finally watching this. is the story that this footage was just sitting around for 20 years??how does magic look EXACTLY THE SAME????
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 3 May 2020 22:47 (four years ago) link
99.99999% of people who play basketball aren't good enough to be NBA role players, Laettner wasn't that badbut EZ otm he was resented for being cocky like a star and drafted 3 but only being a role playerthe 30 for 30 on him is good. funny always assumed he was a rich kid but he was working class
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 3 May 2020 22:52 (four years ago) link
also he was drafted by the timberwolves which is a good way to ruin your career
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 3 May 2020 22:54 (four years ago) link
laettner was a great troll. i think there's a lot of ways he could have had a better career. just got unlucky.
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 3 May 2020 23:29 (four years ago) link
timberwolves first round picks being busts is the ultimate nature vs nurture debate
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 3 May 2020 23:31 (four years ago) link
anything is possible
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 3 May 2020 23:42 (four years ago) link
yeah, Laettner might yet surprise us
― Morton Koopa Jr. Sings Elvis (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 4 May 2020 00:31 (four years ago) link
there was really no way jordan wasnt good enough to make his high school team ever right i mean some coach just hated him or something
― lag∞n, Monday, 4 May 2020 01:27 (four years ago) link
I dunno. jordan growing half a foot and growing his game exponentially every offseason is a theme.
― Morton Koopa Jr. Sings Elvis (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 4 May 2020 01:43 (four years ago) link
at some point his dad mocked him about not knowing how to use a jigsaw, so he grew himself and began dunking.
― Morton Koopa Jr. Sings Elvis (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 4 May 2020 01:44 (four years ago) link
its doesnt matter hes still good enough to make a high school team
― lag∞n, Monday, 4 May 2020 01:45 (four years ago) link
maybe he asked to run more lines at the end of practice to make the team better and everyone hated him
― Morton Koopa Jr. Sings Elvis (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 4 May 2020 01:49 (four years ago) link
idk if anyones heard that story in more detail ive only ever seen it like how it was in the doc michael didnt make the team and was sad for one day but then after that he was determined and became amazing at basketball, like who made the team ahead of him what was the whole deal how good was he then
― lag∞n, Monday, 4 May 2020 01:58 (four years ago) link
the timeline is weird like he didnt make the sophmore team, and then at some point between then and college north carolina came to the conclusion he was the best player in high school basketball, what was the interval between not making the team and being the best in the whole damn country, i mean i get that he grew but six one is plenty tall enough to play high school basketball, theres are tons of 6-1 guys in the pros
― lag∞n, Monday, 4 May 2020 02:03 (four years ago) link
i don't remember the specifics well enough but i did read roland lazenby's michael book and the vibe was definitely that he was never some sort of incredible prospect but more someone who gradually built his game over time.
i'll try to skim it soon and see if there are some good details.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 4 May 2020 02:12 (four years ago) link
im calling bullshit i think there was a coverup something weird happened
― lag∞n, Monday, 4 May 2020 02:13 (four years ago) link
you tell its not a real jordan story cause he doesnt talk about someone he has generated an intense petty resentment for, like hes mad at his dad for shit talking him abt his poor handyman skills, hes mat at clyde drexler for just existing, but theres no one hes mad at for getting snubbed from his hs team
― lag∞n, Monday, 4 May 2020 02:17 (four years ago) link
He made hs team. Just was the last cut for varsity as a sophomore.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 4 May 2020 02:33 (four years ago) link
He played in small city in NC. Wasn't recruited outside of NC really. Didn't get invited to all tge elite national camps. Then when he finally did get invited to one of the most prestigious camps he balled out and basically overnight became a top prospect.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 4 May 2020 02:40 (four years ago) link
He played in small city in NC. Wasn't recruited outside of NC really. Didn't get invited to all tge elite national camps.
all of this points to that his hs team was prob not that hard to make! why didnt he make it
― lag∞n, Monday, 4 May 2020 02:46 (four years ago) link
i mean it was prob something dumb like there were upperclassmen the coach just liked and felt loyal too ahead of him, but still its a reason, i mean no one ever even really tries to say he wasnt good enough to make the team they just say he didnt make it
― lag∞n, Monday, 4 May 2020 02:48 (four years ago) link
Jordan's HS coach could have had a fetish for seniors and a poor sense of his players' potentials. Or he could have hated MJ's style as not old-school enough. Or he could have been blind and daft. Or racist. You never know the whole story on this stuff.
