Michael Jordan owning and posterizing a prime Shaq O'Neal
YOU CAN'T TOP THIS!!! Owning
Michael Jordan owning and posterizing a prime Shaq O'Neal
YOU CAN'T TOP THIS!!! Owning a prime Shaq by blocking him? Shooting outside jumpers over him? Juking him with subtle moves inside? Spinning away from his oncoming trap so fast he can't recover? Dunking on Shaq as Jordan nutchecks Shaq. Jordan does a few nasty acrobatic shots after contact with Shaq too. Also see Shaq try to injure Michael Jordan with a cheap shot and the usual "huh?". Shaq just blatantly elbows Michael Jordan in this video. The only way you could top this is by showing your favorite player owning Wilt on multiple plays. Everyone gets beat, we've even seen some of the greats look like average humans when they aged. Nobody has ever abused opponents as often, or the way Michael Jordan did.
This is a response to the video posted where Shaq got lucky and he blocked one of Michael Jordan's shots.
Michael Jordan is without question the greatest player of all time. Only the young and misinformed would think otherwise. All who witnessed his entire career, even under the scrutinizing eye, we all realized one thing. This player, Michael Jordan is similar to Muhammad Ali. They can immitate, they can try to duplicate, the fact remains the same. Nothing compares to the original.
Even those who mimmick MJ will never pull off his moves with the same level of effectiveness or efficiency. That has already been proven.
Considered basketball's greatest-ever player
Nicknames: His Airness, Air Jordan
Cut from his Wilmington NC basketball team as a sophomore; eventually made the team and led it to state championship
Won Sporting News' College Player of the Year (1983, 1984) and 1984's Naismith and Wooden awards
League leader in scoring, with 10 titles (1986-1993, 1996-1998)
On 2 Olympic Gold-Medal teams (1984, 1992)
In 1994 retired to play minor-league baseball
Bulls retired his #23 jersey when he left the game
Returned to basketball in 1995 and in 1996 became one of two (along with Willis Reed) to win MVP for regular season, All-Star Game and Finals, all in one year
Hosted Saturday Night Live (1991) and starred in Space Jam opposite Bugs Bunny and friends
Finished his career with 32,292 points, third place in scoring, and a career average 30.12 ppg, the best in NBA history
Always wore his University of N. Carolina shorts under his Bulls uniform for good luck
Worked with United Negro College Fund, Make-A-Wish Foundation, the Boys and Girls Clubs of America, Special Olympics and America's Promise
Selected to NBA's 50 All-Time Best Players (1996)
1988: playing against Utah Jazz, 6' 6" (198 cm) Jordan dunked over 6' 1" (185.4 cm), 175 lb. (80 k) John Stockton. A heckler razzed, "Why don't you dunk on somebody your own size?" In his next play, Jordan dunked again, this time on 6' 11" (210 cm), 285-lb. (129 k) center Melvin Turpin. He turned to the fan and asked, "Was he big enough?"
"Even when I'm old and grey, I won't be able to play it, but I'll still love the game." -- Michael Jordan
"I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying." -- Michael Jordan
"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." -- Michael Jordan
"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen." -- Michael Jordan
"Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game." -- Michael Jordan
"One thing I believe to the fullest is that if you think and achieve as a team, the individual accolades will take care of themselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships." -- Michael Jordan
"If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it." -- Michael Jordan
"Once Michael gets up there he says, 'Well, maybe I'll just hang up here in the air for a while, just sit back.' Then all of a sudden, he says, 'Well, maybe I'll 360. No I changed my mind. I'll go up on the other side.' He's just incredible." -- Magic Johnson, on Michael Jordan's aerial artistry
"That play was 'Give the ball to Michael and everyone else get the @##@#% out of the way." -- Chicago Bulls head coach Doug Collins, on "The Shot" made by Jordan that helped the Bulls beat the Cavaliers in game five of 1989's Eastern Conference First Round
"You will always see MJ's influences on the game. All you need to do is turn on any NBA game and you can see how MJ influenced many players with his playing style and desire. Just watch one game with LeBron James or Kobe Bryant and you will see MJ's influences on their playing style instantly." - Bruce Blitz
This is a showcase of MJ, not a player comparison.
