@@dc4690 No. The rhetoric now is saying they are more "skilled" per position than back in the day. That's debatable. But very few athletes of today's game could compete physically with any era pre 2004.
I remember him crediting Dean Smith with teaching him those fundamentals. Kenny Smith said the same thing about Jordan, he always had proper positioning with his body, hands and stance on defense.
@@AHMAD-2324 You're right. The blueprint for him was Dr J (esp ABA era), the original athletic freak who was very good fundamentally. IMO Michael added his savage passion, a better jump shot and lockdown D to improve on the approach.
@@edmondlau511Right Kenny Smith also said along ur line that MJ was the most fundamentally sound basketball player hes ever seen but because his athleticism was exuded more, his fundamentals were overshadowed.
Couple of observations after watching this. 1st Kiki Vandeweghe was a very good player with a smooth looking jumpshot. He easily could have expanded his range to the 3 point line if he played today. He's one of those really good players from that era you tend to forget about sometimes. 2nd I have never seen a player play with the amount of energy on both ends as a young Michael Jordan. He was literally everywhere dunks, jumpers, layups, getting out in transition, blocks, steals, deflections. A truly one of a kind talent.
Yeah Kiki was a solid player. That jumper was insane and consistent. I think he played on the league for 13 years. He clocked over sixteen thousand points.
I think that is the main difference between young Jordan's game and the '90s Jordan everyone recognizes more. I don't think it is humanly possible to play with that kind of energy over a full career so he dialed it back a bit in the later years and played a craftier, more polished outside game while still attacking when possible or necessary.
Jordan was best scorer with oakley and paxon best two supporting at that time. They were playing a loaded team with Porter, Drexlar and kiki. They beat them. Paxon and oakly not beating drexlar and porter or kiki in 2 v2 game. Jordan won game on all aspects of defense offense. Never seen lebron beat a talented team like that alone.
Looks like MJ carrying his team to VICTORY over a strong team that would make it to the finals in 3 season after this.. Where was Scottie Pippen? That's right not drafted not molded and motivated by the 🏀🐐 YET!! FACTS 💯
Michael was simply amazing you forget just how good he was when he was young until you rewatch these highlights he was a walking highlight film spectacular
I wondered why they called him black cat. That is answered now he was all over the court with swiftness. I also loved how he was the best player with the ball in hand but he rarely had it. He didn’t run point he caught the ball looked for openings, if there weren’t any he passed immediately. Great on both ends. Wow!
I saw him play 2wice 1 was The Buzz Peterson Classic summer of '88 in Asheville, NC @ the Civic Center scoring 63pts. and in '97 scoring 27pts. In the old Charlotte Coliseum against the Hornets. Totally different watchin him in person. Watching him jump live for a dunk is like watching a missile take off in the sky waaaay different leaving u in awe and jaw dropping
Michael Jordan. The total package. Skills/athleticism/agility/talent AND the laser focus/will/killer instinct mentality that very few NBAers have. Kobe had it. The current era of NBA players don't have it. Not just the talent but also the mental fortitude to end NBA lives! Earvin "Magic" Johnson is my favorite player, I'm a big fan of Kareem, Larry, Julius, Bill Russell, Jerry West, Shaquille, Tim Duncan, the rest of the Original Dream Team roster (maybe not Christian Laettner so much) and others to include Steph Curry, Jayson Tatum & Jaylen Brown. None of them and no other NBAer has displayed what Michael Jordan displayed on the basketball court. NOT the total package, night in/night out for the full 82-plus. Jordan's entry into the league was in the middle of Magic & Larry. Those 2 breathed life into the NBA and nobody beat them. Hell Magic won championships at the high school, college & NBA level in a span of 4yrs. Who does that? Not even Michael but after seeing Michael play you understand the difference. LeBron can be a fan's favorite player but more total package than Michael? That would be Kobe next and that's distant at best.
When he 1st arrived @ Carolina he ran a 4.6 (40) yd. dash and had improved it to a 4.3 (40) by the time he left. He and James Worthy raced and Worthy beat him by 1 step.
Exactly! His first brush with fame was a NCAA Championship winning Jump Shot!! The Olympic Gold was primarily MJ shooting Jump SHOTS! In the Olympics was when I first said to myself, he is releasing that shot higher than I have noticed anyone else release their shot. He always had a sweet stroke. Maybe 🤔 he improved, But it was always there.
The statement as usual was said by one person and snowballed to others who never watched or understood Jordan's play. Also keep in mind jumpshots back then didn't sell tickets MJ spectacularly posterizing other NBA players did. MJ with his instantaneous leaps over his opponents in his early years were just insane. MJ usually shot MR when he couldn't get to the basket..now ask yourself how often could his Airness at will NOT get to the basket, Lol. Even against the BB Pistons MJ average was unreal while being triple teamed and brutalized yet he still had just as many dunks against them as any other team as expected from the GOAT.
I'm surprised to see so many empty seats at the old Chicago Stadium. They had no idea they were witnessing greatness!!Thanks for sharing this incredible footage!!
The crowds starting filling up the Stadium that year but you could buy tickets the day of the game. My friends and I would buy 2nd balcony seats for $7. This was my senior year of high school. Went to 20 games that year. By the following season, the entire season was sold out for the rest of MJ's Chicago career.
