1993 ECF - Michael Jordan Shooting Charts, Defense, ON-OFF Ratings

[SportsGuru08]

The Knick were historical Defense(-8.3rDRTg one of the top 4 defense post merger )
MJ being able to score remotely close to this is impressive. ( 52.2 TS or +1.7 rts adj. )

Funny enough this series seem to be easier for the overall Bulls compare to last year against the Knick in the second round ( even tho the Knick get Significantly better on defense this year ) but it could be attributed to the regress on the offensive end by losing McDaniel

Combined with Pippen playing alot better in the '93 series than he did in the '92 matchup.

[Elpolo_14]

The Knick were historical Defense(-8.3rDRTg one of the top 4 defense post merger )
MJ being able to score remotely close to this is impressive. ( 52.2 TS or +1.7 rts adj. )

Funny enough this series seem to be easier for the overall Bulls compare to last year against the Knick in the second round ( even tho the Knick get Significantly better on defense this year ) but it could be attributed to the regress on the offensive end by losing McDaniel

Combined with Pippen playing alot better in the '93 series than he did in the '92 matchup.

That true. Scottie was mediocre as a Scorer in 92 series. He was below 50 TS% on a smaller volume than 93

[f4p]

This. All of Ewing's fellow starters outplayed their counterpart on the Rockets. Problem is Ewing himself was severely outplayed by Hakeem.

All of Ewing's fellow starters...

Other than Starks, and Charles Smith. So, what we really mean here is, Harper and Oakley played well. And Oakley rocked 11 ppg.

Ewing was ALSO a problem, but ignoring that he was far from alone in struggling offensively doesn't make a lot of sense. Ewing absolutely stank on O in that series, for sure, but he was still giving them 12 boards and 4 blocks per game. Starks gave them nothing but his inability to shoot in that series.

Maxwell was only clearly better in Game 7. Most of the series, Starks had gotten the better of him. And Smith shot considerably better from the field than Horry.

Yeah Maxwell and horry were the second and third leading scorers and barely cracked 40 TS%. Even on 3s, the Knicks outside of Ewing shot 35 for 100 while the rockets outside of Olajuwon shot 35 for 120. For a -8 defense to outdo arguably the best 3 pt attack in the league and still not win is largely explainable by the fact Hakeem's shooting was worth 8 more ppg than Ewing despite them being exactly equal in true shot attempts per game.