Bird always said anyone can make a 3 when the game is tied or up but when your down that’s what separates players. He made so many pressure shots and told the other team where he would shoot it from and the play
@phantomimages7673 Жыл бұрын
Rodman is always brought up as one the greatest defenders of all time….but Bird has always said that no one gave him more trouble or guarded him better than Micheal Cooper. Gary Peyton was nick named the glove, he shut down many great players, and he said he hated guarding Bird. Bird’s IQ combined with being 6’10”. Made him nearly unstoppable. He could shoot over the top of most guarding him, and if he had an extreme size advantage against his defender he’d post them up. Jordan’s rookie year, Doug Collins (Bulls coach) put Jordan on Bird. Bird kept posting him up and got 19 points off the bat. Collins switched the match ups after that.
@adamboylan2307 Жыл бұрын
Im still so surprised that so many people don’t even know larry. Despite his legendary status
@theemaygoogleme151 Жыл бұрын
NBA teams didn't average more than 10 three point attempts per game until the year after Bird's retirement. They averaged 3.2, 2.0 and 2.3 team attempts per game the first 3 years after it was adopted. A different era and approach to the game. Larry only competed in the first three 3 point contests, was hurt for the fourth and let the youngsters take it from there.
@Zionsol777 Жыл бұрын
Bird was 1st player in 50/40/90 club. 50% from field 40% from 3pt range and 90% freethrows for a season.
@FUBAR1986 Жыл бұрын
Two seasons back to back
@Zionsol777 Жыл бұрын
@@FUBAR1986 YEP AND 3 CONSECUTIVE MVP'S
@andyausman2139 Жыл бұрын
BIRDGANG!!!
@meminustherandomgooglenumbers Жыл бұрын
@@FUBAR1986 How many guys have had multiple 50/40/90 seasons?
@Zionsol777 Жыл бұрын
BIRD, NASH, and DURANT@@meminustherandomgooglenumbers
@kathieovercash8414 Жыл бұрын
He said he used to practice 3 pointers with his eyes closed. He also said he always had nerves before every game but once he got on the court and got ahold of the ball they were gone. Another thing I thought was interesting is sometimes he wasn't even thinking about basketball but he'd be thinking about what he has to get done at home or things not related to basketball at all.
@mattlefebvre123 Жыл бұрын
The difference between the eras is the spacing. Now even ‘bigs’ camp out on the 3pt line. Back then, they would use the 3pt shot to open up the paint. Then go low and pound the low post. And every time the opposing team would adjust, they would switch gears and start shooting more outside shots to open it again.
@robgelfand2414 Жыл бұрын
It's when you make them at the end when the game is on the line. Bird did that better than anyone else. Michael Cooper was right.
@gregoryeatroff8608 Жыл бұрын
What he's saying is that 42.3% is one and a half times as much as 28.2% Bird's percentage was 150% of the NBA average that year. Curry's 45.4% is 1.28 times as much as the league average for that year, so Curry 128% of the NBA average. The math works. He's comparing the gap between the two stars and the league as a whole to the league average.
@cliffniiranen1044 Жыл бұрын
The Best part is when Coop called JJ a poor mans Danny Ainge
@BurningFlame08 Жыл бұрын
You should check out the whole Michael Cooper rant! Amazing
@cbogolo Жыл бұрын
The 50-40-90 club. He was the first to average 50% field goal percent 40% from 3 point and 90% from the freethrow line in a season. Also remember there was no 3 point line until birds rookie year so nobody practiced them. Also bird broke his hand playing I believe softball before he got to the league and he said he never had them feel for the ball
@OoogaBoog10 ай бұрын
also, Bird is one of only 3? players to ever have multiple 50-40-90s. Insane considering the era of non 3s.
@lll9416 Жыл бұрын
3:55 Bird made three one legged shots in that game. The first one they didn't show was called off because Kasey Jones called a TO.
@clifflawrence7479 Жыл бұрын
If you will check out the top defenders of all time I’m sure coopers name will come up quite often. He was a beast on D and could ball pretty good on offense.
@bierce716 Жыл бұрын
Want to hear something crazy? The three point rule was new when he was drafted- he had been hitting from that distance in high school and college and only getting two points for it.
@clifflawrence7479 Жыл бұрын
From deep and when I say deep I’m talking about from 3 point land and beyond Steph is the best I’ve ever seen. From anywhere on the floor Bird is the best I’ve ever seen. There have been so many great 3 point shooters I just can’t pick 3 but I will say this. Bird won the first 3, 3 points contest and was never defeated. In a clutch situation when the game is on the line from long range I’ll take Bird over anyone.
