The fact that everyone always knew he was going to get the ball in pressure situations and he still delivered time and time again is ever more amazing.
Anil Kumar I agree. Not only his domination, his skills, his athletic ability, his mental game and also his overall achievements/records. The bar is way too high.
Jordan had an offensive answer to almost every defensive scenario. I think he's possibly one of the smartest players to ever have played. And when he didn't have a good answer, he had the athleticism and skill to make ridiculous shots.
MJ through his career had several different Free Throw routines...The way he stands, hezitates, spins the ball and shoots varied throughout his career..
+Trey Hull I'd say Kobe. Especially when he wear the sleeve on one arm, arm band on the other and leg sleeves. All to go with the baggy jersey So fucking beautiful.
Jordan is thee greatest and what puts Jordan ahead of every other basketball player before and after him is how MJs game in the post season would go up to a level ive never seen. Mj would impose his will on other teams. The bulls might lose a game here and there but MJ would go down shooting
ya know whats funny (actually its enlightening and should prove many a points) is that this would be one of Kobe's top 3 play off performances. but its MJ and this performance is buried somewhere back in his top 25. that's how good MJ was
@jeditwinz i see these games and it's exciting to watch arguments and fights and no foul call every 20 seconds. i was just a kid when these games were played. i wish basketball games were still like this.
Noik Wdae All Kobe moves come from Jordan but there are lots of moves in Jordan's repertoire Kobe doesn't have. Specially Jordan from 84 to 93. And even the ones Kobe stole...he doesn't do them as masterfully, efficiently and consistently...like Jordan.
The greatest team in NBA history wasn’t going to go undefeated in the golden era .... that’s how great this Bulls team was and how tough the league was back then. Crazy
Haha - the pat on the butt to his good friend Oakley after hitting the jumper in his face at 2:17! I love the foot fake at 3:38 as well - he didn't even have to use a ball fake, he was able to get Harper off balance with a really quick foot fake - beautiful. Thanks Balthus
6:22 shooting form looks just like who? Kobe Bryant. While Kobe never came all the way close to MJ overall, I do give him credit for his game being that pseudo reincarnation of MJs. Having Kobe REALLY softened the impact of MJ leaving on my heart and on the NBA. Without Kobe, MJs 2nd retirement would've been way to jarring. And shout out to Penny, Grant Hill and Shaq for doing the same for MJs 1st retirement. Today's players have been unable to the same for Kobe. BIG thanks to Penny, Kobe, Shaq and Grant. Much love.
meg I felt the same way I was 10 years old when MJ retired from the Bulls in 98 and at that time you couldn't have told me that 98 would would be my last year watching the best NBA team ever. Matter of fact I didn't like Kobe til after MJ retired from the Bulls. People kept saying he's the next Jordan and I was like how when MJ ain't retired yet! Oh yeah those other guys you named were my favorites too especially Penny and Grant
Yeah, the drive/dunk at 5:22 is a testament to MJ's enormous basketball IQ and court awareness. He sets the screen and the semi-slips it as his defender hedges and then both defenders start to go towards the other Bulls player. Jordan knows he has a window to the lane if he hurries, and he immediately takes it. Also, the speed with which he gets from above the FT line to a dunk there is REALLY amazing, especially for a 33 year old. Just amazing court awareness. This is what separates MJ.
damn that jordan guy is good! he mustve been watchin kobe's tapes. wait....what?!? he was doin this before kobe?!?! damn. so your tellin me MJ made himself and kobe made a mold of MJ?!?! well i'll take the original anyday
@kuriaki71 exactly in my mind, i agree with you! he just rose up to the occassion time after time. He is even better during playoffs and that is a FACT!
How about if everyone in the business of making highlight videos cut out the free throws. Just add an annotation like 'he shot 8 out of 11 free throws' and prevent us all from utter boredom along the way.
@1:50. So, HOW is 6-1 Jon Starks to guard the 6-6 Jordan if you call him for "fouls" like this, which gets him out of the game in the FIRST quarter, so Jordan gets to go at 6-0 Greg Anthony?
***** Nothing wrong with that, but isn't this like saying the Toyota Camry can reach speeds of 120 mph, but would you race a Camry against a Porsche 911 and argue "well, speed isn't everything". The reality is that it MATTERED a great deal than the Warriors can throw THREE versatile 6-6 and above wing defenders at LeBron James, unlike the Jordan era when Curry--the average size of Jordan defenders--was all most teams had at their disposal to defend Jordan.
