If The NBA Was So Much Tougher In The 90's Please Explain To Me How Mark Price Ate So Well

[Tommy Gibbs]

Mark Price was also playing with the first Tim Duncan. Daughtery was a perennial all star on his way to the hall of fame. And should be thre today even with the injury that caused him to retire. He had a better career than Ralph Sampson. Add in players like Nance and Harper(pre-acl tear Harper). . shyt, looking at his teammates like sorry ass Danny ferry and overrated Ehlo, that only makes Price look that much better.

 

[987654321]

4x all-star
4x all-NBA
4 top 10 MVP finishes
Sounds like he was eating to me.

And we can forget about Mark Price if you want too. What about Kevin Johnson, John Stockton, and Tim Hardaway? Surely the physical ‘90s defense and handchecking would’ve been too much for these little 6 foot nothing guards from getting buckets, right?

How did they allow 5’10” Tim Hardaway to average 20/10 in the super physical tough ‘90s? Where were all the ‘90s enforcers at?

Haradaway’s enforcers were on the court with him. Did he not play in the 90’s? Why wouldn’t he have enforcers too?

 

[get these nets]

These threads aged poorly.

Mark starred at Point Guard U. aka Georgia Tech, which produced a stream of starting NBA point guards for a stretch
Was a very good player, one tier below the top echelon and made All Star and All NBA teams a few times, cracking the 1st team once

 

[RoCKetSity256]

Mj and Abdul Rauf was battling. They hurried up and got mj off his ass so he could conserve energy for offense

 

[havoc]

Mj and Abdul Rauf was battling. They hurried up and got mj off his ass so he could conserve energy for offense

MJ was hot cook by Abdul Rauf because he was playing underneath the screens

 

[Ozymandeas]

Just because they're a white boy wearing Reeboks with a Supercuts Haircut doesn't mean they can't play basketball.

 

[daboywonder2002]

No way a whiteboy under 180 pounds could survive in the big bad 90's let alone become a dream teamer and 4 time allstar. I refuse to believe it.

White boys back then were tough and weren't afraid to play physical. Price, Mullin, White Chocolate, Stockton, Bobby Sura, Tom Chambers, Dan Majerle. etc

 

[HandyWithTheSteel]

Maybe one day we’ll finally get an answer to this question. One can only dream.

 

[Luke Cage]

are we forgetting the steph is muti time champion and this dude didn't win shyt?

 

[Professor Emeritus]

are we forgetting the steph is muti time champion and this dude didn't win shyt?

Because he was going up against Jordan/Pippen/Grant coached by Phil when his own sidekicks were Brad Daugherty and Larry Nance.

I'm pretty sure a team of Mark Price, Reggie Miller, Dan Majerle, Dennis Rodman and David Robinson would have won a title or two in the early 1990s.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Mj and Abdul Rauf was battling. They hurried up and got mj off his ass so he could conserve energy for offense

Lowkey, MJ's kryptonite was shifty guards who could shoot. He really didn't like having to guard them out at the 3pt line when he was worried they could then blow past him to the basket.

I remember this from the Atlanta series in '97 where Mookie Blaylock took him apart the first two games (29-10-7 on 53/59/80 shooting splits), because the announcers specifically mentioned that he hated guarding those kind of players. I'm pretty sure they put other defenders on Mookie the rest of that series too.

If you think about what kinds of players have great highlight vids against MJ, it's almost always quick guards who can hit from 3pt. And if you look at the #'s, teams with multiple 3pt shooters always seemed to have success from deep against the Bulls in the playoffs.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

These threads aged poorly.

Mark starred at Point Guard U. aka Georgia Tech, which produced a stream of starting NBA point guards for a stretch
Was a very good player, one tier below the top echelon and made All Star and All NBA teams a few times, cracking the 1st team once

Pointing out that Mark Price made 1st-team All-NBA is straight up reaffirming the OP's point, not countering it.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

1990s heads always want to claim that the 1980s Pistons were every game in the 1990s.


NBA changed the flagrant foul rules in 1990 after Jordan complained so that style of headhunting wasn't even viable anymore, and that Pistons squad was washed by 1991 anyway.