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was the NBA stronger 20 years ago or weaker?
Tha A:
if you're asking about the best from 20 years ago going against the best now you have like (off the top of my head)
20 years(early 90's):
at pg you had guys like stockton, thomas already declining, magic before hiv, mark price, kevin johnson, young hardaway, young payton coming into the league...
at sg you had jordan, drexler, dumars, mitch richmond, dale ellis, sprewell...
at sf you had pippen, wilkins, beat down bird full of injuries, mullin, worthy...
at pf you had malone, barkley, chambers, cummings, full of injuries mchale, kevin willis, young kemp...
at c you had hakeem, ewing, robinson, young shaq coming into the league, old parish, daugherty...
now:
at pg you have paul, rose, rondo, deron, nash, billups, parker, westbrook...
at sg you have kobe, wade, roy, manu, joe johnson, past his prime ray allen, ellis...
at sf you have lebron, durant, melo, past his prime pierce, gay, granger...
at pf you have gasol, amare, nowitzki, love, past their prime duncan and garnett, boozer, griffin...
at c you have dwight, bogut, horford...
it's hard to tell but I think 20 years ago would win mostly due to inside game
Mietek23:
--- 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.
M Dogg™:
If your talking exactly 20 years ago, today would win. In the 1990-1991 season it was too much transition, Magic was going to leave because of HIV, Hakeem was not quite in his prime, Isiah was leaving his, the NBA was basically MJ and then either people too washed up or not there yet. The 1989 draft was one of the worst, if not the worst drafts in history. The top pick was Pervis Ellison, followed by Danny Ferry. The only players people would remember from that draft was Glenn Rice, Shawn Kemp and Vlade Divac. Everyone else were scrubs, except Sean Elliot, Tim Hardaway and Nick Anderson who were a great role player. The 1990 draft wasn't that great either, aside from Gary Payton, only Derrick Coleman (first overall) and Dennis Scott even made for decent role players. So in 1990-1991 season, you had a lack of young talent, you had aging talent on it's way out in Isiah, Magic, Bird, and you had talent not ready for prime time like Ewing, Stockton, Malone and Hakeem. Then you had Michael Jordan at his best, Clyde Drexler who was ready from prime time, and Charles Barkley who was in his prime.
Right now you have better young talent, you have great talent in it's prime like 'Melo, LBJ, Wade and Dwight and the aging talent right now is Kobe who is still winning. So 2010-2011>1990-1991.
Now if you want 25 or 15 years ago, that's different. the mid 80's and the mid 90's would crush today. But in 1990-1991 season, it was the perfect storm of bad draft classes and aging talent.
Tha A:
--- Quote from: M Dogg on January 20, 2011, 09:53:16 AM ---If your talking exactly 20 years ago, today would win. In the 1990-1991 season it was too much transition, Magic was going to leave because of HIV, Hakeem was not quite in his prime, Isiah was leaving his, the NBA was basically MJ and then either people too washed up or not there yet. The 1989 draft was one of the worst, if not the worst drafts in history. The top pick was Pervis Ellison, followed by Danny Ferry. The only players people would remember from that draft was Glenn Rice, Shawn Kemp and Vlade Divac. Everyone else were scrubs, except Sean Elliot, Tim Hardaway and Nick Anderson who were a great role player. The 1990 draft wasn't that great either, aside from Gary Payton, only Derrick Coleman (first overall) and Dennis Scott even made for decent role players. So in 1990-1991 season, you had a lack of young talent, you had aging talent on it's way out in Isiah, Magic, Bird, and you had talent not ready for prime time like Ewing, Stockton, Malone and Hakeem. Then you had Michael Jordan at his best, Clyde Drexler who was ready from prime time, and Charles Barkley who was in his prime.
Right now you have better young talent, you have great talent in it's prime like 'Melo, LBJ, Wade and Dwight and the aging talent right now is Kobe who is still winning. So 2010-2011>1990-1991.
Now if you want 25 or 15 years ago, that's different. the mid 80's and the mid 90's would crush today. But in 1990-1991 season, it was the perfect storm of bad draft classes and aging talent.
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totally agree, if you're just talkin about exactly 20 years ago today would take it, now more or less than that is a different story
Chamillitary Click:
--- Quote from: Mietek23 on January 20, 2011, 09:17:30 AM ---
--- 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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