<<BTW, the lower shooting percentages account for the numerous playing rules that have changed over the years. >>
Wrong. Name one rule change that makes shooting % worse. Oh, what about that 3-pt line....isn't it closer now than when MJ started? (yes it is)
If the rules changes have lowered shooting %'s, why are they also lower in college AND in high school? Answer: the player's fundamentals on average aren't as good now.
<<And Michael never carries his team at 22, carrying a team means winning games which didn't happen in his early career. >>
Oh? Let's see, the year before MJ got there, the Bulls were pitiful, not even close to the playoffs. Jordan in his ROOKIE year led the team in scoring at 28ppg, AND to a berth in the playoffs, their first in several years.
<<I am sorry but if you consider a team with perhaps one of the greatest coaches of all time, going along with Cartwright, Paxon, Grant, Pippen and other key players that made the Bulls team what they were as "sorry", then you need your head checked. >>
Maybe you need to re-read what I wrote. I never said anything about that team, but that wasn't the team Jordan came to. Jackson was not the coach then. You're talking about the team they had several years later.
I was talking about the team that hadn't made the playoffs since 1981 that was SORRY.