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So shout out to the cash app the number one app in the world.'re in violence And then a lot of stuff worth to be done No place to hang out or washing And then again they're all understaffed Oh no, we're gonna rock it down to He let Shrek Harbour and you And then we'll take it higher Oh we app go download it right now use code barstool you get $10 for free $10 the ASPCA today is Monday May 18th and the last last dance has aired and everything makes sense now PFT. We obviously are going to go through episodes 9 and 10 but at the absolute last last part of the last dance it talks about how MJ retires Pippinin gets traded, everyone going away, Phil Jackson leaves, and then it goes with, and the bulls started their rebuild. And it dawned on me watching that last 10 minutes. I think the reason why the bulls have been doomed ever since is because the bulls are actually on Michael Jordan's list now too. If you watched that last moment when he has the iPad like finding out why Ryan Stewart said they should break up the team. I think he is now, I think the bulls are the top. It goes bulls and then Isaiah Thomas on MJ shit list and anyone who ends up on MJ shit list as we learn through this 10 part documentary is screwed forever. Well yeah, I mean, look at the teams and he's associated himself with. They're all in the Eastern Conference after he left the bulls. You got the wizards and then you got Charlotte. And so, yeah, I don't think that MJ, like considers himself bull for life. I think that he considers that team that he played on like the epitome of the bulls. But yeah, he obviously does not have any love for that organization whatsoever. But damn, that was, it was awesome. And I don't know if I'm saying that the documentary was awesome because there's absolutely nothing going on in sports. And it was, it was like moderately captivating. But the last like, you know, four weeks, five weeks however long it's been has been as close as I've gotten to feeling like I'm watching a sport since they went away in March. It was it was a great ending. I thought actually the Steve Kerr section was one of the best parts of the entire documentary. You know, I think a lot of people just judging by the timeline didn't even know the story about his dad being assassinated. but then the connection of MJ losing his dad, Steve Kerr losing his dad, them not talking about it, but then getting to that game winning shot in game six of the 97 finals. Like that was so, so well done. The watching, like the biggest story of that last season and MJ talking about like his ability to control a game with his mind and his and like Gile. It's incredible because it really is like he didn't he wasn't the same guy. He wasn't you know jumping over people. He wasn't the guy before baseball that was just You know, athletic freak and superior in everything when it comes to a basketball court

He had to use some of like the smarts and the angles and, you know, if you remember watching him like the pump fakes in the post game and just using every single bag in his tricks to get that team to a six championship, it was awesome to watch great documentary, some great moments. And you're right. I'm going to miss it on Sunday nights. Reggie Miller finally making appearance was something I think we've all been waiting for. I thought I thought that the biggest card that MJ could have played in this documentary is just never including anything about those Pacers teams. And for a little bit, I thought that they just weren't going to talk about them at all. And they did gloss over those Pacers teams a little bit. But the second that I knew that there was a difference between Reggie Miller and Michael Jordan was in this documentary when Reggie Miller said, when you get to game seven, you just throw away your game plan entirely because it's all about who wants it more in a game seven. It's like, That's exactly what somebody who loses a seven says like yet The whole like they wanted it more and we you don't have a game plan Michael Jordan wanted you to think that they didn't have a game plan Michael Jordan absolutely had a game plan in that game seven and Reggie glossed over that to push off that he had which I mean that's fair Those little Kyle Rudolph moment where he's He gave the show the dance after to the all-time Reggie Miller's just a little torque but yeah he he I mean MJ said they were gonna win that game seven beforehand he guaranteed it and there was actually an awesome story that Zacklow did like a little story behind that series and and he had an anecdote from Phil Jackson saying, Phil Jackson said to the players, before game seven, he said the important thing is to not fear losing. And to embrace the idea, you could lose face that. But before he could get started, MJ just said, fuck that, Phil, we're not losing. Put our hands in the middle, said, 1, 2 three, bulls and went home. That was the pregame speech of like Phil Jackson being like,

hey guys, you have to have the fear of losing in your heart and MJ's like, no, dude, we're not going to fucking lose. In a no-mosh, the documentary itself, I'm going to jump around for one second and go fast forward to the 98 series and we can go back and talk about other stuff. But the alleged pushoff that he had on that

shot when there was 6.6 seconds left when the ball is in the air in game 6. I think I

think this documentary changed my mind. I no longer think that it was a foul. That he messed up. It was, well, it definitely wasn't a foul in the 90s NBA. Because Reggie Miller's pushoff, and people were getting mad at me because I was pre-complaining about the Reggie Miller push off. He was a full on shove like MJ had some contact but it if you see the reverse angle so the reverse angle can show that he really didn't push him. He guided him and in that NBA in the in the 90s NBA that's never called a foul. I think that Jordan's been sitting on that reverse angle footage for just the right time. Like when LeBron makes his move out to the West Coast, gets in Los Angeles, looks like he's putting together good teams like, okay, I'm gonna drop this documentary just so I can drop this one angle that no one's ever really seen. That makes it look like I did not push off by a wrestler. Which now I totally believe it. He did not push them off, but with Regimellar, you also have to take into account that Regimellar

