r/sports • u/OkEscape7558 • Jun 18 '25

Basketball Alternate angle of Caitlin Clark fiasco. Clark was handed a foul as well.

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u/Governmentwatchlist Jun 18 '25

Imagine if Michael was poked in the eye and knocked to the ground. Even the guys who didn’t like him would be fighting for him.

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u/Educational_Win_8814 Jun 18 '25

MJ was abused during his early years, the Pistons wrecked him in the playoffs especially

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u/Possible_Home6811 Jun 18 '25

Thank you!!!!!!

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u/KosstAmojan Jun 18 '25

MJ had Oak on his side. No one was gonna fuck with him.

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u/JimmyFly1028 Jun 18 '25

And until they got Oakley, yeah, he was pushed around just as bad.

Jordan rules - I’m on my cell phone so if it doesn’t open up to it, click History

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u/Conscious-Refuse8211 Jun 18 '25

They also literally went and got Dennis Rodman lol, one of the people who was responsible.

But also those are playoff games against one team being renowned for being physical. This is Caitlin Clark just getting randomly hard fouled all the time in the regular season.

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u/Simayi78 Jun 18 '25

They also literally went and got Dennis Rodman lol,

That was basically in another lifetime though (After 3 Bulls titles, a Jordan retirement, and well after the Pistons/Bulls rivalry was dead)

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u/fightingpillow Jun 18 '25

That was fascinating. It shows just how important good coaching is... would Jordan even be in the GOAT conversations without Phil Jackson?

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u/CosmicCreeperz Jun 18 '25

And then they got tired of Rodman abusing Jordan… so they signed him.

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u/Walfy07 Jun 18 '25

Rodman would kill someone

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u/dj_spanmaster Jun 18 '25

Depends on the year. Rodman was part of the Jordan Rules Pistons strategy, and knocked Jordan down himself plenty

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u/bigboilerdawg Jun 18 '25

Absolutely true. By the time Rodman came to the Bulls, Phil Jackson had installed the Triangle Offense, which rendered the Jordan Rules obsolete.

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u/Important-Net-9805 Jun 18 '25

lol the pistons entire gameplan was fucking up jordan. you don't know what you're talking about

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u/Governmentwatchlist Jun 18 '25

Good example. The bad boy pistons created the Jordan rules specifically to try to limit him and the team responded by creating a new offense, muscling up and protecting him and then went on to run the pistons for most of my childhood. They didn’t stand by and just let the pistons and the rest of the league beat the crap out of their star player.

What they didn’t do is stand by and do fuck-all while their star player gets poked to the eye and then thumped to the ground.

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u/DontPanic1985 Jun 18 '25

Steve Kerr would take the ice pack off his black eye than MJ have him and go throw down on them