How he is Croatian legend when his father was Serbian and he born and grown up and make carier and went to NBA as Yugoslavian? Becouse of last two years of his life? When he supported natzi regime in Croatia? Ok. Than he is Croatian, or much precise - NewCroatian :)
@@MrQuixoticer Classic thinking of Serbian extremist based on lies, propaganda and myths.. yugoslavia is a non-existent country that had an expiration date until communist dictator died and afther that started to fall apart, because it was rotten regime.. And the only regime that caused war and big suffering is the Serbian criminal-chetnik-fasizm regime of your dictator Milosevic.. You can eat yourself by jealousy and evil, but Dražen Petrović is a Croat and whole world know it except bunch of you serbian and Putin lovers extremists...
@@MrQuixoticer and you are a new debil... the same thing is for Djoković i Tesla? How they are a Serbian?!?!?!?! You said natzi regime in Croatia hahahahaha... Now I know from which part of worldu you are (Serbia or Russia) hahahaha
@@makimarinovic1315 ne razumes nista ! jordan je daleko bolji igrac od pokojnog petrovica , jordan je bio kompletan igrac !!! virtuoza !! spretniji je bio dakle ne tvrdite ono sto nemate pojma , svi znaju da je jordan bio bolji ! nema govora !! bez obzira sto je drazen bio tad najbolji evropski kosarkas !
@@makimarinovic1315 nije moje misljenje vec misljenje vecina koji znaju dobro i koji su svesni a ja sam stariji od tebe prema tome ne budi naivan i nemoj se praviti glup da ti se ne smeju ovamo vala .....smesan si
I'm so amazed at folks who think these players couldn't play in this current era due to lack of athleticism. Drazen would make Doncic look like Hedo Turkoglu. This era has slowly caused me to watch very little basketball, and it's saddening. The NBA is heading to a very bad place with it's quality of play. I hope things change around soon.
Michael Forever ~ even here; Jordan was like a Kryptonian playing against humans. Drazen shone a few times, which was a testament to his greatness. Rest well, Petrovic.
As a Petrović supporter, I fully agree. Jordan was and remains the unique player, dominating everybody. Petrović was very unique, too, and more than a phenomenon in terms of domination level considering his size, physique and rather medium athleticism for a point guard. A very creative scoring and especially shooting android.
and we should not forget, this was actually his rookie year.... and just because he was playing with no fear, with the talent and the work ethic he showed (he improved his body and athleticism this one year), i believe with time he would excel in this league. (and for sure... no mj comparisons)
Dražen Petrović was the second child of Jovan "Jole" Petrović, a police officer, and Biserka (née Mikulandra), a librarian. His father was born in a Serb family in Zagora, near Trebinje in Bosnia and Herzegovina. His mother was born in Bilice, near Šibenik, and was from a traditional conservative Croat family, devoutly Roman Catholic
@@zivkovicdaca5423classic Yugoslavian mixed marriage child, pure Yugoslavian born and raised in SR Croatia-Sibenik. If serbs and croats continued to love each other there would be more Drazens and Jokovics today..
Not sure he was better than Luca (Luca is technically probably the most sound player the world has ever seen, only behind Pistol Pete Maravich perhaps). Jordan was not just unhumanly athletic, but also smart and technically sound, however not technically more sound than Luka. I think that Dražen's biggest contrubution is that he awakened the belief by many Europeans to be able to compete with world's most elite basketball players the USA, yes! Dfažen was a better smiper than both of them.
@@zachvanwolf2123 Luka is just a very good player. Drazen, changed the way of Basketball in Europe and the rest of the world during the 80s. Unfortunately, he lived in a time when it was not usual that people from outside come to an NBA. If it was not like that he would be one of the greatest basketball players in the NBA history ever. For me, two players who played the most beautiful basketball to watch was Jordan and Petrovic.
Jordan and Pippen where doubling Drazen ... you know you are good - when you have two of the best guards guarding you !!!! But those referees gave Jordan 10-12 points for free ... C`mon man!!!
I think it was Toni Kukoc who once said: " Drazen was very selfish player, but this wasn't his flaw." Petrovic is until today by far the best European player.
Not really. Drazen played only two years in NBA effectively. Then, MJ played in incomparably better team that was feeding him with all balls. When situation was different, Drazen was the one who gave MJ cookies.
Milos Obrenovic I was talking about this game. MJ was great the first time he stepped on the NBA floor...he carried that sorry Chicago team for years. He made his team better. Not he had a great team. Smh..I know Drazen didn’t get to play for long and he was a great player but he was no MJ Stop it!! He did give MJ headaches though.
Not true. You would like it to be true but it's not. I can provide you with bunch of videos proving you're being subjective but the best proof is that MJ needed whole 7 years to win the first NBA championship. Yes, seven years!!! That much about your story of his sorry team. And Drazen played only two. So Drazen wasn't MJ, he was better. In two years he had beaten MJ in all shooting statistics. It's a fact. He didn't live enough for the other statistics, so I won't stop it and I am sorry you're American so I hurt your feelings.
