Do you watch baseball? If not, google image search Bartolo Colon, CC Sabathia, Dmitri Young, etc... There is a huuuuuge difference between baseball shape and basketball shape. In 95 you could see Jordan did not have his legs under him. It was clear as day. The only other explantion was he was washed up - --a theory he refuted in 96.
He played like 17 games before the playoffs. His conditioning was not up to par.