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Jordan savior Scottie Pippen scored Zero points helping Jordan improved to 2-9 in the playoffs. Let's all thank Ingrate Scottie Pippen for helping Michael Jordan improved to 2-9 in the playoffs because of his phenomenal Zero point performance. 🔥🔥🔥🔥
@@Blackllung People who make the 1-9 argument probably haven’t looked at the box scores of the 1988 first round vs Cleveland. Michael Jordan averaged 45.2 points per game on 55.9% field goal percentage, and a 63.2% true shooting percentage in a series where he took 152 field goal attempts, and 213 shots total. He also averaged 5.4 rebounds and 4.8 assists. He also did this in a series where the second scorer on his team, Charles Oakley averaged 10.8 points per game on 46.9% from the field, and 50.6% true shooting, though he did average 13.2 rebounds per game. Scottie averaged 10.6 points per game on 47.1% from the field, and had a true shooting percentage of 49.4%. By contrast, Cleveland had five players get more points per game than Oakley (shoutout to Mark Price for getting a higher true shooting percentage than even MJ did) and technically all of them shot more efficiently than Oakley and Pippen too, Oakley was only 0.1% lower than Ron Harper, but still. Shoutout to Horace Grant for putting up better efficiency than some of the Cavs, but it was on 8.8 points per game. The only playoff series performance of more points per game is Jerry West in the 1965 Western Conference Finals. There are only three performances in the playoffs that feature as many field goal attempts, and as high a true shooting percentage: Kareem in the second round of the 1977 playoffs, Kawhi Leonard in the second round of the 2019 playoffs, and Donovan Mitchell in round one of the 2020 playoffs. None of those guys had a second option who scored less points per game than the other team’s fifth highest scorer on rather average efficiency. The 88 Cavs may not have been amazing or the best version of themselves yet, but MJ regardless had possibly one of the greatest playoff series ever, and because it’s a first round series, it’s not talked about much. This series in which he did all that with a rookie Pippen, Charles Oakley, and a rookie Horace Grant as his three best teammates should shatter the notion that he couldn’t win a playoff series without Pippen fully developed. No disrespect to the rest of his teammates who developed and helped him win championships, but I would argue all of that.
@@fortynights1513excellently said, MJ his first 3-4 years was putting up insane numbers in the playoffs, dropping 40 every other game. It’s just crazy to me how people act as if he was underperforming or sum when he was losing early in his career.
@@Blackllung To be fair to those making the claim, the team around him likely did improve from the first three years (I’ve heard that’s the case defensively), and Cleveland in 88 was worse than the Celtics, and likely Milwaukee in 85 as well. But that doesn’t mean he needed a second all star player to win a playoff series. Also, you tell me, but could it be argued that the 88 first round was his best playoff series other than the finals?
jaboo82681 Pippen averaged 8 ppg. Who was he scaring?! 😂 I Love Pippen but he didn’t become the hall of fame player we all know and love until until 1990/91
I understand that the Cavs were not the Pistons of the 1980s or the Knicks of the 1990s, but watching these highlights, where is the vaunted defensive intensity that old timers keep talking about? Jordan is playing against Craig Ehlo--not exactly a scary defender--and this all looks about the same at NBA action in 2021...
Ron Harper was the main defender on Jordan in this series. He was one of the best perimeter defenders in the Nba,and part of the Bulls second 3peat roster. In terms of physicallity,this wasn't a physical series,but the Cavs were a better team than the Bulls,and same can be said in 1989. They lost both time in the final game of the series with Jordan putting up amazing performances.
Fair enough, but my main point remains, apart from Pitons and Knicks, the physical level of play in 80s-90s basketball is exaggerated...ill take the defense in Celtics vs Heat over these teams...
@@SapphicTwist Indeed,and that's understandable. People tend to be biased about things they witnessed. People nowadays say defense wasn't good in the 80s and 90s,and folks from back then say it was really physical and defense was better. I like to think the truth is something in between. The game allowed a lot more contact,and just like there were series like this one,there were some really physical too.