Milos Obrenovic lol, you can’t hurt my feelings and I’m Jamaican ..Drazen was not better ..Shooting Stats mean nothing. MJ is the greatest scorer ever! Doesn’t matter how long it took MJ to win. Like I said ...he had no one. I’m a Bulls fan...he had Drug addicts and Alcoholics on his team. You seem to know nothing about “American Basketball” a team can’t put the ball in the hole for you. He did all his scoring. He didn’t need screens and off ball help like Drazen did to score. Yes the triangle offense help the rest of the team but MJ has always been an assassin. Look at his stats if you want to go there with this discussion. Lead the league in scoring how many times? Defensive player of the year and all defensive team how many times? The list goes on. Drazen was a better “shooter” at the time ..not better player..Stop being biased cause he was your countrymen. I’ve played for years and have met better shooters..the greater Athlete will always be better. You can not stop an athlete like MJ, Kobe, D Wade, AI, Tracy McGrady, KD and a few others form scoring period!! Larry Bird was a better shooter than Drazen but wasn’t very athletic that’s why MJ passed him too. I know the game ..I don’t get talking about other men..Sorry. You can have your opinion but most of the whole world and true Basketball players and fans know the truth.
Milos Obrenovic there’s no need for a back an forth because you’ll never win your argument with no sensible / Knowledgeable person. That’s just your opinion..which I respect but is no way a fact. R.I.P Drazen
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Drazen was and IMO the best Euro player ever to play in the NBA, but then again I'll argue that Jordan & Pippen + Rodman was probably the best 1, 2, 3, punch ever! For one you had the 2 best offensive + defensive players in Jordan & Pippen, then you had Dennis who was without a doubt the best pound for pound(215 lbs)rebounder ever, and defensive player who often had to guard players such as Shaq who weighed around 315 lbs when he played for the Lakers(an 100 lb advantage for Shaq), but Dennis would always win that battle!!!
@@sampetersen4210 Dirk is the most successful player in the NBA, but the best European players were Dražen Petrović and Arvydas Sabonis. Right next to them is Toni Kukoč, and then Nowitzki. If it weren't for Dražen Petrović, Vlade Divac, Toni Kukoč and Arvydas Sabonis, there wouldn't be Nowitzki, Stojaković, the Gasol brothers, Antetokounmpo, Dončić, Jokić, etc.
Tell me when Michael Jordan and Pippen stopped Petrovic.Petrovic helped Nets to play on NBA finals.That was very important for Nets and every player on Nets loved Drazen Petrovic as type and as player.
Drazen Petrovic is the best basketball player in all over the world with many international cups and awards,much better than NBA players who are showmen.He teached the real basket to many people in USA and worldwide.
This is true he was perhaps the most fearless player since MJ, I’d still take Jordan if i could only have one but Drazen was the best pure shooter I’ve ever seen.
Nah, he was good but was already 28 when he started peaking. I don't think he could have ever been better than West, Oscar, Mike, Drexler, Wade, Iverson, Kobe or Harden to name a few.
Scottie Pippen, I really enjoyed watching him, especially at Portland as a veteran player. I loved his versatility, like 15 pts, 6 rb, 6 ast, 3 blck, 4 stls. Powerful and graceful at the same time. Great dunks. Corner 3pts. So smart in def. One of the best in setting up trap for offensive foul. Legend. Also to compare players from a different eras is not possible in my opinion. Except maybe MJ. Though, honestly, todays baskedball is totally different sport. Totally. Todays guards are big and strong as PF's from that era. And centers are quick and skillful at ball handling like guards. And everybody shoot 3's. But who knows, with todays science, training etc. someone talented and hard willed like Dražen would shoot 3's better than Curry. And MJ would score 50 on average. Who knows.
Petrovic jugó 4 años en Cibona, y ganó sólo una liga, en sus dos últimos años en la Cibona ni siquiera llegó a la final, en su año en Madrid perdió la liga, 1 liga de 5 en total, datos, no opinión.
No he wouldn’t. He would not be better than Jordan Lebron Kobe Kareem wilt russell bird Duncan magic Shaq etc etc (I can give you 30 players easily)but he was a special great player.
Jordan fist-bumping a fellow baller! Respect! Rip Draz... Go up there and show the other basketball players in Paradise things even the Lord himself has never seen! We love you and we miss you, Drazen!
the best basketball player of all time, the legend Dražen Petrović, if he was alive, I would surely be the best in the world. a big loss for basketball lovers, unfortunately
Brothers and Sisters I am Croatian and German.Jordan was the best ever.He is the Pele of Baskettball.Jordan is over NBA.Dražen was a very very good player,he plays with the heart,he was a very very hard worker.He plays Basketball 12 until 15 hours a day.Dražen is for me one of the 300 Best players in the World.Mj is absolute the best player in the History.God bless Dražen and Mj an the whole world.
