Jordan was so comfortable shooting the 3 in this season and postseason -- he shot 39% from deep on nearly 4 three-point attempts per game in the '93 playoffs.

@jarrett5083

11 ай бұрын

Crazy stat i love it

What I love about Jordan vids or any other superstar in the NBA is that we only see the highlights so it always appears the opposing team is losing by 40...then ya see the score appear and the opposing team is still up. lol

@Defender78

11 ай бұрын

Jordan wasn't untouchable, i mean he scored over 41 ppg in the series, but he wasnt shooting some elite 65% FG pct, but a mortal 51%. Plenty of Suns players were in double digits, plus the Suns were missing Cedric Ceballos who got injured in the semifinals. yeah Jordan is nailing down tons of shots, but so did Barkley at 27 PPG, Marjele and Kev Johnson at 17 PPG, and Richard Dumas at 15 PPG. Suns took them nearly to 7 games, with game 6 decided by ONE basket.

If you know BB (which I'm moderate at), you can just truly see HOW fundamentally sound these players during this era were. Michael Jordan is the absolute greatest example, his control of the ball (his crossovers in here are ridiculous), his untouchable foot work, his choices of shots. He's just so good, that when in comparison to others you can find flaws which can be exploited, but he's the only one to ever show up who you really can't see "Well, you can beat him here". Simply Amazing!

@overratedgm5713

Жыл бұрын

He carries the ball everytime he dribbles

@silwavereznor1516

9 ай бұрын

Well he must have started a trend they ALL carry now...

possibly one of the greatest games ever. right up there with the 2009 superbowl

This is probably my favorite game ever.

good ole days.... I was 7...i remember it like it was yesterday....I cried when the suns lost... .:(.. the bulls were great tho

Love at the very end of the 3rd ot Jordan's like "naw u guys can have this game im to tired and just walks away before the buzzer sounded lol.

Even though the bulls lost this game its still one of my favorite games

44 pts. after 3 ot's. Imagine had he had 44 pts. after 4 qtr's.?! He most likely would've had almost 80 pts. after the game was over. Crazy!

@JJ-ju6ky

Жыл бұрын

He scored 55 the next game

@evervictorious007

Жыл бұрын

He did have 44 points against the Suns in the regular season game. In Game 3, he had to work this hard to get his 44 points. The entire Bulls struggled in the extra periods while the Suns saved their best for the last. MJ - 44 points but missed more that half of his shot attempts hitting 19 out of 43 which most of his misses came in the 4th and OTs. Pippen - 26 points, 10 Rebounds, 9 Assists but was 12 of 35 shooting hitting only one FG in the first OT Armstrong - 21 points but cooled off in the extra periods and did not score Grant - 13 points, 17 Rebounds. Got into early foul trouble but played a big part in the Bulls rally back from a 11-point deficit to force OT. Did not score in the OTs and was fouled out in the 3rd OT resulting in the collapse of the Bulls defence and Barkley was able to capitalise on Grant’s dismissal The Suns withstood the Bulls run and able to hang on saving their best for last Dan Majarle - 28 points. The Standout performer shooting 10 of 17 including 6 3s (the 6th which turned the tide for the Suns) and several crucial baskets. Kevin Johnson - showed unbelievable stamina playing 62 mins scoring 25 points and put the clamps on MJ hounding him into missing 24 shots Charles Barkley - 24 points, 19 Rebounds. Struggled with his injury but saves his best for last in the 3rd OT period

That airball Jordan put up near the end of that triple OT, I think that the only time I've seen him do that. I'm honestly sitting here trying to remember him airballing a shot and I can't.

Many say this is the best game ever played. I'm not sure about that, but it's up there. That was a great series. Lots of crazy individual performances by Jordan and Barkley, and the games were well played and highly competitive. Great year for the NBA. 1993

so nice to witness greatness.

What a heads up play by Scottie! great game, great series

What an epic game! MJ looked like he had to work very hard to get his points. Every single one of them was a tough shot.

@evervictorious007

Жыл бұрын

He had 44 points but hit 19 out of 43 from the field. The entire Bulls team struggled in the extra periods. MJ - 44 points but missed 24 shots. Most of his missed came in the 4th quarter and OTs. Pippen - 26 points but was 12 out of 35 from the field. Scored only the first basket in the first overtime. Armstrong - 21 points but did not hit a FG in OT Grant - 13 points, 17 Rebounds but got into early foul trouble and fouled out in the 3rd OT. Bulls defence collapsed from there on

The Bulls were looking to put the final dagger in the Suns heart at home, in front of 20'000+ fans in Bulls red..but the Suns were finally awaken, as they snapped out of their doldrums with this historic 3OT victory, and found themselves alive in their hunt for the NBA world title..

what a play by Pip...

