Petergrifindor wrote:The ending of Episode 7 is the most revealing segment in the documentary, when they ask him if he thinks his intensity has come at a price of being a nice guy.
The man clearly explains why he is how he is, and he appears to be conscious that the same traits that propelled him to achieve the highest level anybody has achieved in basketball, also had a price. The other side of the coin, the "I have a competition problem", the thing that make him choke up at the end of the episode thinking he might not have been always a nice person. You can tell it bothers him.
But he couldn't help it or switch it off.
Anyway the guy is pure heart. He really couldn't have made it in other way. In the end we are who we are.
The only thing I don't like is the narrative about how effective and perhaps even
necessary Jordan's savagery was.
Totally agreed that this is just who he was, and you can't argue with the results. He was one of the most talented athletes to ever play professional sports, and he got every last drop out of it.
And certainly, you're going to have to get on people as team leader. But being an @sshole is being an @sshole. You can be a hard-nosed, tough leader without belittling and emasculating people. So for me, despite all the success, that's definitely a black mark on his legacy. (And hey, every single player has them.)