Great highlights of this game. The fundamentals of his game is unmatched. In my personal opinion, there no way that anyone definitively can say that there was a better player then Michael Jordan.
Unless theyre millenials and 90s babies who refuse to know any history prior to their birth. Their mentality is that life started when they were born lol smh
you can clearly see how that bulls team can't score a shit even on open jumpers and layups compared to the rest of the league....that is why MJ needs to be MJ even when they drafted Scottie and Grant, they had to improve first to get over that pistons team. But MJ was already MJ even before that!
This is the age, before the titles, that he was ridiculous and there has been no one close to the 86 to 91 Jordan. Not even close. What he did on the defensive end was almost as amazing as he was offensively. Anyone who compares people to him have no clue. If the lebrons and kobes played him at this age range, they would quiver like everyone else did.
@Steve's Fair Game , it's a good example of why kids think lebron is the goat...all they know is today...they don't really know what went down before today.
You just gotta love how so many players on both teams any had reliable mid range jumpers. I mean just solid mechanics, clean releases, bottom of the net pullups. Love 80's NBA
Man oh man was he quick back then. People talk about Iverson crossing him over in the late 90's, well this 80's version of Jordan would not have been crossed over by anyone. WOW!
U mean A.I. set up MJ with the carry over swinging the ball way out in a half-court setting. Tim Hardaway had a bonafide cross over coming down court full speed and hit u 1 time cross over ball on top of the ball no set up
Although he missed the shot, that move @ 20:40 really encapsulates how having great footwork can aid you in defeating any kind of look the defense gives you. No one in the history of the game could defeat traps and double teams the way that guy could. Having elite fundamentals >>>>>>
Crazy...When he 1st arrived @ Carolina he went from a 4.6 (40) yd. Dash to later on improving to a 4.3 (40). He and James Worthy raced in college and Worthy beat him by 1 step
U see how Vlade Divac messed that aspect of our game up and everybody started copying afterwards flopping? A Foreign player brought that flopping stuff lol
How good it must of felt for the Bulls fans to know this new guy won't let their team lose regardless whom their playing.That must of been such a great feeling after all they'd been through back then!
I went to games from his rookie year until I went away to college in '91 and I'll say that NO ONE knew that he'd take the team to the heights he did. Nothing was expected from the team as a whole until they started going to the finals. Until then no one really thought he could do it with all the scoring he did. People had never really seen a team with that lack of balance in scoring thrive.
Great video. These are the games that showed why MJ refilled the entire arena and added more value to his team and to the NBA than he ever could be paid. He put the league back onto the newspapers and into the television coverage. He was a key link in a relay with that Wilt, Kareem, Dr J, Magic/Bird and on through the chain that every player and owner and broadcaster since owes such a big debt. But he was probably the biggest catalyst out of all of them. I don't think there was a more famous athlete or one that was famous for a better reason. Going back through the stats now shows what everyone could see with their eyes at the time. This guy was head and shoulders above his league. Someone will eventually get by each of his stats, that's the way of the world. But it will be a rare person that gets past most of them at once, particularly the per game (not the overall) stats and I doubt even those rare people will get past the impact that he made.
I noted that there's even commentary during the game about what a dump the stadium is (I sorta liked Chicago Stadium but it was truly terrible): "Speaking of hardwood, I don't know if they've varnished this floor since Jerry Sloane."
TIMESTAMPS: 1:12 - Game begins 2:03 - Kiki Vandeweghe wet jumper 2:10 - Clyde Drexler goes baseline for the thunderous 2 hand slam 4:06 - Michael Jordan pull-up rainbow jumper over Clyde Drexler 4:15 - Jerome Kersey jumper 5:46 - Jim Paxson jumper 5:56 - Terry Porter pull-up jumper 7:05 - Jerome Kersey turnaround jumper 7:22 - Michael Jordan post-up baseline fadeaway jumper over Jerome Kersey 8:24 - Michael Jordan physical strong and 1 scoop layup 9:21 - Michael Jordan waves the ball with 1 hand and drills the 1 dribble pull up jumper 10:04 - Clyde Drexler contested jumper over MJ 10:14 - Michael Jordan uses the jab step to put Clyde on his heels, and drills the jumper 10:25 - Kiki Vandeweghe jumper over MJ 11:04 - Kiki Vandeweghe jumper 11:19 - MJ reverse layup with the floor cam angle 13:10 - Michael Jordan takes Clyde Drexler baseline for the emphatic dunk 13:49 - Clyde Drexler nice pull-up jumper off the glass 14:13 - Kiki Vandeweghe jumper 15:49 - Unreal defensive possession by Michael Jordan (plays like this is why he was the DPOY and GOAT perimeter defender) 16:05 - Kiki Vandeweghe jumper 17:24 - Kiki Vandeweghe jumper 18:29 - Michael Jordan jab step & jumper over Clyde Drexler 18:56 - MJ vs 4 defenders in crunch time 20:37 - MJ breaks Clyde's ankles & drops him (missed the contested layup) 21:40 - Michael Jordan dagger jumper Hope you enjoyed the show! 🐐
Yeah he was with a lower body football body in the thighs like Brad Johnson. I played basketball against Brad Johnson in high school he was extremely fundamentally sound a Larry Bird type of game averaging like 21 as a Senior. Needless to say we lossed to them
The man was so fundamentally sound with freakish athleticism and on the fly creativity that’s still unmatched till today with all the so called “most skilled players” of all time playing today. Gimme a f@cking break…..🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
In addition to all of other MJ's innumerable basketball skills, he had superb handles - right or left-handed. Unlike some other all-time NBA greats, Michael is the type of transcendent athlete that would dominate in any era. Without a doubt, the G.O.A.T.
