Michael Jordan did not make every shot and his team did not win every NBA championship during his career. But Jordan still led the NBA in scoring in 10 seasons and the Chicago Bulls won the NBA championship six times with him in the lineup.

What does the career of one of basketball’s greatest players have to do with Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa?

As recorded by the HBO program “Hard Knocks: In Season with the Miami Dolphins,” Miami coach Mike McDaniel has used Jordan as an example of how to deal with failure for the former Alabama All-American QB.

“When I grew up, the most impactful player, one of the most impactful people in my life is Michael Jordan,” McDaniel said during his Thursday press conference. “I was born in ‘83. One of my first sports memories viewing was one of those postseason matchups. I think it maybe was ‘88. I can’t remember. But it was against the Lakers, and so sports start with him as the pinnacle of performance. And then my entire maturation process from boy to grown man like you see today, he continues to do things that other people can’t. So you pay attention to stuff, and I’ve seen him have a 5-for-20-something shooting game, and then in the fourth quarter with everything on the line, without blinking, he takes a shot again. That from a young age really impacted me.

“Everyone has things every day that they’re not happy with. And so how you handle that is everything. It’s not about how much you succeed. It’s about the invariable failure that will happen. What do you do with that? Because there is going to be emotion, especially when you care. And the point is not failing. The point is taking that and making that failure a triumph. …

“There’s a lot of things that have happened that at the moment seemed catastrophic. But then you look back on it, and it’s like, ‘Wow, that was the best thing that ever happened.’ That applies to everyone. It’s not just professional athletes. It’s just one of the little life hacks that I think if you can really focus on, you get over the fact of – like listen, no one expects to be infallible, so then why commit to that? And I’m seeing Tua in an incredible fashion. You want to talk about a coachable person. These are, like, philosophical, psychological things you’re talking about. It’s one thing to hear it, but in the course of a year and a half, I was really fired up because he captured it. It was the right balance of ‘I’m frustrated,’ but he wasn’t overthinking what had happened that caused him the frustration. He was locked in on the moment, and that’s what you have to be.”

“Hard Knocks” caught an exchange that seemed to indicate McDaniel’s point during the episode on the Dolphins’ 34-13 victory over the New York Jets on Nov. 24. Tagovailoa threw two interceptions in the span of less than one minute of clock time late in the first half, with one returned for a touchdown.

Miami quarterback coach Darrell Bevell told Tagovailoa: “Keep shooting.”

“I’ll get it right, brother,” Tagovailoa replied.

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The former Alabama All-American talked dealing with poor plays during his Thursday press conference.

“I’m able to move on from it a lot quicker than I have in past years,” Tagovailoa said. “I think that’s just the level of growth for myself as a football player, as a person. Not everything is going to go your way. But how you react to it, you have control over that. I’ve said it many times, you never win the game in the first, second or third quarter, so if you throw interceptions, you always have however much time left to redeem yourself and to go help your team put points on the board and win the game.”

In last week’s 45-15 victory over the Washington Commanders, Tagovailoa had touchdown passes of 78 and 60 yards to wide receiver Tyreek Hill and did not add to his season total of 10 interceptions, which is tied for his career high with five games remaining on the Dolphins’ regular-season schedule.

“Anyone can do it once,” Tagovailoa said of his no-interception performance against Washington. “I got to continue that throughout this back stretch of the year. Zero turnovers is good one time, but anyone can do that once.”

The Dolphins will square off against the Tennessee Titans at 7:15 p.m. CST Monday at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. ESPN will televise the game.

“To me, personally, I don’t think our team cares if we’re Monday night, if we’re a one o’clock Sunday game,” Tagovailoa said. “Our team is just excited to go and play. Once you get a taste of what it feels like to put a good work week together and you see the results, for our guys, what I’ve seen is it’s addicting to them. You see guys staying in longer. You see guys doing a little more. I don’t think any of us necessarily matter if it’s a prime-time game or not, we just want to go out there and play.”

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Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at @AMarkG1.