Last Dance

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  1. Shaboid

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    That doesn't explain why we all hate you here #BAM
     
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    Jordan didn't prioritize "what the league prioritized". For example, he started the trend of lifting weights on game day, which was discouraged by the league culture.
     
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    That's off-court stuff. He tried to perfect his game within the confines of how it was played at the time. No one was even considering the idea that launching 60 threes a game was analytically efficient, so it would have made little sense for Jordan to work extensively on that skill at the expense of his already dominant, and more practical, ones. There's only so much practice time in the day, and skills erode if you don't keep working on them.
     
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    THE HCP NorthEastPortland'sFinest

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    Red Flagged! Denny please handle this guy!
     
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    Karl Malone has become the guy working at the gas station/general store that the kids in a horror film encounter just before they leave the main road to head out to the Cabin in the Woods

     
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    That's certainly the way Horace Grant tells it
     
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    They didn't even talk about the intro music?

     
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    zI honestly never knew the name if that song until about a month ago.
     
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    https://clutchpoints.com/bulls-vide...hought-of-clyde-drexler-per-craig-hodges/amp/

    What Michael Jordan really thought of Clyde Drexler, per Craig Hodges

    “Not every great athlete is marketable,” the former Bulls talent said. “I remember having a conversation one time, it was like four of us, MJ included. And the conversations came up about Clyde Drexler. And MJ said this: ‘Clyde Drexler is just as good as me. He just don’t know how to play the game.’

    “And we ain’t talking about basketball.”
     
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    i'm in episode 8. watched 7 last night.
     
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    tykendo Don't Tread On PDX

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    Praise, and then a slam from Jordan on Clyde. As much as i have a dislike for MJ, i agree with him on Drexler. Drexler was so athletically gifted. I remember hearing Mychal Thompson( atleast i think it was him) saying Clyde told him once, he was as fast as Carl Lewis. I know this, he had incredible straightline speed. I know Kiki tried to work with Clyde on that ugly outside shot, but it only helped so much. Clyde was an incredible competitor. You could see the desire in his eyes. But it seemed like Clyde relied too much on that athleticism. I remember Terry Porter shooting practice shot after practice shot to improve his %. It worked. Dame does the same thing to perfect his craft. But Clyde's shot never changed. Maybe Clyde worked on it, maybe he didn't, but it just didn't seem like Clyde's game ever changed. And i'm sorry Clyde, i don't give a rip about those Rockets. Don't get me wrong, i loved Clyde when he was a Blazer. It just would be nice to hear Clyde have extensive talks about his Blazer years. Like Bill Walton. Not just a few things here or there.
     
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    tykendo Don't Tread On PDX

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    That's a bad photo still of Alan Parsons, he looks possessed. Heeheehee
     
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