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January 12, 1984
This was a vintage N. Carolina - Maryland matchup featuring players li
January 12, 1984
This was a vintage N. Carolina - Maryland matchup featuring players like Jordan, Len Bias, Sam Perkins, Kenny Smith, Brad Daugherty and more.
Bias had a great first half scoring 16 points. Finished with 24pts and 4rbs. (24pts was his career-high at that time). Perkins was with 26/12.
Jordan scored 21 and he was a monster on the boards with 12 rbds (7 off). He also had 2 blocks and at least 4 steals that I put in the video but could be even more.
He came up with all the big points, rebounds and the steal at the end of the game. And of course, he has his famous dunk at the buzzer. There were also 2-3 questionable calls on Jordan plays which I also included.
Post game notes & quotes
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Two 'Madmen' in Blue Put Md. in Depression By John Feinstein, Washington Post Staff Writer
13 January 1984
The game was over, Michael Jordan and Sam Perkins had seen to that. But Jordan wasn't quite finished. The ball was loose at center court, then he had it with no one blocking his path to the basket. In about two strides he was past the foul line, his 6-foot-6 body uncoiling, the ball seemingly at his knees as he rose above the rim once again.
North Carolina's reserves were on their feet in anticipation. "We knew it was coming," Matt Doherty said.
He was right. Jordan, sailing through the air, the ball cupped in his hand, twisted his body, brought the ball from far behind his head and, wham! slammed it through the hoop as the buzzer sounded.
"I wasn't really showing off," he pleaded a few minutes later, a guilty grin written all over his face. "I was just trying to cap off the victory." But, he admitted, "It was fun."
Most of the game was not that much fun for the top-ranked Tar Heels. With 14,500 spectators in Cole Field House roaring, with Len Bias and Adrian Branch shooting more like demons than turtles, Carolina had its hands full for 34 minutes.
"Then those two madmen took over," said Maryland's Mark Fothergill.
"Showtime," added Carolina point guard Kenny Smith. "It was their show."
The madmen putting on the show were Jordan and Perkins. One year ago in Cole Field House, the Terrapins humiliated the Tar Heels, 106-94, blowing them out on a night when Perkins and Jordan didn't look all-state, much less all-America.
Last night, they got even. Perkins did it with 26 points and 12 rebounds, playing with intensity that surprised even his teammates. Jordan, who is intense about a card game in the dorm, was everywhere, with 21 points, 12 rebounds and what will be remembered here as the dunk.
"I think Sam's heard the people saying stuff like he's lazy and he's determined to prove how wrong they are," Jordan said. "He's been doing it all year."
Doherty agreed. "In the second half, Sam hit a layup and got fouled and he started jumping up and down and shaking his fists in the air. I had to stop for a second and say, 'Is that really Sam Perkins?' I don't know if he's doing that consciously or not, but it sure is working."
Perkins has been casual about his new-found intensity. "I'm just trying to work as hard as I can," he said. "Tonight, I thought I did a good job inside, but I want to do more, to dominate in there as much as I can.
"They blew us out in the second half in here last year and we know what a good team they have. We wanted to show them that we're pretty good, too."
They did. While Perkins was constantly controlling the inside, Jordan seemed to come up with every loose ball. He had a little trouble controlling the ball on the fast break a couple of times and had to come out in the first half to get a sore knee iced. But when it came down to decision time, Jordan soared.
"I just felt the momentum building inside me as it got to the end," he said. "I like that time of the game."
It was 57-56 when Jordan went to the hoop with 6:06 left and was fouled. He made the first free throw, missed the second but grabbed the rebound. He cut to the base line and sank a reverse layup to make it 60-56. Herman Veal missed for Maryland and Jordan came around a screen, spun to his left and hit an 18-footer. It was 62-56 and the Terrapins never caught up.
"They don't think about taking over at that point," Doherty said. "They just do."
"How do you stop Jordan?" Bias asked rhetorically. "I don't know, how about putting four guys on him?"
"That was just an average Michael Jordan dunk," Fothergill said, rolling his eyes. "I've seen him do more spectacular dunks during summer games. Of course, average Michael Jordan is better than just about anything you'll see anywhere."
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UNC Beats Maryland; By Michael Wilbon Washington Post Staff Writer
Those who argue that two great players can't make a team No. 1 in the nation obviously haven't seen enough of North Carolina all-Americas Michael Jordan and Sam Perkins.