Right...B4 MJ 6'6" basketball players were more stationary swing men/small forwards who dared to handle the ball, and then Scottie coined the 1st Point Forward position i love these conversations
Exactly, that right to left play where he saw the double and then reverse pivoted, dropping the trap defender and ending up in the lane;.. all instinctive and reactive. I am from Chicago and 56 years old, I got to witness it. I recall rushing home from work to catch games, like everyone else in the city. Bulls tickets for home games became the hardest tickets in the nation to get. Imagine the excitement of seeing it all for literally the first time. No one was doing what he was doing or never had before. It became the blueprint every team tried and failed to copy.
The millenials and 90s babies are the only delusionals who would make this a debate since they refuse to learn any history prior to their birth since they think they know everything my brother
Clyde was scared of Jordan, everyone knew it ! Jordan knew it. Clyde was as athletic as Jordan, but didn't have the competitive fight to challenge Jordan mentally. Jordan knew that ! Clyde was a gentleman player, and you have to be an animal player when competing against Jordan. When I say Clyde was scared, I mean he wasn't willing to talk trash to Jordan, or hold him, bump and grind him ? Clyde played against Jordan, but he didn't compete against Jordan.
Frankly, Clyde's game in college was never brought up to be as fundamentally sound as Jordan's was either. Dean Smith was known to drill the importance of fundamentals into all of his players. Hardly the case with Guy Lewis, his college coach at Houston. In fact when an NBA scout saw his collegiate teammate Larry Micheaux, he said "his fundamentals are terrible, his college coach should be shot."
@@Amick44 You got it all backward bro. Guy Lewis coached the Houston Cougars to 3 Final Fours, including 2 trips to the NCAA Finals. He was praised for encouraging his players to play freely. Their phi slamma jamma anthem was the college version of the showtime Lakers. Boring communist Dean Smith held Jordan back. Scolded MJ for doing the rock the cradle dunk. Kept MJ off the sports illustrated magazine cover.
Most of Jordan's goat debate comes from what he did later. Young Jordan was what you wanted to see. He brought it every play every game. The Bulls had some decent usually past their prime players and some barely NBA players. Regardless, you can see they all looked to give the ball up to Michael as soon as they could.
I’m going to give you a stat that you may or may not believe. This is what I call hooping - During the 2015 NBA season Steph Curry averaging 30.1 points per game. Curry made 402 3 point field goals that season. That’s right FOUR HUNDRED AND TWO !!! During Michael Jordan’s 1987 NBA campaign, Jordan averaged 37.1 ppg while only making TWELVE THREE POINT FIELD GOALS THE ENTIRE SEASON. It’s so easy to research -These are FACTS !!!! Michael Jordan was a TRUE basketball GOD …… Now let that soak my friends
interesting stuff bro thats why i feel that the #2s were the most elegant lookn shoes plus he did the most damage in those including all acrobatic mid air moves he did thanx for those stats. But also u must remember Guards defended the whole 94ft. So theres the halfcourt 10secs. To worry about and the 24 sec. Shot clock. Stephs era has the luxury to trot up court without any defenders guarding 94ft. Which makes it easier with more time on the shot clock
He just refused to lose, played entire game unrelentless, making buckets. No rest for opponents:) Fierce and most skilled basketball player of all time. LeBron might be more all around player, but MJ is a winner, fierce, mentally tougher and better player. To think that Shaq had feared him of getting dunked by him at every game...:))
I don'k know that LBJ was a better all around player. LBJ is not a better defender (not even close, actually), definitely not a better scorer, maybe a better passer (I would argue that point because, when asked to do that, MJ delivered), he certainly turned the ball over better, missed more shots, lost more finals, but he has scored more points (he should, he's played in six more seasons than MJ). Nah, I would pick MJ or LBJ every time.
@@Fernando-vg4ym They say so today, but I agree with your arguments, true. I would pick MJ anytime over LeBron, I was lucky to see him play in the 90's, he made me love basketball.
The only thing that separated Jordan from Drexler was his personality, his shoes, his ability to go left, his jump shot, his defense, his freethrows, his ball handling, his clutch mentality, NEVERMIND.....
I see why Jordan was getting physical with his teammates. Bro i was mad in this video for him. Cause when you give your all and it’s still not enough. And your teammates only rely on you and not themselves. You wanna kick they ass. You can only motivate a person through speech so much. I gotta punk you for you to play better then I’ll do that as motivation for you. Show me what you got.
"Speaking of hardwood, I don't know if they've varnished this floor since Jerry Sloane." Holy A+ commentary! Chicago Stadium was the worlds most awesome turd.
Wait, but l thought MJ was a horrible player until Scottie Pippen got there ???. Lol. And imagine what Portland had to be thinking realizing they could have drafted him and paired him with Drexler. Ouch!!!