@@multiklamer Yes a level below. Just say WHY was MJ better than Drazen except that is what hysterical media claims? Lets clarify it once for all. Better scorer? Statistics says NO. He was way behind Drazen. More useful player? Statistics says NO. He was the most selfish player ever, spent more balls than L.James, C.Bryant and Drazen together. The whole team played for him and that was a team of the world he was surrounded with. Better defensive player? Hard to say, look at this video you'll see that Drazen stops him as much as he stops Drazen, not a huge difference. Athletics? Ok, MJ could probably jump and fly more than anyone but basketball is a team sport and not athletics. So what facts do you have to support your claim except 'that's the way it is'?
@@milosobrenovic1241 How can you speak about statistics when Jordan is the best scorer per game ever in the NBA history. Drazen played in Europe so you can't say he's a better scorer. Defensively I think they're not even close, Michael was named 9 times in the best defensive starting five, best defensive player of the year(one of the few guards in history) and 3 times steals leader. Drazen was a better long range shooter that's fir sure but MJ was a better finisher and could score with many ways including fade away shots, reverse lay ups, runners, in traffic off screens, off dribble, pull up jumpers. Mj had pretty much everything in perfection. Drazen is one of my favourite players but surely not as good as Jordan. Petro would struggle so hard in his first years in NBA, while MJ was dominating everyone individually.
@@multiklamer What are you talking about? Drazen was better scorer in NBA than MJ by all three fpt, fp and tps. And point is he WASN'T the only one. MJ might be among the best if not the best only for number of points scored but how about the attempts? You can make an idiot a top scorer if you have the best league players in a team playing for you and feeding you with balls all the time. You're being biased my friend. Petro struggling? Hahaha Petro played two years effectively before he died yet he had better percentage than MJ and had been the best all time three point scorer in NBA. How long had it taken MJ to win his first NBA title? SEVEN years. Your statistics is only your fantasy my friend.
What an achievement for Drazen Petrovic, one of the greatest Europeans to play the game, to be compared to Mike, of course not able to match but all the same great for Drazen.
The fail of Portland TrailLosers and Rick Adelman knows no bounds, they had in their roster a man who was the best player in the world outside the NBA, who would score 40, 50, 60 points in Europe in the biggest competitions and 30+ with the Yugoslavian national team (one of the top 2 teams in the world at the time along with the Soviet Union), a man who could easily be a dominating starter in any team in the NBA (the Bulls included), a man who was a natural leader, and so on. Yet they would bench this man for 45 minutes every night so that the likes of Terry Porter and some other random players could play. No wonder Portland won sh*t and they never will. Their fail and incompetence will echo for centuries to come.
If Drazen never got killed in that car accident he would have been Michael's number one nemes. He was catching up to Michael Jordan style of play and would have eventually equaled him to the point to where they would have traded Drazen to the Bulls so he can team up with him and not embarrass Micheal by playing against him.
@amando90 Im a Nets fan, and a huge Drazen fan....But lets be clear..Drazen was not surpassing MJ no way no how...Just stop the insanity, Ive been watching NBA since 1985
@@analyticalinsight Dräzen was on his way to equal Michael, but due to his unfortunate death we will never kno how better he would have been. If so, the Leag wudve made a big trade to have had Dräzen join the Bulls.
In many cases MJ and the Bulls were trying to play a mind game with their opponents. Drazen was playing with theirs, especially MJ was looking so stressed when he had to play against him, without saying anything 😉
After this video there is an impression that MJ dominated Drazen pretty much but that wasn't the case. With Chicago MJ had a much better team behind him that was feeding him with all balls unlike Drazen. Let's not talk about the coach. Look at their matches at the Olympics when Croatian team even though much worse than the Dream Team gave Drazen the same treatment that MJ had with Chicago - Drazen outscored MJ and played better defense on him. Drazen was one and only Mozart of basketball.
How if petrovic score too I mean Jordan had more points but drozen score as well when some1 dominate a player that player dont score at all o4 score few points but I saw drozen scoring the ball so how does that work OH you are saying that because the bulls won the game thats why Jordan dominated petrovic is that what it is.
I think they should put drazen in the Hall of Fame. What a great player. sad hes gone dang I wish I would have gotten to see him play live win or lose it definitely would have been something amazing
R.I.P. Drazen. You were gone too soon.
Drazen ...what a player
Like Ayrton Senna and Koby Bryant 😪😪😪
Drazen is the best
@@ramushharadinajjunior1351
Wooooowww thanks a lot.😘😭 i am Croatian.I am Very proud.
@@kykyjhdbsnd7774 michael jordan the best sorry !!!
@@izubCologne michael the best player !!! the legend of the basketball history !!!!
Drazen Petrovic - Croatian sport legend, Mozart of basketball. 🇭🇷❤️
😂😂😂Any idea how many triple doubles he had ever? Let me help you ZERO! And how many double doubles? ZERO Mozzart my ass😂😂
@@AlhamdulilahSoldier Your profile photo shows that you are psychophat and chetnik extremist... I don't speak with lunatics. Go cure yourself..