@robertwheatley9153 Жыл бұрын
8:28 ... not "one" of the highest, Larry Bird had THE highest basketball IQ ever..
@jsamuelsen Жыл бұрын
Its the 50/40/90 club. It's percentages of field goals, three pointers, and free throws respectively.
@TheDeer94 Жыл бұрын
Everybody has to remember that the NBA did not have the three-point line until the year 1979 - 80. So all the players that came into the league around that time have been trained and skilled to run plays it did not incorporate the three-point shot so therefore in those early days of the three-point line teams did not make that a point to put in as some of their plays because their players were not accustomed to shooting from the outside perimeter.
@rustydaboyrobot Жыл бұрын
James Worthy had so much of Larry's jersey,... They made three new jerseys out of the old shirt. 😄
@MS-ns2pj11 ай бұрын
If the 3 point shot had been emphasized back then like it is now, Bird would be at the top of the all time made list.
@DrVonChilla Жыл бұрын
Shooting 3s in this modern age where defense is non-existent is MUCH different from Larry's era when defense had their hands all over you.....STRAIGHT-TALK.....
@sharonbird2921 Жыл бұрын
Larry Legend was the founder of the 50 40 90 club
@stevechapasko5244 Жыл бұрын
It is definitely not too early to throw Curry into the mix of greatest 3 point shooters of all time. Bird is the best clutch shooter of all time.
@mattstrathis432811 ай бұрын
Larry Bird was who I learned how to consistently hit floaters and runners. It's all about practicing and building memory muscle.
@michaelbersick2293 Жыл бұрын
Reddick is just a chump trying to cause drama so anyone pays attention. Curry doesn't play ball with a black eye, broken bones, or blood on his jersey. No disrespect to Curry, but there is no comparison.
@adamboylan2307 Жыл бұрын
Larry missed the next 3pt contest because of surgery on both his achilles tendons.
@tuggboat4 Жыл бұрын
You’re young and don’t remember when the game didn’t have a 3pt line. 1979 is the first year for the 3pt line.
@DeanAbbott1 Жыл бұрын
someone else probably wrote this already, but the 51% is because the avg was 28%. Bird was 42%. (42 - 28 ) = 14%. 14% (difference ) / 28% (average) means the difference is 50% higher than the average of his day
@davidbouchard327511 ай бұрын
Ok you are good at math.. that's great. Making it harder for the people that just watched the video.
@jrr3787 Жыл бұрын
Top 3? Larry Bird Larry Bird Larry Bird Bird didn't take a lot of 3s because he played in an era when they still played basketball. Every 3 he ever took was a clutch 3, and half of them were taken with broken fingers, a bloody nose, and people hanging onto his jersey.
@mattstrathis432811 ай бұрын
A lot of people attribute Birds greatness to "IQ." He was probably more intelligent than the average NBA player but he wasn't a rocket scientist. He played the game on instinct, smarts, hustle, and sheer will. He was also selfless. He didnt care who got the credit as long as the team was winning. Playing like that over a long period of time helps develop more and more relevant basketball skills. That's how Larry Bird and the other all time greats separated themselves from the rest.
@hookedonreactions7649 Жыл бұрын
9:05 Bird practiced constantly in the offseason 12:58 the math is correct. It’s a statistical formula.
@HarveyRice-jr2vl Жыл бұрын
42 was fking James Worthy
@street1111 Жыл бұрын
Basketball used to be a physical game
@andybilakshow260 Жыл бұрын
"Strategy" That was the way basketball used to be played. Todays game is only 5/8th or less of what it used to be. From 3pt line to 3pt. line. That's not a game. That's a 3pt competition. In which Larry already proved who's king.
@davidbouchard327511 ай бұрын
Larry Bird only played in 3 3 point contest 3 years in a row. He didn't compete in a 4th one because he was injured. So he won ever time he competed in.
@weslennon3425 Жыл бұрын
The NBA didn't have a 3 point shot until 1980.
@robertlangland3351 Жыл бұрын
Cooper is right, He'd lock him up
@michaelbersick2293 Жыл бұрын
The Sonics back in '96 lost against the Bulls because in the 4th quarter they just decided to hurl up 3 point attempts, making basically none. It was *painful* to watch, here in Seattle especially.
@andybilakshow260 Жыл бұрын
They were all forced shots. NOBODY forced Larry into anything.
@davidbouchard327511 ай бұрын
yeah.. nothing to do with everything we just seen.. nitwit
@josephpearson4055 Жыл бұрын
Larry Legend. When he started there wasn't a 3 pt line.
