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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...
:33:42
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.
:33:52
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.
:33:57
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,
:34:06
is that he had all these
abilities to adjust,
:34:09
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.
:34:30
So it didn't seem new to me and
I wasn't afraid to fail with it.
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Once I began
to understand that,
:34:39
I became a master
of the game of basketball.
:34:43
Game six in Utah.
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for the Bulls,
a win would mean
the championship.
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For Michael, it would mean
the cementing of his legacy.
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Harp looking left,
not there... backdoor lob.