+EveryDayIsAGoodDay Again, you are making the "Honda Accord can go 120 miles an hour, so what is the difference between that and a Porsche?" Avery is the EXCEPTION to the rule. To say, well, if he can do it, then everyone can do it is known as the Oprah Winfrey argument. Look around the league. Demar Derozan is 6'7" uber athlete. Bradley Heal is a 6'6" uber athlete. In Miami, Dwayne Wade, even at his worst, is better physically than anyone Jordan ever played against. In Cleveland, 6'5" J R Smith is a better athlete than most of the 2 guards of Jordan's era like Hornacek, Hansen, Starks, Byron Scott or Danny Ainge. In Minnesota, LaVine is as good an athlete as Jordan. In Orlando, 6'5 Oladipo is more athletic than Hersey Frikkken Hawkins, David Wingate, Jim Paxson, Craig Ehlo, Randy Wittman, Dan Marjele, Drazen Petrovic or any of the other stuffs Jordan feasted on. Note that I left out the likes of Iggy, Klay, Tony Allen, and Trevor Ariza.
"Hand checking"? WHERE in this clip do you see ANY hand checking? That is one of the big MYTHS of the Jordan era, that there was "hand checking". Because of Jordan's constant whining, hand checking was eliminated in 1994. There was no real hand checking in the 1980s. Go back and watch Jordan's games against stiff white 2 guards Ehlo, Randy Wittman, Danny Ainge and Dan Marjele. ANY time they brushed hi laterally, Jordan was going to the line. Here, I showed you Starks breathing on Jordan and him going to the bench with 3 fouls in the FIRST quarter.
***** I am SORRY but if Jordan was EVER guarded like LeBron and Kyrie and Shumpert guarded Curry in the Finals last year, Jordan, who couldn't shoot outside 18 feet, would have much worse games than he used to when he would disappear against the Pistons in the late 80s. If the like of Iguodala and Draymond ever played him the way LeBron was played in the Finals the last two years, he would put up Russell Westbrook type efficiency numbers. There are simply no defenders like Craig Ehlo, Randy Wittman, Jeff Malone, Hornacek, Marjele, and Greg Anthony in the NBA anymore.
What he did to send game to OT was just amazing! GOAT
Dennis McCoy Yes yes
good!
But they didn't win this game. Should have swept this series
they won the series in-five makeszero difference
Jordan is the greatest to ever do it. And there will never be anyone better.
Down pretty much all game because jordan hogged the ball all game.
@@notused2118 lol ok? He's the goat so he can do that and I don't think his teammates cared lol
Idiots
It will be a very long time if it happens, and it may never happen like you said. That's how amazing he was.
The fact that everyone always knew he was going to get the ball in pressure situations and he still delivered time and time again is ever more amazing.
I wish the NBA was still like this,
I wish it was still on NBC
I think JOrdan has set a level where no one can ever surpass it. Simply Amazing
Anil Kumar
I agree. Not only his domination, his skills, his athletic ability, his mental game and also his overall achievements/records. The bar is way too high.
For hogging the ball, yes.
@@notused2118 hogging won him a title that year.
I don't know about that, but it's a great compliment to how amazing MJ was. The GOAT by far.
He is incredibly gifted. No player like him, simply the best to ever play the game of basketball.
No doubt
My god he is amazing wow that's ballin at highest level
Down by over 10 like forever. Where's all the missed shots by mj?
Jordan had an offensive answer to almost every defensive scenario. I think he's possibly one of the smartest players to ever have played. And when he didn't have a good answer, he had the athleticism and skill to make ridiculous shots.
yews mell or he passed out. He was also a good passer
He spent three years in college under Dean Smith. Plus he is smart.
And they were down all game because jordan hogged the ball.
Not Used 90% of the Bulls plays are for Jordan; the other 10% end up in his hands anyway
@@jayscribe7547 i don't disbelieve you. Pippen was very underated. Rodman, when he cared, was great too.
MJ through his career had several different Free Throw routines...The way he stands, hezitates, spins the ball and shoots varied throughout his career..
this is evident on his final year with the wizards specially his free trhows..
2:47 post up game at its finest.
ha! I just linked to that same time, before seeing your comment. great stuff.
There's no zone like Michael's zone. Just a beautiful game to watch when he's on the court.
MJ's last 8 points in regulation to tie it are just plain stupid
fkin breds omg. MJ had the most on court style/swag of anyone man.. more than AI
+Trey Hull I'd say Kobe. Especially when he wear the sleeve on one arm, arm band on the other and leg sleeves. All to go with the baggy jersey
So fucking beautiful.
They avoided all the shots missed.
I mean 19-6 says it all.
@@alikhawar6506 ya kobe hot his swag from mj😂
His post game is boss. That move at 2:52 is crazy!
