Who Was The Better Passer. Isiah or MJ?

MJ is such a great player as even when he is being guard by 2 to 3 defensive opponents, he knows when to pass or get through the gaps in such tight defense. GOAT!

So true that MJ would read from the Bird script to become a champion realizing that even Superman can’t triumph until getting his supporting cast into the game, and my goodness he learned to do it well. And I couldnt think of two players who have influenced the game more to make younger players fun to watch. Bird/Jordan perhaps the best ever and what memorable playoff matchups.

The true masterclass in that game IMHO.. was that Jordan completely and utterly shut down Dumars that game. I like Joe but it wasn't even close.

Jordan dismantled that team and broke it apart

Just the look of MJ, shows he was at least 40 years into the future 🔥

MJ really take this very personal 🔥

I’m pretty sure Pippen wasn’t an Allstar in 91. Jordan won a championship with no other Allstar in 91, and 98.

MJ really showed why he's the 🐐

Actually the Pistons didn't stop Jordan himself. That's a myth that has to always be dispelled. The problem the Bulls had in the pre-championship years wasn't that Jordan was being "stopped" but it was a COLLECTIVE talent advantage those other teams had. Between '87 and '91, in 44 head to head matchups between the Bulls and Pistons counting regular season and playoffs, Jordan averaged 34.5 points per game which actually exceeds his career average in the regular season (30.1) and playoffs (33.4). Jordan was always the best player on the floor, whether it be against the Celtics, Pistons or Lakers but he never had the collective talent around him to match in order to give the Bulls a realistic shot of beating those teams.

“Advanced age “of Bird team? Last time I checked, the 1998 champions were the oldest and they were Jordan’s team. No excuses

Detroit was going for a 3 peat they were the defending champs for 2 years.. They made MJ into a beast.. MJ and the bulls beat them and the rest was history

MJ was never intimidated by Detroit, his teammates were but not Mike

Great breakdown

Nice breakdown 👍🏿

Great game I remember calling my cousin in Detroit we. Won Jordan and bulls ❤was Great I will always remember them bulls years

great work 💪🏼

1991 was the year Mike decided to play the Pistons like Bird would and he got Bird results, his first championship.

I love when they talk about teams in the 80's that could beat Michael Jordan. Maybe because it was Jordan (alone) against Bird with McHale and many star players or Jordan against Magic. Magic had his support system and Jordan was ALONE. When Jordan joined the BUlls in 1984 the BUlls were known as the Cocaine Circus. Jordan never had ONE allstar player until 1991. In 1991 Pippen finally became an Allstar after practicing and playing with Jordan for four years. Pippen never even played bb in college. Check Pippen out on youtube in the 80's starting with 1987 he wasn't even a starter.

They won because pip grant and others step up!!! In 89 game 6 pippen did not play because of a hit on his head by laimbeer he was out. 90 game 7 the migraine! Grant 2pts... anyway

Good analysis

3:54 Wrong picture... You showed Bill Laimber 🙂 Nice video though!!!

Jordan so good they had to play another sport to stop him. The flagrant foul is the most necessary rule in the game of basketball. Imagine, guys like Kobe, Curry and Lebron getting the Jordan rules. Probably only Kobe could endure it but idk if Curry could and Lebron would be crying to the refs all game.

Crazy... Jordan and the conflict with Pistons and Rodman ... then years later...being his teammate to win 3more.

😂 7:10 😂 Jordan Rules 😂

Scottie Pippen, Horace Grant, MJ. Nice core lineup and start to a dynasty

Phil Jackson being elevated to head coach made a huge difference. Once Jordan began to trust `him` he started trusting his teammates, and when that happened, the Jordan Rules became not only ineffective, but counter-effective.

I must say time makes fools of all of us. He didn't fail he went above and beyond what they expected of him.

The Jordan Rules helped make MJ better.

MJ was extra filthy in those years, just a savage nobody had ever seen anything like it.

I mean wow,thean was Offensive and Defensive Player of the Year. That's Once in like A 50 year thing

7:12 Detroit deliberately tried to trip MJ. Dirtiest team ever.

At 5:24 Horace, not Cartwright rebounds...

@4:22 _you definitely don't see this in a 2nd qtr modern day NBA basketball game. 😂🤣😂

So interesting to see how they would take shots standing on or just in front of the 3 pt line. They didn’t live and die by the three-point shot back then. Much more interesting.