I remember watching this in 93 and being very disappointed by that MJ breakaway dunk. He had the open court ahead of him with lots of time and I was sure it was going to be something spectacular. He made up for it later in the series with a sick alleyoop though. :)

We need the NBA finals like this on NBC again. This was one helluva game here because the suns got hot at the right time.

@usmclown420 No way, M.J. of this era would have destroyed them. He was too good. There are at least 5 guys of Kobe's era that are arguably as as Kobe, Wade, James, Durant, Camelo Anthony, Tim Duncan and Allen Iverson. Ray Allen in his prime was as good as Kobe too. M.J. used to drop 55 on Jon Starks every time he played him, and Starks was a defensive animal.

From a Bulls fan, both teams could have won this game without even having to go to 3 overtimes . The Suns actually had better opportunities to win than the Bulls had. - They held an 99-88 lead in the 4th quarter only to see it evaporated when the Bulls went on a 15-4 run to knot the game at 103-103. - Dan Majarle’s breakaway dunk would have counted had Kevin Johnson not hastily call a timeout after stealing the ball from MJ of all ppl with 12 seconds remaining. Suns would have a crucial 105-103 lead and perhaps win. - Charles Barkley nearly repeating his heroics at San Antonio in the dying seconds of regulation. Sun would have won 105-103 in regulation. - Danny Ainge missed an open 3 point shot at the end of the first overtime which would have given the Suns a 110-107 win. For the Bulls - Had Horace Grant controlled Pippen pass well in the last second after Barkley’s miss in regulation, Bulls would have won 105-103 at the buzzer. - MJ squandered a crucial free throw which could have put the Bulls up 115-110 and put them out of reach at the last minute of the 2nd overtime. His FT miss allowed the Suns to score on the next 2 processions thus forcing a 3rd overtime.

AMAZING game

Yeah, that's why Jordan said so himself that the only player who deserves to be compared to him in Kobe Bryant. Stop living in the past. We can't go back.

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You can average 27 ppg if your shot fg is like 40%! Vujacic would score like 24 ppg in this year finals with as many shots as bryant took!

Amen. The Bulls of MJ's championship years had a team that was built to win. It wasn't all him. MJ shot an abysmal 5-19 in the 96 Finals Game 6 victory against Sonics. The savior of that game was Rodman's record-setting rebounding performance.

@LEBONGTHOM that will always be a classic..

MJ is great the rest are JUST good.

lovin' those pixels.

@doddi1984 Lemme help U out a little: MJ: 30ppg 6apg 6rpg 2.2spg 1.5bpg 51.2 FG%

I was at that game....man I miss those days of basketball. On a slightly shitty note, that was at the old Chicago stadium obviously and my seat was in the back of the mezzanine behind a fucking support pillar lol!

5:05 Jordan was doubled without ball

Kobe's such a dirty player, and so few art on his play. No comparison with Michael Jordan anyway.

@china_desade

3 жыл бұрын

I can't believe there is someone else who feels the same way as I do. Kobe tried to be a carbon copy of Michael Jordan ... but there could be, and forever will be ONLY ONE MICHAEL JORDAN!

Scottie Pippen with the best ever play!

After being swept by the Mavs (17 pts in games 3 and 4), losing horribly to the '04 Pistons, pouting and refusing to shoot in a number of playoff games, all while playing in an era with rules that deliberately favor perimeter players, I don't think Kobe should be in the discussion. Never should've been anyway. He is not on Jordan's level. Live with it. And that will become even more clear these next few years.

Kobe's downfall, what downfall? They just upgraded to be 1 of the 3 best teams in the league. The only thing that's dropping off is his physical abilities due to age, as happened to Jordan before him. He was still 1st team all nba last year for what, the 8th or 9th time?, perhaps b/c Rose was injured for most of the year, but still. Kobe now largely has to do it w/his shooting and drawing fouls, but no guard aside from Westbrook and Rose does it better, the 3 of em are about even now, the other

Dude, the DREAM TEAM was made in this Era, Idiot. and Superstars like: Wilkens, Isiah, Hakeem were LEFT OFF. 20-10 players like Tim Hardaway, Derrick Coleman and Kevin Johnson were LEFT OFF (ALL of them being 20-10 players..something that NOBODY can do nowadays). Shaq was a super rookie and he was LEFT OFF. Dennis Rodman who averaged 18.7 rebounds and 10 points per game in 91-92 Was LEFT OFF. With ALL of those snubs, the Dream Team was STILL the Greatest, most talented team ever assembled.

