dice wrote:ATRAIN53 wrote:troza wrote:
https://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/198804030DET.html
if someone wants to check the box score.
Charles Oakley with the double double 14/11 boards
San Vincent too 18/ 13 assists
But MJ
17-19 Free Throws
59 Points -
only 1 3 Point attempt
We won this game 112-110
This game is the epitomie of the Jordan Rules.
They just mauled him, but he just keeps stepping up to the FT stripe and knocking them down.
I bet his 2 blocks in this game are pretty epic
LOL 1 point combined from a young Pip and Horace those guys were SCARED in these games back then.
according to wikipedia, the "jordan rules" were devised by isiah in '88 and utilized in the '88 playoffs. in that series, jordan's average offensive game line was:
11/22, 6/8, 27/5/4to. close to human
as opposed to his regular season averages vs all teams:
13/24, 9/11, 35/6/3to
he also had subpar numbers against them in the '89 and '90 playoffs before killing them in the '91 sweep
career TS% vs eastern teams (50 games min.):
60.2 milwaukee
60.1 charlotte
58.7 atlanta
57.8 NY
57.3 boston
57.3 jersey
57.1 philly
56.7 cleveland
55.1 indy
55.0 detroit
It was not Isiah. It's been said by Piston players multiple times that it was Chuck Daly because he was tired of Jordan embarrassing the team. Regardless, that's still Jordan absolutely slaughtering the best defensive team in the league, every trip down the court. They would bash him well before the Jordan Rules.
PER googling (CBS Sports) - The way the Pistons did it was by implementing what has become known as "The Jordan Rules," which is a set of principles devised by former Pistons head coach Chuck Daly after Jordan dropped 59 points on the Pistons in the lead-up to the 1988
By anyone's standards (even GOAT standards), Jordan's performances were amazing, nearly doubling the second best player on either team, posting 30 7 and 6 well before 30 points became an arbitrary number like today's stat-inflated league... on nearly all 2's, to boot. There's no calling Jordan's Pistons series anything but amazing, especially considering the defense. But ultimately, he didn't have nearly enough help and the Pistons were stacked on both ends of the court.
And he was still able to have performances like this
Jordan played very well considering what the Jordan Rules were.
"If Michael was at the point, we forced him left and doubled him. If he was on the left wing, we went immediately to a double team from the top. If he was on the right wing, we went to a slow double team. He could hurt you equally from either wing—hell, he could hurt you from the hot-dog stand—but we just wanted to vary the look. And if he was on the box, we doubled with a big guy.
"The other rule was, any time he went by you, you had to nail him. If he was coming off a screen, nail him. We didn't want to be dirty—I know some people thought we were—but we had to make contact and be very physical."
So if the Pistons had to do that to limit him to 30 ppg, imagine what he'd do vs. the pillow-soft defenses today. In an interview, Kenny Smith mentioned that they created a new rule making it illegal for Jordan to go 1 v 1 because he was scoring at a stupid high rate. Well, enter today's league, where there's spacing galore. I've never seen as much spacing as Lebron's spacing on that Miami team. Golden State? Forget it.
LeBron is 0-7 in game winning/tying FGs in the finals. And is 20/116 or 17% in game winning/tying FGs in the 4th/OT for his career. That's historically bad 
