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...Even the basket premise which knots these urban legends together is remarkably unoriginal. When a string of violent and bizarre murders occur on the campus of Pendleton College, spunky and independent student Natalie (Alicia Witt) realizes that a psychopath has decided to turn urban legends into reality. Her friends are all predictably skeptical, and consequently go on to die in ways corresponding to how nasty they have been. There is your slutty girl, your practical joker, your loyal best friend, not to mention the lone dean, soul security officer and only janitor--it's like a morality play, except without...
...were shooting fouls, a telltale sign of fatigue with him. Then, in one of those remarkable demonstrations of willpower that have become the signature of his entire career, Jordan's will to excel helped energize his body, and he summoned just enough strength to continue to drive to the basket, get to the foul line, or draw a crowd and pass off to teammates for open shots. That allowed him and his teammates to escape the Pacer bullet. He was still the invincible man. Now at age 35, when it should have been time for younger players from other teams...
...artistic, it was only for those fans who loved the concept of skilled, highly intelligent players' stealing another team's game in front of a national audience. In these big games, even when Jordan and Pippen were not shooting well, they would forgo their jump shots, drive to the basket, and at the very least shoot fouls and slowly take over the tempo of the game. They knew how to grind down other teams when they did not have all of their game. In Game 3 against the Jazz, the 96-54 blowout, that was exactly what they did: they...
...being pounded by the very physical Detroit Pistons to build up his body. He went from roughly 195 lbs. to 215 lbs. without losing any quickness and started handing out more punishment than he received. Again, before he arrived in the league, no one had ever driven to the basket quite like he did. His jump shot was good, yet hardly great. About a B-minus, thought his first coach, Kevin Loughery. He thereupon worked harder at practice than any teammate to improve it (in part, to prevent defenses from dropping off and cheating on him), and in time...
What most fans saw was the balletlike quality of his drives to the basket, and what basketball professionals, coaches and scouts saw was the complete quality of his game, the almost perfect fundamentals he brought every night and the shrewd sense of each game's tempo, which made him almost a coach on the floor. When Jordan was at his prime, it was common among some professional basketball people to joke about the Carolina program and to zing Dean Smith for, it was presumed, suppressing the greatness of Jordan's game during his college years. But the reverse was true...