NBA Legends Hating on the Weak and Soft NBA
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Shaq told a story about when he was in Orlando, MJ came in strong and Shaq absolutely clobbered him to the ground. Shaq felt bad b/c Jordan was his idol so he went to help him back up, but Jordan said it was a good foul and to never help up an opponent.
Your forgetting the best line MJ said to Shaq, show them respect by showing them none.
@@camerontse6615 I didn't forget b/c I didn't know - thanks
His stories are mostly lies. Like his story with David Robinson. He apologized years after. I have doubts if jordan story is real.
that was nuthin compared to what Detroit and New York used to do to him...
As a knicks fan the physical damage we might have done to
MJ is nothing compare to trauma and psychological damage he did to the whole city of New York
no contact, no travelling, no palming or carrying the ball,...it's just 3's, dunks, and flopping...and it's BS to say Oscar Robertson could not play today
I grew up on 90's NBA and loved it. I hate the modern day NBA. I miss the hard defense, the low post scorers, real rivalries.
As a 90s kid the NBA been soft since about 2015 to me!!
It was before that... but you stuck around for the end of Duncan's run with the Spurs... I kinda did too ;-)
Around then was the last time I can remember paying attention to the NBA.
Right; this isn't resent. The equality of NBA ball has been in a free fall for the past ten years.
@@izzydadopest A lot of things people seem to think are recent, aren't. They have been trying to make kids weak, at least since the 90s. With stuff like participation trophies.
@@JoshuaHopkins-j9o me too, i was brought back to watch NBA by Derrick Rose.... but sad story.
I'd say 2010 or so
Today's NBA isn't even worth watching.
Kawhi, Luka and Steph are my few exceptions.
NBA IS TRASH, UNWATCHABLE.
the nba hasnt been worth watching since the tree swinging apes took it over.
You re 110% right soft as charmin …makes for a boring 4 quarters
soft is, as soft does, R. I .P. NBA
Lmfao, NBA ain't baseball, what the hell is even this comment.
Agreed
I like Patrick Ewing giving himself a lil props. He was a piller of 90s basketball. An entire decade
An all time great!
Pilar*😂😂😂😂😂
@@FillyouupSplash *pillar 🤣
@@maxxdahl6062I’m sure he thought he ate with that.
Reasons for not watching, soft, carry, travel and it's just a 3 point competition at this point
Also, I hate when they say today's players are more talented... on what? Carrying the ball every dribble and traveling with that eurostep crap... man, they play like that in the 90s, they're going back to school, how to dribble 101
That glorified step back 3s are disgusting to watch.
Luka f**king Doncici ALWAYS TAKES EXTRA STEP OR TWO before putting himself behind the arc with each foot taking a step for the position.
The mother f**king refs are right next to him never calling anything.
The league officiation is what makes the players unwatchable.
youre describing todays all star games which are disgusting and a crime against fans wanting to see some competition
@@jaykyungchung2497lebozo takes 4 steps on every drive
Might as well find a playground pickup game, at least it’s free.
Its hard to tell your young son to love sports. It's hard to teach them to overcome obstacles when they learn bitching and complaining from professional athletes.
Well said.
They are used to being spoon fed without no accountability nowadays
Those athletes learned it from their mamas ...
@@davidm2168 no daddy in their household
@@dreamcage1801they can always hop team so easily because someone will be ready to pay the mega millions. If their current team won't or they don't like their playing time or coach or something.
Its really disgusting these days! Guys taking 5 steps and it never gets called the defense is non existent and guys just jump from team to team! It just bores me pretty much.
lets not forget the sit outs and the GOAT of the sit out Simmons
And this silly " hesitation " when they basically stopped and held s ball then started dribbling again
& no one go for the 2nd chance or getting in to get rebound, they just retreat after some one shoot a 3s, regardless in or not, Rodman will be jobless in this era🤣
MJ 🏀 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆WITH THE SAME TEAM
KB 🏀 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆WITH THE SAME TEAM
@@jameswong7061 Rodman would make Gobert look like the traffic cone he really is
Robert Horry is so on point with the problem of the league.
Horry fuggin NAILED it
what do ya expect? He clutch
your video title AUTOMATICALLY deserves an INSTANT LIKE.
The nba is a shell of what it was in the 90s , sad what its become and i havent watched a full game in over 10 years
My response? I don't watch the NBA anymore. I used to love it and enjoyed the 80s and 90s games but I haven't watched in at least 5 years. The soft play and mentality in today's players reflects the soft men in society in general.
