There should be at least two more episodes: move without the ball and shooting form. His shooting form, IMHO, was the reason he can make the turn-around-shooting and all sorts of shooting after he rebalanced or got to another shooting position with only using pivot foot. Thank you for your hard work. I studied MJ's moves frame by frame basically like this for almost a year. And there was a point I realized, technically, MJ's moves can be further broken into modular sub-modules. Just like different forms of Lego bricks. I think we call them fundamentals. Based on those, MJ can combine the necessary parts together and find how to transform from one to another. They are just beautiful techniques. And based on what I learned, I started to discover the top players of the next one or two gens of player really tried very hard to learn from MJ, such as T-Mac and Nash.
And the crazy thing all scouts and the talk was that before He entered the draft, they all said he didn't have that good of a jump shot. They said if he developed a jump shot that he'd be a pretty good player. He far surpassed that because of his love, dedication, and desire to be the Best ..
Right on! MJ's shooting form, while also beautiful, was definitely a big factor in him being so versatile with his mid range jumper and fadeaways. In addition, you need great elevation to pull it off, which requires superb conditioning. This is crazy considering how many minutes MJ played, while also being one of the best defenders at his position, if not the best. Jordan's style was very demanding physically, and he managed to pull it off game after game.
good analysis. but one thing missing about the jab step/juke fake. you mentioned that he threw his whole body weight into the jab to create huge defensive reaction from his defenders, it is because that's exactly how he drove pass his defenders with his first step. there isn't a single player since jordan retired that requires that much of instant respect and alert from his defenders simply because no one can drive pass the on ball defender as efficient and as quickly as jordan could. you don't bite for harden's first few moves because you know he could never get pass you in one dribble, same goes to lebron. the reason why jordan was so effective in these triple thread positions is that he never wasted a moment when he can get pass people easily with some stupid showy street ball style between the legs dribbles. jordan's successive between the leg dribbles usually served as a reset tool for him to find an angle to attack when his first option ( straight forward long lunge dribbles to either left or right) got blocked off. also, jordan's rip through (using your term) is particularly effective compared to other players because of his huge and strong hands. he had total control when he put the ball to the furtherest spot after palming the ball to form a air circle. not even guys with big hands like leonard have that decisiveness that jordan had in those sitations. but my point is that you see leonard doing the rip through a lot more effectively than guys like lebron, who has relatively small hands.
Pre baseball MJ wasted some energy, post baseball MJ was the ultimate distillation of peak MJ. MJ played a game within a game largely by himself. That's greatness
Don't try to put Jordan, Harden, and Lebron in the same category. Harden and Lebron have both led the league in assists something Jordan could never do lol
Alot of these kids in the NBA nowadays don't know how to do any of this, they just looking to dribble and travel step back... Smh the GOAT had all the tricks and skills in and out the book.
This series U have created has cemented the GOAT debate for me. It is Jordan hands down. I genuinely believe there are at least 50 GOATS with MJ at the top of the Pyramid.
MJ had so many moves, dude was on autopilot the whole game and would pick and choose the arsenal he would hit you with so quickly and he had so many moves u never knew what he was gonna hit you with
@@jsn23nc LOL....far from the same. Kobe's game looked like Michael's but Kobe conquered bigger, faster, longer opponents so as his career progressed and shooting over Tayshaun Prince turned into shooting over Kevin Durant, he had to add counter moves to MJ'S COUNTER MOVES. Hence the 100 pump fakes and pivots we saw Kobe do. So no, it would not be the same. Stylistically and fundamentally he was the evolved millennial version of MJ.
@@jarrodmason4964 Jordan was guarded by taller players a lot more than people like to believe. For some weird reason, there's this myth that Jordan was only guarded by "short white plumbers in short-shorts". When Jordan returned with the Wizards, he was guarded by Kevin Garnett a portion of the game in Jan of 2002 and scored 35 pts at almost 39 years old. The Pacers used to throw 6'9" Derrick McKey at him. The Pistons threw Dennis Rodman on him, one of the greatest defenders of all-time. Kobe was a very good athlete...Jordan was a GREAT athlete, which is one reason Kobe had to use more pump fakes.
What video does Drew mention the total time that the ball was in Jordan's hands during either the 98 finals or the 97-98 season? He says it on one of these MicroSkills videos and it was something ridiculous like 3 minutes. Harden was at 8.7 minutes this year.
I hope you do something like this for Luka Doncic. I would really love to hear what you think about his game. By the way, I'm 37yo and grew up and lived in Chicago my whole life. This was one of the best things I've watched.
