Kids who say today's NBA is the best and the players are "Bigger, better, stronger" these days really need to watch the most intense, competitive, do or die postseason games of the 90's from tip-off to final buzzer.
Love that intensity, the hustle, and the competition, we don t see that today... So exciting! And the skill from MJ is on another level, there s no comparison. Noone does these moves today, so disappointing.
This 92 series, and the 84 Boston LA series are my favorite of all time. That 92 Knicks team was no joke. Pushed an amazing Bulls team to 7 games. Toughness, grittiness, attitude, teamwork by both teams. I miss real basketball.
@TheRealMindCrime 54 points. Only one layup. All the rest were jumpshots and at the foul line. I remember that series. Jordan struggled with his shooting that post season because his wrist was injured in the regular season against the pistons. If you ever see a highlight where Jordan is on a fast break and Dennis Rodman brings him down and Jordan was in pain, that's where he injured his wrist. He finished that game. And Bulls won. people don't remember it because Jordan never made excuses because of injuries. But all throughout the rest of the 93 season you'll see his shooting wrist wrapped up.
Look at that, there are a lot of bodies in the paint battling for rebound. That is rare in todays while now its a free 3 double. 1 triple double back in the day is worth more than 20 triple double of todays.
The truest thing ever said about 90s basketball. They say we done with the 90s well guess what we done with 2010s LeBron times is done never was the GOAT
Don’t you just miss hard work. The days are long gone when you got benched for not playing defense. Jordan could have gave up on that play, but I know he took that personal and was like I’m gonna get you back. Man I miss the 90’s.
A reminder that Jordan stopped Ewing not only from getting a ring in the NBA, but his jumper won the NCAAs over Ewing in 84. Ewing was a beast - the first 4 UNC baskets were Ewing goal tends. But, at the end, Jordan was cutting down the net not Patrick.
Love the throwbacks, a time where rebounding and defending had as big of an impact on games. Also in the spirit of defense if you haven’t already reacted to Big Ben, that’d be sick.
@@3912James why y'all flexin on me I wasn't even conscious of what was going down the street from my house. I wish I had seen him in his prime I watched 96, 97, and 98 Jordan it's a memory I will hold dear especially the last shot, and flu game
@Vancouverallday At least you was actually able to watch MJ tearing through the league as it happened I wasn't even born until years after that bulls dynasty spilt apart 😭😭 (I was born in 01)
I’m in a AA and recently befriended a 70 year old man who’s a knicks fan. We were talking shit about how over paid and soft the league is now. Appropriately he hates MJ, but respects him. It’s cool talking with an older fan that remembers players and storylines around the merger. I’ll probably watch a couple games with him in the playoffs or later in the season. But his father was a sports writer back in the day. But we’re discussing hand checking last night. :P
Wow how cool! I love that hate/respect MJ gets around the country. He broke the hearts of all our favorite teams but in the end we can only respect that he pulled it off. Sounds like a cool friend you made
This is basketball, man. This is pure fire on the court. It drives me absolutely berserk when I see a LeBron fan saying that Jordan isn't the GOAT, talking about how "amazing" LeBron and this era is. It's not even close in comparison, yet they force it. The NBA is embarrassing now.
MJ gets to the rim and he will get a lot of contact but still try to get the ball in with finnesse while Lebum got no contact and still flops like he was punched.
Looked like MJ apologized to his teammates for losing the ball after that hustle. Taking responsibility even after a highlight like that. And seriously, highlights from one game of Jordan is better than a season's highlight of LeBron.
4:05 He had the post fadeaway, these two buckets show that, he only relied on and perfected them in the second threepeat when he could no longer get to the rim at will.
sorry i am late on watching this, but i had to bring out the popcorn because Bulls vs Knicks was always an entertaining battle. I could bore you with play by play highlights over the years but there's too many and its better to watch them anyway.
Man I miss the bulls , the knicks all that old school ball . So sad what’s happened to the once great NBA . Total shite now God bless this channel ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Bron would ruin the locker room with vomit all over the place and then run for the hills , if somehow was to play this exact game. What a goat material, damn.
