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A Must-read book for b'ball fans...

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  • 29-06-2007 9:17am
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    GreenHorn
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    Not sure if anyone's ever read Sam Smith's "The Jordan Rules"... I got it off Amazon for 7cents plus postage last week.

    I had it hardback when I was a kid, my sis brought it back home from the States, and I think I read it 6times... So, started it for the seventh this morning!

    There's an added chapter that my original didn't have also...

    Brilliantly, brilliantly written and simply unputdownable!


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    Lafortezza
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    Haven't read that one but I bought this one Playing for Keeps when I was in the US a while ago and it's very good. Goes into alot of detail about the inner workings of the Bulls organisation during the Jordan years.


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    Kinetic^
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    Ordered that book there OP, hopefully it's good.


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    GreenHorn
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    Kenny 5 wrote:
    Ordered that book there OP, hopefully it's good.

    I can assure you you won't be disappointed! I'm also waiting on a Vince Lombardi one I ordered...


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    Sea Devils
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    One of the bet B-ball books i've read. Only John Feinsteins potrayal of Bob Knight is close :cool:


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    phil
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    Kenny, ya shoulda just asked me for it :)


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    Kinetic^
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    phil wrote:
    Kenny, ya shoulda just asked me for it :)

    :rolleyes: Cabbage ye!!! :p Thanks anyway, hopefully it arrives this week.


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    Kinetic^
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    Just finished this book now. Very good read, even for the non basketball fans it would shed some insight into how pro teams operate.

    How the hell was Jordan that addicted to golf? :rolleyes: Guy was playing 18 holes before games and 36 holes before training sessions...........mad fùcker!!! He was still learning the "team" game even at the end of the first championship season and you can tell it paid off when he returned from retirement.

    Jackson was pretty lucky in that he joined the Bulls as an assistant coach and that he learned how to deal with Jordan as I think had he come straight in as head coach he would have gotten the bullet.

    Pippen has a lot to thank Jackson for. Although a great athlete and player, had it not been for Jackson's constant tests throughout his career there I feel that Pippen would not be the player he was. Also, I wonder about his comments on Rodman and how/if they mentioned them to each other when they became future team mates.

    You've also got Ron Harper, a player who advised people not to play with the Bulls who later won 3 rings with them..........:confused:

    The later 3-peat team were far better though........(96-98)Harper, Jordan, Pippen, Rodman and Longley against (91-93)Paxson, Jordan, Pippen, Grant and Cartwright. You've got 4 defensive specialists in the first 4 positions of the 96-98 team so that puts their record winning season into perspective as to how they did it.


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