Broacaster says, "Drexler with 17 points, none in the 4th quarter", meanwhile, Jordan on his way to 50+ points. Dominating, the great, Clyde Drexler, and the game, at both ends. This is when Clyde Drexler took it personal just couldn't do anything about it.
@@anadvocate7310 see what u mean if we keep talkn bout Bron he we keep elevating him. The winner in a battle rap is always the 1 who never responds unless its Nas Ether lol
Nobody is Micheal Jordan...please stop that corny debate....Micheal Jordan early in his career was sick as it get....all the way to the end...but these early games was his coming out party every night...Jordan was a killer
Jordan was so freaking good man…. As good as LeBron James this is mostly only good on one end of the floor. Michael Jordan went just as hard on both ends.
A unknown fact was Drexler asked the Trailblazers to draft Jordan instead of Sam Bowie. That would have been a tandem. That team would have been a great match up to compete against those Laker teams.
MJ had the perfect basketball height 6'6" perfect swag in his walk, he had that look of a boxer/i mean buisness look on his face while shooting free throws sweat running from the forehead. That look of intimidation to opponents b4 tip-off.
Michael was just a freakish competitor from the get go. Truly a one of a kind legend.
Yep...Funny how they say players today are such better athletes...Where’s the ‘bad’ athlete in this video?
@@dc4690 No. The rhetoric now is saying they are more "skilled" per position than back in the day. That's debatable. But very few athletes of today's game could compete physically with any era pre 2004.
What truly made him so unstoppable is that he was Super Athletic while also being fundamentally sound.
Best to ever do it Michael Jeffrey Jordan.
@hillshire 76 My sentiments exactly.
I remember him crediting Dean Smith with teaching him those fundamentals. Kenny Smith said the same thing about Jordan, he always had proper positioning with his body, hands and stance on defense.
@@AHMAD-2324 You're right. The blueprint for him was Dr J (esp ABA era), the original athletic freak who was very good fundamentally. IMO Michael added his savage passion, a better jump shot and lockdown D to improve on the approach.
Say it loud for the ones in the back of the auditorium my brother
@@edmondlau511Right Kenny Smith also said along ur line that MJ was the most fundamentally sound basketball player hes ever seen but because his athleticism was exuded more, his fundamentals were overshadowed.
Couple of observations after watching this. 1st Kiki Vandeweghe was a very good player with a smooth looking jumpshot. He easily could have expanded his range to the 3 point line if he played today. He's one of those really good players from that era you tend to forget about sometimes. 2nd I have never seen a player play with the amount of energy on both ends as a young Michael Jordan. He was literally everywhere dunks, jumpers, layups, getting out in transition, blocks, steals, deflections. A truly one of a kind talent.
Kiki was a hired gun.. People knew he was a tremendous offensive player from his Denver days.. Just couldn' or wouldn't try to guard anybody lol
Yeah Kiki was a solid player. That jumper was insane and consistent. I think he played on the league for 13 years. He clocked over sixteen thousand points.
I think that is the main difference between young Jordan's game and the '90s Jordan everyone recognizes more. I don't think it is humanly possible to play with that kind of energy over a full career so he dialed it back a bit in the later years and played a craftier, more polished outside game while still attacking when possible or necessary.
Kiki was ALWAYS on offense. One of the best shooting plumbers in NBA history!
Non of you guys commented on Kiki's low top Chucks he played with... playing an NBA game with these on your feet must be hard af...
There are no games in the modern NBA like this!
None
This game is SO compelling!!! Portland had so many shooters/scorers AND it didn't matter. JORDAN!!!!!
Exactly
Exactly! This was Jordan with no help with the bulls playing Porter, Drexler, kiki! And they won!
Jordan was best scorer with oakley and paxon best two supporting at that time. They were playing a loaded team with Porter, Drexlar and kiki. They beat them. Paxon and oakly not beating drexlar and porter or kiki in 2 v2 game. Jordan won game on all aspects of defense offense. Never seen lebron beat a talented team like that alone.
Looks like MJ carrying his team to VICTORY over a strong team that would make it to the finals in 3 season after this.. Where was Scottie Pippen? That's right not drafted not molded and motivated by the 🏀🐐 YET!! FACTS 💯
I see hes wearing the (2s) in this video so it had to have been '86-'87 season and Scottie was drafted in '87-'88 season
Jordan just epic. No other word to describe how majestic he was.
I like that...majestic
Michael was simply amazing you forget just how good he was when he was young until you rewatch these highlights he was a walking highlight film spectacular
Yes indeed
I wondered why they called him black cat. That is answered now he was all over the court with swiftness.
I also loved how he was the best player with the ball in hand but he rarely had it. He didn’t run point he caught the ball looked for openings, if there weren’t any he passed immediately. Great on both ends. Wow!
Those were the best days for basketball. I sure miss them
Absolutely...High school Class Of '87 baby. "ALL THE WAY TO HEAVEN '87
Jordan game was just so captivating!
Right compared to lebron's game which is just him running into defenders knocking them down.
Mike is just unreal
Straight Facts!