10:28 damn. This play is on every MJ montage out there but this is my first time seeing it in this view. By the way, that's GOAT mentality before Mamba mentality came out. 😂
Can't remember if this game was on a Saturday or a Sunday, but I remember watching it sitting in the living room and screaming at the Jordan split/steal/recovery block play. I knew right then the game was over - having watched Jordan through his entire career on WGN, you felt exactly when Jordan would 'flip' the game. The entire team would get rabid defensively, I think Bach called it 'unleashing the dobermans'. Jordan would get really active, make some plays on both ends, and the entire team would just suffocate you defensively. I think the 92 team did this the best, though I'd say the 96 team was more balanced in general and had better backcourt defense (outside of Pippen and Jordan). Rnady Brown and Harper were better defensive options on that 96 team vs. what they had in 92. But man, when that 92 team wanted to lock you up and put the game away, they just smothered you with a pillow.
God, watching older games it seems like there are more players on the floor. They're all down there contributing instead of hanging around the 3-point line, if they even make it past half court.
This game and game 7 against Reggies Pacers, the only 2 times champion bulls went there. Smashes the Knicks , and kept Reg to 0 in 4th quarter 😢 Like you said, if they lose this game, they don't even go back to back, let alone 1st of 2 3peats. But Mj wasn't gunna let THAT happen🤣
I've been quietly noticing. It changed after Klutch was pressuring Perk to praise Lebron more and he came out on first take with SAS to talk about it. That changed a lot.
For me, the best NBA series each year in the '90s was the Bulls vs the Knicks!👍🏀🏆💯 6:50 - Except Isiah Thomas🤦♂️ Brother is _still_ salty over 30 years later😆
This is ridiculous. I posted 3 comments with the name of the channel who have more vids like this, and all were removed. Dear youtube.... GIVE ME A BREAK!
have you ever thought of a crossover between basketball and mma? (youtuber name Chiseled Adonis) video called There's MMA Basketball Now | He SHATTERED The Backboard, its basketball inside of mma ring with comedy all around it
Do a video recent comment about shaq adam sliver then the response about our league going down the tubes to this live to this piece of hot garbage😢in recent memory❤
Bigger stronger lol maybe but they wouldn’t last in yesterdays nba it would send them to the cleaners they wouldn’t last receive more injuries old nba the longevity would be cut short
MJ... I am not sure he is actually human..
Amazing
Thank you so much eyalsabag! Honestly, a lot of times growing up I thought he was an actual super hero lol. Sometimes I still do.
@TheRealMindCrime i remember we tried emulating his double pump lay ups at school.. he was such an icon in the 90's.
Oh yeah. I tried to emulate everything he did on the court. Even cosmetics like the gum and wrist sweat band. His free throw lol.
16:00 Sooooo happy to hear you like doing these videos. They’re soooooo much fun to listen to and watch! :D
I do! Only problem is some of these get blocked and almost all end up demonized but they are super fun to do anyway
Kids who say today's NBA is the best and the players are "Bigger, better, stronger" these days really need to watch the most intense, competitive, do or die postseason games of the 90's from tip-off to final buzzer.
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These kids today are clueless about real competitive basketball
Just look how thin and underdeveloped skills wise today's players really are.
Lay up, steal, ball stolen from him, chase down swipe/block....my favorite MJ sequence.
Quick layup, steal, seconds winding down pull up drains the shot, pose, winning 6th title... great sequence as well ❤
Yeah it is the best way to show who he was. No complaining, no blaming, took accountability and got that ball back for his team
Same here... The entire sequence encapsulates mj perfectly
whose game is it?
@@scottb3034 it's Michael Jordan's game!! -Magic
Love that intensity, the hustle, and the competition, we don t see that today... So exciting! And the skill from MJ is on another level, there s no comparison. Noone does these moves today, so disappointing.
totally agreed. There is nothing like this anymore, anywhere
We will NEVER be done with the 90s. As DreamersPro said, We Done with the Cupcake era.
Slappin that honey on each other twirkin all over the place 😆
MJ only hit game 7 twice in his six titles. He sure didn’t shrink against these Knicks or the 98 Pacers
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Yo this whole series was freaking intense!!!!!!!!!!! I love watching every game. Miss those days
Yeah this was totally peak basketball here
I was such a Knicks fan back then and I was cursing the ground Mike walked on lol. But you had to respect the game. The man was undeniably the goat!
I feel the same way about the bulls beating my suns in the finals 93. Gotta just tip my hat to MJ and say "well played sir, well played"
Just like the 90's Cavs fans and pretty much every other Eastern team....lol
This 92 bulls team was my favorite, imo the best team of their dynasty
Yeah 92 or 93 Bulls were peak imo.
