After waiting all these years for someone to be 1/10th the player MJ was....

[QUOTE=Straight_Ballin]Why hasn't anyone been able to shut down MJ in the finals the way Lebron was shut down by players like Iggy and Kawhi? They played such good defense on him that they won the FMVP. No one could do that to MJ in the finals. I attribute it to MJ going up against Pippen in practice everyday, who was a superior defender to both kawhi and Iggy. Also take into account that despite being able to hand check, they still couldn't stop MJ. Iggy and kawhi weren't even allowed to hand check lebron, and they still stopped him. That's how inferior Lebron's offensive game was in comparison to MJ. We saw a bench player last year in Delly shut down Curry in 2 games. I don't recall MJ ever being shut down 2 games in a finals series, and that's with being able to hand check the shit out of him and be 10x more physical than what is allowed in today's game.[/QUOTE]

Michael had the ultimate athletic advantage along with skills. He didn't face kawhi and Iggy defenses one on one. Short stocky guards gave Jordan more issues I believe.

[QUOTE=PP34Deuce]Michael had the ultimate athletic advantage along with skills. He didn't face kawhi and Iggy defenses one on one. Short stocky guards gave Jordan more issues I believe.[/QUOTE]

He faced the ultimate defender in Pippen every day in practice, so came game time it didn't matter who was covering him. He was gonna win if it was a finals series and he proved it by going 6/6 with the 6 FMVP. No one has done it since.

[QUOTE=PP34Deuce]I'd have to see curry on a team with no klay or draymond. [B]I believe he gets single covered on isolated plays[/B].[/QUOTE]

That's because his isolation plays are 26 feet away from the basket. Nobody is going to double team that, i don't care who his teammates are. That just makes it way too easy for someone in the paint to be open.

[QUOTE=Klayup]Well...most guys would stick around to defend their title [B]rather than quit when they knew it was over.[/B][/QUOTE]

MJ had just come off a finals series averaging 43 a game. 94 Pippen and Grant were the best versions of those players. BJ had become a dependable backcourt mate. Kukoc came on-board. Paxson and Cartwright started to give way to younger versions in Kerr and Longley. And, as the detractors love to point out, a Jordan-less team won 55 games. Now throw a still prime MJ on top of that. That team very easily could have been the best of the Bulls title teams.

What about that says 'over' to you? The Bulls would have been HEAVY favorites for the 94 season.

Until someone 3 peats, leaves the game of basketball, comes back, and then 3 peats again......you haven't see shit. Real talk.