I saw him play 2wice 1 was The Buzz Peterson Classic summer of '88 in Asheville, NC @ the Civic Center scoring 63pts. and in '97 scoring 27pts. In the old Charlotte Coliseum against the Hornets. Totally different watchin him in person. Watching him jump live for a dunk is like watching a missile take off in the sky waaaay different leaving u in awe and jaw dropping
From the beginning to the end Jordan was just on another level the greatest to ever do it
Yeah man and my favorite player ever is Magic Johnson but i have to agree bro
Love what you do bro. We need people like you to spread the truth: Michael Jordan is the Greatest of all Time.
Most of us know. Just that some LeBron, Kareem and Wilt fans wanna squawk.
Michael Jordan. The total package. Skills/athleticism/agility/talent AND the laser focus/will/killer instinct mentality that very few NBAers have. Kobe had it. The current era of NBA players don't have it. Not just the talent but also the mental fortitude to end NBA lives! Earvin "Magic" Johnson is my favorite player, I'm a big fan of Kareem, Larry, Julius, Bill Russell, Jerry West, Shaquille, Tim Duncan, the rest of the Original Dream Team roster (maybe not Christian Laettner so much) and others to include Steph Curry, Jayson Tatum & Jaylen Brown. None of them and no other NBAer has displayed what Michael Jordan displayed on the basketball court. NOT the total package, night in/night out for the full 82-plus. Jordan's entry into the league was in the middle of Magic & Larry. Those 2 breathed life into the NBA and nobody beat them. Hell Magic won championships at the high school, college & NBA level in a span of 4yrs. Who does that? Not even Michael but after seeing Michael play you understand the difference. LeBron can be a fan's favorite player but more total package than Michael? That would be Kobe next and that's distant at best.
If theres one thing i took away from this video its that MJ was insanely fast and a superb defender. That speed though...
insanely athletic also
When he 1st arrived @ Carolina he ran a 4.6 (40) yd. dash and had improved it to a 4.3 (40) by the time he left. He and James Worthy raced and Worthy beat him by 1 step.
How many jump shots did Jordan make? "MJ didn't have a jump shot when he came into the NBA" is one of the greatest myths or lies in sports.
Had to find something but MJ Midrange was already some he can used
Exactly! His first brush with fame was a NCAA Championship winning Jump Shot!! The Olympic Gold was primarily MJ shooting Jump SHOTS! In the Olympics was when I first said to myself, he is releasing that shot higher than I have noticed anyone else release their shot. He always had a sweet stroke. Maybe 🤔 he improved, But it was always there.
@@herbertnelsonjr.9899I was just about to say that 😂
The statement as usual was said by one person and snowballed to others who never watched or understood Jordan's play. Also keep in mind jumpshots back then didn't sell tickets MJ spectacularly posterizing other NBA players did. MJ with his instantaneous leaps over his opponents in his early years were just insane. MJ usually shot MR when he couldn't get to the basket..now ask yourself how often could his Airness at will NOT get to the basket, Lol. Even against the BB Pistons MJ average was unreal while being triple teamed and brutalized yet he still had just as many dunks against them as any other team as expected from the GOAT.
MJ had the highest 3P% in the ACC(college).
I'm surprised to see so many empty seats at the old Chicago Stadium. They had no idea they were witnessing greatness!!Thanks for sharing this incredible footage!!
Quintin Dailey was tough to, wish he could have stayed clean. What a jump shot, wow !
The crowds starting filling up the Stadium that year but you could buy tickets the day of the game. My friends and I would buy 2nd balcony seats for $7. This was my senior year of high school. Went to 20 games that year. By the following season, the entire season was sold out for the rest of MJ's Chicago career.
Crazy what 1 man can do to make an impact
Clyde could never check Air Jordan. Nobody could! GOAT
Great highlights of this game.
The fundamentals of his game is unmatched. In my personal opinion, there no way that anyone definitively can say that there was a better player then Michael Jordan.
Unless theyre millenials and 90s babies who refuse to know any history prior to their birth. Their mentality is that life started when they were born lol smh
you can clearly see how that bulls team can't score a shit even on open jumpers and layups compared to the rest of the league....that is why MJ needs to be MJ even when they drafted Scottie and Grant, they had to improve first to get over that pistons team. But MJ was already MJ even before that!
This is the age, before the titles, that he was ridiculous and there has been no one close to the 86 to 91 Jordan. Not even close. What he did on the defensive end was almost as amazing as he was offensively. Anyone who compares people to him have no clue. If the lebrons and kobes played him at this age range, they would quiver like everyone else did.
Unless it was my SHOWTIME Lakers up and down the court baby, but MJ is the Greatest basketball player to ever live.. EVER
Mj is a alien 👽 …… How can u compare ANY player to this man!!!?🤷🏿
I miss Steve ‘snapper’ Jones basketball commentary.
This game is better than any games today.
Preeeeeeeeach!
Yep, they actually tried had to win the games. Real competitors.
there is no way ja morant can match michael"s game like this!
@Steve's Fair Game , it's a good example of why kids think lebron is the goat...all they know is today...they don't really know what went down before today.
Young MJ was relentless. He never got tired and he wasn't dealing was as many injuries as in the 90s so his athletic ability was out of this world
What injuries in the 90's. Mike had literally 1 season where he played only 18 games. That was season 2. What exactly are you referring to?
Michael Jordan is not human in this game!