John Starks said playing against MJ was the highlight of his career.
Yeah i saw that too. Thats so cool
Nobody in todays NBA would hustle down the court after getting the ball stolen from them like Jordan did @11:06.
I know lol. They'd be busy complaining to refs instead of getting payback
Jordan win or loose he always gives props to the opposite teams. That's something that lebron doesn't do to this day.
Always gives props to the opponent and also to his teammates every game.
The old Chicago Stadium would sway and vibrate when the crowd got going. It was exhilarating. So much fun,
Woah!!
This 92 series, and the 84 Boston LA series are my favorite of all time. That 92 Knicks team was no joke. Pushed an amazing Bulls team to 7 games. Toughness, grittiness, attitude, teamwork by both teams. I miss real basketball.
Yeah that was some real gritty basketball
We rebounded harder in my college rec league then how they do in todays NBA
I believe it!
Night and day with today's game.
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@@TheRealMindCrime This is one of the rare times I've seen the triple steal sequence from that angle as well. MJ's hustle was highlighted even more.
This is the level of intensity the game needs
100% ☝️
One of my all-time favs. Aslo the 1993 east finals game 4 is a must see
Definitely. I think MJ had 51 that game right? Lol
@TheRealMindCrime 54 points. Only one layup. All the rest were jumpshots and at the foul line. I remember that series. Jordan struggled with his shooting that post season because his wrist was injured in the regular season against the pistons. If you ever see a highlight where Jordan is on a fast break and Dennis Rodman brings him down and Jordan was in pain, that's where he injured his wrist. He finished that game. And Bulls won. people don't remember it because Jordan never made excuses because of injuries. But all throughout the rest of the 93 season you'll see his shooting wrist wrapped up.
Morning time blessings bro, and no the greatest player who ever touched a basketball, the one and only Mikal J Jordan
Gooooood mornin!
1992 Jordan is imo peak MJ. Absolute beast from midrange and still had most of his athleticism
Yeah i got 92/93 MJ as peak MJ too. He had it all
i havent seen the video yet but i know im gonna love it hahahaha
thanks again
Lol thank YOU
11:51
"Still hustles back" words you rarely hear in today's NBA.
Right!?
MJs athleticism was nuts, but his body control was insane
Complete package
Great reaction. It's still here.
Simply put Michael Jordan is the GOAT.
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05 to 2011 Wade definitely reminds me of Jordan from about 85 to 92 for sure, especially splitting the defence and just being straight up relentless.
Yup! I loved watching Wade during that time. The word relentless is perfect.
Would you guys say that pre-injured Derrick Rose reminded you of Jordan from 85-92 as well?
When the bulls finally got past Detroit New-York was Chicago's next tough challenge in the east
Yup. I think Pat designed them to be the new Pistons. Bully ball almost took these Bulls down. Almost
@TheRealMindCrime they definitely were the Pistons of the 90's just without all the hard ass fouls
Look at that, there are a lot of bodies in the paint battling for rebound. That is rare in todays while now its a free 3 double. 1 triple double back in the day is worth more than 20 triple double of todays.
Miss these days where the game really mattered. Players today say and talk about winning but don't wanna put in the work to be great
The truest thing ever said about 90s basketball. They say we done with the 90s well guess what we done with 2010s LeBron times is done never was the GOAT
I agree so much. Talk is cheap and the new guys all talk like they're champs without winning anything
Don’t you just miss hard work. The days are long gone when you got benched for not playing defense. Jordan could have gave up on that play, but I know he took that personal and was like I’m gonna get you back. Man I miss the 90’s.
100% ☝️
A reminder that Jordan stopped Ewing not only from getting a ring in the NBA, but his jumper won the NCAAs over Ewing in 84. Ewing was a beast - the first 4 UNC baskets were Ewing goal tends. But, at the end, Jordan was cutting down the net not Patrick.
☝️
Love the throwbacks, a time where rebounding and defending had as big of an impact on games.
Also in the spirit of defense if you haven’t already reacted to Big Ben, that’d be sick.
I told myself this season I'd be covering more 2024 games but i keep finding myself bored and naturally wanna watch real basketball instead lol
@ Who wants to watch a longer version of a 3-point contest.
Like really?
12:00 Endless amount of energy ? More like endless amount of Will to Win
facts
Sweet, I was Like 23! 😎
Nice!
I was 4yo this series....DAMN!!
