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nuraman00
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grimm010 also likes Karl Malone. He's the only person I know that has him as his favorite Jazz player. (Most others rank Malone lower.)
I only saw the Championship Round but it seems like Malone has been used to finishing in second. He finished second three times in the NBA Finals and second as all-time scorer. He was probably the second most popular Jazz player. No, he is first as a power forward.
The shooting challenge, he made his only normal shot in the shooting challenge. Half-court, of course, is random and he didn't make it.
* I did not think Malone got away with one. I thought that was a good play.Talking about getting away with fouls, I thought Malone got away with one in the Houston series when Stockton made his big shot.
I then read this in the comments, is this true?
"This is an inbounds play, therefore a player(back then) can keep two hands on a player and move with him(what Malone is doing) it's not setting a screen because clear possession isn't maintained. ONCE possession is maintained you can only make non moving picks for the ball handler. This was NOT an illegal screen...it was not even a screen. It was good offense free up by Malone."
* I do not know if any situation differentiating an inbounds play vs. a regular play, but I think I've seen two hands in a situation like that often, so it's probably true.
I agree it was barely a screen.
Oh great, I was all ready to proceed in life with the rationalization that losing to Jordan in the second Finals was ok because Malone got away with one that put them in the first Finals. Now that Malone didn't get away with one, that leaves the Jordan push-off as an injustice - to go with the Eisley three that was taken away incorrectly and the Harper 2 that counted after the buzzer. They also didn't call a Pippen goal-tend in another game, the one Malone missed two free throws in. But since we didn't make the free throws, we deserved to lose.
I even tried to tell myself that the Jazz lost in seven, but then you told me how that wouldn't necessarily have happened. You are not helping my mental health by making me face reality that the Jazz may have lost something they could have won. Just tell me there was no way for them to win and I'll take the "good try" award home.
RE: Whether two hands on a player is allowed.
Here's another example which shows it is allowed. Leonard was not called for a foul on this play:
The pic was removed from the server.
Here it is again:
Tried helping you by finding the original image, but the pic was removed from their server. I thought you were saying it was removed from SportsHoopla's server.
And a bad reading by me. You said, "here it is again" (implying that your repost was the same image). I thought you said, "here's another one." That's why I thought to try to go find your original. Had I read it correctly, I wouldn't have bothered.
The pic was removed from the server.
Here it is again: