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i heard the bulls in this series decided to rely a little less on john paxson and a little more on bj armstrong and no disrespect but in my OPINION without michael jordan they WOULDN'T have swept the pistons/isiah thomas

You win as a team and lose as a team. If his teammates didn't have his back, that's on them. I don't blame him for being upset with his team if they didn't stick up for him during the fight.

Legend.

Lebron James sat out many games during the seasons you’re talking about that’s why he has so few seasons under 60 wins, also the 12-13 Heat won 27 games in a row they are a top 5 team ever and many think better than 13-14 Spurs. They beat that same team season before. Funny though you named 3-4 great teams in Brons era left out celtics but what great teams did Mj have to face? None unless you count the bad boys he is 1-3 against

I can agree and that's the argument that makes him the goat. He had great success despite not having a coach and a system. That's not a issue of play style but lack of having a good organization behind you. Like starting a business, you can plan but you still need great timing and some luck.

Some of y'all dont know the purpose of the question mark. The title is posing the question that IF it's his biggest blarkmark... not that it is. Yall Jordan fans too sensitive sometimes 😂

Hell nah lol if anything it’s the most meaningless mark because he was retired for a year and a half..I think being 1-9 was worse than 1 damn series 😂 plus they lost Horace so it was a adjustment year too

The moral to the story is he always overcame his shortfalls and he never had very much help is what this proves. This one series and the circumstances of only playing 20 games before the playoffs after a 2 year break. This is all you got? Really? Give me a break. MJ the GOAT.🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐 Leflop the GOAT of turnovers.

HIS FATHER GOT KILL, PLAY BASEBALL FOR 2 YRS TOOK THEM THE PLAYOFFS NAME A PLAYER THAT DID THAT. GET THE FUUU OUT OF HERE

This is a lie his under performance is still better then all you reaching

i think you could argue the Bulls win the title in 1994 if Jordan didn't retire, but '95 was a different story. without Grant, i don't think they could win even if Jordan was in basketball shape. unless you could argue that Grant might not leave if Jordan was still there in '94 and '95. but we'll never know.

So when you play 17games it counts like a season😮🤦🏾‍♂️🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣nonsense

This man said all his teams had a similar offense tailored to LeBron and 4 of 10 champions says it's working. Tf 40% in school is an F. How is 40% better than 100% of an offense not tailored to you better ? When the Bulls won. I'll wait.

This series counts forsure But it must only be talked about with proper context like every other loss in any other player's career He made mistakes and looked human He had also only played 22 games and had been playing baseball for a year and a half A stain? By someones definition sure, But its no 2004 Kobe or 2011 Lebron With all due respect to both.

The balls to come back with only 17 games left! 💪

Some of y'all gotta watch the video to completion

When it was announced that Jordan is back, Kerr and Jude Buschler had a conversation about whether Phil Jackson would make him a starter or not, and the conventional wisdom is that it's impossible for a player to suddenly become a top-tier player after nearly two years away from the game. At the time, the Chicago front office recommended that Jordan return in the start of 95-96 season due to his body not being a basketball player's body and the long layoff, but with a playoff berth in doubt at the time, Jordan opted to return right away, and returned at the end of the 9495 season. In the 17 games Jordan played after his return, Chicago went 13-4 and clinched a playoff. While he often looked like his prime in the regular season and playoffs, the problem was the ups and downs of his play. Jordan committed several mistakes that weren't very Jordanian and this was ultimately the main reason for the series loss to Orlando. Also, with the exception of Pippen and Armstrong, almost all of the players were changed from they were in the 1st 3peat, so there wasn't enough time to build optimized team around Jordan. Pippen's playoff struggles have been a virtual constant, so I don't want to point fingers at him as the cause of the loss - Chicago was a team that needed Jordan to play ridiculously well to win championship anyway. That's why the #1 and #2 all-time championship teams that won with the least amount of scoring supporting cast from their teammates are 98 Chicago and 97 Chicago. The bottom line is that Jordan's '95 second-round loss was actually a series in which he did better than expected, as this video shows. He just didn't have enough time to regain his body, his technical confidence, and his bond with his teammates. IMO even if Rodman had been in Chicago in '95, Bulls would have had hard time vs Orlando in '95 if Jordan hadn't regained his form into the Jordan we know. After that season, Jordan once said he realized that his body was not optimized for basketball due to his baseball days, and that his physical abilities, such as speed and quickness, vertical had diminished from his prime, so he knew he had to change his style of play. So, starting in the 95-96 season, his post-up play became more of a focus and we got the Jordan we know from the 2nd 3-peat era. Note that Jordan's body would not be optimized for basketball again until the 96-97 season. In fact, the Bulls were actually better than they were in 95-96 at the starting of the season, and probably would have broken 72 wins if it weren't for injuries to teammates in the mid season.

Michael gave the City of Chicago something it's never had before or since: bragging rights for the best team in NBA history (96' Bulls) a near-guaranteed Championship every full season paired with an all-star/healthy Scottie Pippen, the Best basketball player/teams sport athlete of all-time! I grew up in Chicago and I remember the pre-MJ Bulls, nobody paid them any attention! Michael Jordan's contributions to sports in Chicago were so incredible from 85' thru 98', I can't see knocking anything he's done!