Jordan is thee greatest and what puts Jordan ahead of every other basketball player before and after him is how MJs game in the post season would go up to a level ive never seen. Mj would impose his will on other teams. The bulls might lose a game here and there but MJ would go down shooting
Didn't matter who was guarding MJ this game he made it look like way to easy. Glad i was able to witness this during the 90's.
I know he's the GOAT and my fav but dam I forgot just how sick his post and foot work game was
ya know whats funny (actually its enlightening and should prove many a points) is that this would be one of Kobe's top 3 play off performances. but its MJ and this performance is buried somewhere back in his top 25. that's how good MJ was
quadence why because he had 46 points??? Kobe 2001 playoffs alone shit this game 😂😂
that move at around 251 was crazy...post game was about as flawless as you can get as a basketball player..
@jeditwinz i see these games and it's exciting to watch arguments and fights and no foul call every 20 seconds. i was just a kid when these games were played. i wish basketball games were still like this.
At 2:56 that move has not been copied by Kobe, MJ just amazing
Noik Wdae
All Kobe moves come from Jordan but there are lots of moves in Jordan's repertoire Kobe doesn't have. Specially Jordan from 84 to 93. And even the ones Kobe stole...he doesn't do them as masterfully, efficiently and consistently...like Jordan.
Air Magic you are totally right.
bispower6
Thanks man.
Noik Wdae just a brutal move for the defender... McHale also had that move but way way slower... LOL
Amazing how he rarely passed
5:22 great how he reads the defense immediately...sees that Ewing is not under the basket and drives it directly to the hole...
he was like fading away at 3pt line in a last second for overtime? how can someone do that? no one can but only the goat.
The greatest of all-time Air Jordan sir altitude!
Goat...nothin else to say...
this is guy is just amazing, nothing else you can say about michael jordan
the guy just gets better and better with each game
So dirty!! The GOAT - Miss this so much.
Michael The Best!!!
I seen that game. He played very good Knicks should've have lost that game the way mj was playing.
MJ didn’t want to sweep the Knicks. He wanted to finish business at home
It was mj's fault for hogging the ball all game. Too one dimensional basketball.
Look at those turns and shots, people don't realize how hard those are to shoot. GOAT.
So gangsta
That move at 02:52 is cold af
Jordan was fantastic
The greatest team in NBA history wasn’t going to go undefeated in the golden era .... that’s how great this Bulls team was and how tough the league was back then. Crazy
the move @ 2:52 was fucking sick!!!
Haha - the pat on the butt to his good friend Oakley after hitting the jumper in his face at 2:17!
I love the foot fake at 3:38 as well - he didn't even have to use a ball fake, he was able to get Harper off balance with a really quick foot fake - beautiful.
Thanks Balthus
so clutch! goat
Thanks B!
6:22 shooting form looks just like who? Kobe Bryant. While Kobe never came all the way close to MJ overall, I do give him credit for his game being that pseudo reincarnation of MJs. Having Kobe REALLY softened the impact of MJ leaving on my heart and on the NBA. Without Kobe, MJs 2nd retirement would've been way to jarring. And shout out to Penny, Grant Hill and Shaq for doing the same for MJs 1st retirement. Today's players have been unable to the same for Kobe. BIG thanks to Penny, Kobe, Shaq and Grant. Much love.
meg I felt the same way I was 10 years old when MJ retired from the Bulls in 98 and at that time you couldn't have told me that 98 would would be my last year watching the best NBA team ever. Matter of fact I didn't like Kobe til after MJ retired from the Bulls. People kept saying he's the next Jordan and I was like how when MJ ain't retired yet! Oh yeah those other guys you named were my favorites too especially Penny and Grant
And Pippen talked bad on Phil for giving the ball to Kukoc in 94 haha
He was an assassin
I miss this bulls vs Knicks the NBA sucks today
Yeah, the drive/dunk at 5:22 is a testament to MJ's enormous basketball IQ and court awareness. He sets the screen and the semi-slips it as his defender hedges and then both defenders start to go towards the other Bulls player. Jordan knows he has a window to the lane if he hurries, and he immediately takes it. Also, the speed with which he gets from above the FT line to a dunk there is REALLY amazing, especially for a 33 year old. Just amazing court awareness. This is what separates MJ.
damn that jordan guy is good! he mustve been watchin kobe's tapes. wait....what?!? he was doin this before kobe?!?! damn. so your tellin me MJ made himself and kobe made a mold of MJ?!?! well i'll take the original anyday
The fake at 2:54 is AMAZING, he completely loses his defender lol. That play was featured on a Gatorade MJ commercial during those playoffs.
Marv "Sets up game 4 for Tomorrow" definitely a different time.
Air MJ Is The GOAT!!!
and he scored the last 8 points to tie the game to OT... best ever...
HELLO AJ XI's!!!!!
