Yahoo Sports: “A closer look at MJ’s 1988 DPOY raises questions about its validity”

[HandyWithTheSteel]

Rasheed tried to tell y’all.

https://www.thecoli.com/threads/rasheed-mj-wasnt-that-good-of-a-defender.1016995/

 

[Black Hans]

 

[Raquinotj]

Oh Wow, Offseason in the "Social Media" era have Journalists revisiting awards from 36 years ago, we 3 days into it. Podcasts and Twitter ruined sports.

 

[Joe Sixpack]

I remember that 88 season

That season started MJ on the path to being a mythical legend

The NBA gave him every award that year and
It started with the dunk contest that everyone knew that Dominique won

I thought giving him DPOY that year was a stretch

 

[Trojan 24]

Homo said new research, like it's a cold case

 

[BigTyme Records]

He obviously wasn’t a better defender than Hakeem, Ewing, etc

 

[holidayinn21]

OP glazing MJ once again with his 25th Jordan thread this year

 

[AlbertPullhoez]

Isiah used to bust MJ ass offensively during those years I know that much

 

[JasoRockStar]

This is an expansive and well-researched piece but watch Jordan dikkriders discredit it without reading, as expected.

You already see it in this thread.

 

[JasoRockStar]

Breaking out his numbers into game location, we find that Jordan averaged a mind-boggling 4 steals and 2.1 blocks at home. But on the road, those numbers shrunk to a more normal rate of 2.1 steals and 1.2 blocks.

Put simply, Jordan’s steals and blocks nearly doubled at home compared to the road. To account for possible uneven playing time effects, we can look at per-36-minute numbers for a truer portrayal of the phenomenon. Jordan’s combined block and steals numbers (“stocks”) were a whopping 82 percent higher at home (5.5 stocks per 36 minutes) than on the road (3.0).

One might interpret the disparity as a reflection of a bygone era and perhaps not unique to Jordan’s Chicago Bulls. However, Jordan’s home/road disparities stood out even among his peers that season. According to Stathead.com, Jordan posted 165 steals at home (by far the most in the NBA) compared to just 94 on the road (tied for fourth). That gap of 71 steals blew away the competition, with the next largest gap among the top 15 league leaders in steals being 47.

Crucially, the additional home steals were instrumental in Jordan achieving the title as the league leader in steals. Jordan finished with the most steals at 259, speeding past Alvin Robertson’s total of 243.

If we were to believe the official box score, Jordan was god-like at home and a mere mortal on the road. When looking at just road games, arguably a control group of impartial scorekeepers for every player, Jordan’s steal count placed not first, not second but tied for fourth with Denver’s Michael Adams.

MFs been throwing that "Mickey Mouse" ring BS around for 4 years, meanwhile their man's got a Mickey Mouse DPOY

 

[bl2k8]

This clown always does this shyt, pretty sure he had a huge Kobe wasn’t clutch let me change the perception article two years after Kobe had retired

 

[UpAndComing]

Jordan stans had to have known that the social media criticism towards LeBron would come back to bite them to make it open season for Jordan

 

[HandyWithTheSteel]

Homo said new research, like it's a cold case

You’re right, the case is closed

This is an expansive and well-researched piece but watch Jordan dikkriders discredit it without reading, as expected.

You already see it in this thread.

 

[JasoRockStar]

Jordan stans had to have known that the social media criticism towards LeBron would come back to bite them to make it open season for Jordan

Ain't no fun when the rabbit has the gun...

 

[Boonapalist]

Jordan shouldn’t have won it in 88 and all those guards winning it early on is suspect. But that still doesn’t change the fact that LeBron doesn’t have one