And then we’re told how skilled they are and what incredible ball handlers they are while trashing players of yesteryear who dribbled the ball according to the actual written rules. I’d take plumbers and firemen any day over these podcasters and instagram models.
@@Hecules-p7k And he got called for those travels you're talking about.. This brings me to my question, is he the only example you have, or did you get the info from people who said Stockton and MJ couldn't go left??
@ I only watched Knick games and quite frankly I’m not a basketball fan since it’s a sport you only need to watch the last minute of every game but I distinctly recall saying to whoever I was with that I can’t believe they don’t call that along with most of the fouls.
@@Hecules-p7k You need to be a fan of basketball in order to make comments about it.. How am I supposed to take your word for anything if you can't watch an entire game?? If what you say about Ewing is true, then it solidifies MJs case, since he had to battle Ewing who was being helped by the refs
Today NBA is unwatchable. 10 3 pointers in a row all bricks, obvious traveling, constant foul bating, free throws, free throws, free throws, zero defense, zero hustle, zero team play, star players walking around like a crack head, etc... its absolutely embarrassing.
Same here. I stopped being an everyday watcher for 12 years and it has dwindled down to only some highlights and some scores. But it's for many reasons, not just Adam Silver. He is just one of the problems. It started back when David Stern was still the commissioner of the league. The overreaction to the drops in popularity in after the retirements of Michael Jordan and his overcorrection to the "Malice In The Palace". There are plenty more other things.
yeah every game being a 3pt contest is like watching a random numbers generator. Absolute not fun anymore, especially when the players currently got the charisma of a sack of potatoes, and the refs do not even allow for any emotion anymore, so it will not really give the guys a chance to be somewhat relatable. Add all the dumb marketing shit to it that players want to pitch to people. These guys are less nba players but more so influencers. This has to change, it should be about the sport itself and not drama and trying to weave stupid storylines that noone cares about except for some brainwashed consumerism victims...
Don't forget: We were the ones who stayed up all night (because we live in Germany and fell in love with the game during the '92 Olympic games) to watch MJ and Barkley go at each other in the finals. Before the days of the internet, the whole world still tuned in to see these absolute legends battle it out. It just makes me so angry and frustrated to see what the game has become, because this is not the game I love and that have been playing for over 30 years. I feel your pain, Sean. I really do. I never thought I'd say this, but I actually loathe NBA basketball now.
yes, I actually started watching euroleague way more, because they pretty much still play real basketball, kinda how the nba was around 90s/2000s, with most of the focus on TEAM basketball and running proper sets and adjust in the right way to traps and defensive changes etc.
Oh ja, damals habe ich noch jedes Finalspiel in voller Länge angesehen. Zum Teil mehrfach. Inzwischen ist man mit den "Highlights" zufrieden bzw. weiß, dass man sich das ganze Spiel auch nicht hätte ansehen müssen. All Star Games kann man sich überhaupt nicht mehr ansehen.
NBA is no longer a sport. It is a show. A 3pt contest. There is no defense whatsoever. No rivalries. No intensity. Every team is playing the same. It is boring as hell. Adding some aweful ref decisions (travels) and you got the most boring sport in the world.
👏🏾Yeah I agree, the refs are no help at all, infact they are helping the game go to 💩 because of the horrendous no calls on a certain old ass Super ⭐ that needs to retire next season for example.🤷🏾♂️
I love what you said here. This is ridiculous. I see it as an intertwined 3 part issue. 1. Silver. What a soft clown. 2. Players. Soft, half hearted effort. Saying they are more “skilled”. It’s not more skill. It’s more flexibility with the rules. You can do more moves when you’re allowed 5 steps. 3. Officiating. The refs are horrible. The game is officiated in a horrible way. Call a travel. A carry. A lane violation. Don’t let the player cross the free throw line before the ball hits the rim when shooting free throws. Simply choosing what to call and what to ignore has led us here. And all 3 of these are intertwined. I think the easiest thing to do is get a new commish who cares about the game, and not just the money. I understand the money matters, but if no one watches the game the money goes away. Next, call the game straight, by the rules. If refs can’t do that, replace them. And finally, if the players want to complain about having to play a back to back, or continue to flop and cry, get rid of guaranteed contracts. Someone once said, it’s tough to get up and train like your life depends on it when you’re sleeping in silk pajamas. That is today’s players. They got it so easy that having to put any effort in seems like the end of the world. There’s more details, but this covers a good chunk. Thanks BTM!
also high up on the list : setting offensive screens while moving and elbowing the defensive player seems to be a new sport now, and player seem to try their best to find the limit of what they can do before a ref finally finds his whistle when they pretty much wrestle people while setting offensive screens.
Skipping college also had a little to do with it. I think it lead to your number two. The lack of fundamental basketball has made the game less entertaining to watch. There’s been more one on one and less team basketball. Players don’t seem to appreciate what it took to get to where they are.
Adam Silver absolutely needs to be fired and Lebron James needs to retire. Dude is bad for the game. Also, Adam Silver looks like the villain in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
I agree. He created the superteam team era and player entitlement that they are bigger then the game. He took away competition in the league and team identity. Instead of teams improving you just team up with not one but two other ten ten players Then complain hears later the team wasn’t good enough and you needed more help 🙄
Great video, and I couldn’t agree more. I grew up watching the nba in the 80’s and 90’s and loved it. Now it’s unwatchable. The blatant traveling is ridiculous.
