The Last Dance: In Praise of One Lone Gold Hoop Earring

would love to watch some of these games that they're just glossing over.
everything is on youtube, it's great. I watched game 2 of '92 Finals last night. Lil interview with MJ about his 3pt shooting in game 1, him saying he doesn't like to shoot many 3s cause it "hurts his all around game". Such a different game back then.

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, April 27, 2020 bookmarkflaglink

oh nice thx. i only really remember the 2nd three peat really well. I got way more into the nba around 93-94

haha wait a minute i just realised KARL MALONE was pulling our legs. sorry for humour fail - that's what i get for ilx0ring and "working" at the same time

sadly, i wasn't! i don't actually know much about basketball. the little i know came from watching nba on nbc all the time in the 90s (which is why i'm watching this doc series), and although i think i understood back then that phil jackson was a relatively free spirit compared to like, pat riley, i didn't understand the extent of it.

not mr zen the ZEN MASTAH

If you wanted to watch some of the 1st 3peat on youtube I'd go with the '93 series vs PHX. MJ and Barkley were phenomenal, and there were some good games. I was down in FL for my cousin's wedding, and game 6 was on the night of the wedding. I figured the newlyweds wouldn't want to watch it, but they invited a bunch of us over to watch in their hotel's lobby. Good lil memory, everyone went nuts when Pax hit shot that sealed it.

what was the playoff game where they basically doubled the jazz's score?

i think it was this one. 54 points in a playoff game!
https://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/pbp/199806070CHI.html

Jazz avg'd over 100ppg in conf finals sweep vs Lakers and then didn't crack 90 in a game vs Bulls

Competitive series tho

that last game will of course be the centerpiece of the end of the series. poor jacques vaughn.

I think a lot about how the Jazz got shellacked in that game and just went back to business in the next game. They’d been around so long that they knew one game is one game.

Jerry Sloan was a great coach, feel like ppl have forgotten about him

most wins without a ring right?

don nelson, I think

i desperately hope they got to get contemporary interviews with stockton and malone; i've never heard them talk about that series

oh man that would be excellent

Hey hoopers! I am super into this series. After ep 2 i caught myself like “oh man i hope they don’t trade Pippen”

MJ’s red eyes creep me out
I want to go on a vision quest w Phil Jackson
Carmen Electra is alive and well

I never wanted to see Laimbeer’s psychotic phantom of the opera facemask ever again but welp here I am, drinking the nightmare fuel

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/3a/64/15/3a6415a91bc168b7544758ea950bd464.jpg

WELCOME TO THE HOOPS

:D

have literally not watched basketball *since* the 98 Bulls lol

we are excited to have u back as the prodigal hoops child

i enjoyed this tweet/gif

Bill Laimbeer and Rick Mahorn any time Jordan tried to drive pic.twitter.com/ndyld0Bv7B

— #MambaForever (@QUA150) April 27, 2020

yeah what is up with MJ's eyes. a li'l Visine for my man

anecdotally it's amazing the amount of casual and non fans that are into this doc, quarantine or no

star power, baby

michael jordan was such a phenomenon no one has come close since

it's true. and watching the doc reminds you that it made sense. he can be an asshole and we can make fun of his jeans and whatnot but he's completely magnetic at all times. just one of those people.

for real

He was 6’6” in shoes! Even a corvette is a tight fit
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, April 28, 2020 11:00 AM (twelve hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

hes driving a fararri in ep 4 gdamn it! lol

glad you're enjoying it, VG!

heard Ryen Rusillo say something I always bring up when fawning over MJ: dude never for 1 second looked awkward or out of control, and by comparison he made all of the most gifted basketball athletes of his and previous generations look stiff and clumsy (maybe some small guards a la Isiah were somewhat on his level of smoothness). Every generation after him has had that "MJ Starter Pack" of smooth physicality from a young age and so there's verrrry few stiff/awkward players at any level. Obv today's players have taken it to new levels, esp ball handling.

yeah he looked like a different species of human out there

glad to see the chosen one is spreading the gospel of hoops in these times

praise ugly leather jackets

couple notes here 1 its interesting to watch mikes style just get worse and worse over time 2 both him and salley are wearing lil beaded necklaces in their present day interviews is it a thing will gary payton show up with one too

3 mike calling isaiahs bs re pistons walking off the court was a perfect cinema moment

highlight for me so far has been Pippen's gigantic suits

heard Ryen Rusillo say something I always bring up when fawning over MJ: dude never for 1 second looked awkward or out of control, and by comparison he made all of the most gifted basketball athletes of his and previous generations look stiff and clumsy (maybe some small guards a la Isiah were somewhat on his level of smoothness). Every generation after him has had that "MJ Starter Pack" of smooth physicality from a young age and so there's verrrry few stiff/awkward players at any level. Obv today's players have taken it to new levels, esp ball handling.

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, April 29, 2020 12:05 AM (ten hours ago)

yeah I was watching eps 3/4 with my hoops-indifferent gf, who is from LA and knows who magic is, and when the 91 finals footage came on the contrast between MJ's smoothness and magic's relative stiffness was apparent enough that she was all "he moved like that??"

watch mikes style just get worse and worse over time

are we sure there was ever a stylish MJ?
https://twistedsifter.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/michael-jordan-college-dorm-room-1983-umbrella_unc.jpg?w=640

I kid, I kid. Growing up you'd hear a lot about him being a "fashion icon". And on the court, he did bring about the baggy shorts.

man those are some big hands btw

when lebron moves to the basket, he has a lot of the same grace but he's just so much bigger that there's a degree of him using his muscle to get in there. with michael in his prime, his fluidity of motion often looked like a special effect.

I think that's a big part of what makes LeBron special; I can't think of another player at that size who was/is as smooth as him. Predecessors would be Larry Johnson and Derrick Coleman, but it's been soooo long since I've seen those dudes play that I may see them now and be surprised they were more clunky than I remember.

Big Dog Robinson too maybe

Shawn Kemp comes to mind

umbrella mj is stylin in that picture dont hate

seriously!!!!

xp to granny: i guess the thing that sets LeBron apart is that LJ and DC and Big Dog and Kemp were all playing at a super high level for maybe three years, five years tops? LBJ has been consistent for sixteen. That's Karl Malone but with rings + assists.

to anyone who doesn't believe MJ that he didn't partake in the "Traveling Cocaine Circus", I would just show them that pic and rest my case.

plus iirc he listed his fav musician as Anita Baker. As a 20 yr old college student.