Nice! I was 10
I was 24....about to turn 25 that Summer.
@@3912James why y'all flexin on me I wasn't even conscious of what was going down the street from my house. I wish I had seen him in his prime I watched 96, 97, and 98 Jordan it's a memory I will hold dear especially the last shot, and flu game
@Vancouverallday At least you was actually able to watch MJ tearing through the league as it happened I wasn't even born until years after that bulls dynasty spilt apart 😭😭 (I was born in 01)
This is the type of game and players that are missed, we will not miss Lebron I am telling you now 🤷🏻♂️
I totally agree lol. It will be a relief when Lebron retires. We mourned MJ retiring the final time
I’m in a AA and recently befriended a 70 year old man who’s a knicks fan. We were talking shit about how over paid and soft the league is now. Appropriately he hates MJ, but respects him. It’s cool talking with an older fan that remembers players and storylines around the merger. I’ll probably watch a couple games with him in the playoffs or later in the season. But his father was a sports writer back in the day. But we’re discussing hand checking last night. :P
Wow how cool! I love that hate/respect MJ gets around the country. He broke the hearts of all our favorite teams but in the end we can only respect that he pulled it off. Sounds like a cool friend you made
This is basketball, man. This is pure fire on the court. It drives me absolutely berserk when I see a LeBron fan saying that Jordan isn't the GOAT, talking about how "amazing" LeBron and this era is. It's not even close in comparison, yet they force it. The NBA is embarrassing now.
Yeah this was peak bball. The physicality and intensity is awesome
Chicago Stadium was the loudest stadium in the NBA before it was knocked down, and built the United Center
5:09 Gerald had a series of Nike commercials for Air Flight Lights, with SuperDave Osborne.
Woah Super Dave! Thats a throwback lol
MJ used/went left:
3:37
4:34
6:19
7:29
8:09
10:23
Love it!!
Anyone who says MJ can’t go left is born after 2010 and an idiot
The 96 ECF Game 1 has a pretty epic start. That Knicks team probably would have a ring or two if not for MJ.
You know I'm gonna have to react to that too now right? Lol
The Magic played against the Bulls in the 1996 ECFs....Magic was absolute roadkill in Game 1.
@@TheRealMindCrime I know!
gerald wallace, he prides himself as a "jordan stopper".. not that I remember a game where he stopped the 🐐!
😆 🤣 😂
MJ gets to the rim and he will get a lot of contact but still try to get the ball in with finnesse while Lebum got no contact and still flops like he was punched.
Looked like MJ apologized to his teammates for losing the ball after that hustle. Taking responsibility even after a highlight like that.
And seriously, highlights from one game of Jordan is better than a season's highlight of LeBron.
Oh yeah MJ never blameshifted. He took all the responsibility then shared the success. Ideal leader
10:00 defensive rebounds are position. Offensive rebounds are effort.
100%
4:05 He had the post fadeaway, these two buckets show that, he only relied on and perfected them in the second threepeat when he could no longer get to the rim at will.
Clutch as usual
sorry i am late on watching this, but i had to bring out the popcorn because Bulls vs Knicks was always an entertaining battle. I could bore you with play by play highlights over the years but there's too many and its better to watch them anyway.
Lol no worries. This is a fun one!
Man I miss the bulls , the knicks all that old school ball . So sad what’s happened to the once great NBA . Total shite now
God bless this channel ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Thabk you!
That what I love about Michael era Jordan and Patrick they are very good friend but in court that was dead it was a battle
Absolutely
Bron would ruin the locker room with vomit all over the place and then run for the hills , if somehow was to play this exact game. What a goat material, damn.
I just watched this game the other night. I’ve given up on current nba
The symbol you use, for intro’s, profile pic, what does it mean?
Its a symbol for Dragon. Part of my name.
10:28 damn. This play is on every MJ montage out there but this is my first time seeing it in this view. By the way, that's GOAT mentality before Mamba mentality came out. 😂
Can't remember if this game was on a Saturday or a Sunday, but I remember watching it sitting in the living room and screaming at the Jordan split/steal/recovery block play. I knew right then the game was over - having watched Jordan through his entire career on WGN, you felt exactly when Jordan would 'flip' the game. The entire team would get rabid defensively, I think Bach called it 'unleashing the dobermans'. Jordan would get really active, make some plays on both ends, and the entire team would just suffocate you defensively. I think the 92 team did this the best, though I'd say the 96 team was more balanced in general and had better backcourt defense (outside of Pippen and Jordan). Rnady Brown and Harper were better defensive options on that 96 team vs. what they had in 92. But man, when that 92 team wanted to lock you up and put the game away, they just smothered you with a pillow.