How he is Croatian legend when his father was Serbian and he born and grown up and make carier and went to NBA as Yugoslavian? Becouse of last two years of his life? When he supported natzi regime in Croatia? Ok. Than he is Croatian, or much precise - NewCroatian :)
@@MrQuixoticer Classic thinking of Serbian extremist based on lies, propaganda and myths..
yugoslavia is a non-existent country that had an expiration date until communist dictator died and afther that started to fall apart, because it was rotten regime.. And the only regime that caused war and big suffering is the Serbian criminal-chetnik-fasizm regime of your dictator Milosevic..
You can eat yourself by jealousy and evil, but Dražen Petrović is a Croat and whole world know it except bunch of you serbian and Putin lovers extremists...
@@MrQuixoticer and you are a new debil... the same thing is for Djoković i Tesla? How they are a Serbian?!?!?!?! You said natzi regime in Croatia hahahahaha... Now I know from which part of worldu you are (Serbia or Russia) hahahaha
I always enjoy the players who weren't afraid of anything. Even Michael.
Genius vs Genius
I think genius wins
I think a team stacked with all stars, Nike money and commercials, all the fee calls is what wins..
The best World player EVER against best European player. Greetings from Croatia the land of Drazen Petrovic.
@@truthhurts837 Where are the all stars? The only all star teammate Jordan had was Pippen lol
@@hrkyjudo2158 Yeah, ex Yugoslav best player after that Croatian player.
Drazen didn't give up, played hard down to last second. You don't see that too much anymore.
Drazen was so good. I remember when he passed away. Really sad!
Back then
My two favourite players of all time. And nobody can change my mind.
Yep. The world GOAT vs Europe GOAT.
Totally agree
Anyone here after Kobe? So sad both legends of basketball left to early..
😥❤
May be fake deaths for personal reasons.
@@christoszingelis9859Yea, I heard that he and Tupac now live in Colonia Dignidad.
Drazen Petrovic (R.I.P.) a genius !!!!
Michael Jordan the best !! the legend of the basketball history !!!!
@@zivkovicdaca5423 oboje su legende, koji se više ne radjaju...
@@makimarinovic1315 ne razumes nista ! jordan je daleko bolji igrac od pokojnog petrovica , jordan je bio kompletan igrac !!! virtuoza !! spretniji je bio dakle ne tvrdite ono sto nemate pojma , svi znaju da je jordan bio bolji ! nema govora !! bez obzira sto je drazen bio tad najbolji evropski kosarkas !
@@zivkovicdaca5423tvoje mišljenje, nemoj govori ti da nerazumjem. 47 godina nisam balavac. Pozdrav
@@makimarinovic1315 nije moje misljenje vec misljenje vecina koji znaju dobro i koji su svesni a ja sam stariji od tebe prema tome ne budi naivan i nemoj se praviti glup da ti se ne smeju ovamo vala .....smesan si
This match shouldbe titled Petrović vs the Bulls, it was a one man show for the Nets. God Bless you Drażen 🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷🙏🙏🙏
Then MJ dominate the game lol
@@jhette007Pay respect to the Mozart mate
Drazen Petrvic have a carkrash who He is dy 😢😢😅
Petrovic was good!!
i remember him playing against CSKA or Zalgiris during USSR in 80х. mostly he won!
Drazen was the blueprint that all other European players would eventually follow and it would produce the 2nd coming of Drazen in Luka.
@@paulinoimperial There is an argument to be made for Toni, I agree.
Also Sarunas Marciulonis
@@marios8120 Detlef Schrempf too, do not forget not soviet Europeans, however Marciulionis was the best out of them
I'm so amazed at folks who think these players couldn't play in this current era due to lack of athleticism. Drazen would make Doncic look like Hedo Turkoglu. This era has slowly caused me to watch very little basketball, and it's saddening. The NBA is heading to a very bad place with it's quality of play. I hope things change around soon.
In my opinion best european basketball player of all time , no contest
Drazen and Toni, the two greatests European players
@christoskonstantopoulos9923 I agree with you my friend 😉 ! The 2 best !
Many NBA players regard him as one of the best shooters of all time and one of the greatest Europeans ever to step foot on an NBA court.
Najbolji Jugoslovenski igrač !
Great legends MJ and PEtro
jordan the best !!!
He didn’t give a fuck that mj was guarding him.. 😂 What a beast! RIP Petro
Michael Forever ~ even here; Jordan was like a Kryptonian playing against humans. Drazen shone a few times, which was a testament to his greatness. Rest well, Petrovic.
michael jordan the legend !!!!
As a Petrović supporter, I fully agree. Jordan was and remains the unique player, dominating everybody. Petrović was very unique, too, and more than a phenomenon in terms of domination level considering his size, physique and rather medium athleticism for a point guard. A very creative scoring and especially shooting android.
and we should not forget, this was actually his rookie year.... and just because he was playing with no fear, with the talent and the work ethic he showed (he improved his body and athleticism this one year), i believe with time he would excel in this league. (and for sure... no mj comparisons)
Drazen was a first ballot hall of famer if he didn't die. RIP Once Brothers
He is in Hall of Fame
Look at 11.30: Drazen passes five players - the whole team and scores. There was no player like Drazen ever.
