

Different rules now. Used to have illegal defense before so players had to commit to defense or to the double or be penalized. Now players can wander

Defense had hand checking illegal moving screens and alot of heavy contact back then. You will notice Jordan was smaller so after this season he hit the gym on a heavy weights program he was tired getting bullied and bashed. He said 3 months on a heavy weights program see how we go......did it for rest of his career with the bulls.

Could not agree more. Much more cutting and teamwork. Now, everybody wants to run behind the three point line or go one-on-one and try to draw fouls. Hence, we get games like we saw in in the game 7 between the Warriors and Rockets a few years ago where the Rockets missed 27 straight three pointers, and had no B-game.

The speed at which he plays this series is mind bogling. Amazing.

in a season he also averaged 8.0 rebounds and 8.0 assists while still scoring a whopping 32 points per game! He is also one of the all time leaders in steals and one of the best smaller shot blockers.

He aggravated his groin injury the previous game where he only scored 15. His lowest in a playoffs game in his whole career. He averaged 40+ ppg thereafter in the remaining games of this series against the Knicks.

@@JSB-2Z-2K he's 3rd all time in steals

He is buddy your not gonna change everyones mind

Tell em

Oh I know right.its amazing watching him when you get older,what he did was insane and now we are older we can really appreciate it

Yeah, Jodan lost athleticism gradually a bit over time, but he was always adding new moves and learning new things to make himself more dangerous in other ways, incredible. That was his extremely hard work.

23 MJ Those numbers sound impossible in the regular season, let alone the PLAYOFFS!!

Terry Y ....Well, that means nobody else is either. So why only think of LeBron as the one "who will never be..."? And if he is nowhere in MJ's class, why bring him up when no one else in the comments even mentioned him first for a response?

WHY on EVERY Jordan video do people need to bring up Lebron Lebron isnt Jordan (though they do play totally different styles) but just appreciate him now and stop sounding bitter because we will miss him after he retires because none of these new rookies and 1 year players strike me as being top 10 potential

Terry Y if he wasn't anywhere close like 10× then Lebron shouldn't even be mention in this video. Also appreciate him because he is the only player who has a chance to catch up Jordan, Kobe could of catch Kareem and Magic (maybe Kobe is tied with Magic).

Because NBA is about business. They need to put someone into the spotlight to make profit. NBA picks Lebron because he is the greatest player in this era, still not close to MJ tho.

It's all a marketing ploy. That's how they sell the game to this generation. And attaching MJ's name to these stories is STILL their go-to tactic. Because he's STILL their biggest draw. The league KNOWS that this is a prisoner-of-the-moment, latest = greatest, mentality havin' generation, that knows NOTHING about the history of the game past 5 years ago. So they CONSTANTLY use the media to come up with these bogus narratives, that implies that these new guys are just as good (or is better) than MJ, because they know that the current generation DESPERATELY wants one of their own to be better than him. This will drum up interest/ratings in their talk shows and televised games, which translates into big $$$.

@@blackadam06 i agree 100% Jordan set the bar so high the media always tries to compare to MJ. Sadly no one has been close.

Facts. There’s only been two games in which Lebron left me speechless and completely in awe: 2007 Game 5 vs Detroit and *2011 Game 6 vs Boston. Other than that, he doesn’t “wow” me at all. But MJ played like this consistently. He brought this same energy and effort every single game

Better

Because everything else he did was so good, his passing is overlooked. They also tend to only look at the number of assists as if that is an indicator of being a “good” passer.

@@depannist Facts 💯 Same shit I was about to write. Ppl forget how efficient a passer he was because his scoring ability was so good. I remember when Paxson got injuried and missed a little over a month and MJ had to run the point... The man averaged 11 assists a game during that time and he was just subbing lol. IMAGINE if that were his ACTUAL role!

Mostly career assists average but the triangle offense cut down on his assists. Most people don’t use context with numbers. He’s obviously capable of averaging at least 8 a game over a season as he did it before. 10 triple doubles in 11 games too.

That‘s from a regular game with Detroit.