Preeeeeeeeeach!
I understand you and since I'm Greek I follow the NBA because of The Greek Freak! He's one guy with old school mentality, who didn't need to ring-chase to get his ring, and who has a physical style of play! If it wasn't for Giannis I wouldn't even care about today's NBA!
Same
Your comment hitting 👊
100%
One of the reasons why the current NBA is viewed as soft is because hand-checking is no longer allowed.
Putting a hand on the offensive player was part of NBA defenses for so long that when the NBA removed it in 2004, the league changed forever.
Once the hand-check was banned, offensive players took over the league.
With the NBA taking away one of its biggest weapons against an offensive player, teams adjusted how they played defense, and the physicality we saw during the 80s and the 90s was suddenly gone.
offense is more pleasing to watch for the fans which means more 💰 for the nba
@@trolln_then why is nobody watching? The average person on the street has no idea who won the finals and they don’t care. Viewership has been in steep decline for 20 years now. The “face of the league” LeBronze has been in three of the lowest rated finals of all time. You’re dreaming if you think it’s as popular as it was 20-30 years ago. So yes, people do like watching a balanced game as evidenced by the peak popularity and it experienced decades ago now. It’s so unwatchable that TNT doesn’t even care if they get games anymore. If the league was in a healthy place TNT would be fighting to retain rights but they don’t so that should tell you everything you need to know. But all this takes a nuanced view and many people are incapable of that.
@@trolln_I don't agree! I hate watching guys just shoot away or drive to the lane uncontested! Boring!
@@cotati76 there are zero personalities. every team used to have that one guy. STARS.
@@trolln_ ... Your comment is exactly what the league thought 20 years ago... so your comment isn't "wrong" even though the idea itself turned out to be wrong.
The NFL is doing the same thing... and will end up breaking itself in time as a result
It’s a reflection on society. Society has tried to make the world “fair” and the world will always be unfair. The truest way to balance the scales is to dig deep and make something happen. But this victim first mentality cries out for everyone else to make things fair.
Back in the day calling basketball a "non contact" sport seemed ridiculous. It was definitely a contact sport. Maybe that's the answer, change the definition. Everyone else is doing it.
The fact that the actual rules and protocol is different is one thing, and everyone has to live with it, unfortunately. But the thing I can't stand is the flopping and theatrics from certain players. Only thing that'd make it tolerable is if they rolled out a red carpet and presented an honorary academy award everytime someone really took a dive. Lebron would have a house full of them by now
Coaches were coaching men back then; while today, you have some young coaches who haven't put in the time coaching young men, and the older coaches don't get enough time to turn young players into NBA players
So I didn't grow up in the 90s, Shaquille O'neal was the guy who got me into Basketball and even that wasn't until he was on the Suns I just liked him because he was huge lol. My point is I turned off the NBA a few years ago because in middle of a playoff series I was just like "I hate this, I hate what the game has become" Watching Jordan games, I used tot think the 2008 Celtics were the most ferocious group of guys ever but in the Jordan era...that was every team, even teams that didn't have superstar athletes were playing hard, leaving it on the court EVERY GAME now we got guys missing games for their kids birthday party and it being praised for it instead of being like "Yeah, it's tough, but there are people who work normal jobs who don't get to call out just cuz their child has a birthday"
Jason Williams saying oscar Robertson couldn't play today is one of the dumbest things ever said about modern basketball. Oscar would destroy the league. If you put together a team of the best players from the 70's,80's and 90's I guarantee they would sweep the team you put together of the modern greatest players. It would be men playing children.
Agree with you 100%. Oscar and the players of his day were way tougher mentally and physically than today's entitled Primadonna's. If you sent today's players back in time and into Oscar's league under those rules, they would get destroyed.
And just imagine a full season! Load management wasn't a thing back then, because it doesn't need to be. So while your stars are sitting out, your backups are getting shitcanned by REAL stars.
I loved the white chocolate but he's smoked himself rtarded 😂😅 before there was Mr Fundamental aka Duncan, there was the Larry Legend and before Larry was The Big O himself. He would make it look easy now as he did back in his era 😅
Agree
My problem is he said the game is different today.
