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11-09-2012, 03:31 PM | #1 |
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11-09-2012, 03:49 PM | #2 |
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I mean, you people realize that Shaq came into the league in the early 90's, right? I love how everyone thinks that somehow the 90's were the Paleolithic era with a bunch of 4 foot tall troglodytes shooting the ball underhanded.
There hasn't been a radical jump in human evolution in the past ten years. Yes, the guys now are bigger and stronger, but that's because they actually, you know, lift weights more. Put the 80's and 90's guys on a modern team with a modern training staff and you wouldn't be able to tell the difference. |
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11-09-2012, 03:52 PM | #3 | |
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11-09-2012, 04:18 PM | #4 | |
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I love MJ, Pippen, Barkley, and Shaq but today's players are just bigger, faster, stronger, and more athletic. Just like the players in the NFL have evolved. |
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11-09-2012, 04:07 PM | #5 | |
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11-09-2012, 04:42 PM | #6 |
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I actually agree that people underrate the talent in the NBA today... there's some great players and teams out there.
Still, on the flipside, people act like George Mikan played in the 90s or something. There isn't a guy in the league that could guard 1994 Shaq. David Robinson was a tremendous athlete. Clyde Drexler, Karl Malone, etc... it goes back to the Dream Team arguments this summer. Maybe the current team would win, but not because they played 1950s basketball in the 90s. Posted via Mobile Device |
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11-12-2012, 07:43 AM | #7 | |
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The current NBA guard talent is unreal. Especially at the point guard position, and largely because the NBA outlawed hand checking so Micheal Jordan could be even more dominant which has led to point guards becoming scorers. Big men? Please. The big man talent in the NBA in 1994 would kill the current NBA. NBA had loads of great defensive big men in the 90's. Rik Smits would kick ass in today's NBA and he was just a solid/average big man. A guy like Hakeem would be unstoppable. |
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11-09-2012, 05:08 PM | #8 |
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i get that the talent is better. but the markets are much worse. All the talent is playing together and dictating the power of each conference every offseason. It's now generation based, probably every 10 years it will take a team to load up on young players to keep them in the same circle so they want to play together. But you see the veterans want to play with vets, the guys in their late twenties (27 to 30) all want to play together, and the real young guys coming up are all building bonds.
But teams like the Magic, Wizards, Suns, etc. There isnt a good ****ing player on any of these markets. Face of your franchise is Michael Beasley? John Wall? JJ Reddick? those guys are not good by any stretch when you are comparing guys in the 80s and 90s that were the face of a market. |
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11-09-2012, 05:27 PM | #9 | |
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11-09-2012, 05:44 PM | #10 |
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11-09-2012, 06:37 PM | #11 | |
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A few teams draft and get some good free agent signings they will be able to compete. NOt saying they will win, but alot of teams that could compete. Also, remember a few years ago there were like 8 teams in the west that had 50 game winning teams, something never done before. NBA is crazy loaded. |
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11-09-2012, 06:39 PM | #12 | |
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11-09-2012, 06:43 PM | #13 |
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Not this year, but them teams are young and have a chance to do that in the next few years. Thats like that pretty much for any league though. There are just elite franchises that do the right moves, then you got teams like the Chiefs and Bobcats that make the wrong choices year in and year out.
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11-09-2012, 07:02 PM | #14 |
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It is no different. Championships have always been controlled by a few select franchises. That certainly hasn't hurt the NBA game from being in as good shape as it has ever been right now.
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11-09-2012, 05:12 PM | #15 |
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