23 MJ I remembered the black shoes though

Air dashing in real life lmao

Every mega super star ( MJ, Kobe, Lebron etc) will get away with a lot more than other players. It’s always been that way. MJ wasn’t the first and he certainly won’t be the last. I agree that MJ should’ve been T’D up but you also have to understand that refs weren’t AS sensitive as today’s officials. There have been many a games in which you see the refs yelling right back at the players lol. It was a different era man

Barry Murphy I think it took a while for players to really start dragging out being in the refs face, and also the refs demanding more respect. Same as drawing a foul, and the blatant flopping from the 2000’s superstars. Hopefully that gets pulled back under control.

theloverswineverytime they were basically underdogs the first two series... Nobody expected them to make the finals that year at all especially after only winning 47 games

That team he lost to swept Dominique in the first round, Swept Bird in round two and Swept Four HOF player's in the Finals. But MJ and the Jordanairs took them to 6 Game's...And that was with Horace Grant as the second best player giving him only 13ppg. You can keep on hatin but the baddest man the NBA has ever seen is non other than Michael Jeffrey Jordan.

K Steve - oh, you found one example of something. You're so stupid. You've proved nothing except you're a dumbass. Judging highlights is stupidity. It was twice as tough back then and if you knew the differences, you'd see them instantly. But idiots think finding an example of something proves causation which it doesn't obviously. Go back to school and study some basic logic.

Boogie Loo I love it, look at the Jordansexual trying to defend the inevitable. This happened alot. I remember Magic saying "if you breathe on Jordan it's a foul" yeah bad boys did him dirty in 87-89, but they changed the rules in Jordans favor in 90-91. Alot of people don't know the history. They only remember what they saw. Also. I remember Wilt saying they changed the rules to help you, but changed the rules to stop me" people just don't do their research. And I'm not saying MJ wasn't the man in his era. He was. But alot of rules changed in the 90s. Including the flagrant fouls. That stems from the bad boys. I can find many examples of tick tack fouls on MJ. Just watch the games to be honest. Now MJ was still one of my favorite players to watch, along with Mahmoud Abdul Rauf, Allen Iverson, Tmac, Penny, Grant Hill prime, but just because a couple fights took place between certain teams. Doesn't mean that era was better. Alot of those dudes wouldn't even be playing with the type of speed, size and athleticism in the league now. Like seriously, what white guy could guard MJ? Like seriously, there were alot of them trying to guard him. But Dumars have him problems, Michael Cooper, Gary Payton have him real probs. And MJ could never shut down Mahmoud Abdul Rauf 6'1 160, Grant Hill, Penny, AI, and many others. Something you have to think about. I can't imagine a Jeff hornacek, Reggie Miller, Dan Majerle, Byron Russell trying to guard LeBron or KD, Harden, Curry, Kyrie, that's BBQ chicken. And y'all know it. Competition matters and Brent Price just doesn't cut it for me.

Boogie Loo You should never argue with an idiot. People from afar might not be able to tell the difference. 😂😂😂

HoustonIsImmortal so the question where was he hit hard? Since Jordan went through hell every game, which I know not to be true, because I watched then like I do now. Y'all idiots are the ones stuck in the nostalgia. Y'all see clips here and there of fights and certain teams fouling hard. And think that was every game. It actually was more rare than every game. And y'all also forget the guys were much slower, smaller and less athletic then. MJ was ahead of his time. As far as athletic ability. But no way Bill Lambier fouling MJ vs Bron would have the same effect. You're talking about a 240 pound guy fouling a 200 pound guy knocking his ass down opposed to a 240 pound guy TRYING to knock down a guy 260+ pound guy that's bigger, stronger, faster, just as quick (even MJ if a little quicker), 40+ vert. Not going to be the same. That's why I don't listen to idiots. I listen to the players that played and the coaches. And taking my college experience and my pro experience and common sense. Bill Lambier said it best. We could knock MJ down, LeBron will not you down. We didn't have a player like that back in our era. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-f1J8SOqAmnA.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Lki7_xUMCVI.html

This is how you prove you are stupid. Everything is relative. The players from Jordan’s era would have the speed, size and athleticism you talk about if they were playing in today’s era. Same thing if you look at it the other way around. Today’s players would be worse athletes 30 years ago. Jordan would be a better athlete today. He would still do what he did 30 years ago. It’s funny when people say rules were changed to help Jordan, because those rules still exist today, which means it is helping current players and it would help Jordan if he were playing today. smh

Except MJ played against and beat Ewing, and Lebron lost to Dwight Howard and struggled against Roy Hibbert.

Don't compare MJ to LJ.

lechoke has zero skills