McGrady dropped 43 on Mike Jordan

[SinJackal]

I wish it were possible to open a thread and not see posts about Kobe as soon as the 2nd post when the thread has nothing to do with him.

[Andrei89]

Arenas is a stud.

Gun incident or not if Washington trades him the ones that get him are winners

[OldSchoolBBall]

Give TMac credit for being able to use good footwork and faking to clear space and get looks at the basket against Jordan. Jordan's defense, even at age 40 here, was tenacious. Tmac couldn't get by him with the first step or off the dribble, and had to resort to numerous foot-fakes to get Jordan off-balance, and then he ended up having to hit very tough, contested fall-away J's anyway over Jordan's defense.

There was a game in Orlando where Jordan totally took TMac out of the game for the first half -- Tracy could barely bring the ball up the floor, and couldn't locate a shot. Then Jordan got poked in the eye early in the 3rd and had to leave the game. McGrady was an incredible tough-shot maker back then, though, as you can see here.

Incidentally, I've never seen Jordan have such poor defensive footwork as at the 1:41 mark, where he overextends himself and gets faked out badly. You rarely saw those sorts of errors from Jordan. I'm surprised he bit that much considering that Tracy didn't prove that he could get by him on the first step.

[ShaqAttack3234]

[Inevitable]Kobe gave him 42 that same season. By halftime.[/Inevitable]

The funny thing is, jordan didn't even guard Kobe in that game.

[Calabis]

[Inevitable]Kobe gave him 42 that same season. By halftime.[/Inevitable]

Actually it was on Stackhouse unless you want to say Jordan dropped 25 on Kobe in 30 minutes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4T8_U4iHt4


sad part is that age 40 Jordan attempted to guard TMac, while the great Kobe at a prime age doesn't even attempt to. Also whats not mentioned is Jordan dropped 32 in another matchup at age 40

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHUb2...eature=related

Let's not forget the 53 points Allen Houston dropped on Kobe

[Calabis]

I love how these idiots bring up Arenas' 60 pt game. He scored 15 of those points on Kobe. It wasn't like Crawford dropping 50 on Wade with Wade on him the whole game.

Can we help it that this overrated defender never guards the opposing teams best player...why else do you think Tex Winter talked about his defense

"I'd like to see him play better defense," Winter said, adding that he had addressed the issue recently with Bryant but didn't come away with the idea that Bryant was intent on changing his approach.

"You know Kobe," Winter said with a chuckle. "He has his game plan. I think he heard me. But he feels there's a certain way he's got to play the game. But it doesn't involve a lot of basically sound defense."

Because the Lakers need so much of his effort at the offensive end, Bryant has adopted a save-energy plan on the defensive end, Winter said. "He's basically playing a lot of one-man zone. He's doing a lot of switching, zoning up, trying to come up with the interception.

"The way Kobe plays defensively affects the team," Winter added. "Anybody that doesn't play consistently good defense hurts the team. That's not only Kobe. Our other guards tend to gamble and get beat. Another problem is that the screen and roll is not played correctly."

[wang4three]

Has it really been 7 years since 2003? Wow. That was when I graduated high school.

[necya]

what the goal of this thread?
taking a young player against a very old star?

let's take someone who played very well against MJ at a decent age...

oh! bernard King dropped 44pts against Chicago in 90, a real scorer against another real one, not a 45% pseudo scorer shooter.

[Calabis]

what the goal of this thread?
taking a young player against a very old star?

let's take someone who played very well against MJ at a decent age...

oh! bernard King dropped 44pts against Chicago in 90, a real scorer against another real one, not a 45% pseudo scorer shooter.

Exactly I'm a huge Jordan fan, but he got lit up on occasion, who doesn't...but the game your referring too, was Pippen not MJ

[Desperado]

The funny thing is, jordan didn't even guard Kobe in that game.

So you admit MJ wasn't capable of guarding Kobe?

He didn't guard Kobe because he KNEW that ass was gonna be toasted. He would've gotten the same treatment or worse and you know it just like he did.


Here comes the age excuse in 4..3...2...1

[Desperado]

Actually it was on Stackhouse

Even more embarrassing!

Jordan was scared to guard Kobe so he had that bum Stackhouse take him.

Actually not surprising either cause Jordan hid behind Pippen his whole career.

MJ was a scared b*tch his whole career.

[Calabis]

So you admit MJ wasn't capable of guarding Kobe?

He didn't guard Kobe because he KNEW that ass was gonna be toasted. He would've gotten the same treatment or worse and you know it just like he did.


Here comes the age excuse in 4..3...2...1

Uhh he guarded Kobe when he was 35, he avg 30+ against Kobe/Jones, wiped the floor with his ass in the all-star game...lmao age excuse....coming from a guy crying about Kobe's finger or other injuries every thread

[Calabis]

Even more embarrassing!

Jordan was scared to guard Kobe so he had that bum Stackhouse take him.

Actually not surprising either cause Jordan hid behind Pippen his whole career.

MJ was a scared b*tch his whole career.

you by far are the dumbest mutha ****er on the board

[necya]

Exactly I'm a huge Jordan fan, but he got lit up on occasion, who doesn't...but the game your referring too, was Pippen not MJ

Calabis, i just wanted to notice that this thread sucks like all other where people try to ride the dick of their stars.

i think it's more fair to talk about a duel with players in good shape.
i reassure you, it wasn't against MJ, i just show he faced a lot better scorer than he did xhen he came back with washington.

(and MJ faced King too in that one ;-)

[leopoldstotch]

that was a good reminder of how horrible the magic roster was

damn

shawn kemp
drew gooden
gordon giricek
tracy mccgrady
jacques vaughn

that's the lineup? we should give doc rivers some credit for having 40+ win seasons every year for orlando before he got the axe. he maximized whatever he had with that pathetic roster.