@MrMakemyday3 Жыл бұрын
larry bird is the top three point shooter of all time- SHOW ME ANYONE that has made MORE CLUTCH fourth quarter game winning threes. THAT IS WHAT ITS ALL ABOUT- OH show me another three-peat three point contest winner- yeah, uh-huh thats what i thought
@sharonbird2921 Жыл бұрын
JJ Reddick was on 6 teams,he averaged 12 points a game he's a 🤡
@bebedenham362Ай бұрын
exactly, he is a non issue and I don't even understand why he was even on any production for broadcast,......he has the defensiveness and the mentality of an adolescent boy who feels provoked by everything he hears that isn't what little he knows of life and perspectives. I seriously was waiting for him to just blurt out childishly " well my dad could beat up your dad". ugh, boys!!!
@thomasohanlon1060 Жыл бұрын
Just imagine if the NBA suddenly decided to remove the three point line what would these players do? You can't say it could never happen the three point line is a relatively new addition to the game, being it only came in to play in 1979 (it only been around for 44 years). First the line came in, then it was moved out, when it was moved back to where it was first introduced, the proof of this when old games have the two or no three point lines,
@andybilakshow260 Жыл бұрын
I'd probably start watching again.
@andybilakshow260 Жыл бұрын
Move / move, *remove* is proof enough they didn't know what to do with it. They should have not even put it in in the first place. Look where the game is now. Or lack of game rather.
@brianmcpeake2509 Жыл бұрын
Any student of the game can see how great Bird was. The modern NBA is all 3's and dunks. They don't play defense. It's shit basketball compared to the 80's and 90's. Larry made them when it mattered.
@davidbouchard327511 ай бұрын
Yes I agree 👍 I stopped watching Basketball 🏀 about 8 years ago I'm 59 years old so I loved the game in the late 70's 80's n early 90's. But today it's a joke foul foul fouls all fucking game. It sux way to soft. If Larry Legend played today definitely at least 50 a game. Not just Larry alot of the greats but I'm putting Larry at #1 because he would hit 99% from 3 point range. Wide open to him because you really can't touch the guy Like he was being guarded when he played.
@bebedenham362Ай бұрын
Ain't it tho!!!!????? fuckin self absorbed little fucks that wanna have millions and be a celebrity (undeservingly) that is all.
@garyfusco2252 Жыл бұрын
The 3 pointer was only out when bird was a rookie,it wasn't part of the game
@Gracie-SavedByGrace5 ай бұрын
I had to look up how to calculate percentage increase.... Final Value minus Starting Value divided by Starting Value times 100 For his era, Larry's 3 point shot was a game changer. I have no doubt that if Larry played in this era he would perfect his 3 point shot and be one of the greatest at it.
@thenakedtruthri Жыл бұрын
Find another player other than Larry Legend, who is ranked Top 50 in Points, Rebounds and Assists still today. Oh wait, you can't. Larry is the most complete player to ever do it.
@scottmagnuson55433 ай бұрын
Remember for the majority of Bird's career there was no three point line, if there had been he'd be by far number one
@boysrback5690 Жыл бұрын
Put a fezz hat on JJ He would be a spider monkey dancing to grinder music.
@andybilakshow260 Жыл бұрын
I have the same thought with the still image.
@DoggieFosters Жыл бұрын
No, he didn't lose a 3pt contest. He didn't attend any but the three he won, afaik.
@ldybozz Жыл бұрын
You so crazy!!😄 Great reaction! #birdgang 🍀🐐💚
@jamessmith-pf5zf Жыл бұрын
Math is hard.
@davidbouchard327511 ай бұрын
Don't read the other comments.. they are making it hard for the people that aren't good in math. The video did it perfectly. So people like us could understand it easily.
@adrienne1958l Жыл бұрын
I don't understand, every source that i checked said that Larry Bird won three consecutive contests. Can you tell me where it is cited that it has been disbuted ? I feel as though if that were true that larry Bird himself would set the record straight. He doesn't strike me as the kind of man that would need false accolades.
@johngraffius3533 Жыл бұрын
Larry missed one because he was injured.
@FUBAR1986 Жыл бұрын
Do yourself a favor and don’t be like JJ Redick check out all the great players from the 70s through the 90s best era of basketball. Period.
@georgemccormick4786 Жыл бұрын
Do you think a game designer in this era would come up with a game where three point shot wasnt a critical factor?
