It's June 15, 2024, 03:24:30 PM
It's less physical and the rules have changed, obviously. Based on these rules, if I had to play with my style of play, I'm pretty sure I would have fouled out or I would have been at the free throw line pretty often and I could have scored 100 points.
Plus with the refs giving him more calls than Kobe & LeBron combined, 120 is possible.
^You mean to tell me that on a given game Jordan couldn't go 7-13 from three?I mean, if you're planning to score 100 points, it would help if you at least make it a given you're having a great day from the field; draining everything.Not to mention that Kobe hitting seven threes is only seven more points scored than Jordan if he hit all two's & I'm sure he could make up those seven points at the line.
Jordan is right (as always).The way they call fouls today is out of control. Let me give you 3 examples.-The first example I want to give is from the Heat/Mavericks finals a few years ago when Dwayne Wade was just givin every call down the stretch. All he had to do was make a hard move to the basket and he was gauranteed to go to the line. This killed the Mavs early in the series and robbed my boy Cuban of a championship.-The other example is when Kobe kicks his feet out. He jumps up in the air, the defender is minding his own air space and not infringing upon Kobe's landing.. but Kobe kicks his legs out and because his legs hit the defender he ends up at the freethrow line. This is beyond ridiculous.-The last example is when a guy like Kobe actually lunges into the defender. The defender is running alongside him and the defender does not take an angle into Kobe but rather just alongside Kobe, which should be his right... yet at the last moment kobe or Wade-like player will wildly lunge into the defender and end up at the line, over some bullshit.
even though the game has become less physical, people keep forgetting that the players of today are way more athletic than back then...jordan didn't face players like lebron, wade, kobe, melo, durant, etc. on the perimeter...his greatest rival at his poisition was clyde drexler. the other 20+ teams had no one competing with MJ. the athletes of today make it literally impossible for any one single individual to score 100 points in a game. the fact that kobe made it to 81 is still mind-boggling, really. if it took an overtime for him to reach 69, it would take at least 80 minutes of play for Jordan to reach 100....and a shorter three point line (a la 1995).