Which means it was different in the past. The hurdles to greatness were higher. The skill and ability development was organic. That means the stars and super stars were innovators in the sport. They were legitimately better thinkers and doers. How come that's not taken into account? The hard fouls of today may not have been called in the past. 3 pointers weren't shot and hand checking was the norm. The lane was clogged and you had to be a super hero to get through, both in ability and mentality. Centers were defensive juggernauts the jammed the key and swatted high flyers. "Defense wins championships" was a storied mantra. He thinks Big O couldn't beat people off the Dribble and make it to the rim in today's NBA?! He had to fight through people in his era!
I stopped watching the NBA maybe since 2016. I saw where it was going. I have not watched a whole game ever since. Just Highlights.. Simply because.. IT'S ALL NONSENSE.
Me and you both I just watch the highlights I didn’t even watch the finals these past two seasons
Same here. Nothing to be proud of the NBA of the last years
@@jaysouthmusic8230nobody watched the finals. The average person has no idea who won nor so they care. People just don’t like the elitism of the players today and they’re complaining about having to actually play games. There’s no defense. Tons of standing around doing nothing on both ends of the floor. Nothing but threes. It’s boring.
Coincidently I stopped in 2016 too. Then I watched my first game again in 2019. I think it was six possessions in a row of just both teams jacking up three points. I started screaming at the TV to get the ball into the paint to open players it was that frustrating to watch.
I briefly returned in 19 for the raptors championship. But haven't been able to watch a full game start to finish since.
Soft and less competitive. In a lot of games players are content with shooting from the perimeter because they cant be touched and let the game be decided by a coin flip basically, whoever shoots closer to 50% wins that night. Thats the real problem, before, teams would not be content by that, they would do everything in their power to win, that means penetrate, put the other team in foul trouble, its not just softer it lacks any tactical point, because the players refuse to do their job and sacrifice for the team so they just pin themselves 45 degrees to the basket if they missed "oh well it was a good shot selection" instead of going for the high value shots.
In 1992 you know who warned us about this.
Adam Silver let players destroyed the NBA I grew up watching
I can't even watch it anymore. It isn't just the "on-court" softness either... it's like they all just stopped emotionally maturing at age 13... completely insufferable.
Men don't play the game anymore... and the majority of basketball fans agree.
I grew up watching the NBA from the late 80's and 90's when it was in it's prime! I started to lose interest in the early 2000's as I started seeing the changes back then! I haven't watch a game in 20 years! I watch clips here and there on RUclips and it is actually terrible what the NBA has become.
The 00s with Kobe, Shaq, Garnett, Iverson was awesome aswell.
When the Warriors became this 3pt, small ball shooting team, that's when it went downhill because now the inside game is gone. That's one of the fundamental aspect of the game that's not exists anymore
THERE'S NO COMPARISON , PLAYERS IN THE PAST WERE WINNERS AND MOST WERE MEN.
Facts
It should be more competitive and physical than college ball. It definitely should be more entertaining but it isn't.
@@jaysouthmusic8230 JOE DUMARS COME TO MIND
Nobody cares about watching the NBA ladies anymore. The average person has no idea who won the finals nor do they care. Thats really sad but they brought it upon themselves.
@@cotati76as LeBron hand picks his (mediocre) kid for his squad.
Loved the NBA in the 90s
Good video. A lot of reasons why it’s not as good as it used to be. I’m 69 years old, but I quit watching in 2014 after the Spurs last glory games. The best games werein the 80s and 90s. It’s just not as much fun to watch anymore. That’s all.
Another thing I don't like about today's players is that EVERYTHING injures them. They get a scrape on their knee and sit out for 6 weeks. Larry Bird played with broken bones. Kobe Bryant played with dislocated fingers and no cartilage in his knees. Michael Jordan played in the Finals with the flu. Back in the day if you could walk, you played.
Back in the day they used to do whatever it takes to win. Now they do whatever it takes to hype and get more money. Fans? Who?
And team up for an easy ring like KD and the big three did in Miami
They're absolutely right. I barely watch any games these days
Agree 100%!!! I stopped watching the NBA years ago because of how the game is played today. If Lebron played back when Jordan was playing he would get crushed or maybe due to his physical size he would change into that type of player that would play physical as well as his other talents but we'll never know. I applaud him for his playing this long but alot has to do with the "hands off" NBA of today. Just my opinion
It’s gotten really boring. No good rivalries anymore. Too much money and not enough passion and competitive fire.
For me it‘s more the an attitude than an approach thing.
