Jokic, Embiid, Giannis, AD the only 4 great bigs of this era..... All benefit greatly from abusin small ball. They dont look as good in other eras

[Damnshow]

Power forwards is one thing.

Another thing is lack of true centers. And this has been an ongoing process for nearly 20 years. Remember Dwight in his prime was dominating weak ass big man competition purely off his athleticism and no post moves.

Not a knock on Jokic or Embiid, they'd still be all-stars in any era. But it's clear they could not rest on defense that much when defending Shaq, Hakeem, Ewing, Robinson, etc.

Current NBA teams tried to copy Golden State Warriors basketball style forgetting that shyt worked because of enormous talent of Curry, Klay, even Draymond being undersized PF he was capable of defending multiple positions and I mean damn they had a good center Bogut also. They didn't need him that much when their talent got ridiculously better by signing KD, but the point is that team is one of the most loaded teams ever.

If you are undersized on multiple positions, then good luck breh, And obviously inserting any random 7 footer ain't gonna work, like Valanciunas who's ridiculously slow on defense.

 

[Kinguno]

If AD wasn’t such a bytch Dwight would’ve still been on the Lakers it was Dwight handling Jokic

Certain teams just don’t match up well against each other And more credit needs to be given but this is a new era since that dumb ass second apron which was put in by teams that were hating on stars never blessing them

 

[010101]

every hooper wants to play gawd HA

bigs just now escaping having to live in the paint & wait for the ball why you wanna send them back to prehistoric ages¿

spending the whole game grinding & winding on another grown ass man

some folks be dead ass proud their bag was throwing bows & giving out offensive fouls

that shyte is all anger & frustration because bigs really want to bring the pill up the floor they really wanna be able to dance on the perimeter

if you got no handle & your scoring touch is straight quikrete at best in this era you better block some shots grab those rebounds & say grace to the point.gawds when you get a lob HA

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[IsThatBrothaMouzone?]

Another thing is lack of true centers. And this has been an ongoing process for nearly 20 years. Remember Dwight in his prime was dominating weak ass big man competition purely off his athleticism and no post moves.

Not a knock on Jokic or Embiid, they'd still be all-stars in any era. But it's clear they could not rest on defense that much when defending Shaq, Hakeem, Ewing, Robinson, etc.

This right here 100%. Jokic, Embiid and Giannis would be good in any era but...imagine them having to go 40 minutes/night against Ewing, Robinson, Duncan, Shaq, Dream, Kareem, Wilt etc. They'd hold their own but Jokic for example would get bullied and out-athleted by Shaq...giving up 2 inches and 60 lbs easy. LA Shaq would pull out the tool bag while Orlando Shaq would be too athletic for him to handle. Dream would put on a clinic and harass him with defense.

 

[HandyWithTheSteel]

All 4 of these dudes would annihilate the illegal defense plumber era.