Not true at all. Watch the whole game this time
@@courtneyreid1604 I wasn't talking about the whole game genius.
Vala baš. Pozz
@@courtneyreid1604 smartass.
@@Coach_Vedo not at all boy
Dražen was from Šibenik.God bless Dražen.Počivaj u miru kapetane.
Dražen Petrović was the second child of Jovan "Jole" Petrović, a police officer, and Biserka (née Mikulandra), a librarian. His father was born in a Serb family in Zagora, near Trebinje in Bosnia and Herzegovina. His mother was born in Bilice, near Šibenik, and was from a traditional conservative Croat family, devoutly Roman Catholic
@@zivkovicdaca5423and Đokovoć is half croat . Mama is croatian dont forget that
@@zivkovicdaca5423classic Yugoslavian mixed marriage child, pure Yugoslavian born and raised in SR Croatia-Sibenik. If serbs and croats continued to love each other there would be more Drazens and Jokovics today..
Drazen was much better player than current Luca, his braveness, his speed, his IQ of basketball, his scoring all amazing.
Not sure he was better than Luca (Luca is technically probably the most sound player the world has ever seen, only behind Pistol Pete Maravich perhaps). Jordan was not just unhumanly athletic, but also smart and technically sound, however not technically more sound than Luka. I think that Dražen's biggest contrubution is that he awakened the belief by many Europeans to be able to compete with world's most elite basketball players the USA, yes! Dfažen was a better smiper than both of them.
@@zachvanwolf2123not so fast with Drazen and not so fast with Luca either. Both big time players for sure.
@@zachvanwolf2123 Luka is just a very good player. Drazen, changed the way of Basketball in Europe and the rest of the world during the 80s. Unfortunately, he lived in a time when it was not usual that people from outside come to an NBA. If it was not like that he would be one of the greatest basketball players in the NBA history ever. For me, two players who played the most beautiful basketball to watch was Jordan and Petrovic.
Chris Morris told me that Petro, bless his heart, was the funkiest player he’s ever played with.
Funkiest? Please explain
@@carlop.7176 -Passing through legs, hiding ball behind opponents back, and similar fake sh**? I suppose
@@ag2smal Sounds like young Dražen :) such an artist
He was smelly. It was said with love though. Petro was a bad man. We all loved watching him get that jumper off.
@@edscottable at 4:57 the announcer says, "it doesn't even smell that good in here." Lol 😂
Drazen was a beast
Jordan and Pippen where doubling Drazen ... you know you are good - when you have two of the best guards guarding you !!!!
But those referees gave Jordan 10-12 points for free ... C`mon man!!!
no kidding, so many phantom calls where he either jumped into someone else or no one touched him at all.
Agreed lots of bs calls for Jordan
I think it was Toni Kukoc who once said: " Drazen was very selfish player, but this wasn't his flaw." Petrovic is until today by far the best European player.
no way
Sabonis, Nowitzki, Marciulionis, Doncic, Joker Jokovich, Gasol, Parker, Antetokounmpo
@@saulsavelis575who is jokovich
?
2:04 : not that many players could cross over Pippen so easily
I loved Petrovic. He was giving it to Pippen but everytime MJ matched up with him it was cookies..Thanks MJ the 🐐
Not really. Drazen played only two years in NBA effectively. Then, MJ played in incomparably better team that was feeding him with all balls. When situation was different, Drazen was the one who gave MJ cookies.
Milos Obrenovic I was talking about this game. MJ was great the first time he stepped on the NBA floor...he carried that sorry Chicago team for years. He made his team better. Not he had a great team. Smh..I know Drazen didn’t get to play for long and he was a great player but he was no MJ Stop it!! He did give MJ headaches though.
Not true. You would like it to be true but it's not. I can provide you with bunch of videos proving you're being subjective but the best proof is that MJ needed whole 7 years to win the first NBA championship. Yes, seven years!!! That much about your story of his sorry team. And Drazen played only two. So Drazen wasn't MJ, he was better. In two years he had beaten MJ in all shooting statistics. It's a fact. He didn't live enough for the other statistics, so I won't stop it and I am sorry you're American so I hurt your feelings.
Milos Obrenovic lol, you can’t hurt my feelings and I’m Jamaican ..Drazen was not better ..Shooting Stats mean nothing. MJ is the greatest scorer ever! Doesn’t matter how long it took MJ to win. Like I said ...he had no one. I’m a Bulls fan...he had Drug addicts and Alcoholics on his team. You seem to know nothing about “American Basketball” a team can’t put the ball in the hole for you. He did all his scoring. He didn’t need screens and off ball help like Drazen did to score. Yes the triangle offense help the rest of the team but MJ has always been an assassin. Look at his stats if you want to go there with this discussion. Lead the league in scoring how many times? Defensive player of the year and all defensive team how many times? The list goes on. Drazen was a better “shooter” at the time ..not better player..Stop being biased cause he was your countrymen. I’ve played for years and have met better shooters..the greater Athlete will always be better. You can not stop an athlete like MJ, Kobe, D Wade, AI, Tracy McGrady, KD and a few others form scoring period!! Larry Bird was a better shooter than Drazen but wasn’t very athletic that’s why MJ passed him too. I know the game ..I don’t get talking about other men..Sorry. You can have your opinion but most of the whole world and true Basketball players and fans know the truth.