First, you have to remember that those are highlights. You have to watch the whole game to see the physicality of the defense played back then compared to now. Second, a key thing to understand about the Cavs approach to defending Jordan is that Lenny Wilkens mostly chose to defend Jordan with single coverage. He rarely double-teamed him, with his philosophy being that if they did that, Jordan would get his points but they'd keep the others in check. Over time, [the playoff series in 1988, 89, 92, and 93], this philosophy was proved ineffective, and it's a big reason why Jordan consistently torched the Cavs when Wilkens was their head coach. The revisionist narrative is that Harper defended Jordan more than Ehlo. This isn't true, and in order to see that you have to actually watch the games. Wilkens had Ehlo guard Jordan most of the time because he was a good defender [Jordan himself said this *at the time*, but nobody, Harper or otherwise, could handle Jordan one-on-one without help] and because he *wasn't* as good offensively as Harper, and Wilkens figured that if he had Harper on Jordan primarily, Harper would suffer offensively and get into foul trouble. However, he would have Harper guard Jordan to switch things up and give Jordan different looks. The truth is, and again this is *crystal* clear when you watch the whole games, Jordan absolutely *annihilated* single defensive coverage because no one guy could guard him one-on-one. Contrast this with the way the Pistons defended Jordan in the playoff series in 88, 89, and 90. Sure, they had Joe Dumars as the guy primarily defending him, but they *constantly* double and even triple-teamed him to force him to either take low-percentage shots or to get him to get the ball out of his hands, and they were *extremely* physical with him. But if you only watch Jordan highlights of games against Detroit you don't get a sense of it. In order to see it you have to watch the whole games.
Great defensive players like Jordan and Rodman will excel in any era, but the thuggishness of the Pistons and Knicks' team defense would get torched in the modern NBA. What, you're going to hang around the paint waiting to decapitate anybody who drives to the basket, a la Jordan Rules? Fine. We'll just shoot uncontested threes all game long and send you to the showers post haste...
like when he made it into a weapon? im positive, it was around the time he came back from baseball... bcuz Post baseball jordan .. was fadeaways and jumpshots with IQ Pre baseball jordan was everything ...
Jordan savior Scottie Pippen scored Zero points helping Jordan improved to 2-9 in the playoffs.
Let's all thank Ingrate Scottie Pippen for helping Michael Jordan improved to 2-9 in the playoffs because of his phenomenal Zero point performance. 🔥🔥🔥🔥
You really can’t even explain how bad the 1-9 argument is in a single sentence, or even 2…
@@Blackllung People who make the 1-9 argument probably haven’t looked at the box scores of the 1988 first round vs Cleveland.
Michael Jordan averaged 45.2 points per game on 55.9% field goal percentage, and a 63.2% true shooting percentage in a series where he took 152 field goal attempts, and 213 shots total.
He also averaged 5.4 rebounds and 4.8 assists.
He also did this in a series where the second scorer on his team, Charles Oakley averaged 10.8 points per game on 46.9% from the field, and 50.6% true shooting, though he did average 13.2 rebounds per game.
Scottie averaged 10.6 points per game on 47.1% from the field, and had a true shooting percentage of 49.4%.
By contrast, Cleveland had five players get more points per game than Oakley (shoutout to Mark Price for getting a higher true shooting percentage than even MJ did) and technically all of them shot more efficiently than Oakley and Pippen too, Oakley was only 0.1% lower than Ron Harper, but still.
Shoutout to Horace Grant for putting up better efficiency than some of the Cavs, but it was on 8.8 points per game.
The only playoff series performance of more points per game is Jerry West in the 1965 Western Conference Finals.
There are only three performances in the playoffs that feature as many field goal attempts, and as high a true shooting percentage:
Kareem in the second round of the 1977 playoffs, Kawhi Leonard in the second round of the 2019 playoffs, and Donovan Mitchell in round one of the 2020 playoffs.
None of those guys had a second option who scored less points per game than the other team’s fifth highest scorer on rather average efficiency.
The 88 Cavs may not have been amazing or the best version of themselves yet, but MJ regardless had possibly one of the greatest playoff series ever, and because it’s a first round series, it’s not talked about much.
This series in which he did all that with a rookie Pippen, Charles Oakley, and a rookie Horace Grant as his three best teammates should shatter the notion that he couldn’t win a playoff series without Pippen fully developed.
No disrespect to the rest of his teammates who developed and helped him win championships, but I would argue all of that.
@@fortynights1513excellently said, MJ his first 3-4 years was putting up insane numbers in the playoffs, dropping 40 every other game. It’s just crazy to me how people act as if he was underperforming or sum when he was losing early in his career.
@@Blackllung To be fair to those making the claim, the team around him likely did improve from the first three years (I’ve heard that’s the case defensively), and Cleveland in 88 was worse than the Celtics, and likely Milwaukee in 85 as well.
But that doesn’t mean he needed a second all star player to win a playoff series.
Also, you tell me, but could it be argued that the 88 first round was his best playoff series other than the finals?