God, watching older games it seems like there are more players on the floor. They're all down there contributing instead of hanging around the 3-point line, if they even make it past half court.
This game and game 7 against Reggies Pacers, the only 2 times champion bulls went there. Smashes the Knicks , and kept Reg to 0 in 4th quarter 😢
Like you said, if they lose this game, they don't even go back to back, let alone 1st of 2 3peats. But Mj wasn't gunna let THAT happen🤣
Exactly lol. Yeah that 98 game 7 vs indiana is something special too
@TheRealMindCrime pacers had a big lead too. Jordan just refused to lose. What a shock🤣
Hey mate, not that I'm a fan of his but Steven A calling out lebalco is worthy of a watch. The tide is finally turning on that prima donna
I've been quietly noticing. It changed after Klutch was pressuring Perk to praise Lebron more and he came out on first take with SAS to talk about it. That changed a lot.
If you haven't done it yet....please react to Game 5 of the NBA ECF's between these two teams.
Mj was considered a one man basketball team
Tom Brady style check down that when Mike saw Horace down low
96 was the better team. The bench was far better than the 92 team. That's why they won and held the record until the Warriors beat it.
For me, the best NBA series each year in the '90s was the Bulls vs the Knicks!👍🏀🏆💯
6:50 - Except Isiah Thomas🤦♂️ Brother is _still_ salty over 30 years later😆
This was the Madhouse on Madison at it's best. Even the rats cheered at Stadium. This was the year before closing!
This is ridiculous. I posted 3 comments with the name of the channel who have more vids like this, and all were removed. Dear youtube.... GIVE ME A BREAK!
Hmmmm. Sometimes youtube deletes comments with url's in it or with curse words but weird they would delete something like that.
@@TheRealMindCrime same story again, my two comments to your answer were removed. For no reason.
Thats......really messed up. I wonder why YT is doing this.
Where real games with real defense. Especially with the NBA on NBC theme music
have you ever thought of a crossover between basketball and mma? (youtuber name Chiseled Adonis) video called There's MMA Basketball Now | He SHATTERED The Backboard, its basketball inside of mma ring with comedy all around it
i haven't. I'm gonna have to look into that though
@@TheRealMindCrime hope u have a good laugh
Poor Pat Reilly
oh, the so-called Jordan stopper, hehehe... but yeah, rebounds back then, people collapse to the paint when someone shoots...
Thats the way it should be. Rebound=possession. Nothing more important then that in sports
Sorry I can't watch this..I was a Knicks fan back them. PTSD
Oh noooo
Do a reaction to kobe 81 point game
I think i have lol. I'll do it again eventually anyway just cuz its a good watch from time to time
First MJ free throws wasn't a faul.
shaq was bad at free throws but when he needed to win he would drain em. I think its just part of his mentality to get by with being dominant.
Have you heard of Shaq & Shump Debate If Steph Ruined The NBA, if you didn't you should check it out when you can
Yeah i got a heads up from another comment. I'm definitely checking it out soon
Do a video recent comment about shaq adam sliver then the response about our league going down the tubes to this live to this piece of hot garbage😢in recent memory❤
Will do
1984 Olympic team vs NBA All Stars, Game 1: th-cam.com/video/ZzQqGH4F7cc/w-d-xo.html
Oh yeah I've watched this before. Quality is terrible but the hooping level is top notch
Imagine LeBalco and his LeDikLik apologists ... if he had a bum squad like MJ had and the excuses all day for why he never got past the Knicks
Bigger stronger lol maybe but they wouldn’t last in yesterdays nba it would send them to the cleaners they wouldn’t last receive more injuries old nba the longevity would be cut short
We almost have a fight with each other with my friends because of this series!
Oh dang!
Dude.....
Love your videos!!!!
Today's game SUUUUUUCKS!!!!!
Thank YOU!!!
thats why dennis rodman still the reigning mvp in rebounds cuz, todays game , nobody care about rebound... everybody love to shoot!
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the inside of arena was too loud to hear the whistle, all eyes on every possession, no cellphones to bother you,, only screammmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!!
Yeah the good ole days!