how did young Mike get to the basket with such ease?

[KnickstapeCity]

you gassing it od but rock out*

 

[Art Barr]

just look at who was guarding him, them mfers would be in the G League...

More talk from people who don't know the game of bball for real.

Art Barr

 

[010101]

that's not premo.petro¿*

 

[Art Barr]

So u not gonna mention the greatest era of big men he had to contend with at the rim huh youngin

Overall Jordan was EFFICIENT in his game, no wasted dribbles or playing the "switch game" like most of these sorry offensive players today who can't play true one on one basketball.

Jordan had GOAT footwork, first step, explosiveness, and the ABILITY TO TAKE A HIT AND STILL GET TO THE RIM AND FINISH.

Trade those so called "6'3 undersized guards" of Jordans Era with Derozan, Harden, Klay Thompson etc and Jordan would still be just as dominant, hell probably more dominant than he was then.

Stop lying about the defense of this era, if anything defense is the worst part of this current era. The current "greatest player in the world" plays almost zero defense. Jordan was not only dominating on the offensive end but was also the best defensive shooting guard in the league for most of his career. He's the GOAT for a reason, my condolences u were too young to witness it

this.

Close thread.


Art Barr

 

[Raw Lyrics]

He had great hangtime, acrobatics, footwork, quick first step, high vertical leap, strong wiry frame, large hands.

But also he played in a league where the average SG was like 6'3 he was typically bigger than his defenders, he played in a league where zone defenses were not allowed and he could cook man-to-man with little to no help defenses outside of hard doubles, more slow footed white American players, the pace in MJ's rookie year was also four possessions faster than today.

IDK Ron Harper 6'7, Drexler 6'6, Rolando Blackman 6'7, Mitch Richmond 6'5, Reggie Miller was 6'7, Gerald Wilkins 6'6, Steve Smith 6'7, Latrell Sprewell 6'5.


Also, while zone defense was illegal, a lot of times the rule was bended. If you watched the games you'd know that refs often allowed defenders to cheat, it was like traveling...they'd call it when they felt like it.

But often times, defenders were shading and getting no calls for illegal defense.

 

[Luck]

Why do all these clowns parrot that “defenses then...” bullshyt like defenses now aren’t straight trash

nikkas couldn’t have watched the playoffs this year because there was absolutely nothing remarkable about the defense being played currently that’ll stop or even slow down a past great from doin their thing

GSW and Houston were the consensus best teams in the league and that was 7 games of terrible defense on both sides.

On top of the fact that you brain dead morons have to kno that obviously if you’re gonna compare past greats they’d have the same updated offensive philosophies, coaching, training etc... that current players have.

 

[Art Barr]

Why the smiley? You serious? He was a 6’6 Westbrook lol

Westbrook was nowhere near Mike as a player even with stat padded triple double numbers at pg. That Jordan also mirrored in production as a pg as well. Russ is nowhere near Mike as a skill player. He is tenacious, past that he is no Mike.


Art barr

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

It’s called one on one defense

 

[Bigblackted4]

Zone defense is cool but you have to remember now 1-4 shoots well so it’s not 4 people in the paint like back in the day. Playing with a 4 and 5 that played close to the basketball clogged the lane up especially verse good teams. It’s pros and cons in both games. I’m by the thoery the mid 00s was worst basketball because it combined both, no spacing and zone defenses. Go watch some 04 finals games, the game was still uber physical but also you didn’t have that many stretch 4s and 5s.

 

[Thegospel]

Westbrook was nowhere near Mike as a player even with stat padded triple double numbers at pg. That Jordan also mirrored in production as a pg as well. Russ is nowhere near Mike as a skill player. He is tenacious, past that he is no Mike.


Art barr

I’m just saying young mj is easily the best athlete. Put him with young Bron or young Kobe and he’s still the best pure athlete.

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

Why do all these clowns parrot that “defenses then...” bullshyt like defenses now aren’t straight trash

nikkas couldn’t have watched the playoffs this year because there was absolutely nothing remarkable about the defense being played currently that’ll stop or even slow down a past great from doin their thing

GSW and Houston were the consensus best teams in the league and that was 7 games of terrible defense on both sides.

On top of the fact that you brain dead morons have to kno that obviously if you’re gonna compare past greats they’d have the same updated offensive philosophies, coaching, training etc... that current players have.

Because it’s completely accurate

 

[gluvnast]

Jordan's rookie season

 

[Truefan31]

When Jordan attacks watch for that quick crossover he throws in traffic. Dude used it quite a lot, it's just quick change in direction when the defense tries to meet him at the 2nd level.

But can't really summarize it into one concept. What it comes down to is that he really made the best decisions and quickly.

The guy's improvisation to me still hasn't been matched:


It's really just the array of moves: pull-ups, outright dunks, fakes, in-air adjustments, hesitations, quick dribbles, etc.

It all enhances the combination of straight line explosiveness and fluidity/quick decision-making in traffic.

Because of all of the above, dude was absolutely unpredictable, especially when he attacked. Other than the post fadeaways later in his career and some of the baseline reverse layups, how many times do you see the same move twice?

Basically the perfect basketball player. Athletic freak, fast, strong, big hands, tutelage from the GAWD Dean Smith.

Unpredictable is the key. He literally had everything in his arsenal. Drive, jab steps, go either left/right, dribble either left/right, finish either left/right, shoot over you, pump fakes/scoop shots, turnaround either left/right, fadeaways, etc. And so efficient.

shyt his ball fakes can't even be done over 30 years later

MJ=GOAT

 

[Darealtwo1]

Who'd be more athletic than a young Mike?

I need some receipts

Young mj would still be the most athletic player in the league today

Mans did his dunk from the same spot between the legs.

Just stop

 

[Luck]

Because it’s completely accurate

No it isn’t “accurate” idiot, if you’re gonna compare players you have to give them access to everything current players have. They would’ve came up through the same systems and had the same experience, training and conditioning everybody else has currently

Then add with that, it’s legit mind boggling how much y’all overrate these trash ass defenses currently like some ground breaking shyt is going on with now with these zones bein ran.

The two finalists for mvp were almost purely offensive players who get almost all of their points from shots off screens, lay ups and fouls

Get the entire fukk out here with this bullshyt like anybody couldn’t eat now