Milos Obrenovic there’s no need for a back an forth because you’ll never win your argument with no sensible / Knowledgeable person. That’s just your opinion..which I respect but is no way a fact. R.I.P Drazen
5:32 everyone needs to learn this MJ turnaround gets space off the post up, shakes and pivots
That is the Hakeem Olajuwon shake-and-bake.
@@j0hn22 "you made it a hot line, I made it a hot song"
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Drazen was and IMO the best Euro player ever to play in the NBA, but then again I'll argue that Jordan & Pippen + Rodman was probably the best 1, 2, 3, punch ever! For one you had the 2 best offensive + defensive players in Jordan & Pippen, then you had Dennis who was without a doubt the best pound for pound(215 lbs)rebounder ever, and defensive player who often had to guard players such as Shaq who weighed around 315 lbs when he played for the Lakers(an 100 lb advantage for Shaq), but Dennis would always win that battle!!!
Better than Pau?
1. Dirk 2. Pau 3. Drazen
@@sampetersen4210 Dirk is the most successful player in the NBA, but the best European players were Dražen Petrović and Arvydas Sabonis. Right next to them is Toni Kukoč, and then Nowitzki. If it weren't for Dražen Petrović, Vlade Divac, Toni Kukoč and Arvydas Sabonis, there wouldn't be Nowitzki, Stojaković, the Gasol brothers, Antetokounmpo, Dončić, Jokić, etc.
Tell me when Michael Jordan and Pippen stopped Petrovic.Petrovic helped Nets to play on NBA finals.That was very important for Nets and every player on Nets loved Drazen Petrovic as type and as player.
@@christoszingelis9859 nets played in nba finals😂
A pleasure to watch this footage. He played a lot taller than 6'5".
What do you mean exactly?
If Drazen didn't die he would've been Top 5 SG easy
He would be best
Drazen Petrovic is the best basketball player in all over the world with many international cups and awards,much better than NBA players who are showmen.He teached the real basket to many people in USA and worldwide.
Yeah right
This is true he was perhaps the most fearless player since MJ, I’d still take Jordan if i could only have one but Drazen was the best pure shooter I’ve ever seen.
Nah, he was good but was already 28 when he started peaking. I don't think he could have ever been better than West, Oscar, Mike, Drexler, Wade, Iverson, Kobe or Harden to name a few.
Scottie Pippen, I really enjoyed watching him, especially at Portland as a veteran player. I loved his versatility, like 15 pts, 6 rb, 6 ast, 3 blck, 4 stls. Powerful and graceful at the same time. Great dunks. Corner 3pts. So smart in def. One of the best in setting up trap for offensive foul. Legend.
Also to compare players from a different eras is not possible in my opinion. Except maybe MJ. Though, honestly, todays baskedball is totally different sport. Totally. Todays guards are big and strong as PF's from that era. And centers are quick and skillful at ball handling like guards. And everybody shoot 3's. But who knows, with todays science, training etc. someone talented and hard willed like Dražen would shoot 3's better than Curry. And MJ would score 50 on average. Who knows.
9:48 Aw! White girl trying to do the cabbage patch. Too cute 🤣
Petrovic un super taleno un gran ricordo e tantto rispeto da Albania
Petrovic was the best in the world, where he went he won, and he would have won in the NBA too🏀🔝🙏
Petrovic jugó 4 años en Cibona, y ganó sólo una liga, en sus dos últimos años en la Cibona ni siquiera llegó a la final, en su año en Madrid perdió la liga, 1 liga de 5 en total, datos, no opinión.
Petro forever! MJ King
Petrovic was from another Planet 💪🏀😎 If he did not die he would be the Best in basketball History 👌
No he wouldn’t. He would not be better than Jordan Lebron Kobe Kareem wilt russell bird Duncan magic Shaq etc etc (I can give you 30 players easily)but he was a special great player.
@@manumaliacalm down srbine
@@Vladimir-o9l I’m very calm lmao. Just clarifying some things. That’s all. Maybe you didn’t like me providing some evidence.
Jordan fist-bumping a fellow baller! Respect! Rip Draz... Go up there and show the other basketball players in Paradise things even the Lord himself has never seen! We love you and we miss you, Drazen!
Drazen Petrovic.
Najbolji igrac svih vremena.
Dzordan je nula.
Pozdrav iz SRBIJE.
ti si 0
the best basketball player of all time, the legend Dražen Petrović, if he was alive, I would surely be the best in the world. a big loss for basketball lovers, unfortunately
michael jordan is legend of the baketball history !!! sorry !!
