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Jordan question (alien.top)
submitted 1 year ago by LamarWest3@alien.top to c/nba@nba.space
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In the 1987-88 season Jordan averaged 35PPG while only attempting 0.6 3 pointers per game and only hitting 13% of them. These are the kind of numbers you could expect from a bigman (or Ben Simmons), not from a guard

Question is, how did he manage to score that many points pretty much only from 2 pointers, did teams not adjust to prevent him from driving like they do against Giannis? Young Jordan based on his numbers seemed to not be a threat from outside at all, how was so prolific while at the same time so one-dimensional? I must be missing something

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[–] herseyhawkins33@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Young Jordan was just that good of an athlete and his agility at the rim was unparalleled. By 88 he absolutely had a midrange game tho. Just not as methodical as later in his career.