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Decent college freshman
Re: Did Michael Jordan have a true weakness?
Originally Posted by sixerfan82
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?
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Local High School Star
Re: Did Michael Jordan have a true weakness?
On court: No
Off court: White Women
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Re: Did Michael Jordan have a true weakness?
Originally Posted by WillyJakk
On court: No
Off court: White Women
And Kobe tried to immitate him again
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NBA All-star
Re: Did Michael Jordan have a true weakness?
Originally Posted by Manute for Ever!
And Kobe tried to immitate him again
Oh, the irony.
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Local High School Star
Re: Did Michael Jordan have a true weakness?
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1st Team All NBA
Re: Did Michael Jordan have a true weakness?
no matter how hard he tried he couldn't lose a playoff series from 91-98 without retiring.. thats weak if you ask me
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Made that high school varsity squad
Re: Did Michael Jordan have a true weakness?
no weakness......jordan lost a step and perfected the fade jumper (unstoppable).....
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NBA rookie of the year
Re: Did Michael Jordan have a true weakness?
Originally Posted by Loki
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
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Re: Did Michael Jordan have a true weakness?
Originally Posted by White Chocolate
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
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I hit open jumpers.
Re: Did Michael Jordan have a true weakness?
Originally Posted by Da_Realist
well said
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shorty doowop
Re: Did Michael Jordan have a true weakness?
he couldnt dunk..
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The Expert
Re: Did Michael Jordan have a true weakness?
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.
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NBA rookie of the year
Re: Did Michael Jordan have a true weakness?
Originally Posted by 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.
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.
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I usually hit open layups
Re: Did Michael Jordan have a true weakness?
Originally Posted by 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.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXkwuTRImqs
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The Expert
Re: Did Michael Jordan have a true weakness?
Originally Posted by Da_Realist
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.
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