The best match of all time could be Dream Team vs Yugoslavia in Barcellona 92. RIP fantastic Drazen❤
Croatia nooo Jugoslawija... Fuck Yugoslawia
R.I.P petrovic gone to soon
I don't know about anybody else, but for me Drazen is the GOAT
+1
49fiori
1. MJ
2. Galis
3. Drazen
Petrovic un gran gicatore di pallacanestro rispeto per questo signiore , spero che riposi in pace.
We will always remeber you Drazen❤
Drazen was giving the Dream Team buckets at the Olympics
Brothers and Sisters I am Croatian and German.Jordan was the best ever.He is the Pele of Baskettball.Jordan is over NBA.Dražen was a very very good player,he plays with the heart,he was a very very hard worker.He plays Basketball 12 until 15 hours a day.Dražen is for me one of the 300 Best players in the World.Mj is absolute the best player in the History.God bless Dražen and Mj an the whole world.
Probably easily gets in top 100 i mean easily! Unfortunately didn’t live that long!!!!
I LOVE how all the comments are about DRAŽEN
Kenny Anderson was the truth back then !
Drazen is from my city ❤
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Šibenik je to
Even fart on Jordan was a foul called by referees.
Drazen was pretty good but Jordan was on another level.
@@multiklamer Yes a level below. Just say WHY was MJ better than Drazen except that is what hysterical media claims? Lets clarify it once for all. Better scorer? Statistics says NO. He was way behind Drazen. More useful player? Statistics says NO. He was the most selfish player ever, spent more balls than L.James, C.Bryant and Drazen together. The whole team played for him and that was a team of the world he was surrounded with. Better defensive player? Hard to say, look at this video you'll see that Drazen stops him as much as he stops Drazen, not a huge difference. Athletics? Ok, MJ could probably jump and fly more than anyone but basketball is a team sport and not athletics. So what facts do you have to support your claim except 'that's the way it is'?
@@multiklamer MJ was a marketing project of NBA and US, great player but far from the best.
@@milosobrenovic1241 How can you speak about statistics when Jordan is the best scorer per game ever in the NBA history. Drazen played in Europe so you can't say he's a better scorer. Defensively I think they're not even close, Michael was named 9 times in the best defensive starting five, best defensive player of the year(one of the few guards in history) and 3 times steals leader. Drazen was a better long range shooter that's fir sure but MJ was a better finisher and could score with many ways including fade away shots, reverse lay ups, runners, in traffic off screens, off dribble, pull up jumpers. Mj had pretty much everything in perfection. Drazen is one of my favourite players but surely not as good as Jordan. Petro would struggle so hard in his first years in NBA, while MJ was dominating everyone individually.
@@multiklamer What are you talking about? Drazen was better scorer in NBA than MJ by all three fpt, fp and tps. And point is he WASN'T the only one. MJ might be among the best if not the best only for number of points scored but how about the attempts? You can make an idiot a top scorer if you have the best league players in a team playing for you and feeding you with balls all the time. You're being biased my friend. Petro struggling? Hahaha Petro played two years effectively before he died yet he had better percentage than MJ and had been the best all time three point scorer in NBA. How long had it taken MJ to win his first NBA title? SEVEN years. Your statistics is only your fantasy my friend.
Lots of past and future Trail Blazers here....Bowie, Petro, Anderson, Dudley, Pippen, Rumeal Robinson, Will Perdue, Mo Cheeks on the bench.
RIP Drazen
I love a game tied 50 - 50 at the half. So symmetrical.
Drazen is from Sibenik.
Jordan went before 2 years in Sibenik.
8:30 - may be the most beautiful missed shot ever
11:30 basket through 5 players led by Jordan
Drazen siempre fue mi jugador europeo preferido
The rattle of the basket back then was so nice
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Jordan clearly traveling carrying the ball here 4:47 😁
not even in Streetball this is allowed
Drazen Petrovic is the best basketball player ever played. Genius guy the good ones die young
Drazen PETROVIC is LEGEND!
Thanks a Lot! (;-))
What an achievement for Drazen Petrovic, one of the greatest Europeans to play the game, to be compared to Mike, of course not able to match but all the same great for Drazen.
Can't compare
Petrovic was a great player but
Jordan is a legend
So is Petrović here in Europe, just ad big of a legend as Luka Dončić and Nikola Jokić
Drazen Petrovic je bio kosarkaski idol nas mladih u Jugoslaviji.
Michael Jordan the Bester all of time !!!
Jordan a genius, but Petrovic (R.I,P,) was also a genius and a great player!!!
NO HE IS NOT ANYWAYS who made MJ
RIP all heart ❤️
The fail of Portland TrailLosers and Rick Adelman knows no bounds, they had in their roster a man who was the best player in the world outside the NBA, who would score 40, 50, 60 points in Europe in the biggest competitions and 30+ with the Yugoslavian national team (one of the top 2 teams in the world at the time along with the Soviet Union), a man who could easily be a dominating starter in any team in the NBA (the Bulls included), a man who was a natural leader, and so on.