You just gotta love how so many players on both teams any had reliable mid range jumpers. I mean just solid mechanics, clean releases, bottom of the net pullups. Love 80's NBA
Man oh man was he quick back then. People talk about Iverson crossing him over in the late 90's, well this 80's version of Jordan would not have been crossed over by anyone. WOW!
Tells you how good Iverson was also !
U mean A.I. set up MJ with the carry over swinging the ball way out in a half-court setting. Tim Hardaway had a bonafide cross over coming down court full speed and hit u 1 time cross over ball on top of the ball no set up
AI crossover is traveling all day.
And Jordan didnt carry the ball. His moves clean and legal.
Damn MJ already had his fadeaway...on point like dat...ok...
Although he missed the shot, that move @ 20:40 really encapsulates how having great footwork can aid you in defeating any kind of look the defense gives you. No one in the history of the game could defeat traps and double teams the way that guy could. Having elite fundamentals >>>>>>
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Agreed. I kept reviewing that move over and over again.
He was able to pull that turn around move off due to his huge hands, Idk if u have ever seen how big MJ'S hands are but there big asf
Loved listening to Steve “Snapper” Jones
That Jordan first step was unstoppable
Crazy...When he 1st arrived @ Carolina he went from a 4.6 (40) yd. Dash to later on improving to a 4.3 (40). He and James Worthy raced in college and Worthy beat him by 1 step
Not only that. That first step set up his jab step that opened him up for jumpers.
Kiki Vandeweghe was about as pure a shooter as there ever was.
11.19 that layup took no effort from the man then he turns around in godly defensive mode, fkn unreal truly lol
Seriously that was insane never seen that move before.
one word best descrIbes mj? RELENTLESS!
This is real doll back-in-the-day Drexler vs Jordan what a game way better than junk we got now😉😇
Didn't see anyone jacking up wild 3s ! And no one was flopping.🏀
U see how Vlade Divac messed that aspect of our game up and everybody started copying afterwards flopping? A Foreign player brought that flopping stuff lol
How good it must of felt for the Bulls fans to know this new guy won't let their team lose regardless whom their playing.That must of been such a great feeling after all they'd been through back then!
I was there during that era, it was different for sure. Every game you saw him play was exciting like nothing we'd ever seen before.
I went to games from his rookie year until I went away to college in '91 and I'll say that NO ONE knew that he'd take the team to the heights he did. Nothing was expected from the team as a whole until they started going to the finals. Until then no one really thought he could do it with all the scoring he did. People had never really seen a team with that lack of balance in scoring thrive.
MJ with the line up. Lookin fresh.
Yezzir
This blazers team had some shooters. Paxson, Kiki, Drexler, Porter.
Great video. These are the games that showed why MJ refilled the entire arena and added more value to his team and to the NBA than he ever could be paid.
He put the league back onto the newspapers and into the television coverage. He was a key link in a relay with that Wilt, Kareem, Dr J, Magic/Bird and on through the chain that every player and owner and broadcaster since owes such a big debt. But he was probably the biggest catalyst out of all of them. I don't think there was a more famous athlete or one that was famous for a better reason.
Going back through the stats now shows what everyone could see with their eyes at the time. This guy was head and shoulders above his league. Someone will eventually get by each of his stats, that's the way of the world. But it will be a rare person that gets past most of them at once, particularly the per game (not the overall) stats and I doubt even those rare people will get past the impact that he made.
I noted that there's even commentary during the game about what a dump the stadium is (I sorta liked Chicago Stadium but it was truly terrible): "Speaking of hardwood, I don't know if they've varnished this floor since Jerry Sloane."
Is this the guy that they say would be an average player in today's NBA?
😂 right!! Morons!
Jordan would average 50 in today's NBA
Blindfolded
TIMESTAMPS:
1:12 - Game begins
2:03 - Kiki Vandeweghe wet jumper
2:10 - Clyde Drexler goes baseline for the thunderous 2 hand slam
4:06 - Michael Jordan pull-up rainbow jumper over Clyde Drexler
4:15 - Jerome Kersey jumper
5:46 - Jim Paxson jumper
5:56 - Terry Porter pull-up jumper
7:05 - Jerome Kersey turnaround jumper
7:22 - Michael Jordan post-up baseline fadeaway jumper over Jerome Kersey
8:24 - Michael Jordan physical strong and 1 scoop layup
9:21 - Michael Jordan waves the ball with 1 hand and drills the 1 dribble pull up jumper
10:04 - Clyde Drexler contested jumper over MJ
10:14 - Michael Jordan uses the jab step to put Clyde on his heels, and drills the jumper
10:25 - Kiki Vandeweghe jumper over MJ
11:04 - Kiki Vandeweghe jumper
11:19 - MJ reverse layup with the floor cam angle
13:10 - Michael Jordan takes Clyde Drexler baseline for the emphatic dunk
13:49 - Clyde Drexler nice pull-up jumper off the glass
14:13 - Kiki Vandeweghe jumper
15:49 - Unreal defensive possession by Michael Jordan (plays like this is why he was the DPOY and GOAT perimeter defender)
16:05 - Kiki Vandeweghe jumper
17:24 - Kiki Vandeweghe jumper
18:29 - Michael Jordan jab step & jumper over Clyde Drexler
18:56 - MJ vs 4 defenders in crunch time
20:37 - MJ breaks Clyde's ankles & drops him (missed the contested layup)
21:40 - Michael Jordan dagger jumper
Hope you enjoyed the show! 🐐
Ur the best bro!!
