MJ's 1988 DPOY is now being "Questioned". HOME vs ROAD Steals has twice as much Gap

[ArbitraryWater]

I watched the entire video and read most of the article. Two things stood out to me here. According to Haberstroh,

1. "Dating back to 1982-83 when the award [DPOY] was established, Jordan’s home-vs.-away disparity in combined blocks and steals represents the largest of any Defensive Player of the Year award winner in NBA history.
No other instance in the award’s history has a player shown a disparity that touched 160 percent — except for Jordan’s 1987-88 season, which clocked in at 182 percent."

2. He watched six games from the 1988 season, and "In the six games, the box scores indicated that Jordan’s total steal count was 28. After comparing our notes from the film study, we each counted 12 steals. An astounding difference of 16 excess steals. Almost every excess steal was being allocated to Jordan."

I've constantly said this often about pre- internet and social media legends. If they were constantly scrutinized under microscopes the way modern players are, they may not be as revered as they are today.

Wow, thats insane.

This dudes achievements are fraud.

[gengiskhan]

The Curtain is slipping. I'll just ask the same question I always ask when stuff like this surfaces: " could you imagine if that was Lebron and not Mj?"

You retarded dumb fk

this is how LeScared let an entire generation down quiet LITERALLY.....



MJ never cheated the game like this.....Ever!.

Always gave NBA fans everything and more. On both ends of the floor. including All-Star game.

Even when he wasn't a 3 pts shots specialist, participated in 3 pt contest in ASG and lost badly.

Now can you Imagine if MJ did what 2009 LBJ did at this 2009 ASG here and followed it up with 2010 THE DECISION on ESPN!

Can you Imagine.....

[1987_Lakers]

MJ never cheated the game like this.....Ever!.

https://www.marca.com/en/more-sports...e648b461c.html

[jlip]

Then explain me one thing.

All the 1993 Head Coaches VOTED in FAVOR OF 1993 MJ as The "best DEFENSIVE player in the game" over 1993 Blocks Champ Hakeem despite Latter winning 1993 DPOY over 1993 MJ (DPOY Runner-Up)

Are all Opposition Head Coaches stupid to credit MJ over Hakeem.

Dont they know more about DEFEENSE than some fan watching 6 games here and there.

I rather take Kenny Smith saying, "MJ had one side of the half court locked down DEFENSIVELY with those reflexes and quickness and WINGSPAN. The other side was locked down DEFENSIVELY by Scottie with even longer WINGSPAN. Grant had the Paint Locked down DEFENSIVELY. Those 3 together were called DOBERMAN defense of Bulls"

Yeah. You've clearly lost this. The article and entire conversation is about MJ's specious and tenuous case for the DPOY based on historically inflated defensive stats in 1988. Then you come babbling about 1993 which is half a decade later and completely irrelevant. I think I'm done engaging you.

[Im Still Ballin]

Great article. There was definitely some disproportionate number-fudging going on there.

[Bush4Ever]

Assists used to be the calling-card for this sort of thing as well, although I remember examining it myself a little bit and finding the effect to be relatively small compared to expectations.

My gut feeling is that there was some fudging or at least stretching subjectivity to its breaking point...but stacked on top of a season that still would have been great defensively for a guard (but not as impactful as his comparable peer on the interior like Hakeem and such).

[1987_Lakers]

Man, I know home scorekeepers tend to be generous to its players when it comes to assists, steals, & blocks, but this takes it to another level.

[Hey Yo]

Pippen wrote.

“I saw it over and over, from the first training camp in 1987 to the last victory rally in 1998. Here’s how it worked: Say I deflected the ball and tapped it over to him. I should get credit with the steal, right? Nope. More often than not, the steal went into his column on the stat sheet, and I could do nothing about it.

“One night, a scorekeeper came into the locker room after the game to hand the stat sheets to Phil Jackson and the coaching staff. The sheet breaks down the points, rebounds, assists, steals, blocked shots, turnovers, and so on for everyone who played the game. I couldn’t believe the look the guy gave Michael: ‘See MJ, we take care of you.’ No wonder in the nine full seasons we played together, he averaged more steals than me in every year except two.”

[Im Still Ballin]

Everybody should read this article. It goes on about how Chicago's statisticians were awarding MJ steals for dead-ball turnovers, which literally cannot be steals. Things like throwing passes out of bounds or double dribble/travels.

[warriorfan]

I don’t believe it. Show me the hard evidence.


All these disparity numbers show is Jordan was getting snubbed on the road. Not the other way around.

[SATAN]

I don't want to rag on MJ for something like this but I'm sure his moronic fans will gloss over this information like everything else that goes against the narratives they spent decades trying to spread.

They are an absolute disgrace to basketball...

[SATAN]

Jordan entire army of fans do this ALL THE TIME for Jordan. With everything.


Need stats to be inflated during home games? Here's a bunch of steals and blocks for Jordan.
Need people decades later to shit on Pippen to prop Jordan? No problem.
Need people to lie about Jordan everywhere in all message boards? Done done done.


We've been fighting fake Jordan news for decades now. And finally its getting through, Jordan is no longer the undisputed GOAT. It's over. We won.

This.

[ArbitraryWater]

I don’t believe it. Show me the hard evidence.


All these disparity numbers show is Jordan was getting snubbed on the road. Not the other way around.

Why tf would someone make this up and ruin their cred?

You wont see MJ disputing this.


This is high level corruption, by the way.


This is insane.

Pippen himself said the scorekeepers went to MJ and said "see, we take care of you".

[8Ball]

I don't want to rag on MJ for something like this but I'm sure his moronic fans will gloss over this information like everything else that goes against the narratives they spent decades trying to spread.

They are an absolute disgrace to basketball...

MJ fans are religious fanatics.


It's our duty to correct the record against them. Every year we convert a few % of MJ worshippers.

[warriorfan]

Why tf would someone make this up and ruin their cred?

You wont see MJ disputing this.


This is high level corruption, by the way.


This is insane.

Pippen himself said the scorekeepers went to MJ and said "see, we take care of you".

Pippen is a little jealous cuck. He’s about as biased as a source as it comes to Michael Jordan.