Then after the sweep, the pistons tucked their tails and ran into the locker room without shaking hands like the sore losers they were.

real talk. If Pippen had done his part in the ECF the previous year, the Bulls would have beaten the Pistons in 1990 as well and maybe the Bulls would have 4-Peated prior to MJ's first retirement.

MJ shows us all that, if you put good people around a player motivated and determined to be great the rest will follow. That's the meaning of a great, and I mean great leader. Us military veterans definitely can respect that. # facts 11 Charlie all day the United States Army for life. Attention!

He also won DPOY, SO it wasn't just scoring.

Jordan's a media creation.

1:20 (: Fun Fact : "three-peat" and "Threepeat" come from the Los Angeles _Lakers_ organization. Pat Riley filed for the copyright © protection on the term for winning three Championships in row at the beginning of 1988 - 89 NBA season. The Lakers had won the previous two NBA Championships, and he got a bright idea. The Pistons immediately ended that idea by winning a tough and rough championship in 1988 - 89 ... heh *Chicago did that Threepeat thang, twice* . 😊

from that moment onwards.. mj became the proud daddy of isaiah thomas and the whole detroit pistons team

If they never implemented the Jordan rules. How many Championships🏀 he would've won cause they couldn't of Stopped him hmmmm🤔

It didn’t hurt that the flagrant foul was implemented that year either.

Jordan was never intimidated by Detroit. Bad choice of words my guy

Those sneakers, to this day, still outsell every other basketball shoe by current pkayers.

The big thing back then in the papers and from the pundits was that 'home court advantage' was valued. The Bulls worked pretty hard to solidify home court, but of course that isn't the end all be all. And it wasn't just about Pippen emerging or Jordan - there was a toughness brought in from Cliff Levingston & BJ/King were starting to play better and the triangle had full buy-in. The biggest 'odd man out' was Dennis Hopson and part of that was Jordan's fault. But yeah, it was their time.

Shout out Tim Grover 0:45

MJ is great he can fly and draw while on the air.❤❤❤

The Pistons created a monster and it ate them alive.

Lamebeer should have been fouled hard every play

Can we see the other THREE times MJ got his azz beat 🤣🤣🤣

It's funny counting how many defensive fouls that would have been called in today's game. *Jordan averaged over 30 points per game against that....*

It's nothing to say, MJ, all the way.😮 9:39

GOAT

I thought it was the Olympic team versus the nba

Those pistons wanted to play australian rules football…lol

Boss MJ 🐐👑

Jordan only got by the Pistons in '91 because the NBA changed the rules. B o o h o o

None of today's teams can do a three peat! Leave alone twice.....that is the difference between MJ and the rest....

People try to say these guys were old when MJ beat em but pistons were on a dynasty trajectory having one 2 Isiah was just 30 years old roght there in prime age and everyone else was about the same age oldest guy was 36 next guy was 34 and than 30 and under

It was loaded teams playing dirty to stop THE ONE!

Isaiah Thomas was Michael Jordan's daddy. Beat his team 3 times in the playoff's vs 1 loss. As Isaiah declined in age, the Bulls passed them up. But this delusional concept that Jordan was Isaiahs's boss is just stupidity at the highest level.

Super unimportant question: Who is the narrator here? I can't place the voice and it's driving me nuts.

1 day a year and a half before Isiah retired.. Jordan showed who's boss.. what about the half decade before that?

Isiah Thomas is the only NBA player who has a winning percentage in head to head matchup with Michael Jordan.

He did nothing until scottie pippen got there

It's impossible to say who the GOAT player in NBA history was. The more interesting question is; If you could pick any player in NBA history to start an NBA franchise with today, who would you pick? It's a tough question.

OK, I understand the headline but you gotta do it both ways. Meaning you gotta show when Isaiah Thomas show Michael Jordan who was the boss also

Is it just me or do championships seem to mean less in the NBA nowadays?

Basketball is a TEAM sport. Not sure why some people don’t get this. I don’t care how good you are. You need help. Kobe was the one who did the most with less in his 2nd run without Shaq. But even he needed help. This is NOT boxing, wrestling, MMA, or tennis..

What he say? The rules of the game has changed.... In favor of Jordan...

the team won.. but mj on ur side tilted the balance

Isiah was too short to check Mike

What if in that game Lebron was MJ ? Lebron fans, please, try to find out who was MJ. Isae can surely help you !

