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Re: Re: sam444, thanks for the added info. However, re/Jordan rules: Are you
sam444, WOW, this is all news to me; but I was never into the game that much - just recall Jordan's playing years ago.
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reasons
on November 17, 2011 at 6:07 PM
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Re: sam444, thanks for the added info. However, re/Jordan rules: Are you
Yes, I am positive! The Pistons did employ a "Jordan Rules" but it was for defensives purposes! This is how it came about: The Jordan Rules were a defensive strategy employed by the Detroit Pistons against Michael Jordan in order to limit his effectiveness on offense. Devised by head coach Chuck Daly in 1988, the Pistons' strategy was "to play him tough, to physically challenge him and to vary its defenses so as to try to throw him off balance. Sometimes the Pistons would overplay Jordan to keep the ball from him. Sometimes they would play him straight up, more often they would run a double-team at him as soon as he touched the ball to try to force him to give it up. And whenever he went to the basket, they made sure his path was contested" Source: Wikipedia
And from a former NBA player: "I don't know about getting it to seven games, but they knew who they were marketing for the business," Oakley said. "You look back and look at the teams and think who can make the money for the league. Who made the league shine in their careers, Michael Jordan or Patrick Ewing? No question it was Michael Jordan. He's the best player to ever play, but he got more calls. I know I was in a couple situations where I didn't foul at all and they called fouls." OAKLEY
Another citation:
IN THINKING about what kind of basketball player Michael Jordan was, it's useful to begin at the end. Slow-motion replays of the last shot of Jordan's career, the buzzer-beating, championship-winning swish against the Utah Jazz in the NBA finals last spring, were unavoidable on television last week. To the Jordan-worshipping world, that shot represents all that is good and great about the man: here is the noble competitor in the clutch, rising to victory as his faked-out defender slips haplessly to the floor. Writing in the New Yorker this week, Remnick called it "a move so exquisite that even his defender stumbled in mystification."
But a closer look reveals that something a bit less majestic had taken place: Jordan got away with a foul. Driving to the basket to set up his jump shot, Jordan gave a subtle shove to the Utah defender, Byron Russell, with his free hand. It was Jordan's push-off, not a lightning-fast move, that caused Russell to slip and left Jordan with an open shot.
That push-off became a signature of Jordan's later years, when his speed and leap had waned a bit, when he needed a little extra help to get a clear look. It is a patently illegal tactic. But Jordan, whose star power was so valuable to the NBA, clearly received special treatment from the referees. They turned a blind eye to his cunningly discreet infractions even as they whistled his opponents for any hint of a foul. Source: HERE
Jordan was good for the NBA from a marketing standpoint but if your team was playing him, they had to stay clear or they would be called for a foul, if it was ticky-tack! He got those all the time on players but I never saw him get called!
He was a fine basketball player, no doubt, but he would have been an okay player had the officiating been equal in my humble opinion! No one speaks about it but he was less than a good husband having had many affairs while married, but again he did not give them life so to speak because he did not address them publicly such as Kobe did!
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sam444
on November 17, 2011 at 11:44 AM
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FSI, if there's a thought worth remembering about this post, that is it.
So glad you mentioned it.
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reasons
on November 17, 2011 at 10:59 AM
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Wiley, Jordan was certainly well-known.
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reasons
on November 17, 2011 at 10:56 AM
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Justi, I used to watch basketball when Jordan played, not now.
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reasons
on November 17, 2011 at 10:54 AM
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Re: True Talent Will Been Seen in Due Time..... Good Thought!
JPT, he was outstanding.
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reasons
on November 17, 2011 at 10:52 AM
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sam444, thanks for the added info. However, re/Jordan rules: Are you
sure that's not mainly the view of your competing Pistons?
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reasons
on November 17, 2011 at 10:50 AM
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Even the best have obstacles to overcome.
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FormerStudentIntern
on November 17, 2011 at 10:33 AM
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reasons
I'm not a basketball fan but I do know who he is is all.
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WileyJohn
on November 16, 2011 at 4:06 PM
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Among the many things I know nothing about, basketball is one of them. I know who Michael Jordan is but that is all.
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Justi
on November 16, 2011 at 2:40 PM
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True Talent Will Been Seen in Due Time..... Good Thought!
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Dr_JPT
on November 16, 2011 at 2:11 PM
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He actually tried out for the varsity squad and very few underclassmen make it as sophomores even more rare as a freshman! I have always thought this fact on him was a bit overrated, had he been cut as a junior or senior and made it, it would be an amazing fact! Jordan was a fine basketball player but he got away with a lot of contact that was not called during the course of his career! It was said at one time there are the "NBA rules" and then there are the "Jordan rules"! I was a huge fan of basketball in this era being a Piston fan so I saw him play many, many games under the "Jordan rules"! Again these are my humble thoughts only! sam
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sam444
on November 16, 2011 at 2:10 PM
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