Also, the list of defenders in section 3 is comical
yes an article written by a blogger who named his blog "nobody touches jordan" is going to be completely objective
additionally, theres a big difference between zones and traps. that guy mostly shows examples of traps and doubles, which were legal and much different than a zone.
regardless, no one said zone was never played whatsoever, i fully believe that there were times that teams got away with it. but it was outlawed, therefore less prevalent and less a part of team strategy. just the same way players still very clearly and blatantly handcheck today (although also being less prevalent), despite it being outlawed.
as for the tony parker point, he did that well before most teams really started to make use of different zone concepts. it was still a relatively new thing for most teams. it was not used as much as it has been in recent years. additionally, mike and tp are not the same type of player by any means. mikes bread and butter was in the midrange area, while TP was almost entirely focused on getting layups and floaters, and had an offensive system designed to help him do that.
i dont know how many more times i have to say this, but mike and bron had different obstacles in different eras. no need to compare the two eras, because we can continue to raise counterpoints back and forth all day long and get absolutely nowhere. fact is, they are two of the greatest players of all time. but the real differences were 1) they are completely different types of players, neither style being superior to the other necessarily, and 2) mike was drafted into a much better situation than lebron was, and it clearly played out more in mikes favor. situations can make all the difference in the world. a better situation for guys like tmac, barkley, and ewing, and they probably don't retire ringless, while a different situation for guys like timmy manu and parker probably result in far less championships than they have. if shaq stays in orlando, he might never have rang.
Also, the list of defenders in section 3 is comical
You are trolling again, lefty. Stop that!!
MJ was slashing quite a bit before the first retirement. Upon his return he was mainly fade-away on the baseline, which Kobe did with impunity for 2 decades after him, facing every defense known to man.
Just for the record that Bulls team was abysmal when MJ got there. I have to put this out there because folks like lefty and try and play the Jordan got beat up early on, card. Well, yeah he played with 130lb crack heads until Pippen and Grant developed in 1990. Of course he did, as anyone would have.
I thought I admitted to reading the year wrong but hey, some people just want to act like a spurned lover all the time.
I don't hold his first few seasons against him, no one should. However, MJ is also on record for saying that his rookie year team was the most talented team he ever played with, even more than the championship teams. Some of those players being dealt around is what led to them building the first three-peat squad. It's not just about the talent that he or Bron had, its the competency of the front office. The Bulls had a very competent front office that built a nice squad. The Cavs front office was well known for their incompetency, made evident when the best pickup they could make was Mo Williams, while teams like the Miami, Boston, Detroit were either making big moves to get star talent, or retooling to get the right pieces for championship runs.
Woolridge could play. Not so much with the rest of them . Jordan was maybe a little too tipsy when he made that statement
Spurs fan's favorite. Jason Eugene Terry
Punching them in the nuts for 8 years with the Mavs.
Absolute choke in game 1 and game 4 goes to OT if the correct call is made.
Only choke that came clase in that era was the one the Lakers did in game 4
1 ring get
I remember a bitter Jason Terry after the 2007 season in some ESPN talk show :
“If we didn’t lose to GS the Spurs wouldn’t have won the le “
well you couldn’t even beat the damn Warriors
That was Cuban's mistake. Built the team to beat the Spurs and not necessarily to win a le.
Terry's mouth always got us in trouble. I can recall one game against the Suns. We are up maybe 5-10 points at the half. Terry does a halftime interview and says this team(suns) does not play any defense. Not only do the Suns go on to curb stomp the Mavs in the 2nd half, but it completely turned their season around and I think they ended up going to the WCF and we lost in the 1st RD again. Thanks, Jet
that and the Lebron stare down dunk
90's Celtics were such a train wreck.
And he walked right into it.
MJ got his ass handed to him by inferior players too but the NBA doesn’t want anyone to see that
Name 1 playoff series that Jordan got outscored by a bench player for the entire series. We will wait...
Terry was a 6th man but don’t tell me Stevenson was better offensively than Terry
JET was on the bench otherwise that 2nd unit would have been lacking
Jordan was outscored by a pasty flabby Pastor (I think his name was Danny Change or something like that) in an elimination game
Terry was wayyyyu better than Danny Change
Change was also a beisbol player, and we all know beisbol is not a sport
Also got outscored several times by a 6.1 midget PG who didn’t even make the Dream Team in the playoffs
Matbe that’s why Jordan didn’t let him go to Barcelona, he got so embarrassed
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