Equals automatic fail. Jordan made everyone around him better. I have no idea where you got this idea from it's totally wrong. I've never scene one player decide the tempo of a basketball game by himself like Jordan did. He controlled the court, dictated the game plan, and could take the game over WHENEVER he wanted. Oh and during the nineties he made average players: BJ Armstrong, Judd Bueschler, Steve Kerr, Horace Grant, etc., etc household names. He made them seem like A-list players, before they joined other teams and quickly fell back to earth. Are. you. kidding. me?
He was the most talented power forward of all-time but as great as he was he should have been completely dominant. He wasn't close to that. Charles Barkley is in the same league as Karl Malone and there is no good reason for that. If Charles Barkley had Karl Malone's body, he would have been the best player of all time.