Something wrong with this picture.

[Peter_OS]

Are there any special rules for Jordan that I'm not aware of?

[**DONOTDELETE**]

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yea i dont get that picture.

[Admiral50]

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I guess that comes under bad collision detection

[hogfan]

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The "Jordan Rules" was a name conjeured up by Detroit Piston's head coach Chuck Daley(and later the title of a book chronicling the 90-91 season of the bulls). It was a philosophy on how to stop Michael Jordan and the Bulls. The premise was basically beat the crap out of Jordan with double and triple teams because his teammates at the time(1984 -1990) weren't capable of stepping up.

Then people started using it(bastardizing it, really) to say that Jordan gets away with a lot of things such as traveling and gets fouls called against his opponents when he misses).

Sure he got some favortism as all stars do, but not the degree that people who sued the bastardized phrase "The Jordan Rules" would lead you to believe.

So in the picture, Jordan is clearly out of bounds. It doesn't look like it is being called as such so it would stand to reason that if it wasn't called out of bounds Jordan is receiving favoritism in the game. Hence the caption referring to the bastardized version of "The Jordan Rules".

Basically it is a joke by IGN.

[SC3BBall]

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I thought everyone knew about the Jordan rules

[Gizmo]

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I first wondered about that picutre too. But when I saw "Jordan Rules still in Effect", I laughed and knew they were making a joke.

[**DONOTDELETE**]

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i knew they were making a joke but i didnt completely get it. I do now.

[Fresh Tendrils]

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</font><blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr />
I first wondered about that picutre too. But when I saw "Jordan Rules still in Effect", I laughed and knew they were making a joke.

<hr /></blockquote><font class="post"> Don't know if they are making a joke... I mean it IS EA Sports here. If it was Sega we would know for sure they were making a joke. Can't give EA the benefit of a doubt.

[SageInfinite]

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its obvious its a joke. How can you say if it was sega we would know its not a joke? what kind of statement is that?

[Redfield]

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What game is that screen from?

[SageInfinite]

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nba live 2003

[Redfield]

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That's what I thought it was from. Thanks Sage.

[edubbs]

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When they say the Jordan Rules in reference to this picture, they are not making a joke about him being out of bounds. What they are talking about is the defensive spacing with the help defenders behind Wesley, anticipating what Jordan is going to do! Look at how everyone behind Wesley is basically playing a zone waiting to converge on Mike. That is essentially what the Jordan Rules were, don't let MJ drive and when he does everyone collapse on him and give a hard foul. I think EA had some faulty collission detection (not a surprise) on this pick cause he is definately out of bounds , but i don't think they were making a joke.

[dh2k3]

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They are obviously making the joke because Jordan's foot is out of bounds. This is why the arrow is pointing directly to his foot. The caption isn't referring to the "how to defend MJ" Jordan rules, it's referring to the "MJ gets help from the refs" Jordan rules.

[Yukk]

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The question is, did EA [censored] up and thats a bug, or did they do that on purpose and included jordan rules like that out of bounce play or stuff like jordan getting foul calls when he wasn't fouled?