Greatest of all time... no contest
how do you stop a jordan fadeaway back then?
2019 watching
made it look so easy, silky smooth, cold blooded killer on tha court. .
Notice how nearly all missed jordan shots are missed.
Increíble
LMFAO Dennis Rodman and Charles Oakley at 9:28. That was hilarious.
MARV = GOAT.
@kuriaki71 exactly in my mind, i agree with you! he just rose up to the occassion time after time. He is even better during playoffs and that is a FACT!
@quadence
dammit!
You are absolute right!
Jesus
Lebron and Kobe aren't Jordan. Sorry.
How about if everyone in the business of making highlight videos cut out the free throws. Just add an annotation like 'he shot 8 out of 11 free throws' and prevent us all from utter boredom along the way.
@bones23jones
"We not outta this yet! No, No, No!"
"He couldn´t shoot 3´s" LMFAO
1:30 left, down by 8 and scores 8 pts with two 3pointers to talke it to OT
YES !!! 2:53 - 3:07
NBA to Btv is players from cleverland to pass out the balls will net to be but Games are good.
What was Jordan saying after hitting that three to send it to OT?
He told the crowd not just yet, no no no no
Only game bulls lost on their way to the finals!
Hate to be THAT GUY, but if Mike woulda hit his freethrows, he would have had 50.
2:52 got me making a sour face. just gross man.
also 4:30 how is that a line drive? I disagree
5:31 okay how have I seen a bunch of Starks clips over the years and never seen that ridiculous spinning layup? That was positively magnificent.
2:47
MJ owned Knicks. Reggie Miller owned Knicks. And then Trae owned Knicks lol
Jordan could score 100 points and would still be unhappy because he lost.
Not HD
@1:50. So, HOW is 6-1 Jon Starks to guard the 6-6 Jordan if you call him for "fouls" like this, which gets him out of the game in the FIRST quarter, so Jordan gets to go at 6-0 Greg Anthony?
***** Nothing wrong with that, but isn't this like saying the Toyota Camry can reach speeds of 120 mph, but would you race a Camry against a Porsche 911 and argue "well, speed isn't everything". The reality is that it MATTERED a great deal than the Warriors can throw THREE versatile 6-6 and above wing defenders at LeBron James, unlike the Jordan era when Curry--the average size of Jordan defenders--was all most teams had at their disposal to defend Jordan.
+EveryDayIsAGoodDay Again, you are making the "Honda Accord can go 120 miles an hour, so what is the difference between that and a Porsche?" Avery is the EXCEPTION to the rule. To say, well, if he can do it, then everyone can do it is known as the Oprah Winfrey argument. Look around the league. Demar Derozan is 6'7" uber athlete. Bradley Heal is a 6'6" uber athlete. In Miami, Dwayne Wade, even at his worst, is better physically than anyone Jordan ever played against. In Cleveland, 6'5" J R Smith is a better athlete than most of the 2 guards of Jordan's era like Hornacek, Hansen, Starks, Byron Scott or Danny Ainge. In Minnesota, LaVine is as good an athlete as Jordan. In Orlando, 6'5 Oladipo is more athletic than Hersey Frikkken Hawkins, David Wingate, Jim Paxson, Craig Ehlo, Randy Wittman, Dan Marjele, Drazen Petrovic or any of the other stuffs Jordan feasted on. Note that I left out the likes of Iggy, Klay, Tony Allen, and Trevor Ariza.
"Hand checking"? WHERE in this clip do you see ANY hand checking? That is one of the big MYTHS of the Jordan era, that there was "hand checking". Because of Jordan's constant whining, hand checking was eliminated in 1994. There was no real hand checking in the 1980s. Go back and watch Jordan's games against stiff white 2 guards Ehlo, Randy Wittman, Danny Ainge and Dan Marjele. ANY time they brushed hi laterally, Jordan was going to the line. Here, I showed you Starks breathing on Jordan and him going to the bench with 3 fouls in the FIRST quarter.
@1:44. Again, WHAT "hand checking" here? This "foul" call is the typical JOKES Jordan got from the refs. Grossly overrated ball hog.
***** I am SORRY but if Jordan was EVER guarded like LeBron and Kyrie and Shumpert guarded Curry in the Finals last year, Jordan, who couldn't shoot outside 18 feet, would have much worse games than he used to when he would disappear against the Pistons in the late 80s. If the like of Iguodala and Draymond ever played him the way LeBron was played in the Finals the last two years, he would put up Russell Westbrook type efficiency numbers. There are simply no defenders like Craig Ehlo, Randy Wittman, Jeff Malone, Hornacek, Marjele, and Greg Anthony in the NBA anymore.
lol
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But they lost this game!!! That's why I can never watch these highlights smh