Did Michael Jordan have a true weakness?

[gotbacon23]

dont forget all them regular season games he lost

seriously. he didn't have a single undefeated regular season in his ENTIRE career. and we are supposed to think he is the best?

[WillyJakk]

On court: No
Off court: White Women

[Manute for Ever!]

On court: No
Off court: White Women

And Kobe tried to immitate him again

[White Chocolate]

And Kobe tried to immitate him again

Oh, the irony.

[WillyJakk]

And Kobe tried to immitate him again

[VanillaThunder]

no matter how hard he tried he couldn't lose a playoff series from 91-98 without retiring.. thats weak if you ask me

[jjayfive]

no weakness......jordan lost a step and perfected the fade jumper (unstoppable).....

[Da_Realist]

No, he didn't. He had areas where he was not as great as he was in every other area (namely 3-point shooting), but even those weren't "weaknesses," because for something to be a "weakness," it needs to be something that could be exploited. Jordan can and would knock down 3's if you let him.

In every season Jordan attempted more than a miniscule number of threes ('90, '93, '96, though the latter was at the shorter line), he shot it in the mid-upper 30's. He also shot 38.5-40.3% from deep in the playoffs from '91-'96, including 38.9% on 4 threes attempted per game in the '93 playoffs. This suggests that Jordan was a rhythm three point shooter -- whenever he took a good amount, he made a good amount. He explicitly stated several times that he never wanted to take a lot of threes because it would detract from his definition of his game, and the evidence seems to bear out the fact that it was a conscious decision rather than a shortcoming, since when he took more, he made more.

Who knows how Jordan's 3FG% would have looked if he worked on it and attempted 5+ threes per game for several seasons? I have no doubt he'd be a mid-30's shooter at the very least, since this is what the evidence suggests.

MJ discusses the 3pt shot

[twolvesfan]

Scoring- career 30.1 PPG

Shooting- shot over 50% 6 times

Defense- career 6.2 RPG(had an 8 RPG season), 2.3 SPG(once had 3.2), 1.5+ BPG twice

Leadership- extremely clutch, Bulls never lost a series with home court

3 point shooting- in seasons with at least 90 3 pointers made, never shot less than 37.4%

Playmaking- career 5.3 APG, averaged 6+ APG 3 times

Health- in his years as a Bull(minus 1994-95), played in 92.3% of his team's games


Honestly, did the man have one single weakness on the basketball court?

gambling

[WADE MONEY]

MJ discusses the 3pt shot

well said

[halffttime]

he couldnt dunk..

[Glove_20]

Jordan was not a good 3 point shooter for most of his career. People bring out that when he attempted a lot, he made them. Well the reason he didn't attempt so many (and make so many) early in his career was simply because he wasn't good enough.

What's the number one reason ALL NBA players don't take that many 3s? Because they can't make them. It's really that simple. And if you think he could've made them, even when he attempted them he shot a low % early in his career.

It's another story if he worked on his 3 point shoot or not. That's irrelevant to this topic. Just because you don't work at a certain aspect of the game, doesn't mean we can't call it a weakness. Of course it's going to be a weakness if you don't work on that aspect of the game.






So really, 3 point shooting was a weakness for Jordan most of his career. There is no way around this. He didn't take them because he couldn't make them.

[Da_Realist]

Jordan was not a good 3 point shooter for most of his career. People bring out that when he attempted a lot, he made them. Well the reason he didn't attempt so many (and make so many) early in his career was simply because he wasn't good enough.

What's the number one reason ALL NBA players don't take that many 3s? Because they can't make them. It's really that simple. And if you think he could've made them, even when he attempted them he shot a low % early in his career.

It's another story if he worked on his 3 point shoot or not. That's irrelevant to this topic. Just because you don't work at a certain aspect of the game, doesn't mean we can't call it a weakness. Of course it's going to be a weakness if you don't work on that aspect of the game.

So really, 3 point shooting was a weakness for Jordan most of his career. There is no way around this. He didn't take them because he couldn't make them.

So is 3 pt shooting considered a weakness for Hakeem Olajuwon or Kareem?

What difference does it make if it can't be exploited? MJ couldn't shoot with his toes either but it's not considered a weakness.

[db23]

Jordan was not a good 3 point shooter for most of his career. People bring out that when he attempted a lot, he made them. Well the reason he didn't attempt so many (and make so many) early in his career was simply because he wasn't good enough.

What's the number one reason ALL NBA players don't take that many 3s? Because they can't make them. It's really that simple. And if you think he could've made them, even when he attempted them he shot a low % early in his career.

It's another story if he worked on his 3 point shoot or not. That's irrelevant to this topic. Just because you don't work at a certain aspect of the game, doesn't mean we can't call it a weakness. Of course it's going to be a weakness if you don't work on that aspect of the game.






So really, 3 point shooting was a weakness for Jordan most of his career. There is no way around this. He didn't take them because he couldn't make them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXkwuTRImqs

[Glove_20]

So is 3 pt shooting considered a weakness for Hakeem Olajuwon or Kareem?

What difference does it make if it can't be exploited? MJ couldn't shoot with his toes either but it's not considered a weakness.

Of course it's a weakness for Kareem and Hakeem, simply because they were well below average at it.

Exploitation has nothing to do with it being a weakness or not. If the player wasn't good at, or it was a "weak" part of their game, then its a weakness.

And at the toe example, don't tell me I have to show you why that's irrelevant to this topic.


If it's a weak part of your game, it's a weakness. If a player could score 40ppg on 60% shooting, simply by just making any kind of jump shot, but not being able to do anything else, I'd still call dribbling/passing weakness on the offensive end for that player, because he isn't good at it.