I admit I don't like Jordan, but he performed great on the biggest stage time and time again. He beat HOFers, Jordan stoppers, and scrubs. You can't really question that. Kobe? He only hit taht shot against the Suns and had a 81 pt game vs. a sorry Raptors team. Com'on now.

Jordan went 19-44 in this game by far not a good shooting night, but that wasnt the story of this the story was the Suns 3 headed monster took charge when they needed to. KJ played almost every minute of the game, Thunder Dan had an awesome game and Barkley was just typical Barkley. As a Bulls fan i always felt that this game was rigged, phoenix shot 32 free throws and the Bulls only went to the line 9 times in 3 OTs

wow 3 overtimes, how long was the game ? 4-5 hours ? :]

damn....if the suns jus could of won 1 more at home, we could of took them, suns were the bulls biggest challenge in any of there finals, all games were tense. we had a good team, but chicago had the best player.

@Edd1e8 yUp. I'm glad there are more people out there who understand that. or else Jordan was supposed to be the league MVP in 1993 & 1997 also (7 total). and who knows, had he not been retired in 1994 & been there all of 1995 he might have gotten it at least once more to make it 8 total league MVPs! but the NBA gave it to Barkley in 1993 & Malone in 1997 because Jordan was THAT darn good that David Stern felt he couldn't give it to Jordan every single time to give other players a chance.

@Mr420woo weill im not sure if it was 09 or 08. but steelers vs cardinals was an epic game. too much action in the last 2 minutes of the game.

Ya and there's no comparison when Kobe models his game after MJ, the ultimate tribute, the latter days Kobe's the best player since me. lol

the day i was born

@veronicaisl - MJ should've been MVP many more years in the 90's, but the NBA and the fans became sick of him getting it every year.

I was talking about a dunk and how I felt about it. The titles have absolutely nothing to do with it.

Jesus...Poor Thunder Dan just got wore out by MJ.

The Spurs (4 NBA Championships) weren't a great team? Kobe saved some of his best playoff performances for them.

7:43 one of the slowest crossovers ever lol

@Mr420woo yea, i didnt see colts saints. but steelers cardinals was amazing. i nearly pooped my pants....oh wait i did

I don't think so. The three second rule made no difference to Jordan. For those who saw him play that defensive 3 seconds didn't help his game. When there was no 3 second rule Who ever was there got dunked on, what were u watching? You're 12 or know nothing.

Didnt MJ himself say if anyone is going to be compared to me its kobe bryant...if MJ said it himself then idk what else you kobe haters want...just respect what the guy is doing cause hes at the end of his career

Offtopic: what happened to Dumas? I remember back in 1993 there were rumours about drugs etc problems. I think he disappeared later?!

Anyway fine, you wanna say MJ's the best ever, elevated his teammates like no 1 before or since, fine go ahead. Kobe's time is almost past and he's got 1 goal, use D12 to catch Michael, that's all he wants. The game belongs now to D12, the Heat and the Thunder (and D Rose) so it all will soon become a matter of historical debate.

@frusionnn Nonsence. Jordan had strong team around him (Scottie, HG) but Barkley was alone. Even I really admire players like Majerle and KJ they cannot compare to, at least, Scottie. Sir Charles pulled Suns and complete success was almost 100% based on him. He really deserved 1993 MVP.

@joseaaronleojeruta2122

7 ай бұрын

Excuses. Wasn't the suns had the best regular season record in this year? Obviously the suns was pretty balanced and strong . So Barkley wasn't alone.

Kenaiandrews, am sure you would have done better against Bird or Magic in the 80's..

Man, somebody is mad...

@mnkhan2020 wow wow wow kobe is a great player he is not nothing i have him nb 17 all time and mj 1 but give kobe credit

mj must be the mvp not barkley, the true mvp put the numers when it needed most especially in the finals.. lebron got 2 straight mvp but never reach finals, poor lebron.. hang the number 23 because that was history.