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 4 May 2020 02:50 (four years ago) link
it's 100% the small southern town deference to upperclassman thing and i've always assumed as much
― Clay, Monday, 4 May 2020 02:52 (four years ago) link
cldnt even find one spot for ol mikey jordan, shameful
― lag∞n, Monday, 4 May 2020 02:54 (four years ago) link
“do you have a gambling problem?”“nooooo” - man in sunglasses indoors pic.twitter.com/uMf9w9CkrV— mike taddow (@taddmike) May 4, 2020
― lag∞n, Monday, 4 May 2020 02:56 (four years ago) link
this big city slicker lagoon will ask why holding hands meant something baby next
― Morton Koopa Jr. Sings Elvis (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 4 May 2020 02:57 (four years ago) link
well...
― lag∞n, Monday, 4 May 2020 02:58 (four years ago) link
whatre the chances jordan was the best player trying out for the team the year he didnt make it its like 99%
― lag∞n, Monday, 4 May 2020 02:59 (four years ago) link
im tired so tired of success wins marketing
― lag∞n, Monday, 4 May 2020 03:04 (four years ago) link
like no one is trying to say jordan didnt work extremely hard to be the best but i feel like trying to shoehorn another overcoming adversity struggle into making the high school team is just browbeating us
― lag∞n, Monday, 4 May 2020 03:06 (four years ago) link
Deference to upper classmen yes, and the dude who made the team instead of him was 6"8"
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 4 May 2020 03:08 (four years ago) link
I think it's misleading to say he didn't make the team. Didn't make varsity as underclassman.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 4 May 2020 03:09 (four years ago) link
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the guy who beat him out for the (varsity) team was this guy (jordan played JV that year) and actually the legend goes jordan would “envision him” during workouts and later check into hotels under the name “leroy smith”!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvest_Smith
― k3vin k., Monday, 4 May 2020 03:14 (four years ago) link
theres no "guy" who beat him out you guys a basketball team has 12 spots! wake up sheeple!
― lag∞n, Monday, 4 May 2020 03:17 (four years ago) link
He was always pretty good friends with Leroy Smith. Don't think there was animosity there.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 4 May 2020 03:20 (four years ago) link
ha ok so it literally was just some coach who only picked upperclassmen
Smith and Michael Jordan were childhood friends who played together on their ninth-grade basketball squad. In 1978, during their second year at Emsley A. Laney High School, both tried out for the lone sophomore opening on the varsity basketball team.
and yet
In 1991, Jordan acknowledged the impact of the event, "It all started when Coach Herring cut me. What it did was instill some values in me. It was a lesson to me to dig within myself."
― lag∞n, Monday, 4 May 2020 03:28 (four years ago) link
the coach was dumb doesnt have the same ring there is no life lesson
― lag∞n, Monday, 4 May 2020 03:29 (four years ago) link
In 1991 Jordan knew what to say when talking to interviewers.
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 4 May 2020 03:30 (four years ago) link
jordan is very good at knowing what to say i give him credit he is a very smooth individual at basketball and handling the media
― lag∞n, Monday, 4 May 2020 03:34 (four years ago) link
and having excellent sneakers
― lag∞n, Monday, 4 May 2020 03:35 (four years ago) link
was thinking abt how jordans have been the premiere sneaker basically since they launched, pretty wild
Man the moment after winning the first threepeat where they’re mic-ing him up and he sorta exhaustedly asks “can i just have a few minutes here?”
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 4 May 2020 04:45 (four years ago) link
and, of course, michael shittalking kobe at the all-star game
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 4 May 2020 05:01 (four years ago) link
in loving memory
― Morton Koopa Jr. Sings Elvis (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 4 May 2020 05:32 (four years ago) link
if they had footage of MJ betting on two flies crawling up a wall i would not bat an eyelid
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 4 May 2020 06:19 (four years ago) link
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skipping to the end of the thread, i don't care what else happened, but this is right.
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Monday, 4 May 2020 06:59 (four years ago) link
i read the rest of the thread, don't see anything that says it wasn't a conspiracy
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Monday, 4 May 2020 07:01 (four years ago) link
add me to the list of ilxors wondering what is up with MJ's red-ass eyes
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 4 May 2020 10:38 (four years ago) link
ok serioulsy what is going one with that security guy flipping coins w MJ?
is that a real person? He looks like a Safdie bros walk-on. Hoping he gets his own episode because...wow
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 4 May 2020 12:22 (four years ago) link
love that guy! he was on an earlier episode but him miming the MG shrug was the best
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 4 May 2020 12:42 (four years ago) link