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In game five,
the Bulls came up empty,
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and Michael walked out of the
United Center for the last time.
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Back in Utah for practice
the following day,
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the defeat
was already forgotten,
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for here was another secret
to the spell Michael had held...
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over the rest of the league...
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ever since
his first championship.
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Even when the Bulls
weren't superior physically,
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they had
a philosophicaledge.
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I think Phil had a lot to do
with that with his Zen practice.
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His whole emotional approach
to a game of basketball.
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I've experienced
a lot of different coaches,
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but he gave me
the understanding about life...
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in a whole different frame.
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I think his teaching toward
the understanding of Zen Buddhism is...
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how you view yourself...
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to deal with the realities
of life surrounding you,
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and somehow be able
to correlate that...
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to a simple game
as basketball.
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This is something that we talked about
a lot as a basketball team,
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is about how to be
in the moment.
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Being able to visualize what
might happen in those times.
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Michael so embraced this,
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and I think that was
the beauty of his game,
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is that he had all these
abilities to adjust,
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not force his own
predetermined idea,
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but allow those things
to come together for his game.
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I tend to be calm,
things tend to slowdown.
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As I go into situations that
people don't know the out come,
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I've already
experienced them in my mind...
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just playing
tricks with myself.
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So it didn't seem new to me and
I wasn't afraid to fail with it.