Weekly update #5
Larry Bird is now at his current career point and decides to talk, in depth, about other players and arenas. He explains how Los Angelos' arena is the second best place(only to Boston's Garden) because he loves everything from the crowd, to the basket rims, all the way to the arena placing in Los Angelos. Larry also attests to the playoffs being so much more intense than the regular season. Larry explains, "I tried to relax myself, but sometimes in the playoffs you can't do it because it's just too emotionally draining" which shows the pressure and attachment the players have toward basketball during the playoffs. Bird gives his opinion that Michael Jordan is the best basketball player he'd ever seen but Michael Cooper was the best defender he'd ever see. MJ could do anything he wanted to do, offense or defense, yet Michael had done everything to disrupt MJ's, Bird's, and Dominique Wilkin's(famous basketball player of out of Atlanta) game. Although everyone believes in stats and "triple-doubles"(reference to when a player earns double figures in 3 categories of stats), Larry thinks this is a shallow way to keep track of people's performance since one player can have an incredible game and earn a "triple-double" while he is just an average player overall.
