Baron Davis: There's a huge disconnect between NBA Generations

[Harry B]

The new old heads didn't respect the old old heads and they do not respect the youngins.
Besides (the god) Lebron popularizing bytch moves, I really can't understand the disrespect.


Is bball the only sport in which I see this shyt happens?

 

[mastermind]

Indeed I was a kid, but I don't really remember those older players shytting on the new players getting in the league.

You missed my point.

You don't remember because you were not paying attention. You were a kid.

 

[Lord Beasley]

People have been criticizing younger generations since 400 B.C.

Socrates was a real one .

 

[mbewane]

You missed my point.

You don't remember because you were not paying attention. You were a kid.

And you missed what I said about older fans.

Anyway was paying pretty good attention from age 15 onward, which is when Kobe/Iverson and them entered the league...hell tbh I don't really remember any issue between generations before this current one, don't really remember this talk during the 2000s

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Wilt literally said George murasan wasore skilled than Shaq.

fukk old heads

Oscar Robertson: Jordan is not greatest ever

Much was made of recent comments from Scottie Pippen, who suggested that Heat star LeBron James just might wind up going down as the best player in NBA history—better, even, than Pippen’s former teammate, Michael Jordan. All around the league, there was indignation at Pippen’s assertion.

At that, Hall of Fame guard Oscar Robertson, who may have been every bit as good as Jordan in his day, just rolls his eyes and shakes his head.


“I didn’t hear the comments,” Robertson told the Dan Sileo Show on WDAE in Tampa Wednesday morning. “Let me tell you about what being great is. Ever hear of Elgin Baylor? Never mention his name, do we? Great basketball player. You know what you have today? Michael Jordan was a great player, but he won after Chicago got Pippen, Grant and those other players to go along with him, because for a while they couldn’t beat Detroit.

“Everybody looks at what you’ve done. Sure he won six championships, Russell won eleven. There are other players on these teams when they play. They don’t play by themselves. Michael Jordan is a great player. Was he the greatest? Ask Kobe that. Ask Bill Russell. Ask Oscar Robertson. Ask Wilt Chamberlain. Ask Elgin Baylor, Jerry West, ask those guys.”

Sports fans seem to have short memories and little knowledge of history, according to Robertson. Robertson didn’t just suggest that Jordan might not be the best ever, as Pippen did, he flat-out said it.

“The problem today is you get some people you have never been around a basketball,” he said. “The media now has anointed Michael Jordan the greatest of all time. Is he greatest of all time? No, I don’t think he is. I think he is a great player. There have been other great players as well, great players before I played. Now you have a situation where Pippen is saying (James) could be better than Michael Jordan, and everyone gets so upset by it. All these commentators, did they ever see any of these guys play?”

Oscar Robertson: Jordan is not greatest ever

 

[DatNkkaCutty]

Oscar Robertson: Jordan is not greatest ever




Oscar Robertson: Jordan is not greatest ever

Realistically...not a lie told by Robertson. He's just bein logical. Now of course my eye-test tells me MJ was the GOAT ....but thats a different argument.

 

[im not you]

Realistically...not a lie told by Robertson. He's just bein logical. Now of course my eye-test tells me MJ was the GOAT ....but thats a different argument.

oscar acting like there isnt old game film of him on youtube dribbling around right hand only

 

[DatNkkaCutty]

oscar acting like there isnt old game film of him on youtube dribbling around right hand only

Exactly ...nd that follow-thru

 

[mastermind]

And you missed what I said about older fans.

Anyway was paying pretty good attention from age 15 onward, which is when Kobe/Iverson and them entered the league...hell tbh I don't really remember any issue between generations before this current one, don't really remember this talk during the 2000s

The issues were there, you just weren't paying as close attention as you think.

Everything goes back to money.

 

[nieman]

Oscar Robertson: Jordan is not greatest ever




Oscar Robertson: Jordan is not greatest ever

Jordan was the anomaly though. As a result he pissed off the older folk AND he also took no one under his wing.

But everyone was under someone prior. I think 2 things happened though. 1, there very few vets in the league. There are entire young teams, there are older teams, but there aren't that many that are a combo of vets and young folks. That hurt the league. 2. Pushing the younguns as the "THING" without having them work for it or allowing them to be checked by their peers.

 

[Dawunonli]

All I'm saying is

Put dray as the number one option prime for prime with Charles and see who's team will be a lottery team or playoff team

/end thread

 

[Gravity]

The old generation always on some back in my day shyt, they don't respect young players either.

It's the same thing in hip-hop for example Lil Yachty vs. Joe Budden really you see it in all aspects of life in general how much flack do "milennials" get from the older generation.

Since when did the onus start being on the elders to show respect to the youth? The fukk have the younger generation done for the elders to respect? They're eating off work that the elders put in. Cats don't have basic home training.

 

[Billy Ocean]

All these replies over this dumbass shyt?

Plain and simple...younger dudes always think that they are better than the ones that came before them and older dudes think that their generation was better than the current one. It goes on and on...

In 10-15 years, dudes like Draymond Green and Lebron gonna be yapping about how the game and players was so much better around these days. Why is that so hard for dudes to understand? Ya'll younger dudes in here disrespecting the older cats will be the same old, grumpy motherfukkas in 10 years yapping about Harden, Russell, Steph and em. Stfu.

It's like you have to be a Rhodes scholar to understand this simple ass shyt

 

[Jplaya2023]

Since when did the onus start being on the elders to show respect to the youth? The fukk have the younger generation done for the elders to respect? They're eating off work that the elders put in. Cats don't have basic home training.

right cats live in bizzaro world. When you you're a youngin you earned your respect. Your pops or moms wasn't respecting you like that living in their house, but you damn sure better respect them

 

[Eastside Get The Money]

How would Barkley influence him? He was born in 91 or 92 or something and Barkley played on the West by the time Dray might have been watching ball. I don't think a 3-4 year old was staying up til midnight to watch Suns games

He gave a perfect answer. "I've watched his film and took some things to add to my game"