I watched Netflix's documentary "Last Dance" about MJ on and off for two weeks, which caused a commotion that I hadn't written a film review for a long time. The valuable collection of this documentary has restored a large number of shooting records of MJ and the Bulls, plus many interviews with people related to MJ and the Bulls at that time, which once again restores the unknown places at that time and outside the game.
In 1984, in MJ's rookie season, he wanted to find a shoe company for cooperation. At that time, Converse was the official shoe of the NBA. It had many stars such as Magic Jonhson, Larry Bird, and Dr J. Converse said that it could not put MJ and these people in the shoes. At the same time, MJ wanted to cooperate with Adidas, but Adidas was in a bad financial situation at the time. Nike came to the door. MJ was resistant at the beginning. Nike gave quite good conditions and full sincerity, and promised to launch MJ's own brand. In 1985, Air Jordan was born. Nike expected to sell 3 million in 4 years. As a result, it sold 126 million in the first year. Everyone knows the story behind. Air Jordan is still the number one brand in the shoe circle.
In the fifth game between the Bulls and the Cavaliers in the Eastern Conference semifinals in 1989, with 2.9 seconds remaining, the Cavaliers took a 100-99 lead. Under pressure, MJ caught the ball and got rid of the defense. From the beginning of this game, the Bulls and MJ really grew into a team capable of competing for the championship, from playing well to wanting the championship.
After losing to the Pistons, which is known for physical confrontation for two consecutive years (the so-called Jordan rules were formulated), the whole team began to change the training method. MJ began to do strength training, increasing from 91 kg to 97.5 kg. The Bulls swept the Pistons 4-0 in the 1991 Finals and finally defeated the Lakers led by Magic Johnson, heralding the end of an old era and the beginning of a new one. In the last game against the Pistons, because Isaiah Thomas led the team and left the field directly, he did not congratulate the advancing side like the Bulls did in the previous two seasons. MJ had a bad relationship with Isaiah Thomas from then on. In the All-Star Game, MJ played for the last time. At that time, Isaiah Thomas, as the coach of the Eastern Conference, said that he never expected to become the coach of MJ.
In the summer of 1993, after the Bulls' first three-peat, his father, who had an excellent relationship with MJ, was shot and killed, which directly led to MJ's first retirement. A few months later, MJ decided to start a baseball career. In 1995, MJ had the opportunity to enter the Major League Baseball, and then the Major League Baseball Association went on strike. The league planned to let substitute players participate. MJ said that he would never betray the association and then quit the team. Returning to the Bulls to start training, and returning in March, the first game of the playoffs semifinals against Orlando, the Bulls led by one point with 12 seconds left in the game, and had the ball, MJ stole the ball. It was eventually defeated by Orlando, and then stopped there. So there is the sentence that No. 45 is not the original No. 23 (MJ wore No. 45 after his first comeback)
That summer, MJ went to Hollywood to shoot "Control Slam Dunk". The film crew built a training ground (Jordan dome) for MJ according to MJ's request. After 12 hours of shooting every day, MJ would invite friends to come and play 3 After hours of competition, these people included Juwan Howard, Dannis Rodman, Reggie Miller and many other stars, then went back to strength training, and got up at 6 or 7 the next day to continue shooting.
In the following 1995-96 season, the Bulls achieved a record 72 wins and 10 losses in the regular season. In the finals against the Phoenix, after a 3-0 lead, the Phoenix changed tactics and let Payton defend MJ. As a result, the Bulls lost two games in a row. The six games happened to be Father's Day. MJ led the team to beat the Phoenix. MJ was in pain with basketball in the locker room. Interestingly, before the playoffs, the Bulls said that if they didn't win the championship, 72 wins were nothing. As a result, 20 years later, the Warriors led by Steve Kerr, who played in the Bulls, went 73 wins and 9 losses. Broke the Bulls' record and lost to the LB Cavaliers in the finals.
In the finals of the 1996-97 season, the night before the fifth Tianwangshan battle after a 2:2 draw with the Jazz, MJ ordered a pizza at 10:30 in the evening, and ended up with food poisoning at 2:30 in the morning. He continued to participate in the competition, scored 38 points, and put in a quasi-lore in the last 25 seconds. The classic picture of Pippen hugging MJ after the game is still moving.
Last Dance's title refers to the official final season of the Bulls' second three-peat, when the team was in danger of falling apart. At Jordan's insistence, the Bulls kept Jackson and eventually a fifth title. All major contributors at the time. Then Pippen missed more than 3 months at the beginning of the season because he had surgery without a summer, and almost had a bad relationship with the management and left. In the Eastern Conference finals, Reggie Miller led the team to track the score after being 2-0 behind. To be honest, the Pacers were better than the Bulls at that time, but they lost in the genes and experience of the finals. In the end, the seventh In the game, when the Pacers were leading most of the time, because of a key scrimmage error in the fourth quarter, Cole equalized the score with a three-pointer, causing a mental breakdown and the Bulls struggling to advance.
In the finals against the Jazz for the second consecutive year, in Game 6, although the Bulls led 3:2, Pippen relapsed after scoring the first goal of the game, and Hugh only scored 8 points in normal games. , because there is no suitable person to change, and finally Pippen has even been given up by the Jazz. If the Bulls lose and continue to play Game 7 in Utah without Pippen, the Bulls will be in trouble. In the last dozen or so seconds, Malone ignored MJ's steal when the entire court was marked by Rodman, and then had the most magnificent shot in NBA history. Although many people analyzed MJ later and pushed him when he passed Russell, in fact Russell had lost his focus at that time.
As the show says, what's really great and scary about MJ is that he wants to win at any cost more than anyone. People often talk about who can be compared with MJ in the post-MJ era. Kobe and MJ are as pure and love basketball, but from the data point of view, they can't compare with MJ. LB may be the star of the post-MJ era that is technically closest to MJ, and there are many champions, but his mentality and several decisions doom him to be unable to compare with MJ, and his mentality is far inferior to MJ. Finally, I conclude with a paragraph that MJ said in an interview:
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life . And that is why I succeed.
When I was young, I felt that it was normal to fail and then stand up again. However, as I got older, I gradually realized how much courage and price it takes. I hope that I can maintain a certain degree of original intention and purity like MJ.
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