Loved 90s Basketball,miss the post-up game and defense but my main issue is flopping,players sitting out games and contracts,all the stuff I used to despise in european soccer culture has ruined the NBA now!
I really find it funny that they call it a Eurostep when in all actually it is traveling!
Love your show! nba today is not entertaining to me 😢
Today NBA is boring......today nba players is all about their lifestyle, players don't have no respect for the game of basketball
@@silvercat6425 That doesn’t mean the game is boring that means that you are focusing on what the media is showing you and their narrative. Which has nothing to do with the game of basketball based on your own statement. lol
the weird thing about these players is that most of them played in hardcore hoop areas, where you get hit all the time, playing back in the day against duded in st croix, they played without shoes
I still love this sport, but it's painful how different it is. You know how many 3's Kareem made in his entire career? One, and he played it off as a joke. I miss the days when a 3 from downtown was occasional and not a staple. I miss defense, and a struggle to the rim. The struggle made those low scores all the sweeter. I miss the things that made this game addicting to watch.
It’s funny man, every video you put out, I 100% agree. We’d be great friends!
It used to be a Men’s game, where they tried to beat the shit out of each other on the court, and be friends after the game was finished. But now they are soft on the court and pretend to be tough guys off the court, or in case of Ben Simmons, soft on the court and even softer off the court.
Ben Simmons should repay the Sixers and the Nets every single dime that he has “earned” for being a fraud, he doesn’t belong on the court, let alone sitting next to it.
But the fact that most players do not even try to play all the 82 games during a season, because it is too much, says enough.
Agree that it used to be a Men’s Game. Current NBA is soft. But nobody was friends with Detroit’s Isiah Thomas off the court except other Detroit Pistons. That’s why he was left off the Olympic Team. But I have no love for Isiah either, so. . . Lol
@@adquinta Isiah Thomas was friendly with McHale and Bird, at least off-court
Exactly! Respect is for before and after the game. During the game though, play to win.
Jordan was literally taking Barkley out to dinner before the Finals. Wtf are you on about?
@@andrewcook1246 I think he generally meant off the court.
"No blood, no foul" was the #1 parkboard rules.
Everybody should be really broke for a while. Nothing makes you appreciate something more than having nothing
The NBA game has become soft, boring , unwatchable.
The product is ABSOLUTE SH1TTY TRASH!!!!! My oldest brother bought tix for Bulls vs Bucks game here in Chicago. He took my grand-nephew, he got GREAT (I didn't wanna know the total price) seats!
Low and behold Giannis was out due to "load management!" Sounds like something correlative to a semi-truck and what and how long the haul is🤔
Since that 2020 season (especially that FINALS), these titles should come with an "asterisk."
I'm from Australia, and don't watch NBA anymore. It's so boring it puts me to sleep 😴. So over LeSook and he's antic's.. only watch this stuff.
The NBA needs 2 things to come back to their heights of glory;
1) they need to bring back hand-checking and defense. Offense is only impressive when it’s beating defense
2) they need another Magic/Bird dynamic to bring people back.
Soft since warriors start winning..soft since the long ball era begins in 2014 i think.
Love ya SD! You are the Zohan! Silky smooth! NBA basketball, the sport of all sports has become unwatchable for me. And give Caitlyn Clark her due, but the WNBA? Forget-a-bout-it. I have never and will never watch a game.
They’re all right. I tried watching the NBA again this year and I hadn’t watched since MJ retired. It’s awful. Everything is a foul and it’s unreal that you can challenge a call which can take minutes to review - absurd! And everyone just throws up a three point - boring AF!
Bron Stans have to rationalize every single facet of basketball in the most distortive ways in order to create a post-hoc rationale for his shortcomings including, but not limited to, pooping on every other era to make it seem like THIS era has the most talent and is the most difficult, over-inflating the value of his accomplishments and stats by failing (intentionally) to properly contextualize them, ignoring his substandard finals record compared to other greats, and ignoring the fact he's played with more talent than any player in NBA history.
Harden took KD Warriors to 7 games, Bron won ONE GAME vs KD Warriors in two years lol.
LeOverrated.
I really wish we could get a random sampling of 1000 Bron fans and 1000 fans of any other player and just measure their IQs. I suspect Bron fans would lose that battle.
It's not so much that the players are soft, the game itself is soft. it has become bring the ball up, try and take your man off the dribble, if not, take a bad shot. For me it's unwatchable. How many times did players used to take days off because they needed rest?
