Gregg Popovich straight Ethers modern day basketball

[Blackrogue]

players should be allowed to play defense more for sure. Give them an equal shot to be great and affect the game there. Side note I was going through lebron, kobe and mjs game logs and MJ was ridiculous averaging 37 points in that Era at 23 years old. Off of ONE THREE attempt per game

 

[Shadow King]

Everything comes full circle. The way to combat this would be dominant post play. I don’t wanna hear about 3 being more than 2 either. If the centers from the 90s played today, they would eat. LOL@trying to guard a Shaq or Hakeem playing small ball.

65/25/15 blocks per game on 90% shooting

Was Duncan jackin 3s and playing no defense?

No because it was a different era but he had the luxury of 2 All-Time centers at the peak of the "slow it down grind it out" era.

 

[Mirin4rmfar]

I miss the variation of playing style. Everyone just want to spam threes these days lol. They need to let defensive players do more.

 

[King Poetic]

shyts becoming I’ll wait till playoffs status on some MLB shyt

3 on 1 fast break and the power forward jacks up a 3

Half court offense is everyone spread out and guy comes up and set a pick while everyone else is either in the corner or wing waiting to shoot a 3 , outside of the warriors who continues to move without the ball..

 

[gho3st]

He ain't lying

Ehh sounds like a dinosaur. I mean he the one who introduced “resting players” so hes just as culpable

 

[Your Welcome]

He’s right. Freedom of Movement era has led to such takes as Luka Doncic and Jokic are the best players since Jordan over the past few weeks.

*passed

 

[Da_Eggman]

retire old man

 

[Red Money]

It's the NBA 2kification of basketball.

Monta Ellis and Steph curry were the cheese team and you take a bunch of threes or drive to basket off screen/mismatch. Or pull up for fast break threes with guys like arenas, Kobe, Mike red, Ray Allen, Rashard Lewis, peja, McGrady, Nash etc.

2K was 10years ahead of the real NBA...

 

[Hey_zeus]

I miss the variation of playing style. Everyone just want to spam threes these days lol. They need to let defensive players do more.

The flava died. It's all the same recipe now

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

jacking 3s and playing no defense
NBA is open gym YMCA basketball now

I turned on some random game the other night... I promise you these ran up and down the court jacking 3's for 10 mins straight. Not one attempt at a midrange or paint shot.. Not once.. And it wasn't like they was hitting them either

 

[Osmosis]

less plumbers, more skill

 

[Stone]

Idk if I buy the whole “everybody plays the same way” thing.

Got teams like Sac and Denver who thrive with distributing centers being at the forefront of it

Nets, Bulls and Suns when they were great dominate in the midrange.

Bucks and Pels got bulldozers who everybody plays off of.

Dubs with their constant movement without the ball.

Celtics have like 8 guys that can put the ball on the floor and make plays and play really good defense

And also your one man shows like what Luka is doing

 

[mastermind]

What if I told you that statistically this is the closest games have ever been in NBA history?

And no this is not some advanced nerd stat but simple margin of victory often used by bettors. Simply the average of how much teams win/lose by every night.

Teams are winning by a smaller margin of victory than ever yet the prevailing narrative is that somehow there are too many blowouts.

A lot of supposed NBA fans have no idea what they are talking about or watching.

Teams used to make the playoffs with records that were 5-10 games under .500, yet somehow this era isn’t competitive. Imagine that happening today.

 

[SadimirPutin]

This is just some old man twaddle

And coli dudes pretending that they want to watch some 92-87 final score games is the FAKEST fukkING VIRTUE SIGNALLING

 

[DanielAlfredsson]

Interesting that the tweet didn’t mention him saying it was more difficult to play defense because of players being better shooters. That was conveniently left out

Noticed that too. Definitely not an accident.