<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">The last time a guard was this good, this young on this playoff stage, it took a separate set of rules to slow him. What Dwyane Wade is doing now, making the game look ridiculously easy even in the defense-dominated postseason, Michael Jordan did even better nearly 20 years ago. That is, until Jordan ran into the very franchise Wade is about to face. The Detroit Pistons devised a scheme to contain the explosive guard. They were called The Jordan Rules, and they aggravated and stymied Jordan for three years before he finally broke through. There are no Wade rules -- at least not yet -- but this year's Pistons certainly will be focused on containing the Heat's sophomore guard by whatever means necessary. In the late 1980s, Pistons coach Chuck Daly knew Jordan would get the ball in one of five positions. So the coach had specific orders for his team should they find Jordan in those spots. ''What we came up with, they were all double teams,'' Daly said. ``If he caught the ball on the top, we forced him left and immediately rotated the next nearest man to double team. If he was on the left side facing the basket, we forced him to the middle and came with the next man on a quick double team. If he were on the opposite side, we would play him baseline and come with a very slow double team. What we wanted to do was change it up on him. If he were on either box, it would be an immediate double team with either big guy. ``That's basically the Jordan Rules.''</div> Source