To me it is more about the mental softness than the physical calls. And its not just basketball, In the 1980s and 90s you got Bird playing with a fractured Cheek bone and messed up back, MJ playing with the Flu and food poisoning multiple times, But today in the NFL a few years ago back when he was with the Texans Jadaveon Clowney was listed as unable to play due to the FLU, I could understand limiting him to two plays per series ...and he was healthy enough he was on the sideline. But MJ played over 30 min so sick he could barely stand. And in basketball players "load mange" they basically take a day off because they are sore. My HS coach used to say are you hurt or are you injured...if your Hurt you tough it out, if you injured we bring out the doctor and check you out. Players cannot tough it out through the little things and if they feel the offense is not running through them enough they want a trade (Harden, Kyrie, KD, and Westbrook to name a few...they have all requested multiple trades because it was not their way....WEAK minded.)
money created divas that think they are more important than the league they are supposed to serve
Let's see what happens in the Olympics, buddy. 😎
Great video, as always.
Man! Salute to you! I love your analysis and your footage. One of the best basketball commentary on RUclips.
If only we had a time machine to let Lebron play against the Bad Boys or the early 90's Knicks
They should try maybe during the all star game to make points in the paint worth 2, everywhere else worth 1, then we start seeing post ups again
Take away the 3pt shoot.
It would evolve to " the closer you are to basket, the more chance you have to score " just like before. That's why the game always was outside in
The problem, no disrespect to anybody. Too many European who grew up watching Soccer players barely get touch and throw their hands in the air and fake shit up. Protect the players, LOL. Look at the last NHL playoffs, players are bigger, faster. They stiil hit hard.
Today's NBA is trash. Just 3 point BS. It's boring.
Cream and Crimson Hoosier here. I loooove this new ball. Reminds me of the time before 3 pointers and shot clocks. Three seconds was still called, and you could still find Chuck Taylors squeekin' on the floor. So, I got a bit of perspective. (I think I'm Chief's age.) It's like a manic 4 corners out there. They get done in 35 seconds what used to take about 4 minutes. The back door screens passed up shots, somebody streaking down the lane for a layup (Dunk). Watch some old 4 corners and come back. As far as I'm concerned, they may not be beating each other up; yet this is the progression and maybe apex of the game so far.
I can't stand the way the NBA has gotten so soft. Basketball is meant to be a physical game and taking that out of the game just ruins it for me.
I can't agree with White Chocolate saying players have evolved. Oscar Robertson would adapt fast & dominate if zapped into 2024.
He now gets charter flights
Doesn't have to deal with the direct rasicm
State of the art traing facility & diet plans
Better basket ball sneakers
Now I would say this the talent pool now is more well rounded & that's has alot to do with more of the euro/world players coming to the league
I agree with you. Players in the mid-2000's on back were cut from a different cloth. They had the mental and physical toughness to adapt. It's today's whiny entitled Primadonna's who would get torched if they were sent back in time and had to play against greats like MJ, Kareen, Oscar Robertson, etc.
man i grew up sat morning watching cartoon then at 10(i am from montreal)channel 21 it was inside stuff afterwars i was hyped enough for my day at the court came back at 5h30 then at 6h15 i was back at the court until 9 then back at the house to catch the east coast main game in replay on canadian tv(usually bulls but knicks pacers or celtics sometimes)then i cleaned my sneakers and watch a martial arts movie before sleep...YOUR CHANNEL IS A STRAIGHT BLESSING FOR GUYS LIKE ME!!!!!!!!DONT CHANGE ANYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!! yo bro what happen to that retro martial arts movie project of yurs i was so lookig for????
finally !!, it's back:
"without further blabla" yeah, love it.
... been a while,
was one of the reasons I subscribed on the spot a couple of yrs ago.
K-Mart was fugazi. All around.
An NBA competitive solution: eliminate the 3pt line until the 4th qtr....
I want a two 3pt lines if you chucking too many three's per half you will have to shoot behind the penalty line that's further back and cuts out the corners. It's obvious threes are much more valuable than two's so, so you got to disincentivize three's as a go to shot and more as a sharp shooter shot. Make shooting and defending three's a strategy and not a dependency again.
I stubbed my toe coach, i gotta sit out. But coach, i gotta headache i can't play. Super strong athletes throw you across the floor with their finger push. Today's NBA.