@usmclown420 You accidentally hit 2 instead of 1. #SingleDigitsBryant

Think you went a little over board Jordan played in a Era where they werent that many super stars ...Kobe is playing against KD, Lebron, Dirk, Melo and many more

@mickeyjohnson5247

4 жыл бұрын

Karl Malone Charles Barkley Isiah Thomas Joe Dumars Mitch Richmond Glen Rice Grant Hill Penny Hardaway.... And many more! Mike actually played against way tougher competition than Kobe....

I'll be honest, I HATED MJ on the court, b/c of what he did to the Knicks, the Suns and Sonics back then. But sure, I respect him immensely and personally he's to me basically as likeable as Magic, though that's besides the point. I don't knock MJ's talent and your point about kids never looking back more than a year, fine, but they've always been like that. This game was probably the best game I ever saw on tv,how can you top triple OT (though game 7s of the 88 and 10 finals were more fun 4me)?

maybe they're just tired and want to go rest after this game

From Minute 6:00 to 6:10 without a doubt I would hear the whistle go off nowadays in the NBA, Today the association is full of shit, stupid acts by players demanding the call by the official whenever they're touched in the finger, arm, legs, foot, chest, you name it, a bunch of cry babies, THAT IS WHY I USED TO LOVE JORDAN'S NBA

Armstrong looks a lot like Obama.

just needed this game to be within 5 points difference either way to win over $1000. Only to have the game go to triple overtime and Phoenix win by 8

MJ on the wizards doesnt count

charles cheated at 5:21

Magic does everything great accept calling A NBA GAME! He finally sucks at something.

"Bird beat MJ twice." Gotta laugh at simplistic logic like this. The Celtics were at the peak of their powers when Jordan faced them. The Bulls had a very young Charles Oakley, Brad Sellers and Dave Corzine. Bird did not beat Jordan. The Celtics beat a vastly inferior Bulls team.

@blackalgorithmist000

3 жыл бұрын

The Celtics beat the Bulls stop justifying

@melvynsngltn27

Жыл бұрын

Just like Chicago beat vastly weaker teams too right

@st3nkobe MJ was washed up on the Wiz, I saw Tim Thomas light up MJ on the Wiz.

LMAO. Kobe is overrated as fuck but they removed handchecking in 1994 and added a defensive 3 secs in MJ's era. MJ had rules put in place to make it easier on him as well.

@NBAfanforever1 lol didn't "small white boy" win 2 MVP's over Kobe? Sorry, but the league is watered down, the most competitive era in history was 1990-93. Jason Kidd, 38 year old player from Jordan's era is still a starting poinguard on a championship team, that says it all..

MJ and Pippen would have held Kobe under 20

Kobe has not stayed on the top of nothing. 3 chips & Kobe then lost to Detroit in finals, lost to suns, Mavs, Thunder, & 2x to Spurs in playoffs, and lost to Celtic in finals. LMAO much of these losses playoff exits were not just exits, but humiliations. MJ never lost once he got to the top except for the 1/3 of a season in 95. Also, your own comment disses kobe. If Kobe has been on top longer but has 5 rings & MJ has 6 in less time on top then that means MJ is more efficient than Kobe lol.

AHAHAHHAHA CLOSEST? So Kobe=2nd greatest ever? maybe closest playing style wise, but no way all time. lol more like he would have won 2 more chips in 94 and 95 if he had played the entire season.

All cotton ~

Jordan just used and abused Majerle all series long.

@mnkhan2020 kobe right behind him suns defense sucked

@Mr420woo LeBron is not better than barkley. HaHa..Are you kiddding me. I see no defense from Barkley. How Barkley going to win a championship without defense.

2 are just faster and more explosive due to the decade in age difference. And I think you're wrong also about kobe haters as well. That seems to be the general tenor of the comments on this video. They think Michael was soo much better and the fact that Kobe won his w/Shaq, Pau and others that Kobe's not in the conversation even, basically dismissing that no, in fact you can even make the case he's one of the 2 or 3 best guards ever, and likely has another year or 2 left at that level.

@mnkhan2020 yeah thats cuz when kobe scores 55 you guys call him a hog

Jordan's WORST game of the series -- 44/9/6 lol. WHat a ridiculous Finals he had that yea (and really the entire first three-peat).

oh man what kobe would do with 1on1 on thunder dan all game. it would be career ending

Addressing the room. Stay away from MrChicagobulls96 I have sent a nice little virus to his IP address, so if you conversate with him via youtube you will receive the virus as well. This goes out to anyone else who has a lack of respect.