Last Dance

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Good point but I wouldn't call his pre NBA jumper a weakness, he did improve beyond anyone's imagination except MJ. He was the most relentless athlete on the planet. Just Mr Clutch.

"Years later, Phil Jackson, the coach who witnessed Jordan leverage his maniacal work ethic to transform from a rim-attacking leaper into one of history's most important jump-shooters, said: "The weakest part of Michael's game on the offensive end was his shooting, so he obviously mastered something that everybody said he couldn't do when he came out of college. And he did it by shooting, shooting, shooting, shooting consistently."

And from Rod Thorn, the Bulls GM who drafted him in 84: "Back then, the knock on Michael was that he couldn't shoot the ball," Thorn recalled. "For a long time, that first season, he just drove the ball to the basket and he didn't need a shot. But Michael was so smart, he learned from taking some mighty licks. So he said, 'I gotta get a jump shot,' and he got one. But when we looked at him for the draft, he was 195 pounds and 6-6, so he was kind of thin. So the biggest thing about him was, can he make a shot? We wondered what kind of shooter he'd be."

His jump shot was absolutely his biggest weakness when he was drafted. He had thrived in college primarily on athleticism alone. By the end of his career, he was the best player in the league primarily because of his jump shot. Just an incredible transformation.