Jordan had the presence of three players at times last night, shooting, stealing and rebounding in surreal sequences. His 21 points and 12 rebounds, and Perkins' 26 points and 12 rebounds, enabled Carolina to remain undefeated with a 74-62 victory over Maryland in packed Cole Field House.
The Tar Heels, all-Americas or not, held no big edge until the final minute. The Terrapins, for the most part, played like a team ranked fifth in the country. Sophomore forward Len Bias, with a career-high 24 points, and Adrian Branch, with 19, at times matched the splendor of Perkins and Jordan.
But it was Jordan who scored five straight points to turn a 57-56 lead into a 62-56 margin with five minutes to play. Jordan made the first of two free throws, then hustled incredibly to save his miss on the second shot. After scoring inside for a 60-56 lead, he followed Herman Veal's miss with a twisting, lean-in jumper for a six-point lead.
After Maryland (10-2, 1-1 in the Atlantic Coast Conference) had pulled to 63-62 on a bank shot by Ben Coleman with 2:03 remaining, Perkins made two free throws for 65-52. Bias missed a jumper, Jordan rebounded and the game, essentially, was over.
Maryland held a 43-40 lead with 14 minutes to play after a jumper by Branch, who took over the game after intermission. The Terrapins had a chance to move ahead by five when Coleman made a steal, but he tried to dribble downcourt and shoot off the run and missed badly.
Perkins dunked at the other end for 43-42. Another big sequence came with eight minutes left, when Branch forced a shot. He missed, and Perkins came down and scored on a three-point play for a 55-52 lead for the Tar Heels (11-0, 2-0). "I thought I was going to draw a foul, but I shouldn't have made the move, anyway," Branch said.
"When we had that (three-point) lead," Maryland Coach Lefty Driesell said, "we should have slowed it down and worked for a real good shot. But we made a couple of hurry-up moves that cost us."
Or as freshman guard Keith Gatlin said more succinctly, "We did some silly things at a crucial point in the game."
As well as Perkins and Jordan were rebounding, every Maryland mistake at either end was magnified. The Tar Heels outrebounded Maryland by seven, and scored on nine of 19 offensive rebounds. Maryland, unofficially, scored on only two of 12 offensive rebounds.
Even North Carolina Coach Dean Smith was forced to use a rare superlative. "Perkins and Jordan were great," Smith said.
It seemed Jordan and Perkins were there for every important basket and rebound. "They did what the great players do," Driesell said.
Jeff Adkins, who shared time with Veal and Bias trying to guard Jordan, had talked Wednesday afternoon about how Jordan beats teams with second effort more than anything else.
"You know he's going to the offensive boards," Adkins said last night. "You can block out if you want, and half the time, he still gets the ball." Jordan and Perkins each got seven offensive rebounds.
Of the often-unaggressive Perkins, who hasn't played especially well recently against Maryland, Branch said, "I've never seen Perkins play as hard."
Also determining the outcome was UNC's defenses -- man-to-man in the first half, zones in the second -- that kept the Terrapins shooting from outside.
Center Coleman scored only eight points, and made just three of 10 shots. "When he gets eight points and Perkins gets 26, there's a big void," Driesell said. "I don't know what the problem was, but he didn't have one of his better games."
Nine of Bias' 11 baskets came from outside, as did at least half of Branch's eight field goals. "We're usually an inside team and this is the first game we've played predominantly from the outside," Branch said. "It was fine for a while, but it hurt eventually. When you get into a jump-shooting pattern with a team that's going inside, the jump shooters lose nine out of 10 times."
Both teams played fairly well defensively, especially in the second half when the Tar Heels shot 49 percent and Maryland 46 percent.
Driesell, despite slapping Smith's hand at the end of the game instead of shaking it, seemed to have calmed considerably 15 minutes after Jordan had thrown down a "rock-the-baby" dunk -- one for the ages -- to end the contest.
"It was a good, hard-fought game," Driesell said. "I'm looking forward to playing them again (Feb. 19 in Chapel Hill). If we can get some better play out of a couple of people and make some adjustments, we'll be right up there. I don't like losing to North Carolina any time, especially on our home court. But we played the No. 1 team pretty well for 39 minutes."
