MJ would have destroyed ALL competition if he played in today’s NBA - Stephen A. | First Take

How much

would

MJ punish in

today

's game? Well, she

would

have

destroyed

all or all of the

competition

s. I don't think there's any question about it, but he didn't average 50 and shoot 75% from the field, that's definitely hyperbolic or David Fox bought one. If he's not the elite agent of his time and he's still a big time as far as I'm concerned, he really knows what the hell he's doing, but let me be very, very clear, I think Michael Jordan would

have

averaged around 40, I think his rival. In terms of scoring, he would have been exactly who James Harden should be under the current rules, but I think Jordan would have had an advantage because of what he did on the defensive side of the ball.

James Harden just destroys you off the dribble. He knows how to step back on 3-point shots and get to the hole and get to the free throw line. I think Jordan would have done it primarily from two point range, although I think he would have developed a better three point game, but I think he would have really made his bones with steals and defense blocking opponents and I think what is not mentioned whenever some Jay's talk about Jordan they always talk about how many points he would have if he scored too high. He

destroyed

the

competition

because of what he did offensively.

I think people don't realize the heart transplants that he would have forced or just snatched hearts from guys all over the league, he would have

take

n them out, they wouldn't have wanted to. part of it because that was Jordan's specialty, it wasn't just about beating you Molly Max J, it was about demoralizing you, taking your heart out and making sure you knew that you couldn't mess with him at all and that you wanted no part of it. It wasn't enough for him to walk off the court victorious, he literally wanted to rip a heart out of your chest and that's one of the things you don't seem like in the modern game, that's the difference and that's why I think you know he would have averaged his 40s , he would have shot 50% from the field and more importantly a lot of the damage would have been done on the defensive side of the court because of his ability to stop people, that's where there would just be guys wiped out, this It's not that hard to understand, of course, David Falk is being ridiculous.

I originally said a couple of days ago that Jordan would average 40 easily and the reason I said that is this,

first

of all, in these times, you have to suppose that Jordan is emerging in these times, you don't just

take

out a guy in his prime and you let him go, what kind of game does he have? The game involves changing the rules. Anyone who comes up these days is shooting the three if you keep playing. the perimeter that you're shooting, the three are coming up shooting the three, so the question is: does that player have the ability to really become a good three-point shooter?

Jordan when he started shooting the three shots 37% one year 40 almost three percent one year in the second half of his career indicates that he had the ability to be a very good three point shooter, so when he talks about shooting percentage Of course not 75%, in fact his field goal percentage would probably have decreased, who can take more? lower percentage shots, however, he would have made a lot of them, he would have been one of the best three-point shooters in the league because if that's what he's working on, that's what would happen, as evidenced by the fact that who shot with an average of 40 percent. for two seasons towards the end, so you went up that way and you say it's true, the shooting percentage probably goes up, especially in this scoring era, an era where the primary ball handler may not be the ball as much.

ISO, but he can really monopolize the use of the If you look at Jordan, remember I said that if Pippen hadn't had a migraine in Game 7 against the Pistons, the

first

time Jordan had another star, he would have beaten them. Jordan took 27 shots, made 13, all of them are two. The point is to only take mid-range shots. Almost 50% of them were lost. 30 something. He had a ton of assists and rebounds. The only other guy who did anything. Horace Grant lost 10 points. He shot like 3 of 17. Jordan was holding. teams in two-by-two games, counting to one and two at a time, you add the three-point game and a higher percentage of three-point shots.

Jordan easily averages forty a game, his true shooting percentage probably goes up and by the way, when guys lead the league.

today

, in scoring he is a lead on Jordan, when he was young he didn't lead the league in scoring by a point or two later in his career, he beat Carl Malone by a couple of points right at the end of his career, at Early in his career, he was smoking, guys. like Dominique Wilkins five six seven more points per average per game on average, so when you look at the distance between him and second place and you look at the guys who average close to 35 today, Jordans will clearly be up over 40 points per game like two greats. outfield player, he's the best player of all time for a reason, so a couple of things, number one, 4850, maybe 75% from the field, I don't think that's a little bit of embellishment, put the forties and fifties and they They both said maybe it's not obscene, they're saying maybe because we think of Michael Jordan in the triangle system of someone who

played

in that system, the number of passes and they're cutting me 33 cuts for every damn pass, believe me, it took me a whole season to figure out the plan of how that offense works well and I was a point guard, I didn't even play the two positions where I caught the ball to pressure the post, but if you're talking about Michael Jordan with Doug Collins, Michael Jordan that was able to have the ball in his hands to push it down the court to do whatever he wanted to play at a fast pace he can get to that means Allen Iverson was able to get to the free throw line like 9 10 times a game throughout his career, because you know you hit it, you go to the free throw line, was Michael Jordan in that era in this era where that's a foul like the back and hey, you see part of the ball that the boys see, but now you thought this?

All the time guys, Rick Lee shoots shots like that, you gotta shoot that ball, they ain't calling it, that's a foul now, so I don't know, I'm sitting there thinking maybe he could, it's 40 and 50 if he had light green to throw the ball as much as James Harden and was playing at the pace that Doug Collins allowed on the play, the pace that there is in today's game and the age, he could do it. Stephen a might be able to do it on the day they hacked you, mugged you, beat you up, beat you up, as shown during the Pistons, the bad Pistons going against Jordan and Jordan's rules, considering what the game is called nowadays. the day everyone realized Jordan averaged 8.2 free throws per game for his career (8.2 at the very least, that would double in today's game) he would get all the calls thanks for watching ESPN on YouTube to watch sports live and premium content subscribe to ESPN Plus