Who defended Jordan the best?

Starks?

kobe

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the more important person is who did jordan **** on the least?

Sidney Moncrief

reggie miller


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Joe D is the most frequent answer.

Hersey Hawkins

GP or joe d maybe:confusedshrug:

I'm not saying that he's the best Jordan defender, and I obviously know what happened in the end, but I don't think Byron Russell was all THAT bad on MJ.

Even the guys who guarded him best had plenty of help. But if I had to choose I'd go with Dumars, Starks and Payton. All 3 had excellent defensive fundamentals and since they were all around 6'4, they had the lateral quickness to hang with MJ AFTER handchecking him hard. They'd never be able to guard him effectively under today's rules though.

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In relative terms (since no one ever really gave him trouble), Jordan had more trouble with smaller defenders (6'4"ish), since they stood a better chance of being able to stay in front of him. These guys like Dumars and Starks and Alvin Robertson used to defend PG's pretty regularly, and it's a testament to Jordan's insane quickness that he was able to get by these guys like they were standing still many times despite being 2+" taller and being handchecked severely. I don't feel that Jordan gets enough credit for this. Some detractors talk about how some of his defenders were shorter than him (forgetting that these guys were tremendous defenders; JKidd guards swingmen too), but they neglect to mention that he was [i]beating them off the dribble[/i] routinely, which you shouldn't be able to do as regularly to shorter defenders. Jordan in his prime never had trouble with any defender his size or better.

Scottie, in practice:applause:

Earlier in his career: Moncrief and a team effort by Boston were the two best.

As he started approaching titles: the Pistons

During the first three-peat: believe it or not, but the Clippers defended him better than anyone else. Ron Harper usually picked him up with some mid-range help from guys like Ken Norman or a healthy Danny Manning. It wasn't an accident that Harper ended up on the Bulls for the second run.

starks handsdown. the knicks in the early nineties were one of the best defensive teams of all time, arguably the best one that never one a championship.