the "crazies" werent as crazy before as it is now...duke got spoiled and thought they always had a good team...the great red auerbach said , duke is always overrated!
dean has truly unique system in unc that all his players loved...the DISCIPLINE team first attitude is embedded on them...jordan is destined to be in carolina...and basketball history proved that...read halberstram's playing for keeps..i notice duke's chip engelland.. he played in the philippines in the 80's great shooter..was an nba shooting coach, i think he's with the spurs now
hey edo, interesting insight..but see mj is a freshman on this vid, he's just starting to blossom..nobody expected him to fly on the air evrytime he has the ball..he's still "feeling it" so to speak..look at his clip on his junior year and soph year...that's when he really exploded!
Notice how mechanical Jordan plays in Dean Smith's system. There are a couple times in this video where he head fakes, has his defender up in the air and off balance, and you and I know he could easily drive to the hoop if he wanted to. But because he's playing within the rules of the rigid "Dean Smith" passing offense, he instead just passes back to the point instead. Smith was a great coach, but he did Jordan no favors. Jordan could've averaged MUCH more in college if he'd played elsewhere
Notice there are virtually no crowd shots. Duke's student body developed a schtick that was predicated on lampooning the absurdity of caring about sports. They were too good to care. It's like the "precision marching band" that you find at your better universities (Duke, Stanford, Virginia, Yale) that makes fun of people actually taking something silly like a band performance or an incollegiate basketball game seriously. ESPN mistakenly thought this was true "fandom" and made it famous.
i watched the game yesterday and heart braking!
Kobe41735 3 weeks ago
the "crazies" werent as crazy before as it is now...duke got spoiled and thought they always had a good team...the great red auerbach said , duke is always overrated!
inthezone07 3 years ago
dean has truly unique system in unc that all his players loved...the DISCIPLINE team first attitude is embedded on them...jordan is destined to be in carolina...and basketball history proved that...read halberstram's playing for keeps..i notice duke's chip engelland.. he played in the philippines in the 80's great shooter..was an nba shooting coach, i think he's with the spurs now
inthezone07 3 years ago
hey edo, interesting insight..but see mj is a freshman on this vid, he's just starting to blossom..nobody expected him to fly on the air evrytime he has the ball..he's still "feeling it" so to speak..look at his clip on his junior year and soph year...that's when he really exploded!
inthezone07 3 years ago
Notice how mechanical Jordan plays in Dean Smith's system. There are a couple times in this video where he head fakes, has his defender up in the air and off balance, and you and I know he could easily drive to the hoop if he wanted to. But because he's playing within the rules of the rigid "Dean Smith" passing offense, he instead just passes back to the point instead. Smith was a great coach, but he did Jordan no favors. Jordan could've averaged MUCH more in college if he'd played elsewhere
Edo111567 3 years ago
@Edo111567 I don't know.....I don't think he could have gotten past the uber-athletic Greg Wendt on that play
marehtseira 1 year ago
Notice there are virtually no crowd shots. Duke's student body developed a schtick that was predicated on lampooning the absurdity of caring about sports. They were too good to care. It's like the "precision marching band" that you find at your better universities (Duke, Stanford, Virginia, Yale) that makes fun of people actually taking something silly like a band performance or an incollegiate basketball game seriously. ESPN mistakenly thought this was true "fandom" and made it famous.
mch9 3 years ago
@mch9 who are you to decide what ppl should or shouldn't care about
marehtseira 1 year ago