Yet they would bench this man for 45 minutes every night so that the likes of Terry Porter and some other random players could play. No wonder Portland won sh*t and they never will. Their fail and incompetence will echo for centuries to come.
WHAT TIME IS IT
GAME TIME ...
Nas Kapetan,nas Mali!!!!💙💙💙🇭🇷🇭🇷
I hate when referees help MJ, he is good without them too
What are you even talking about. Go ahead and point to where they “helped” him.
being good in basketball means you can do much many job. not only one job.
Somebody needs to do a video of Jordan's greatest "misses". I saw at least 3 in this video alone.
@Hayden Snyder Haha...I better leave it to the experts like M.J. Archive, oldskoolbball, MJ23 His Airness Forever, wistiti93420, Ball Is Life, etc.
Damn Drazen had no team like Mike, not even close...so don't talk bout Mike winning single handedly...defensive focusses were so different...
From Zagreb?
I think Dražen is from Šibenik
DRAZEN THE GREATEST PLAYER OF ALL TIME. CROATIAN PRIDE ❤❤
@Janko Krstic DRAZEN IS CROATIAN BLOOD AND PRIDE SAME AS NOVAK DJOKOVIC ✌💪💪💪💪💪
@Janko Krstic TAKO JE SVI SU HRVATI A NOLE JE NAJVECI HRVAT ✌💪💪
@Janko Krstic DRAZEN JE HRVAT ALI NOLE GA PRESTIGAO. UGLAVNOM OBOJICA SU HRVATI I NAJBOLJI NA SVIJETU ✌💪💪
@Janko Krstic HRVATINE SVE DO JEDAN. NOLE I GLAVOM I BRADOM PRAVI HRVAT ✌💪💪
@Janko Krstic NOLE HRVATINA PETROVICI HRVATINE ✌💪💪
9:00 what other player can have a miss as a highlight?
what a great game!
Neka onom neznalici od trenera adelmanu drazen bude na duši šta je mora sjedit na klupi zato ga je Chuck dealy prepozna
It's always tragic when a young life goes too soon! Always linger that "what if..."
Naj Naj Naj Naj bolji za uvijek
If Drazen never got killed in that car accident he would have been Michael's number one nemes. He was catching up to Michael Jordan style of play and would have eventually equaled him to the point to where they would have traded Drazen to the Bulls so he can team up with him and not embarrass Micheal by playing against him.
true true.... why do you think jordan never talks about petrovic because he realizes that the only one in the 90s would be better than him .
a lot of people don't understand this and basketball
@amando90 Im a Nets fan, and a huge Drazen fan....But lets be clear..Drazen was not surpassing MJ no way no how...Just stop the insanity, Ive been watching NBA since 1985
Nadie puede discutir que Drazen fue un extraordinario jugador, pero ensalzarle con exageraciones que llegan a ser ridículas no le hace ningún bien.
@@analyticalinsight Dräzen was on his way to equal Michael, but due to his unfortunate death we will never kno how better he would have been. If so, the Leag wudve made a big trade to have had Dräzen join the Bulls.
U Srbiji je jedno od starijih i lepših srbskih imena bilo ime Jordan, a Petrović jedno od najcenjenijih srbskih prezimena.
Drazen was from Sibenik
And he is still 🙂🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷👍
I'm surprised Sam Bowie was still in the league. And Chuck Daly was the coach of the Nets.
In many cases MJ and the Bulls were trying to play a mind game with their opponents.
Drazen was playing with theirs, especially MJ was looking so stressed when he had to play against him, without saying anything 😉
Yeah, he was a real pain in the ass for MJ
Cool ! Th-1950
After this video there is an impression that MJ dominated Drazen pretty much but that wasn't the case. With Chicago MJ had a much better team behind him that was feeding him with all balls unlike Drazen. Let's not talk about the coach. Look at their matches at the Olympics when Croatian team even though much worse than the Dream Team gave Drazen the same treatment that MJ had with Chicago - Drazen outscored MJ and played better defense on him. Drazen was one and only Mozart of basketball.
That's bullshit Jordan use to destroy dude
@@courtneywhite6848 You mixed up the disciplines, basketball is a team sport. Bulls could have destroyed the Nets means better team won, not MJ.
How if petrovic score too I mean Jordan had more points but drozen score as well when some1 dominate a player that player dont score at all o4 score few points but I saw drozen scoring the ball so how does that work OH you are saying that because the bulls won the game thats why Jordan dominated petrovic is that what it is.
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Haha you fool.. Did you think that they they could won without mj? Mj was a great factor everytime they play
I think they should put drazen in the Hall of Fame. What a great player. sad hes gone dang I wish I would have gotten to see him play live win or lose it definitely would have been something amazing
8:29 Jordan manufactures... a referee call!
Drazen and Jordan the best player all time
Top dogs... Dražen was a beast of a player, shooting phenom maybe steph is better but just maybe...
Michael Jordan (38 points) single handedly beats Drazen Petrovic&Sam Bowie&Chuck Daly! So true. Petrovic was just a good amateur from Europe
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Mj was the a king every single shot b