Indeed it ain’t like the old days.💭🙉
The 3 points nba kill the NBA
I haven’t watched in a couple years.
Im going to '' beat you '' had a whole different meaning in the 70s through the mid 90s than now. Im happy I got to watch that whole period.
I don't even watch the NBA anymore. I gradually went from just tuning in around April or May... to just the playoffs... to just the Finals... to now, just never. Their product is horrible.
Most contracts in the NBA should.be 10 days. Just continue to sign ten days. Injured players should only get half pay, like workers comp.
All this money upfront is killing the hunger.
I was watching the game since the 80s and now today's game is soft. I agree 100 %
Back in the 1980's the NBA was tough, rough and I watched teams like the Celtics, Lakers, Sixers, Bucks, Rockets, Jazz, Pistons and some other teams play defense then have playoff series that go to seven games where the defense was played inside the paint with the post moves then players weren't going to get easy baskets and if they did they had to earn it. So in this era of the NBA the players don't do this style of play because chucking up three pointer so much, shooting from way outside the arc so much. Then baskets be so easy to get in this era to where guys don't even play upwards to the :24 second clock or whatever. So now I don't watch games these days because of the style of play also because of the bad network coverage mainly from ESPN/ABC because they change broadcasters, analysts, studio hosts to where they're really bad. TNT's coverage of the NBA is a little than ESPN /ABC , but still pull away from the games because they're aren't interesting anymore as they used to be back in the 1980's, 1990's there.
Of course the NBA is soft, they let Bronny James play in the Summer League 2024.
"Shannon Sharp" laughs with other former NBA players about todays NBA being soft, BUT HAS THE NERVE TO CALL 'Lebron James' the G.O.A.T. and/ or 'better' THAN MICHAEL JORDAN!?!?!?! SMH
Yeah dude! I remember Giannis dunking on someone and getting t'd up for meanmugging the guy he had just posterized!
No carry calls, no traveling calls, no hand checking on D. It makes boring ball.
I stopped watching that 💩 (the NBA) a long time ago. The NBA has been going downhill since 04.
Shawn, I'm literally falling in love with you, but I'm a little too far (I live in Italy), and, for some reason, I still prefer the other part of of the sky, as we say in Italy. But joking aside, since I got to know your channel, I haven't miss a video because you're really of another level, and you're simply the best. Keep doing this wonderful work Shawn, and never be afraid to say what you think (I knew you don't need to be told, sorry). Greetings from Pesaro!!!
As a recent NBA fan I just want to say I can appreciate the physicality of the old game but I also respect how it is now because if I'm playing ball I feel like I'm playing the sport not playing to be pushing and shoving and hurting people. That's football or it makes me think of wanting to see people fight in a Colleaseum in ancient Rome. Like we don't do that ish anymore but I can also understand as men why we still want that physicality. It makes me think of playing soccer and how people would shove and push and my thing was that's not how you play. You're supposed to try to get the ball from me without pushing and shoving. And I have a similar idea of basketball where you should be trying to get the ball from me, not attacking my body. But idk, maybe I just didn't appreciate the physicality and didn't understand that aspect. I just feel like it takes skill to get the ball away vs just having a bigger/stronger body and go for my body vs going for the ball. So it's something that I think I can understand the physicality better now but I also understand wanting to be playing for the ball vs the body. If you want to have a challenge of physical strength do wrestling lol. But I also am a recent basketball fan so I can't speak to what the game used to be
It's the traveling that bothers me the most, but the lack of post game/ physicality and chucking 3s constantly are right up there. I can't believe it, but I actually think the old timers were right about the 3 pointer running the game. It just took a long time before it happened.
Exactly right. The NBA in the 90's was an "exciting time." Watched it all the time. Today? NAH. Never.
I don't see 1 v 1 basketball rivalries anymore. Seeing big men battle in the post was exciting for me.
Removed handchecking after Lebeons rookie season.
What was firat thing I noticed when watching him?
Hes clumsy..and although quick for his size...even in his primw needed a screen or to break offensive rules to get by his man.
COINCIDENCE the year after he joins, defense is handicapped?
Then as the next few years went on...missing playoffs first 2 years, Hughes coming in helped..
But they also allowed obvious travelling from Lebron from time to time..
Comnentators joked about it..
Within a few years guy would come into the lane..taking 3 steps as he gets cut off..
Then pivot one foot, then the bother foot, then back to the first foot, step back and shoot..
AGGREGIOUS Violations.