@bebedenham362Ай бұрын
hell no, I think they believe that IS the game
@street1111 Жыл бұрын
The "iceman" seems to be forgotten
@clifflawrence74799 ай бұрын
Michael Cooper was one of the best defenders of all time and he wasn’t bad on offense ether
@JET1970 Жыл бұрын
WRONG cause 3s are the cancer to the game they make it a lazy mans game that allows the other team to not have to play defense but real basketball is attacking the rim, making the extra pass, and hitting mid range jumpers consistently and only using the 3 as a dagger or an extra option to catch up in the second half cause the GOAT Larry Legend Bird understood that
@davidbouchard327511 ай бұрын
110% true 👍
@guymitchell3842 Жыл бұрын
I bet you cash that at his age now and L.Birds age now Larry would embarrass him in a game of one on one.
@davidbouchard327511 ай бұрын
Definitely I agree.. they should play 1v1 after his stupid comments.
@conniemacklill7302 Жыл бұрын
Good one son. Keep up the good work. Very well arranged.
@sharonbird2921 Жыл бұрын
He never lost s 3 point contest your wrong
@marthayoung2308 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for this reaction.
@Sunny-jz3dy8 ай бұрын
There is no way today's NBA is more physical than.... the 80s... that's ridiculous! What kind of crack is JJ smoking?!
@bebedenham362Ай бұрын
BUTT -CRACK!!! lol
@1956tojo9 ай бұрын
I don't know how big/tall this Larry Bird denier is, but I swear he had a twin Spock eared brother that I had to knock out in a bar one night back in 1980... He had every bit of 4" on me and maybe a few pounds.... For insurance purposes, I had to let them make the first move for self defense and it went well... I was only 6'2 @ 230lbs back then, but that's what made bouncing fun.... I really wasn't big enough to be intimidating enough for a couple of the clubs I worked... I was challenged significantly more than most of my counter parts, but that paid off well with the ladies at the strip joints I had worked ..Lol... Only did that for about 8 1/2 years at Rock n Roll nightclubs and a couple of semi high end strip clubs before landing the job I knew I'd retire from one day...... and have 34 years later... But I remember that Spock eared Larry Bird look alike fairly well..... Larry the LEGEND baby.......
@eddiehaskell1957 Жыл бұрын
The reason dumb dumb wants to talk shooting percentage is he had good numbers, but he averaged 24 minutes, i would call that well rested. If you're banging the boards, running the court, you're going to be fresh as a daisy. The year he played all 82 games he averaged 9.2 points a game. Reddick are your arms tired....nope. How about the rest of your body.....nope. All other percentages sucked!
@henrysteel4049 Жыл бұрын
Monday... 1. Jordan 2. Bird 3. Magic Tuesday... 1. Bird 2. Jordan 3. Magic Wedsnday 1. Magic 2. Jordan 3. Bird
@OoogaBoog10 ай бұрын
I'll go by 'when you needed it'. 1. Larry Bird 2. Reggie Miller 3. Steph Curry
@robgelfand2414 Жыл бұрын
The 3pt shot has not really done much for the game of basketball. Let's compare the game in the 1980's decade, when the 3 point shot was introduced, to the game in the 2020's decade so far. These are average per team/per game statistics 80's 2020's Points scored per game 109 112 Total number of shots per game 88.9 88.4 Number of 3pt attempts per game 3.4 12.4 FG % 48.5% 46.5% From a statistical basis the 3 point shot has done almost nothing except lower the field goal percentage.
@andybilakshow260 Жыл бұрын
doesn't make much sense does it.
@MrMakemyday3 Жыл бұрын
you need to check out larrys game winning threes! there are dozens of them
@johnwilson670711 ай бұрын
there was no three points when bird started playing
@bebedenham362Ай бұрын
aw sorry but wrong....the 3 point contests began in the NBA in 1986 dear, Larry won 86, 87 & 88, check it if you must, and the 3 point shot was introduced into league play his rookie year, 1979.
@worldfamouslanglois4805 Жыл бұрын
dude love your vids.. love me some bird ..get ublock to get rid of the adds .. thing about Larry .. what you need to finish the game he do it .. and tell you about it first ..
@sharonbird2921 Жыл бұрын
James worthy
@patriciahenderson2096 Жыл бұрын
I love James Worthy's quote "Michael Jordan made you look slow, Larry Bird made you look stupid."
@johngraffius3533 Жыл бұрын
james worthy is number 42
@danielhughes3677 Жыл бұрын
Larry Legend
@waligerber94107 ай бұрын
The 3 point line came just in play as Larry entered the pros. He won the three point contest 3 years in a row and was the 4th injured! MJ never beat Larry! As they quote" if MJ is the GOAT, what is Bird? He won a game against MJ without shooting on time at the basket, just assists and still beat his ass. And Pat Riley said" if i have to choose one to shoot for win the game, i take MJ, if i have to choose one to shoot to save my life, i choose Larry! I have no GOAT, but i don't watch these girls today!