You forgot 7:46 WTF?... lol
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@@jimvick8397 true. that is a super phenomenal layup
Legendary 😎
Kiki was nasty. And you know in 4th quarter Black Jesus is gonna take over. #GOAT
A lot of people don't know he had a good jumpshot.
Kiki was a scoring machine. He was a monster at UCLA.
Yeah he was with a lower body football body in the thighs like Brad Johnson. I played basketball against Brad Johnson in high school he was extremely fundamentally sound a Larry Bird type of game averaging like 21 as a Senior. Needless to say we lossed to them
@@ericjordan6059always did. He just expanded his range and used it more over time.
Man.. u gotta love Jordan Energy!
He was a walking movie.
The man was so fundamentally sound with freakish athleticism and on the fly creativity that’s still unmatched till today with all the so called “most skilled players” of all time playing today. Gimme a f@cking break…..🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
Some of you are not a fan as much as you think you are because MJ came into the league with the midrange jumper.
In addition to all of other MJ's innumerable basketball skills, he had superb handles - right or left-handed. Unlike some other all-time NBA greats, Michael is the type of transcendent athlete that would dominate in any era. Without a doubt, the G.O.A.T.
Right...B4 MJ 6'6" basketball players were more stationary swing men/small forwards who dared to handle the ball, and then Scottie coined the 1st Point Forward position i love these conversations
Exactly, that right to left play where he saw the double and then reverse pivoted, dropping the trap defender and ending up in the lane;.. all instinctive and reactive.
I am from Chicago and 56 years old, I got to witness it. I recall rushing home from work to catch games, like everyone else in the city. Bulls tickets for home games became the hardest tickets in the nation to get. Imagine the excitement of seeing it all for literally the first time. No one was doing what he was doing or never had before. It became the blueprint every team tried and failed to copy.
Remember just getting cable and watching this game live as a 7 year old. Great job, sir.
thoze bullz teams wit doug as tha coach n tha oG chicago stadium were truly sum fy ass daze to B a-damn-live mane ✌🏿
people forget how good kiki vanderweghe was
I'm currently deployed with the Army, but this one much needed to help me relax after a long duty! Quit making us wait so long, 😊 please!
@11:18
MJ made that layup look so easy…
People can debate who's the best, who's the goat... To me MJ is the top player ever to play basketball.
The millenials and 90s babies are the only delusionals who would make this a debate since they refuse to learn any history prior to their birth since they think they know everything my brother
Clyde was scared of Jordan, everyone knew it ! Jordan knew it. Clyde was as athletic as Jordan, but didn't have the competitive fight to challenge Jordan mentally. Jordan knew that ! Clyde was a gentleman player, and you have to be an animal player when competing against Jordan. When I say Clyde was scared, I mean he wasn't willing to talk trash to Jordan, or hold him, bump and grind him ? Clyde played against Jordan, but he didn't compete against Jordan.
Right. How do u go from a Phi Slama Jama Beast in college to a gentleman player in the NBA? Lol
Frankly, Clyde's game in college was never brought up to be as fundamentally sound as Jordan's was either. Dean Smith was known to drill the importance of fundamentals into all of his players. Hardly the case with Guy Lewis, his college coach at Houston.
In fact when an NBA scout saw his collegiate teammate Larry Micheaux, he said "his fundamentals are terrible, his college coach should be shot."
@@Amick44 You got it all backward bro. Guy Lewis coached the Houston Cougars to 3 Final Fours, including 2 trips to the NCAA Finals. He was praised for encouraging his players to play freely. Their phi slamma jamma anthem was the college version of the showtime Lakers. Boring communist Dean Smith held Jordan back. Scolded MJ for doing the rock the cradle dunk. Kept MJ off the sports illustrated magazine cover.
Most of Jordan's goat debate comes from what he did later. Young Jordan was what you wanted to see. He brought it every play every game. The Bulls had some decent usually past their prime players and some barely NBA players. Regardless, you can see they all looked to give the ball up to Michael as soon as they could.
Jordan average was 37.6 back then with few three point attempts, let that sink in 🤦
I’m going to give you a stat that you may or may not believe. This is what I call hooping -
During the 2015 NBA season Steph Curry averaging 30.1 points per game. Curry made 402 3 point field goals that season. That’s right FOUR HUNDRED AND TWO !!!
During Michael Jordan’s 1987 NBA campaign, Jordan averaged 37.1 ppg while only making TWELVE THREE POINT FIELD GOALS THE ENTIRE SEASON. It’s so easy to research -These are FACTS !!!!
