Everytime Michael Jordan "Took It Personal"

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care of you and looks at Kent and says we take care of you and he looks at me and we take care of you today, the gate pass arrives. on Jordan, here's Michael, the damn look everyone was giving us, I even asked you in the locker room to ask everyone, you know, what the feeling was in Chicago. Have they ruled us out yet? and you said that some of them had discarded us, I said Well, tell those guys to stay at home, get out of here, go anywhere, but you leave here, whoever is not with us, go to hell.

The infamous Jordan rolls the pistons. The defensive tactics designed to contain his namesake are applied every time Michael is on the court. as soon as he steps in the paint, this is a Jordan room every time you go to the basket, put them on the floor, how bad do you want it? Are you willing to get injured to score a basket? I don't know how you got out. of the line we tried to physically hurt marshall

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he had nowhere to go slimy how legitimate was the hatred between those bull teams and those guns oh, i hated him and yes, he carries to this day they did it personnel applied to plan says that "They're the two best in the game, but I'm not going to get into a war of words with Mike Clyde.

He was a threat. You know, I'm not saying he wasn't a threat, but I was compared to him. I was offended by that, so that he. hits the first three and then here comes the second the third field record 35 points in the half I'm killing this guy do you know the story of Bradford Smith? Has anyone told you this was in '93? The bullets They were terrible, Bradford Smith. was their draft pick, but this is what I always say, you never know, it could be your night, you never know, tonight is Bradford Smiths night, Bradford Smith, left wing drains, Bradford Smith came off the screen from the 16.

Wow, baseline Smith has hit everything else. Bradford Smith had a game, I mean he had a game of games inside Jordan posted against Smith and for some reason Michael couldn't make a basket. Michael punches him in the body and nails him. Smith, he really has that touch now. We're not talking about that guy, we're talking about Bradford's turn in Chicago. Bradford Smith scored 37 points against Michael Jordan. He said Bradford Smith coming out of the gym had said "Good game," Mike, and you knew this was it. He's not going to do well the next night, they play in Washington.

We played him back to back. I never forget it, so we'll fly to Washington. He said tomorrow in the first half I will have what this kid had in the game. I've never seen a guy go after another player the way he did. Jordan scores 36 in the first half. He is concentrating almost exclusively on Bradford. He was so offended and a guy who said "Good game", Mike, that he burned and humiliated him. He was a little upset. that i didn't get the mvp that he and they gave to charles barkley, but that being said, okay, you can have it, i'm going to get this.

I knew jerry krause loved dan martin and just because krause liked him was enough for me. You think he's a great defensive player, okay, I assure you he doesn't waste himself admirably, he'll take it to the basket and drop it. I have in mind that if I don't do this, then they are going to consider him on the same level as me and that motivated me to attack Jordan there is a penetration five seconds to shoot three two count that sounded like a countdown for a shot

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beats him in the dribble we have another tied game that Do you think he will take this opportunity?

Michael Jordan That was one of Michael's lowest points when they came back and didn't win. He hated the fact that the horse was on the other team when they defeated him. That's what he

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seriously. After the season there is usually a period of time where Michael takes time off the night they lost to Orlando. I said Michael. You know I'm about to get out of here. Let me know when you want me to see you because I will see you. tomorrow if you know mj since I do it very well the only thing he was doing during the summer having orlando magic on his mind that's all we didn't have a chance

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finishes with 45 points the bulls do it 106-101 during the final let's have dinner one night george calls across at dinner hey there's george carl there and george carl ain't coming to talk to him he walked past me man look at my billy oh that's how you gonna play. you know he just walked by and i was like uh-oh i should never have done that i said he's a crocker you know we went to carolina we know dean smith i see him in the summer we play god you're going to do this okay that's all I needed, that's all I needed for him to do that and it got

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because I couldn't take care of business, now he can make up for a lot with his athletic ability, but no one will notice that, what's the biggest factor of motivation for that.

Series for you, come MVP, congratulations to Carl Malone 1996. NBA MVP Paul Malone was the MVP that year, so added motivation for Michael here. He thought he should have been the MVP, so we knew right away where this was going. I'm not saying he didn't deserve it, all I'm saying is that it fueled the fire inside me and I said, well, you think they're going to lock him down, no problem, here's

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four on the shot clock against russell, michael hangs shot how many. times against armstrong armstrong backs up to the bench works from a screen d-bot to the right pull-up confidence bj he kind of forgot you know what motivates us you know he woke us up if we were asleep and uh we I've been able to capitalize on what he shot at the Bulls 78-76 in Chicago to tie the best-of-seven series in one and it was former Bull BJ Armstrong whose jumper with 18 ticks left sealed the win for Charlotte after the reaction, let's see if All that trash talk starts when it's zero zero instead of five six point lead, that's where it started when he hit that shot and looked down at the whole bench and everything, it just didn't sit right with Michael and we knew we had woken up Michael Jordan. up, an Armstrong on top, followed by Michael, gave up his dribble, pressured by Michael, came after me in the rest of the series, especially in the next game, Armstrong, on top of the circle, Michael, on top of He, Armstrong, with nowhere to go, Jordan with a change of direction.

Armstrong knew he had it so the Hornets take Armstrong away from Jordan momentarily B.J Armstrong tonight just two points on one of seven shooting if I had to pick a team that gave us the toughest time in the east, you know, Indiana was probably the hardest outside. detroit were tough every time i went in that game and came out i got a new scratch it got

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for me for michael jordan in this his 36th playoff series it's only his third game seven but mj offers assurances that the dynasty will not end. Here tonight we are going to win the seventh game, Reggie escapes the screens, but it is Smith with a quick change and Miss Dale Davis can't hit the point alone, protects the ball and reaches the final for the sixth time in eight years for the Chicago Bulls, yeah, Brian Wilson, when he was playing baseball, Utah is in town to play the Bulls, they're practicing at the facility.

I went to say hi to John and Carl and this kid, Brian Russell, came up to me and said, man, why did you quit? You quit man you knew I could protect your ass I couldn't you had to quit I said Carl you need to talk to this guy he's just a young rookie but ever since then he's been on my list 17 seconds off the championship number . Six, what about the last shot you took as a member of the Chicago Bulls? The last shot, what was that shooting game? six incredible, 13 seconds left, jordan, left side, I practice like I'm playing so when the time comes in the game it's not new to me that's the beauty of the game of basketball that's the reason you practice that's the effort so that when you get to that moment you don't have to instinctively think things happen georgia