@sharonbird2921 Жыл бұрын
b I thought you would of had Larry Legend back after watching alot of his videos SMH
@stevedem76 Жыл бұрын
You would have got benched back then, camping out on the 3 point line. The league was about getting the high percentage shot. Plenty of times Larry wouldn't even take the mid range shot, if someone was wide open for a lay up. If Steph went back to that Era, they would be fouling him hard for playing that way, he would not be enjoying himself.
@sharonbird2921 Жыл бұрын
b they didn't introduce the 3 point line in the NBA Larry's first year in the league
@paulsullivan1650 Жыл бұрын
You need to go back to school brother!
@mattfreeman7741 Жыл бұрын
Yea the little smack dude speaks like he graduated the 3RD grade. He is the most annoying and ignorant reaction person on KZbin. He never knows what he is talking about. I usually can't make it more than 3 minutes of his loud obnoxious childish antics.
@michaelmendez5600 Жыл бұрын
I think number 42 is Cooper.
@cbogolo Жыл бұрын
Anybody born in the last 40 years shot my 3's by highschool than bird took in his life and still nobody was as clutch. Also how many more would bird had made if he wasn't telling the other team what he was going to do 90% of the time
@bebedenham362Ай бұрын
right?! or throwing passes to his team??
@robertseverin1773 Жыл бұрын
Bird curry Allen Miller and if he got to play his career with a 3pt line pistol Pete no particular order there oh yeah Lillard too and if you were still allowed to play d these days the 3 attempts would go back down
@davidbouchard327511 ай бұрын
I agree
@mattstrathis432811 ай бұрын
Michael Coopers lying. He didnt have his hand up anywhere near Bird because Bird left him in the dust.
@andybilakshow260 Жыл бұрын
#42 Lakers James Worthy. Larry *GOAT*
@SamKnause3 ай бұрын
Bird.
@yambo59 Жыл бұрын
Gotta tell ya the annoying repetitive sound effects get really annoying really fast
@conniemacklill7302 Жыл бұрын
JJ Reddick was a wash out. Biggest dumb but. Than anyone I know. Thanks for keeping your video clean
@219jayy Жыл бұрын
Larry legend
@lll9416 Жыл бұрын
If JJ Reddick's stupid logic is to be believed then Seth Curry is a better 3 point shooter than Steph Curry ! and Drazen Petrovitch and Steve Kerr are better than both of them! word?🤦🤦
@riffsthatkill2180 Жыл бұрын
Well, at that point he'll probably change his logic to "wait, but Seth only shoots x per game while Steph shoots y". Ok, where's the cutoff point? At what point can we say Seth's 45% is valid compared to Steph? Do we factor in Steph's ability to hit those shots in the playoffs in the final seconds of games when trailing?
@lll9416 Жыл бұрын
@@riffsthatkill2180 lol Add the fact that steph curry's coach is a better three point shooter than he is.. 🤣
@lll9416 Жыл бұрын
@@riffsthatkill2180 "Do we factor in Steph's ability to hit those shots in the playoffs in the final seconds of games when trailing" Actually, Steph doesn't have a big history of game saving shots in the playoffs.
@warrenhughes9113 ай бұрын
Curry was 0-5 in 3 pt. contest . Bird won 3 for 3 ..3 peat.!! ..in 3 pt contest!!
@MrMakemyday3 Жыл бұрын
reddik was nothing special
@gregbarry587511 ай бұрын
WTF was that ???? I didn't hear one word of English in the first 20 seconds and I bailed. Pick a language. Learn the languate. Use the language properly.
@gregbarry58759 ай бұрын
I bet this was a great video....too bad it wasn't in English.
@Sunny-jz3dy8 ай бұрын
JJ is an ignorant fool! . I was gonna say something else but I don't know if they allow those words on here! LOL. Let's see considering the 3 point line didn't even exist until 1979 in Birds rookie year and it was discouraged by coaches ....because they felt it was ridiculous and unnecessary! Stats are not going to be up to the way things are set up today. Where everybody's doing nothing but trying to shoot 3s....Boring!!! Larry Bird used the 3 point shots as a weapon! Anybody with eyes....that's ever seen him play... knows this!
@sharonbird2921 Жыл бұрын
JJ Reddick
@tigerosan9 ай бұрын
MVP three straight years, only two other players have done it in history Chamberlain, Russell then we have the legend!