In 2005 getting an extra step gere and there...
To
Taking 7, 8 steps in certain situations uncalled.. by 2009 this was juat a normal part of his game we see still now.
They handicapped defenses so 1 guy who they invested so much into...could WIN and pull good stat averages.
Theres already guys in the league that if they stay healthy will dwarf his stats if they go till 40...caus now everyone gets more inflated stats due to it being far yoo obvious if you dont slowly allow others to bemd the rules too.. (Like originally Harden...now the whole league).
They going to let people dwarf those stats and keep losing older fans?
Or
Change back the rules knowing itmifht get our trust back and protect his stats in the process?
Think about the level of lying and disingwnuous things, the millions spent bribing media..
The INTEGRITY AND RESPECT LOST from catering to this clown.
Do you think they wont try protect his stats?
Guess time will tell..
Wither way tbey lost me years ago.
The one dribble past the three point line with that big ole gather step and dunk is one of the biggest reason mid ranges and post up have become a less desirable.shot. That and teams chucking up three without any impunity on that shot. Create a second 3pt line for chucking too many three's , a penalty 3 point line. and watch the game drastically change. All that floor spacing will go away if they have to shoot three's further back and with no corners to shoot from.
People loved the NBA in the 50s and 60s, but grew to hate the league during the 70s (mostly because of the antics and attitudes of the players).
The public was reengaged with the NBA during the 80s and 90s, but are losing interest again because of the drama.
Watching the nba today is like watching an unserious pickup game. Just go down and jack up barely contested shots frowm wherever you like. And if someone decides to actually put in effort they arr called for a foul or the other guys start flopping and crying. Its unwatchable. And this is from a person who absolutely loves basketball.
100% agree. Try watching the euroleague.
Bro love your channel and yes it’s soft these days
A lot of today's players are paid more to do less & could care less about winning. Their bank account & their spoiled ego's are bloated...
It's a shame... that people can't reflect even further.
Every time I see "they were men then" I remember Reggie Miller talking about how gaming his sister was a lesson in physicality. It has nothing to do with "being men", it's about engaging the adversity.
I see people talking about 3 points corners, fouls, travel, palming... and praising the 90's like Parker wasn't consistently palming, like Barkley or Kemp weren't travel kings (you could basically travel all the way as long as you dunked in the end), like Hack-a-Shaq didn't relied on minor fouls being called. And the 3 points line was moved several times since its creation without affecting the percentage.
I do agree that it was less of a system in the 90's, but the NBA has always been about the show more than the fair, and what has changed is how they consider the show: both betting and the inflation of wages have made the showrunners (players) more valuable (can't trade an injured player for the same sum as a fit one, can't bet on him). If you want to name on who is responsible, it's not the players - some may be whiners, there were always some even back in the day - but I'd say both the NBA's heads and the Charlotte Hornets were responsible for this.
See, the Hornets was the first team that relied that heavy on merch sales completely unrelevant to how good they were, relying on highlights fitting the 90's narrative about fighting spirit and individual success despite never being a winning team - why the Hornets and not for example the spectacular Sonics? Because the Hornets' owners were a fund. A fund doesn't decide to engage the same way, the point is profit, not sportsmanship, not love of the game; numbers. And when this numbers only approach begun, the reign of numerical and money value was achieved, stats led the game, creating scoring monsters (and favorizing ball hogs), decreasing defense.
That's hard to admit because these 90's highlights and contested game were what brought us to the NBA - I *was* a Hornets fan (wondering then why they underplayed sharp shooters like Rice, Gill, Chapman or then underrated now overrated Curry Sr). But the highlights mentality was precisely what stayed, only with less financial risks, that is less contact, less playing time, less defense - less game. Refs followed the trend to swallow even more the whistle when "great" players were in game to the point it's absurd.
Now there are places where game have both outside of the perimeter shooting and physical engagement, but they play less games. So rather than blame the effect (soft game), blame the disease and engage differently.
I'm getting into basketball and NBA and yeah, there is a lack of physicality, which I think would make it more entertaining to watch.
I watched the Knicks this yr in the playoffs and enjoyed it, just sucks they went down to their injuries and fatigue, but it was great seeing teams like Indiana and Celtics who play full on team game win and moving away from just iso, hi pick n roll to just chuckin 3's
And they did let em play more physical which was great
Grats on the movie The Last Kumite...Point out where we can buy the movie to support you.