Wennington did an interview on the official NBA Twitter account on Thursday. Bill Wennington remembers Michael Jordan's double-nickel on 25th anniversary By K.C. To be sure, there were times, maybe even a lot of times, when the number one play for the Bulls was “get the ball to Jordan and get out of the way.” It sounds simple and was effective, but was not always that way.“He knew he couldn’t win the championship unless all 12 guys on the roster did their job and competed 100% every single day, so he was going to push you,” Wennington said. He was only 6-6, yet he became known as “Air Jordan,” and flew through air with 360-degree spin moves, and jaw-dropping slam dunks.
“It was a perfect scenario to come up with, [calling the season ‘the last dance’], because he was able to gather us and get us to focus on the task at hand. There were some guys he really had to push to try to motivate them to understand that they had to be at the top level all the time if we were going to win.”Over last three Sunday nights, ESPN has offered up six of the 10 episodes in the docuseries. “And if you were fortunate enough at any time to beat him, it wasn’t over until he beat you again.
Now it might take a couple of days if you’re really good at something, but he was going to come back and challenge you and get that victory back to where he would be on top at the end.”As much as Jordan wanted to win individual competitions, basketball is a team sport. "I was isolated on the far side of the floor... guarding Luc Longley, and Mike was running the screen roll up on the left side, and he dribbled through the whole team all the way across the floor, jumped into me and shot the ball over me and said 'block that!'
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Just take it from Bill Wennington. Center Bill Wennington, who now serves as the color analyst on radio with the Bulls, was an important role player on that team, and he remembers the melancholy feeling at the start of the season, but understood why Jackson called it the “the last dance”“Phil was very cerebral and knew how to keep everyone on the same page,” Wennington said. That statement will trigger a heated debate with some saying LeBron James is the greatest, or older fans will suggest Wilt Chamberlain was the best. WTOP.com | Alexa | Google Home | WTOP App | 103.5 FM The three-time NBA champion did a Twitter Q&A on Thursday, and when a particular story about Wennington blocking Jordan's shot in practice came up, he recounted … It was Bulls head coach Phil Jackson who called the Bulls 97-98 season, ‘the last dance.” With Jordan back from his brief first retirement, the Bulls had won the last two NBA titles.