i HATE when people say current NBA players are more skilled than ever...

[Supreme365]

It's pretty wild watching hofs like Charles Barkley on the break with his eyes on the ball the whole time because the handles back then were mediocre at best.

Barkley would bust every forwards ass in the game today you sound like a casual

 

[jadillac]

"Came out the gate ob some Flo Jo sh*t"

 

[staticshock]

Durant is the most skilled player in the league today, but he’s not more skilled than Kobe or Duncan or Jordan.

All players do today is get picks and shoot 3s. More skilled my ass.

Living up to your username

 

[High quality poster]

Living up to your username

Because I said Kobe Jordan and Duncan are the most skilled players of all time ?


Don’t quote a real nikka ever

 

[FromStLouis]

Flo Jo wasn't on roids, she was tested during the 88 Olympics she came back clean.

The 10.49 was wind aided. I disproved this in another thread. Her best time is 10.61 which would still stand as a WR.

Leave Flo Jo alone.

 

[SCJoe]

Barkley would bust every forwards ass in the game today you sound like a casual

Lmao, damn! I just pointed out that he couldn't dribble well. At what point did I say he wasn't still a HOF caliber player?

 

[Supreme365]

Lmao, damn! I just pointed out that he couldn't dribble well. At what point did I say he wasn't still a HOF caliber player?

It may have looked unorthodox but Barkley actually had a nice handle

 

[Cladyclad]

This is what these new "skilled" players do when they cant use 3 illegal screens and palm the basketball


I see this all the time

SFs, PFs, with 8 inch height advantages cant do shyt in the post vs small guards like Lowry, CP3, FVV, etc.


Ingram cant even post up a dude he has damn near 10 INCHES OF HEIGHT ON

first

1) gave a man a shytty pass. because teams dont practice this no more

2) didnt establish on the left block. he's out to the damn 3 point line

Lowry strength>>>>>>>>

 

[Bryan Danielson]

Better skilled as in shooting and dribbling.

Remember just back in the day BIG MEN where taught NEVER to dribble the ball or bring it down full court and don’t shoot nothing outside of 8-10ft range.

Now big men are taking it coast to coast, crossing cats up and shooting from long range

Cartwright, Manute Bol, Shremf, Divac, and a bit of other men ain’t starting in this era, yet alone getting burn

The neccessary skills for the game has change, so therefore for this style of play these guys are better than the guys before them

Martha

 

[chowism]

More athletic but I wouldn't say more skilled in this era. In basketball and football scouts have fallen in love with athleticism and lost track of getting skilled players.

 

[EBK String]

lol at nikkas thinking having handles and jacking up threes while lacking basic fundamentals= more skilled.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

All players do today is get picks and shoot 3s. More skilled my ass.

As if players today don't have handles >>>>>>>>> better than any other era ever.

Watch Clyde Drexler be one of the dominant guards of his era while having to look down while he dribbled and hardly being able to use his left.

Watch Tim Hardaway damn near invent the crossover in the 1990s as if people didn't even know what it was.



Defensive skills are >>>>>>> than the early eras too. Watch 1990s ball and 90% of teams don't even defend the pick-and-roll well consistently, don't know how to switch on screens, practice terrible help defense where they're constantly out of position and don't rotate well when someone leaves their man.



Ball movement and bball IQ is GOAT now too. Watch earlier ball, even "great" offensive teams like the Lakers are mostly standing around in the halfcourt. Sometimes it takes Magic 15-20 seconds just to set up a simple entry pass into Kareem. The Bulls had the GOAT coach of the era in Phil Jackson and all sorts of smart players centered around MJ and Pippen, yet the basic-ass triangle offense was treated like some sort of revolution in basketball.




Shooting, passing, ball-handling, bball IQ, offensive sets, defensive sets, and team defense are all GOAT compared to any other era in history.


Certain low-percentage one-on-one skills that have declined in use (post scoring and midrange shooting) have declined. They've declined specifically because those are low-percentage skills that aren't as important in today's game. When guys are working for 60% shots at the rim or 35-40% shots from three, then being able to hit 45% shots from midrange or 50% shots out of the post isn't as big anymore. Especially when, in the case of the post, better help defense makes it much more difficult to dominate from there. You can't just work on one guy for 10-15 seconds like Barkley and McHale used to.

 

[DoubleClutch]

There hasn’t been a more skilled player enter the nba since Penny Hardaway in the 90s

But as a whole players in the nba today is more skilled than ever before cause “positionless” basketball

They also had the opportunity to study all the greats before them

 

[GunRanger]

There more athletic and better shooter, very rare does any player know how to post, back in the day anybody over 6’3 can post up a mismatch

Because teams are better at defending it thanks to zone. Plus unless you are elite at it, it usually ends up in a bad fadeaway

 

[wtfyomom]

theyre automatically better but keep clinging to the past, youre really no different than some old white dude trying to argue george mikan is the goat center, you just havent realized it yet