I’d say this is the one series where you could blame Jordan for the bulls losing his entire career. Game 1 and 4 were on Jordan but the other two losses were more on Pippen and Kukoc who added nothing scoring less than 10 pts. I mean if Jordan’s worst series is him going 31 ppg 6.5 rebounds and 2.5 steals per game that’s not bad at all. He’s never had a meltdown like Lebron in 2011.

Everything counts if you on the court!mike is the G and it ain’t even close!no excuses!

He didn’t have the conditioning and sharpness given the short lead time, but to put it in perspective, he had a combined 70 points over 2 consecutive halves (35 points in the second half of game 2 or 3 and then 35 points in the first half of the next game.

His biggest black mark is losing a series in which he was the best player?

Number 45 vs 23… also joined late season. i watched it live. then this whole video is defeated because he was baseball physically not basketball.

It was called “hack-a-Shaq”

MJ didn't have the legs to close in 95

Imagine if Draymond Green was on the Cavs in 2016. You think the Warriors are even remotely the same team? Same thing when Horace went to Orlando.

I count this against MJ. But everything has context. The man hadn't played meaningful basketball in 1 1/2 years. His supporting cast was subpar. And they were a few points away in every game from being the 4-2 WINNER. In my mind, defeats help build the legacy to overcome adversity. That's what made MJ(and most of the greats) so GOATISH. He didn't cheat his way to a title. Nobody said that KG, Ray and PP would 3peat. The Heatles said not 1, not 2, not 5... no adversity in any of that. That's why going 4-6 looks worse than West going 1-8. Broke down further, West went 22-33. LeBron went 22-33. However, West's teams were NEVER swept. LeBron's supporting teammates were way better than West's. West never laid an egg. MJ never laid an egg in the playoffs. LeBron has.

Bro the man played a half a season. Come on bro who ain't going to be rusty what happened right after that 3p thank you everybody shut up after that. I just said that everybody just shut up y'all always trying to find something on you. This man left the game and came back what happened the next year after that and the year after that and the year after that exactly case closed

Great analysis!

This is absurd, i can vividly remember how Jordan looked after a two year absence and what only 22 games played before playoffs? His timing was off and he did not look as fluid. It was obvious, no one at the time was judging him on that series and contrary to modern perspective outside of Chicago not everyone was rooting for him or the bulls. Also, he coulda just let that season go lnowi g he would not be 100% but he didn’t carehow he would loom if they lost.

Lmfao... he played a short season coming back from baseball. STOP THE IGNORANCE IF YOU THINK THIS SEASON MATTERED. 😅😅😅😅 His 1st full season back he started 3 peat #2.

Tanking the 10' semis & 11' finals are the least of LeBron's numerous, unforgivable sins.

People say he’s the greatest point guard ever and other say he is the number one pure point guard ever but the only person they ever put ahead of him Magic Johnson lost to him in the finals twice one officially loss and one unofficial loss

Losing Horace was big deal lost a big chain in their defensive scheme as well as rebounding. That’s why they got Rodman who turned out to be a big upgrade from Horace.

Spot on analysis

Excellent job!!! Very keen look about that time!!! Earned the like 👍🏼 and THE SUB👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼!

This is my favorite basketball channel!

I would have found a place for Reggie. No rings, but neither do Walker or Smart.

Debate how....... 4-6 ...or 6-0...That's what I thought.....!!!!

A debate is a debate. This isn't a debate. MJ is the better

And mj has 2 year lesion

Mj win everithing, and lebron loose vs all plaayers

Those people think that way, they just Kobe haters.

for all intens & purposes: HISTORY says WILT(merger or not!!!!!)

Great insight. The problem is that Lebron winning 4 titles outside of a system actually proves how amazing he is to succeed where all the other players needed a system to thrive. Sounds like you're just another Jordan stan disguised as an objective voice.

you can't put lebron's miami mvps here, they have an asterisk next to them because of him being on artificially stacked rosters

MJ 30-7 playoff series record...6 of those teams went to NBA Finals and 3 times he lost to the champs. Opponents who beat MJ in the playoffs averaged 59.7 wins in those seasons 🤯

They said everyone was old

The Bulls reaching their pinnacle had as much to do with the team understanding and executing the triangle offense as Pippen and Grant coming into their own. Also too many people have no idea how deadly the Bulls defense was in the championship era. Great video

No, these criticisms are misplaced. Fact is, no matter how great the player, if **80%** (four of the five) are not contributing at a high enough level, that one great player cannot get it done. Jordan lost the majority of his 60 point games. Wilt lost all but one of his 70 point games. What more were they supposed to do to win those games? The fact that they HAD to score so much to try to win those games reflects a weak team other than them. The common headline in Jordan's early years was 'Bulls lose despite Jordan's 37 points.' He couldn't get his teams to even .500 (his first three years) until he got better teammates. A team sport requires a good enough TEAM. Generally in the NBA, that meant two all-star level players and another player who was just below that level who could get you 20+ points fairly regularly.