First of all the Pistons had already gone to four consecutive Eastern Conference Finals and Three straight NBA Finals. The year before they won their first title they lost to the Lakers in the NBA Finals. The year before that they lost in the Eastern Conference Finals to the Celtics. So here they are in the Eastern Conference Finals for the fifth year in a row. It was time for the Bulls to experience getting to that next level just as the Pistons had done to get pass the Celtics. Go back and check the stats about MJ and the Bulls against the Pistons with Isaiah Thomas and the Celtics with Larry Bird. MJ had a losing record both in regular season and the playoffs. He never won a playoff series against Bird and he only won one series against Isaiah Thomas which happened to be that 1990-1991 season. Isaiah Thomas was at the end of his career and believe me he had given MJ more nightmares than any other player MJ faced his entire career. Just pull up all of the games one by one and get the facts. Especially games in Chicago where Isaiah Thomas showed MJ who was the man in Chicago being that Isaiah was born and raised in Chicago. Straight Facts

How the 45 jersey in 91 ?

Once he got pippin and grant it changed

Pippen had to save Jordan

Dumars And Ben Wallace only pistons with Class

😅😅😅😅 thomas best player out of chi town and MJ is more loved in Chi Town give it up zexk 😅😅😅😅

Clicked on this vid just to remind people that Isiah has a winning record vs. MJ. And if you think that's by accident then you know little about basketball.

Why does he keep calling Horace Grant Bill Cartwright ??

Aguire was a salty POS that wouldnt help in Dallas.

MJ let Isiah knows in 1991 ECF vs Pistons your championship regin is over.Chicago Bulls was ready to dominate the 1990s

Mike was never intimidated he had no help soon as he did it was lights out if Mike had a half ass team he would've start winning titles in 86

What about this evidence would make anyone, including LeOnePieceAndABiscuit would have anyone thinking that LeLe could even compare with MJ. A big waist of time it was.

Given a better supporting cast! He would have been beat Detroit is u kidding me FOUL ASS DAVID STERN HAD HIS HAND ALL IN IT

Isiah is still 3-1 against MJ

Most people don't even know who Isiah Thomas is

Also the year of rule change to help push him to his first title. Look it up

The best teams of the early/mid - mid - late 80’s were the Lakers Celtics Pistons & Bulls. Early 80’s we can obviously throw the Sixers in there but early mid - late 80’s it’s those 4. Have a look at those 4 teams - I’m mean seriously it’s 3 all time teams (that’s talent, coaching, chemistry etc etc) the Lakers/Celtics/Pistons were all time teams in every way - Chicago?? Bruh. Without MJ the 88 Bulls are picking number 1 in the following years draft. It’s 3 all time teams - and a team that had MJ and varying degrees of average-below avwrage role players and young unproven guys. And MJ single handed was making things interesting. The 89/90 back to back Pistons - they played 2 playoff series against Chicago - & 6 playoff series (that includes 2 finals) against everyone else. The Pistons beat Chicago 4-2 & 4-3. 5 defeats to Chicago…… the Pistons lost 2 games the other 6 series COMBINED. 5 games in 2 series against Chicago - 2 games total against everyone else. To put in perspective - the Pistons were 8-5 against Chicago…… they were 22-2 against everyone else. The 89 Pistons if not for MJ would hav even the first team to go undefeated the postseason. MJ carried the Bulls to 2 wins. MJ was the best player in the world - simply going against the 3 best teams in the world - while his team were like the worst-the middle of the pack depending on the year.

Jordan rules? I mean if he has the ball it’s ok to shove him?! That’s not basketball 🏀

bulls won only once compared to the 3 times the pistons won against bulls. and yet people are saying that MJ is the greatest. bcoz isiah and the bad boys doesnt have the charisma and the intensity the bulls had. people talked more of bird and magic but no isiah n the pistons. bcoz isiah won the 2 rings by being bad to other players. thats ur legacy isiah.

He showed him who's boss, not "who is the boss" ffs

One of the best Jordan videos. Great job 👍

Imagine getting trapped by Jordan and Pippen as soon as you touch the ball. #Goodluck 💀

How do you even make these fake thumbnail pictures? You have him posting up MJ at the 3 point line dude 😬

Isiah has a 36-29 record against Jordan including regular season and playoffs! Everyone knows if you beat someone more times than they beat you, then you are the boss! Only with the Jordan fanboys - wins don't matter!

The first year that M.J. Played Detroit, they didn’t know how to play defense and instead just shoved Jordan, that’s an actual foul, not a tik tak on the rist but a bully foul that is not basketball 🏀