Michael Jordan 1988: 59pts Vs. Detroit Pistons on CBS

anyone else think that jordan's 61 on the bad boys is way more impressive than kobe's 81 on the raptors?

We all know that Jordan was a Superstar even then. But whats really impressive is that Magic & Bird struggled playing at the Silverdome. Professionals never seem to really struggle at arenas & thats never even brought up on the pro level. But the Pistons lead the NBA in attendance for years during this time. Probably had an extra 15,000 fans compared to any other arena. It was probaly the 3rd most intimadating court for an away team after Boston Garden & The Forum & Mike wasn't even bothered.

thats true. teams struggled at the silverdome. i think it was a combination of the setting, the rims were tight and the huge arena made for a difficult backdrop to shoot. also the pistone were a a top notch defensive team with a physical style of play, all that made this dominating performance all the more impressve.

He only lost to Oscar Schmidt in terms of technique...

jordan said joe dumars and mitch richmond were the two players who defended him the best

mj can get 45.7 avge. points per game and he might get 30 points each quarter that make 120 point game easy

Can anyone tell me how MJ would do in today's NBA rules? I didn't realize they don't allow hand-checking anymore. What else?

scottie pippen has said, today's rules are so weak.. and if kobe bryant got 81 i think mj wudve been able to score 100.

larry brown :'' im always teasing mj about how he cudve avgd 50 ppg, if he played today''

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they have the 3 second defensive rule so that big men can't stay and clog the paint like they used to. so take this as an example. Michael at the age of 38 scored 51 points. now imagine jordan at the tail end of the first three peat (32.6/6.7/5.5 his stats) that's when defenses were hard, that probably would translate to high 30's low 40's ppg with today's defense.