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Teams have been running the 1-2-2 zone back since the 80's. You would man up on the guy ne
Teams have been running the 1-2-2 zone back since the 80's. You would man up on the guy nearest to your area. Zones were different in that aspect. Zones involved rotation with positions. Now zones are boring and weak, they just play an area. Watch the way Pat Riley makes fun of the "dinky 1-2-2 trap defense" that all of these shitty teams were running in the early 90's. Pat Riley adapted the Pistons Jordan rules defense to the Knicks, so he thought the 1-2-2 trap was nothing. I suspect that Pat Riley prefers man to man physical contact defense. Marv Alberts also makes fun of how the real shitty teams tried using it that year (1991-1992) and it didn't work in an era of so much contact. Man on man pressure was crucial, especially away from the ball. You couldn't allow players space away from the ball, in place of body contact and handchecking. Old school passing teams would eat you alive. Zones work against ballhogs. The Jordan Rules: The guiding principle is that a defender is never left to guard Jordan unaided. Jordan's position on the floor dictates whether the Pistons trap him with a second defender or have the second defender play "help and recover" (that is, run at Jordan to stop his dribble, but then scramble back to his own man; Salley is a master at this ploy). The closer Jordan is to the basket, the more the Pistons go with the trap. When he is above the sideline hash mark (28 feet from the baseline), they usually play help and recover. Even when Jordan is far from the basket, perhaps bringing up the ball as a point guard on a wide-open floor, Detroit runs a second player at him, someone like Salley or Rodman. This reduces the amount of open court that he has to work with and often forces him to give up the ball to a teammate. The Pistons always want someone else to handle the ball. Not sometimes. Always. When Jordan has the ball on the wing, the Detroit player guarding him forces him toward defensive help. Most often that means turning Jordan to the right when he's on the left side of the floor and to the left when he's on the right side. If Jordan happens to get isolated with one man and is in a potential scoring position, the Piston defender will try to force him to go left. They think he makes a stronger, more explosive move to his right. So does Jordan. When Jordan tries to run a pick-and-roll, Detroit traps him. That means that two men, the one guarding Jordan and the one guarding the Bull setting the pick, run at him. The Pistons do this with remarkable efficiency, partly because that second defender is usually the 6 ft. 11 in. Salley or the 6 ft. 11 in. Laimbeer. The tall trappers make it almost impossible for Jordan to deliver the ball to a teammate rolling toward the basket, and their aggressive charge toward Jordan usually forces him to retreat. When Jordan posts up near the basket, Detroit typically puts three men on him, with Dumars most often behind him, using his strong hips and legs to "body" Jordan away from the basket. When the entry pass comes in from the point guard, Thomas leaves that guard and double-teams Jordan. If that means the point guard is free, so be it. Meanwhile, another defender, perhaps Laimbeer or Salley, will have come over and planted himself in the lane, maybe on the baseline side, maybe toward the middle. Dumars will then turn Jordan toward that help. Jordan loves the baseline. "Even though there's less room down there, I can be more creative," he says. But by and large, the Pistons take it away from him. When Jordan comes off a screen set near the baseline -- his most frequent maneuver when he's playing shooting guard -- a host of Jordan Rules come into play. Dumars must follow him around the screen -- no matter if he has to go into the bleachers -- to prevent Jordan from making a backdoor cut and receiving an alley-oop pass for an almost certain dunk. The Piston -- usually Laimbeer -- guarding the Bull setting the pick will step out to make Jordan receive the ball farther from the basket. In addition -- and this is important -- that man will guard against Jordan's making a "tight curl" off the top of the screen and suddenly looping back into the middle to take a short pass on the dead run, a circumstance that is almost always disastrous for the defense. In most cases Jordan will have to step back and take the pass on the wing. Then Thomas will come over, creating a double team, and the process begins all over again. If Jordan puts the ball on the floor, at least two players stay on him, pushing him toward even more help. If he passes, the weakside defenders adjust to play two Pistons against four Bulls or one against three. As long as Jordan is out of the picture, they love those odds. EVERYTHING the Pistons did, other teams did when facing Jordan. Teams like the Boston Celtics ran zones in the 80's. Only a lazy defender would be called for illegal defense. Team passing can take a team out of a zone pretty quick. Zones work against ballhogs
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