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was the NBA stronger 20 years ago or weaker?
IRAN iz Gangsta!:
80s and 90s (up to 96) was the golden era of basketball
games were more exciting and even players that were no name or u cant remember their names were good players...especially in 80s basketball players were actually players that can shoot the ball, the basics of basketball has become a joke; dunks and lay ups....as opposed to SHOOTING
Now days on a team you have less than handful of players that you can actually rely on scoring...basically have a few key players and the rest are fillers. You shut those people down and the team cant score.
CENTERS are rare nowdays, some teams dont even have them or they dont play them. Coaches go for more smaller line ups to make the game faster but alot of it is just running around uselessly, losing the ball, i bet average of turnovers is more nowdays if u look at stats. For example, one of the biggest things they used to mention about the bulls winning was that they did it without dominant centers. And those guys would be dominant centers in todays game, thats how weak the league is now days.
Games were alot more exciting back then but now only if its a big name team and nothing else. Now its all about a few players and teams the rest are a joke that cant do shit...sometiems when i hear teams like timberwolves, bucks, nets, bobcats, warriors, etc...im like damn these teams exist? lol they're so far off the radar....point is back then upsets were normal and there was passion, now days upsets dont really happen
game is weak nowdays, its all flashy dunks
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With those two lists...the early 90's squad would dominate. Particularly on the glass. I like the current players backcourt over the early 90's (with the exception of Jordan obviously). But they would get NOTHING in the lane, and have a hard time getting any boards. The current team would need to shoot 65% on their jumpers to stay in it.
Watching Pippen stick LeBron would be interesting.
There are also too many PG's on the current team. Im guessing so that you could make sure to add Rondo to the list lol. But I would take off Paul and Rondo, and add Dirk and Melo for sure.
Tha A:
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--- Quote from: Chamillitary Click on January 19, 2011, 07:58:50 PM ---Today would win.
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LOL
You must be on crack.
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Rose/Paul/Rondo (take your pick)
Kobe/D-Wade off the bench
LeBron/Durant/Melo (in order off the bench)
Duncan/KG (I don't know why we can't look at the last five of six years)
Dwight/Amare
vs.
Stockton
Jordan/Drexler
Pippen
Barkley/Malone
Hakeem/Robinson
The only reason you're shocked to think that today's game would win because you're probably in your mid to late twenties & watched all those guys play & all those guys on the older team have some sort of legacy tied to their name that today's players are going to inevitably get.
You can say what you want about Stockon, but we have the PG position covered; I didn't even use Nash or Deron. Yeah, you got Jordan. But Kobe Bryant is pretty amazing if you ask me lol. Some already dispute that Kobe is better. We own you at the SF position. If you got back to like 2002-2003, KG & Timmy could be the two best PF's to ever play the game. You take the center position but we're beyond athletic at that position.
Even if we didn't win the game (which would surprise me), we wouldn't get blown out.
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if you wanna look at the last five or six years, look five or six years before the early 90's or at least after, that way the team from the past would get the w and I'm not saying that because all of the legacy thing you talked about.
IRAN iz Gangsta!:
i dont think any of the current players are legends, especially if they lived back then...stockton and magic for example would school all these point guards
current players who would be legend are; kobe, lebron, wade, shaq
OG Hack Wilson:
--- Quote from: IRAN iz Gangsta! on January 20, 2011, 02:58:33 PM ---i dont think any of the current players are legends, especially if they lived back then...stockton and magic for example would school all these point guards
current players who would be legend are; kobe, lebron, wade, shaq
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I'm sure if they were born 10 years earlier KEvin GArnett and Timmy Duncan would've dominated in any league
and Rondo would school that sucker Magic Johnson ;)
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