What happens if Adam Silver bans the Zone Defense again?

[MegaTronBomb!]

You fakkits will still claim that the 90's were so much better, because your father played for the Bulls.

and back then, they had REAL basketball players....who weren't friends with their opponents

 

[Cladyclad]

You will start seeing more ISO again and players who can dribble become dominant again.

This

Is why zone was put in. The NbA became stale

 

[USSInsiders]

No one run's zones.

Ok, so make another zone

 

[HHR]

Dolan will give Jim Boeheim a 10-year/$120M deal

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

If he brings back hand checking, so many players would become irrelevant. It would be the first step towards the death of the league.

It would be a step to eliminating players who really can't play for real

 

[TheNig]

If he brings back hand checking, so many players would become irrelevant. It would be the first step towards the death of the league.

The new CBA would kill the league before some damn hand checking

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

This

Is why zone was put in. The NbA became stale

No...The zone was put in for players who couldn't play....It doesn't make the game better, but it makes the product more palatable to the casual fan

 

[nieman]

I hate that zone ish. It's why there's always a player open, spotted up, on EVERY possession. Eff that, you're professionals, MAN UP!

But no zone, and a lot of players get exposed....and no more lob city

 

[tremonthustler1]

This

Is why zone was put in. The NbA became stale

It wasn't stale. It got too gutta and defensive minded. That doesn't put butts in seats unfortunately.

The league needs more Motaws.

 

[FaTaL]

the zone was allowed so players could learn how to beat it, those euro teams were confusing the hell out of the nba players when using the zone during the olympics

 

[AITheAnswerAI]

It means Kyrie and Jennings would ball out

 

[Beerus]

the zone was allowed so players could learn how to beat it, those euro teams were confusing the hell out of the nba players when using the zone during the olympics

I guess you got a point there,

 

[Majestic Pape]

Lebron wade and wall are gonna suck. None of these so called superstars can shoot except steph and melo
All they wanna do is drive and drsw contact like some battymen

Ummm... I think you're misunderstanding the question and what's going on here...

 

[Majestic Pape]

They had more fundamental players back then. Could you imagine curry being handchecked? He wouldn't pass the half court line. There are numerous guards, and forwards that would fold like no other.

You're CLEARLY overrating the past (particularly, I'm sure, the 90s), and overrating the effect hand checking would have as well, and definitely underrating the abilities of the current players in the league.

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

You're CLEARLY overrating the past (particularly, I'm sure, the 90s), and overrating the effect hand checking would have as well, and definitely underrating the abilities of the current players in the league.

He may be underrating current players, but players in the 70s and 80s were more sound fundamentally.....