in that moment when he pushed off he looked like he could probably bench press Kevin Kevin Durant about right so if he pushed off that's like a fly landing on an elephant's ass I'm taking the my anger at the push off more it's more my anger at the dance when he just started twirling around and like that one, I just, Reggie Miller is a twerp. And so, the Brian Russell push off, alleged push off wasn't a push off. That last 40 seconds is so incredible when you look at it. Like the fact that no bull touched the ball after MJ gets the ball and Inbounded from Scotty goes right to the hoop within like five second scores Then strips call him alone then brings the ball up then shoots the game winning shot No one else touched the ball. That was it. It was like this is it. This is my moment. This is the absolute pinnacle of everything. Robin even said it.

Like he's fucking shooting. I'm gonna get out from the basket. There's no chance he's not shooting. So they're walking. Yeah. And Pippin was like, they actually did a really good job in the documentary. But like Pippin was not, it's actually, there were two moments that, you know, there's always these debates about today's NBA versus the NBA 20 years ago.

Two moments that strike you and you're like,

okay, this is like so, so different. One was when they were all doing the half-court shot, not the half-court shot, the shot from like the timeout spot on the bench before one of the finals games and they were all airballing it. It was all short misses. Yeah.

These are layups for Steph Curry. And MJ finally hits it, put the entire team misses it before and that was the first one. And the second one is Scottie Pippin being like an absolute shell of himself in that game. And the J.A.S. not figuring out a way to just like punish him. Like that would be, they would just switch on, like they would basically run everything at him all game long and make it so that he can't be on the court. Like you can't just be a decoy on the court. Right. He was a back then was just slower and it was like a rock fight and the ball was being walked up and it just wasn't the same game. So those were the two moments where I was like, yep, okay, totally different game. He was a decoy if you want to talk about like getting a suspect big sausage pizza

delivered to your place tonight before Pippin was playing like he got his back. Yep, okay, totally different game. He was a decoy, if you wanna talk about like getting a suspect,

big sausage pizza delivered to your place tonight before Pippin was playing like he got his back blown out in that game and was just like hobbling up and down the court. Like he had his hand on his lower back and like the entire time, every shot that he saw was Scotty like grimacing. I think it's a big indictment of Jerry Sloan's ability to know when your opponent is physically in pain.

Like you didn't know that Jordan had the flu or food poisoning That Scotty Pippin was on death's door in that game like come on Jerry And this is a scene actually like if social media was around then you better believe that Jerry Sloan would have known about it Would have known that there was stuff going changed his game plan up a little bit. But yeah, he did not really have his finger on the pulse of the health of the other team. And so the other things we had in this documentary, the had, let's see, I had some notes down. Oh, the shit list was obviously Carmel on MVP 97, which we knew. and they put in they put the huge fucking like

like tarp poster board outside of the Delta Center whatever was called and

MJ sees as like what the fuck dude like you get twice in in MJ's you know career

They gave the MVP to someone else just because there was voter fatigue and both times he was like, okay cool, you just made my shitless, I'm going to be that much more motivated. It was also hilarious after every defeat in those finals, they made a point of showing like Karl Malone and John Stockton had like little waiting areas that they would sit in to receive Michael Jordan. Like it was like, okay, you're gonna sit in this chair

until Jordan comes by and shakes your hand and says, good game. Like, if I were them, fuck no, I'm not waiting around for Michael Jordan to shake my hand after he just beat me. Like, why do I need to do that? And then Stockton's short shorts were amazing. And they're coming back. I think that's a take I squatted on starting back in 2016. is that some points short shorts are gonna make their way back.

I think they are.

But one thing people don't talk enough about when it comes to John Stockton is his chest hair his weirdly high chest it's even it's like neck hair it's at the nape of his neck and it looks like he's just got like some caterpillars crawling out of the top of his jersey I don't know anybody else that grows hair right there Maybe bring hope do not talk about enough with Johnson. I'd like to get you all ain't ready for that conversation. You know what's crazy that that game six of the 98 finals with the you know the shot and MJ finishing his career with the bulls that was that will forever be the most watched NBA game of all time. 35.89 million people watched were watching that game like concurrently. I think it was something like 90 million overall throughout the whole game. The closest that's ever been since then is 31 million for the game seven Golden State Cleveland. That's a club four million off and that's a game seven of LeBron like Versa Historic Team in Golden State and think about the way TV has gone like it's gonna keep getting more and more fractured. That will be the most watched NBA game of all time. It's crazy to think about that but that's how popular it was that's like the peak of everything It was funny because I was looking through all the TV ratings and then I see like the spurs versus the calves when the spurs Sweep the calves and the branching like somehow got the calves team to the finals like seven million people were watching that Finals compared to 35 million watching this game seven. It's just crazy to think about how popular MJ was and how captivated the entire country was that he can go away like 20 years later we can say that is still the most watched basketball game ever. Even crazier is that really shows how popular Leo DeCaprio was because despite all of that,

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