When’s the next micro skill series dropping on RU-vid would love to see 10 part series on other nba players !! 🙏 Here’s a few I would like to see you do a micro skill 10 part episode on ( Not in order ) 1. Hakeem oliguwon 2. Allen Iverson 3. Magic Johnson 4. Larry Bird 5. Steph Curry 6. Magic Johnson 7. Shaq 8. John Stockton 9. Kobe 10. Tim Duncan P.S. I think it would be a good idea to pick players from 80s and 90s legend and players in nba top 50 and then move on to 200s and then 2010s etc
@@audettelinox3991 LOL....far from the same. Kobe's game looked like Michael's but Kobe conquered bigger, faster, longer opponents so as his career progressed and shooting over Tayshaun Prince turned into shooting over Kevin Durant, he had to add counter moves to MJ'S COUNTER MOVES. Hence the 100 pump fakes and pivots we saw Kobe do. So no, it would not be the same. Stylistically and fundamentally he was the evolved millennial version of MJ.
@anthony smith While efficiency refers to how well something is done, effectiveness refers to how useful something is. So I'd agree that MJ was more efficient. But more effective? Not by a long shot. But Kobe was effective as he was BECAUSE of MJ. Again, I'm just saying he built and expanded skillwise on MJ and others.
@@athleticmixes You're implying they're (effective vs efficient)both the same when the dictionary says different. They're similar in spelling and even usage at times but totally different.
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-fhAFFgpXUC0.html Watch the move at 0.25 speed. That's exactly what MJ did all day. Even the first jab and move based on the new position the jab provided. Notice here, Pete's left thigh did not move up after he planted his left foot. Squat to shoot directly without any extra time and energy to adjust. MJ was the only one I saw. Now I found Pete did this as well and before MJ. This move is very hard, but lethal. Most players have to bring their thigh lower again to adjust for their shooting, which costs time and energy. And probably stability.
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Another who got moves like that and nobody talking about him because he never won nothing and in my opinion he never pushes himself to be great because he was born with bags of move and great height “ Tracy Mcgrady”
Its crazy how people never talk about Jordan travel almost everytime on his rip through (which kobe later copies). They both always jab with one foot and if the defender isnt moving their momentum, they proceed to use the jab step foot as the plan, lift the pivot and rip through. Its a travel everytime and its very obvious but never ever gets called. Just in case anyone wanna trash me on that, i will just attach the rule below. In starting a dribble after (1) receiving the ball while standing still, or (2) coming to a legal stop, the ball must be out of the player’s hand before the pivot foot is raised off the floor.
I’m trying to learn how to drive faster from a triple threat situation and I was wondering if all the drives that mj did on his sweep throughs are travels or not 🤔 cause I thought u had to dribble before u lift ur pivot foot but in the video when he accelerates he always takes off his pivot first before he dribbles so how is that possible??
The only thing that annoys me with this is I would be able to use these if people sagged off of me a little bit while I’m in triple threat but people in middle school want to rip you like Zion ripped Giannis every time so I have to cut and dribble instead of this
He also forgot to mention Michael Jordan's pull ups, the one dribble pull up, two dribble pull ups, three dribble pull ups etc he was very good at that as well, I even do it when I'm playing, it's very basic but very effective
That's what he said to Rip Hamilton to add to his repertoire because it was deadly and Rip did and it greatly improved his offense especially displayed during his Pistons stint.
Hey guys could anybody possibly point me in the right direction. I want to be able to review film/RU-vid videos with the ability to easily scroll back and forth like he does in his videos to break down small details (slow motion). Is it just an editing software? Thanks!
You can do it with an editing software and cut the clips and put your voiceover sound under the clips. Alternatively you could use a streaming software and record or stream what you do on your computer while recording your voice. You would still need editing software to edit that if you want to put it on youtube.
Off of the Tripple Threat, when he explodes, isn't this considered a travel violation? When, for instance, he uses his right foot for the jabs, but explodes with the left? The same sort of move that Jimmy Butler does very often, with the shimmy and the jabs? At least in Europe, they call that most of the instances for a tavel.
Let’s compare Lebron move and Jordan move and please tells me who the Goat 🐐……..Lebron just gifted physically who helps accomplish a lot but he is not even near MJ
All these contents in this series was summarized by the great Kobe Bean Bryant. MJ was surgical in his approach in the game. No wasted movements. MJ can lose an opponent without even dribbling. His crossovers were tight and no tons of dribbles to lose an opponent.