Michael Jordan was a TRUE basketball GOD ……
Now let that soak my friends
MJ didn't NEED to shoot three pointers.
interesting stuff bro thats why i feel that the #2s were the most elegant lookn shoes plus he did the most damage in those including all acrobatic mid air moves he did thanx for those stats. But also u must remember Guards defended the whole 94ft. So theres the halfcourt 10secs. To worry about and the 24 sec. Shot clock. Stephs era has the luxury to trot up court without any defenders guarding 94ft. Which makes it easier with more time on the shot clock
I've been telling people since MJ was at North Carolina he could always shoot he was so good he shot just got better and better and better
He just refused to lose, played entire game unrelentless, making buckets. No rest for opponents:) Fierce and most skilled basketball player of all time. LeBron might be more all around player, but MJ is a winner, fierce, mentally tougher and better player. To think that Shaq had feared him of getting dunked by him at every game...:))
I don'k know that LBJ was a better all around player. LBJ is not a better defender (not even close, actually), definitely not a better scorer, maybe a better passer (I would argue that point because, when asked to do that, MJ delivered), he certainly turned the ball over better, missed more shots, lost more finals, but he has scored more points (he should, he's played in six more seasons than MJ). Nah, I would pick MJ or LBJ every time.
I disagree wholeheartedly about LBJ being more all around. Not even close.
@@Fernando-vg4ym They say so today, but I agree with your arguments, true. I would pick MJ anytime over LeBron, I was lucky to see him play in the 90's, he made me love basketball.
Labron James better all round😂.. what a 🤣 joke labron James isn't close to Jordan
kiki was so solid . Blast from the past
Damn Jordan .
They tried to compare Drexler to Michael. He has proven it over and over. Who the best of the two. Our bloodline!!! The Real Baby Jordan 🏀 Jersey Born
The only thing that separated Jordan from Drexler was his personality, his shoes, his ability to go left, his jump shot, his defense, his freethrows, his ball handling, his clutch mentality, NEVERMIND.....
I like ur style of comedy the way ur making a point by saying theres no comparison basically
That was nasty @ 8:24...
I see why Jordan was getting physical with his teammates. Bro i was mad in this video for him. Cause when you give your all and it’s still not enough. And your teammates only rely on you and not themselves. You wanna kick they ass. You can only motivate a person through speech so much. I gotta punk you for you to play better then I’ll do that as motivation for you. Show me what you got.
21:30 reminds me when Mick Jagger went on stage next after watching James Brown open for the Stones
"Speaking of hardwood, I don't know if they've varnished this floor since Jerry Sloane." Holy A+ commentary! Chicago Stadium was the worlds most awesome turd.
I would add "21:50 - absurd clean block mistaken for a foul because of MJ velocity" to that list
37.6 ppg shheeesh
Shooting 0.8 3-point attempts per game
Wait, but l thought MJ was a horrible player until Scottie Pippen got there ???. Lol. And imagine what Portland had to be thinking realizing they could have drafted him and paired him with Drexler. Ouch!!!
These videos dog!! On point like icicles
WOW! thanks.
Interesting….I haven’t heard Pippens name yet and it is half way through the third quarter.
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I always said during Micheal Jordans career......number 2 was always Clyde The Glide Always!!!! This game how ever was epic
Broacaster says, "Drexler with 17 points, none in the 4th quarter", meanwhile, Jordan on his way to 50+ points. Dominating, the great, Clyde Drexler, and the game, at both ends. This is when Clyde Drexler took it personal just couldn't do anything about it.
Hahahaha Straight Facts!
Just watching the GOAT doing GOAT things
Dave Corzine, Charles Oakley, and John Paxon , that’s what MJ has to work with, and Collins 😅
Lebron can’t touch the greatness of MJ!!!
Stop worry about Lebron and enjoy MJ23 feat capabilities
@@anadvocate7310 stfu ..fuck Lebron he shouldn’t be mentioned in the same breath as the goat
@@anadvocate7310 see what u mean if we keep talkn bout Bron he we keep elevating him. The winner in a battle rap is always the 1 who never responds unless its Nas Ether lol
Nobody is Micheal Jordan...please stop that corny debate....Micheal Jordan early in his career was sick as it get....all the way to the end...but these early games was his coming out party every night...Jordan was a killer
Superman. Every night.
Jordan was so freaking good man…. As good as LeBron James this is mostly only good on one end of the floor. Michael Jordan went just as hard on both ends.
Clyde from Htown he bows down to no Man 🤬🤬🤬
12:14 announcer speaking about defense against jordan ".....a fadeaway is going to work in your favor." 🤣😂🤣😂
jordan was like a panther
Clyde got cold, mj kept scoring. They couldn't stop each other. Great game
The GOAT the will to win he refuse to lose.
Clyde was definitely a member of the Justice League but...well, Michael was the Big Gun, himself.
A unknown fact was Drexler asked the Trailblazers to draft Jordan instead of Sam Bowie. That would have been a tandem. That team would have been a great match up to compete against those Laker teams.
Hate to think
They were both big shooting guards, Clyde 6-7, Jordan 6-6. Whose gonna be point? Thats why they chose Bowie
@@cosmo1eleven855Jordan could play point
Everybody be sleepin on Kinky Vandeweghe
Was that “the chosen one “ ?
Damn Kikis on fire.Did he miss
The ball handling @20:40 had Drexler falling on his face
MJ had the perfect basketball height 6'6" perfect swag in his walk, he had that look of a boxer/i mean buisness look on his face while shooting free throws sweat running from the forehead. That look of intimidation to opponents b4 tip-off.
WOW 2:44 MJ stuffed! Don’t see that very often!😮