<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (remix @ Feb 23 2006, 06:04 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I think that for the best Scorer I would say Larry Bird. That dude was clutch. And could score from anywhere.</div> Yeah...Michael Jordan could never do that and average 6ppg more than Bird.
MJ in his last 3 years averaged 30 ppg. You're trying to tell me that he used his athletic abilty to score in those years?
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Melo061 @ Feb 24 2006, 03:53 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>MJ in his last 3 years averaged 30 ppg. You're trying to tell me that he used his athletic abilty to score in those years?</div>Yes i am, but I will admit his style of game changed a lot, he was a much better shooter in the second three-peat then he was at any part of his career.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (PrimeTime @ Feb 24 2006, 06:55 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Yes i am, but I will admit his style of game changed a lot, he was a much better shooter in the second three-peat then he was at any part of his career.</div>Yeah but he didn't depend on his athletic abilty like he did earlier. Also how old was he in 1997-1998? And yet he put up 29 ppg.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BCB @ Feb 24 2006, 09:20 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Primetime, would you honestly stop, you sound like an idiot yet again.</div>Why dont you watch any game of Michael Jordan from 1984-1995? in almost every game he was constantly penetrating, MJ was a great offensive player but a high PPG on a high % dont make him the greatest offensive minded player, Tony Parker scores a lot of points on an incredible field goal % but he's far from being as offensively talented as Steve Nash, another good comparison would be Amare. And while no player completely penetrates, MJ relied little on his jumpshot and even littler on his 3 point shot, he enjoyed the post much more.
Who cares if he was not Reggie Miller shooting the ball? He put up 30ppg with little trouble shooting over 50%...I don't think it matters that he didn't have the jumper...nobody was more feared on the offensive end than Jordan was.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BCB @ Feb 25 2006, 12:50 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Who cares if he was not Reggie Miller shooting the ball? He put up 30ppg with little trouble shooting over 50%...I don't think it matters that he didn't have the jumper...nobody was more feared on the offensive end than Jordan was.</div>I never said he had to be Reggie Miller, being great offensively is more then just a high % on a high PPG, if that's true Wilt is the greatest offensive player in a landslide.I had Kareem as my second, so obviously I wasnt taking shooters into account, but moreso players that could beat you so many ways, MJ could take it to you on his amazing athletic ability and decent post moves,but MJ was very easy to stop because of his lack of offensive skills,he'd constantly be stopped when a player learned to play him right like Dumars did for so long. your looking at stats, i'm looking at who is going to cause as much hell for the guy defending him. If you stopped MJs penetration, he was going to have a bad game, if you stopped Bernard King one way, he'd beat you another way. That's what I consider when comparing the greatest offensive players, stats arent relevent at all in this.