@@fortynights1513 definitely, the only other one I would put up there with it is his series in 92 against the Heat, averaged 45 on 60% for the series
But let MJ haters say it, they won this series because of Scottie Pippen smh.
jaboo82681 Pippen averaged 8 ppg. Who was he scaring?! 😂 I Love Pippen but he didn’t become the hall of fame player we all know and love until until 1990/91
@@Blackisbeautifull96refer to game 5 lmao
I understand that the Cavs were not the Pistons of the 1980s or the Knicks of the 1990s, but watching these highlights, where is the vaunted defensive intensity that old timers keep talking about? Jordan is playing against Craig Ehlo--not exactly a scary defender--and this all looks about the same at NBA action in 2021...
Ron Harper was the main defender on Jordan in this series. He was one of the best perimeter defenders in the Nba,and part of the Bulls second 3peat roster. In terms of physicallity,this wasn't a physical series,but the Cavs were a better team than the Bulls,and same can be said in 1989. They lost both time in the final game of the series with Jordan putting up amazing performances.
Fair enough, but my main point remains, apart from Pitons and Knicks, the physical level of play in 80s-90s basketball is exaggerated...ill take the defense in Celtics vs Heat over these teams...
@@SapphicTwist Indeed,and that's understandable. People tend to be biased about things they witnessed. People nowadays say defense wasn't good in the 80s and 90s,and folks from back then say it was really physical and defense was better. I like to think the truth is something in between. The game allowed a lot more contact,and just like there were series like this one,there were some really physical too.
First, you have to remember that those are highlights. You have to watch the whole game to see the physicality of the defense played back then compared to now. Second, a key thing to understand about the Cavs approach to defending Jordan is that Lenny Wilkens mostly chose to defend Jordan with single coverage. He rarely double-teamed him, with his philosophy being that if they did that, Jordan would get his points but they'd keep the others in check.
Over time, [the playoff series in 1988, 89, 92, and 93], this philosophy was proved ineffective, and it's a big reason why Jordan consistently torched the Cavs when Wilkens was their head coach.
The revisionist narrative is that Harper defended Jordan more than Ehlo. This isn't true, and in order to see that you have to actually watch the games. Wilkens had Ehlo guard Jordan most of the time because he was a good defender [Jordan himself said this *at the time*, but nobody, Harper or otherwise, could handle Jordan one-on-one without help] and because he *wasn't* as good offensively as Harper, and Wilkens figured that if he had Harper on Jordan primarily, Harper would suffer offensively and get into foul trouble. However, he would have Harper guard Jordan to switch things up and give Jordan different looks. The truth is, and again this is *crystal* clear when you watch the whole games, Jordan absolutely *annihilated* single defensive coverage because no one guy could guard him one-on-one.
Contrast this with the way the Pistons defended Jordan in the playoff series in 88, 89, and 90. Sure, they had Joe Dumars as the guy primarily defending him, but they *constantly* double and even triple-teamed him to force him to either take low-percentage shots or to get him to get the ball out of his hands, and they were *extremely* physical with him. But if you only watch Jordan highlights of games against Detroit you don't get a sense of it. In order to see it you have to watch the whole games.
Love that analysis. These are what hoops convos should look like @@SECRETARIATguy224
2:49 goodness gracious that’s how you clean glass
When Jordan went down that entire stadium of fan's. Almost shit a brick😂😂😂
It`s a shame that we cannot see whole game somewhere on yt....looked everywhere and nothing!
Thanks for this video though!
Try to look now, there is a video of that complete game
He had to act like his knee hurt so he can debut the new colorways on the JORDAN 3s
Masterclass performance by MJ
1 hand rebound! G.O.A.T! thanks 4 the upload dude, truly appreciated. keep em comin, i'll b watchin LoL :D
HE'S STAYING IN THE GAME! non of this paul pierce nonsense
Great defensive players like Jordan and Rodman will excel in any era, but the thuggishness of the Pistons and Knicks' team defense would get torched in the modern NBA. What, you're going to hang around the paint waiting to decapitate anybody who drives to the basket, a la Jordan Rules? Fine. We'll just shoot uncontested threes all game long and send you to the showers post haste...
The real iron mike.
He was the best as a rookie
@dimedropper1992
yea man not to mention jordan is far far far superior player at every aspects of the game.
You know your the goat when they replay your rebound 😭
el mejor de todos los tiempos
So many highlights in 1 game...
I basically agree. But whats amazing to me is how current elite defenders cover the entire court, not just inside the arc...
Almost every type of highlight represented here by the goat. Just don’t start calling this the broken leg game
3:10
great upload balthus! i will include highlights from this in my new video :)
Them fans almost shit a brick😂
a great way to start a playoff series
Wish I could grab a board with one hand. :b
What year did Michael start the post up fade away jump shot?
like when he made it into a weapon? im positive, it was around the time he came back from baseball...
bcuz Post baseball jordan .. was fadeaways and jumpshots with IQ
Pre baseball jordan was everything ...
such poor defense for a playoff game...great performance nonetheless