Jordan Rules
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The "Jordan Rules" were a defensive strategy employed by the Detroit Pistons against Michael Jordan in order to contain Jordan during National Basketball Association games involving the two teams. Devised by head coach Chuck Daly in 1988, the Piston's strategy was "to play him tough, to physically challenge him and to vary its defenses so as to try to throw him off balance. Sometimes the Pistons would overplay Jordan to keep the ball from him. Sometimes they would play him straight up, more often they would run a double-team at him as soon as he touched the ball to try to force him to give it up. And whenever he went to the basket, they made sure his path was not uncontested"[1]. The "Jordan Rules" were an instrumental aspect of the rivalry between the "Bad Boys" Pistons and Jordan's Chicago Bulls in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
This strategy had later been used by New York Knicks from 1992 until 1998.
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