Gary Payton holds Michael Jordan to 5/19 shooting (1996 Finals, Game 6)

[mehyaM24]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-9ezKk1arA

gp finally was assigned to jordan in game 4 and the sonics won 2 of 3 and lost this game because they couldn't throw it in the ocean.

a great performance nonetheless...one of my favorite 90s players

[DonDadda59]

DPOY gonna DPOY

[ArbitraryWater]

GP

[TheMan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-9ezKk1arA

gp finally was assigned to jordan in game 4 and the sonics won 2 of 3 and lost this game because they couldn't throw it in the ocean.

a great performance nonetheless...one of my favorite 90s players

Series was basically over by then but yeah, GP did a nice job on Jordan.

[mehyaM24]

Series was basically over by then but yeah, GP did a nice job on Jordan.

jordan usually ate midgets up (what he faced throughout the 90s), but payton was tenacious. never backed down from anybody. some of the quickest hands i've seen from an on-ball defender

sonics were just unfortunate everybody else on the bulls picked it up, with pippen leading the way defensively

pretty crazy how stacked that bulls team was

[Young X]

2/5

[andgar923]

Payton is a horrible athlete and wouldn't be good in this era.

[kuniva_dAMiGhTy]

The glove.. One of the baddest cats of my generation

[andgar923]

On a different note....


90% of what Payton did defensively would've been called a foul today.

[DonDadda59]

jordan usually ate midgets up

Could you imagine any scenario wherein MJ gets outscored in a finals series by a midget coming off the bench?

[riseagainst]

Could you imagine any scenario wherein MJ gets outscored in a finals series by a midget coming off the bench?

at least lebron wouldn't get out scored by midgets coming off the bench.

[Calabis]

at least lebron wouldn't get out scored by midgets coming off the bench.

I thought the guy guarding Jordan in that series should have got finals MVP

[DonDadda59]

at least lebron wouldn't get out scored by midgets coming off the bench.

This, which is why Bron is the consensus GOA-






Oh...

[Hey Yo]

Jordan averaged 27.3 points. 5.3 rebounds and 4.2 assists. He also shot 42 percent from the field, 32 percent from three, 84 percent from the line. He averaged three turnovers per game, and in the deciding Game 6 against the Sonics, he had as many turnovers (five) as made baskets (five, on 19 shots).

In fact, in the last three games of those '96 Finals, Jordan shot 37 percent, with 11 turnovers. Nonetheless, Jordan was once again named Finals MVP.

[mehyaM24]

Could you imagine any scenario wherein MJ gets outscored in a finals series by a midget coming off the bench?

imagined it? it actually happened! eastern finals, vinnie "6'2" microwave" johnson had 22 points to jordans 18 hahahaha

http://www.basketball-reference.com/...905310DET.html