Michael Jordan: You're paid to play 82 games

[tremonthustler1]

The NBA for the last 10 years or so’s slogan might as well be “fukk your enjoyment. Rings, bytch.”

 

[En Sabah Nur]

What’s more taxing about the game now then in the late 80’s early 90’s?


The pace was fast in the 80’s and defense was physical in the 90’s , they wasn’t flying private, they didn’t have access to a lot of things players have today. What’s makes it so much more taxing now?

All that running around the 3 pt line wears a nikka down quick

 

[The War Report]

What’s more taxing about the game now then in the late 80’s early 90’s?


The pace was fast in the 80’s and defense was physical in the 90’s , they wasn’t flying private, they didn’t have access to a lot of things players have today. What’s makes it so much more taxing now?

Go back and watch the games of the 80s/90s and look how defense is being played.

 

[Youngdev]

Go back and watch the games of the 80s/90s and look how defense is being played.

I'm not going back and watching games breh. I wasnt watching games til the mid to late 90's. What's going on in today's game's that so much more taxing? It's is cause team shoots more threes? Were guys not playing defense back then? Is it cause you have more athletic players in the league?

I feel like in today's game your playing less minutes, you have better travel, better accommodations, better medical staff, trainers, technology, you got more access to different opinions, I feel like all that would offset whatever reason you guys have for the game being more taxing on today's players.

 

[Blurneed]

Kawhi has nothing else for the media to hold on to so this will be the narrative. I just love how "load management" is so egregious yet "tanking" is a well known tactic used literally every year with no issues.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Karl Malone played 19 seasons in the league and played 80+ games in all but 2 of them. Won MVP and was all-defensive first team at 36 years old. These 20 somethings in their athletic prime with no history of major career threatening injuries have no fukking excuse, especially with access to the best nutrition, diet, fitness, strength, and conditioning regimens modern sports science can create and money can buy. Wilt averaged 45.8 minutes a game for his CAREER, playing in Converse throughout the damn 60s while being literally attacked and beaten by opposing defenses night in, night out. Now bytch ass AAU babies get hamstring tightness or minor bursitis and they suddenly need Fortnite "load management" sessions for days or weeks at a time. shyt is shameful

all this juelzing but you fail to mention the league is more competitive and cutthroat in terms of athletic demand, tempo, possessions per game than ever.

Dont nobody give a fukk about Wilt matched up with some insurance salesmen, and games with scores of 79-69

THIS. Dem fools think that old time players used some sort of magic fairy dust to avoid injuries and fatigue or some shyt.

WATCH THE fukkING TAPES.


They played the game easier back then. Defense and offense were both far less intense, there was less cutting, less jumping, less switching, guys were left open all the time. WATCH THE TAPE. We were posting clips of Finals games from the 1980s and early 1990s and the shyt would barely pass in a regular season game today.

I don't know how you can not see that with better nutrition, better doctors, better medical care, and far fewer minutes, there are still WAY more injuries today. How can you possibly explain that except to notice that they're playing the game differently?

The top-8 on MJ's six Finals teams were perfectly healthy in 4 of his 6 Finals runs and only missed 3 early round games total in each of the other two. Can you imagine that today? Six Finals runs and have everyone completely healthy through the whole postseason of every one?

Watch how they played and you'll see why. And the 1980s was even worse. And the 1960s ws WAY worse.

 

[STEVE]

mid rather have mid day naps like a kindergartner if we being honest

Right after lunch

but that’ll never happen so can’t live in fantasy land

I could do that if I wanted to but that does not sound good to me. I get in and get out and then am available on-call if need be. 7.75 hours a day is enough time already in my office.

 

[intruder]

Jordan is right.

The way coaches used load management back then was blow out teams early and rest their starters in the 4th quarter of games.
Todays fragile ass mofos need to up their game in terms of endurance. The season is still 82 games long, 48 minutes per game and even less physically punishing than the old NBA. Why they can't play close to 82 games is just another example of pussification of the sport