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look even the most objective person here could admit that this celtics team is far inferior to the average team you would normally see in a conference finals.

i could be wrong but if so then i challenge someone to name a team who made the conference finals in the 90's who was worse.
 

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Looks like someone doesn't want their childhood memories threatened :mjlol:

I asked you how do you stop the Cavs and Warriors offensively and you came back with a question, mainly because you have no answer.
And you didn't have an answer either:dwillhuh:

The elite teams in the 90s would have a much better chance at stopping this trash than the other way around
 

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Now who else wanna fukk with Hollywood Court?
And you didn't have an answer either:dwillhuh:

The elite teams in the 90s would have a much better chance at stopping this trash than the other way around



I asked you how, and you're just saying they'd have a better chance to stop something they never even had to deal with, makes sense. Teams weren't even constructed with handling what the Cavs and Warriors do, 4 shooters on the floor at all times. The Knicks won 60 games with Oakley at PF, do you think he'd have a better chance defending LeBron on switches than Thad Young, Ibaka and Horford have done, even though he never had to do it in his career?

If you try to play these teams with two interior bigs + low volume 3 point shooting you're getting run off the court, period.
 

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I asked you how, and you're just saying they'd have a better chance to stop something they never even had to deal with, makes sense. Teams weren't even constructed with handling what the Cavs and Warriors do, 4 shooters on the floor at all times. The Knicks won 60 games with Oakley at PF, do you think he'd have a better chance defending LeBron on switches than Thad Young, Ibaka and Horford have done, even though he never had to do it in his career?

If you try to play these teams with two interior bigs + low volume 3 point shooting you're getting run off the court, period.



Okay cool, so the fact that Ewing is one of the GOAT defensive players wouldn't allow the Knicks to press up on the shooters?



Are teams today constructed to guard against a dominant big man?:dwillhuh: If you can't guard a big man you have to double, which leads to .......You know what:mjlol:Ok breh. You really think all these modern day nikkas are better. It's retarded but whatever.
 

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No need for quotations my brother :blessed:


These offenses are historically great :yeshrug:
The NBA made rules to clean up the game and made it more advantageous for offenses in the process. Little to no contact being allowed on the perimeter, many more fouls being called that has allowed players like Harden to base their whole game on getting the whistle. Less tolerance for hard fouls which are almost always flagrant fouls nowadays while back in the day it would of been just a common foul.



I can admit that the players of today are as skilled as they've ever been. We now have teams that can shoot the 3 from all positions. The increased value of analytics has influenced that into the game as well. The illegal defense rules changing also influenced the game into being less about Iso's and more about ball movement and spacing. But this also had the effect of phasing dominant post players out of the league since you can now just double someone off the ball instead of waiting until he catches it.
 

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Now who else wanna fukk with Hollywood Court?
Okay cool, so the fact that Ewing is one of the GOAT defensive players wouldn't allow the Knicks to press up on the shooters?



Are teams today constructed to guard against a dominant big man?:dwillhuh: If you can't guard a big man you have to double, which leads to .......You know what:mjlol:Ok breh. You really think all these modern day nikkas are better. It's retarded but whatever.


Bruh, how is it possible you watch the games and not even see what's happening? The Cavs use Tristan Thompson in the high screen to get the C out the paint, did you not see what the Warriors did to Gobert? :mindblown: You think Patrick isn't gonna be involved in screens to get him on LeBron 24 feet from the rim? :dead:

This is the level of thought that goes into these kind of discussions, why would they double Patrick? They would live with him going one on one, because at best it's a 50% shot on a two pointer, on the other end they're going to take 30 threes and bank on making 10+. What would doubling him lead to anyway, a 32% three point attempt by John Starks? :mjlol: That was a 60 win team with John Starks as the number 2.
 

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Bruh, how is it possible you watch the games and not even see what's happening? The Cavs use Tristan Thompson in the high screen to get the C out the paint, did you not see what the Warriors did to Gobert? :mindblown: You think Patrick isn't gonna be involved in screens to get him on LeBron 24 feet from the rim? :dead:

This is the level of thought that goes into these kind of discussions, why would they double Patrick? They would live with him going one on one, because at best it's a 50% shot on a two pointer, on the other end they're going to take 30 threes and bank on making 10+. What would doubling him lead to anyway, a 32% three point attempt by John Starks? :mjlol: That was a 60 win team with John Starks as the number 2.
This is sad. It's the equivalent of someone arguing how good the Tennessee titans offense was under Jeff fisher and how nobody could handle it today (all you need to know is that the titans ran a simple one dimensional offense that was easy to gameplan for)
 

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look even the most objective person here could admit that this celtics team is far inferior to the average team you would normally see in a conference finals.

i could be wrong but if so then i challenge someone to name a team who made the conference finals in the 90's who was worse.
'91 Detroit Pistons
50-32
24th in offensive rating
12th in defensive rating

'94 Indiana Pacers
47-35
11th in offensive rating
8th in defensive rating

'95 Indiana Pacers
52-30
8th in offensive rating
6th in defensive rating

'99 New York Knicks
27-23
26th in offensive rating
4th in defensive rating

'17 Boston Celtics
53-29
8th in offensive rating
13th in defensive rating
 
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1998, Chicago Bulls vs. Utah Jazz | 96-54, a 42 point victory in the NBA Finals :hhh:

The entire jazz team besides Malone both of those finals. Nobody else scored 20 in any game of the 1997 finals and Hornacek and Stockton both did it once in 1998. Multiple games in 1998 where aside from Malone the team shot 33% or worse. They had as many games over 90 those two finals as they did under 60 :hhh:. At least teams move the ball now and we aren't getting games ending with scores in the 70's these days. shyt was putrid :scust:
 

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Bruh, how is it possible you watch the games and not even see what's happening? The Cavs use Tristan Thompson in the high screen to get the C out the paint, did you not see what the Warriors did to Gobert? :mindblown: You think Patrick isn't gonna be involved in screens to get him on LeBron 24 feet from the rim? :dead:

This is the level of thought that goes into these kind of discussions, why would they double Patrick? They would live with him going one on one, because at best it's a 50% shot on a two pointer, on the other end they're going to take 30 threes and bank on making 10+. What would doubling him lead to anyway, a 32% three point attempt by John Starks? :mjlol: That was a 60 win team with John Starks as the number 2.
3's weren't a major part of the game back then as they are now. It was more about having a dominant big man. Looking back into 1994 for example, the average team shot 9 three pointers a game and made 33% of them. Today the average team shoots 25 threes a game at a 35% clip. :ehh:


Yes the shooters of today are greater by the numbers but they also evolved to be that way because where the game was headed with the rule changes.:yeshrug:
 
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