🤦🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️Exactly, I have the You Tube TV app/sub with the NBA League Pass and I still don't 👀 the games because every time I try to 👀 for the first 5 to 7 possessions from "😳both" teams are 3 point shot attempts🤦🏾♂️ It's very very horrible to 👀.🤷🏾♂️
@@jacobyscommentaryI do in fact. Didn't watch nba in almost 10 years. If I want to watch basketball I watch Euroleague. There's some real basketball left in Europe. That's why nba is trying to take it over, they want to kill that game too in order to have no competiton
make the contracts non-guaranteed and performance-based. force them to play. force them to do their job and show up for work like the rest of us, who arent lucky enough to be paid millions of dollars. then, if the players dont want to play, get new players. it wouldnt be hard to find 450 new talented players who are grateful for the opportunity and willing to play hard. and seriously, what are the current players going to do? walk away from their money and the easy life? we all know how quickly they all go broke once they stop playing.
I think rules should also be changed, allow more contact - return hand check maybe?-, today's NBA has less friction than All Star games in the 90s. It's extremely boring
@@federicovelazquez3882I’m born and raised in the Bay Area. Been going to warriors games since the late 80s as a kid. I hadn’t missed a game on tv or in person in almost 30 years. This season I’ve only watched a small handful of games. You’re right. They’re boring three point contests and wide open layup lines. The players are basically just traffic cones on defense. Then we’re told how skilled they are when they travel and carry every time they touch the ball and still struggle to average 30 ppg when the finals scores are 160-155 and absolutely nobody is playing defense. That doesn’t point to highly skilled players. Did you know the average three point shooting percent back in the 90s was only 2% lower than the current NBA league wide three point percentage? That doesn’t point to better shooters, just points to them taking a lot more of them. You know five mins into a game how your team is going to do. If they aren’t hitting threes and the other team is it’s game over. That’s incredibly boring basketball.
@@cotati76 I completely agree. As we saw in this video, there's no competitive nature. Last season I enjoyed a little of the playoffs, specially in the west matchups, with Wolves and Mavs playing a more physical basketball, but ended up there. In MJ times it was hard to get under the rim but 3s weren't easy, and teams were taking around 10 3s ppg, now more than a 50% are 3p. Unwatchable. Hope they realize this cannot continue this way.
The NBA, NFL and MLB generates billions of dollars, and you're complaining about how much the players get paid? Shouldn't the players get all the money they generate?
I appreciate the honesty. I would also like to see adam silver go. he does nothing about these ego tripping refs. Also the lakers winning the in-season tournament last year? And the covid ring? Its a business and a product. I think the money is more important than the game for them
The COVID ring was the last straw. Just shameless. Adam Silver's solution to a problem appears to be ...create a new gimmick. Don't mention the traveling. I tell my son that no one grew up playing basketball like they play in the NBA
well of course it is a business, it always has been, but the way they are running it now, they are driving it to the ground, they are at historic levels of suck. they are basically cratering their entire product nose first into the ground like a tumbling jumbo jet. 48% lower viewership, this is nothing short of catastrophic, and I would not be surprised if they sack Silver after this season.
Your absolutely right. Now all the centers want to shoot 3s. What happened to the big man posting up . Fowards rebounding. Point guard assisting and shooting guard shooting 3s.😢. What happened. 😂😂😂
It should be mandatory for NBA players to watch the Netflix Celtic/Lakers documentary and Pistons 30 for 30…back when rivalry and tough competition was in the league
That's like the emphasis on most sports these days. Can't watch a game without them advertising it smh. It's like they are enticing us with it to keep our attention to watch it
@@harrisonshouldice5451That's like the emphasis on most sports these days. Can't watch a game without them advertising it smh. It's like they are enticing us with it to keep our attention to watch it
This is where it started from....No hand checking will produce no effort and Defense...on Top of that players was hypnotized on Stephs ability to shoot the 3 point shot and when they saw all the praises he was getting from shooting the 3 ...it started causing the players to envy The attention steph was getting and they started shooting 3's trying to get the same response from the fans like the fans were giving Steph...No player wanted to create their own identity instead they wanted what Steph had...THE ATTENTION....
I saw a video where a former NBA player said that he attended a little kids tournament (under 10) and they were attempting 3pt shots despite not being strong enough to get the ball to the rim.
@@AndenSeefahrer A 2 point dunk is a 99% shot percentage. A "good" 3 point shot percentage is 40-45%. That's not even as good as a coin flip. So you'll give up 60% chance of a shot going in for 1 point? That's not even mathematically sound. The whole point used to be to get as close to the rim as possible for the best shot percentage. The only reason putting up 50 threes a game is viable today is because the other team is doing the same ridiculous thing. But there are barely any big men even playing in the paint, and no one knows how to post up anymore, and no one can shoot a hook which is literally an unblockable shot. Instead, all we get to see is face up basketball where players turn down open dunks for a potential 3 pointer that has a higher percentage of missing than making.
@MikeSchmidt969 Sure, the higher percentage is a good point. On the other hand many teams still have a good balance between shooting threes and going to the paint even without any boring three dribblings from a big man isolation post up play. It was always the same and predictable. The most powerful wins this matchup (Shaq!). Wow! I follow the NBA since 1994 and haven't enjoyed it more ever since. The skillset is the highest that has ever been there. We are seen more handles and moves than ever. Defenders have to respect every single player because everyone can shoot. In the past it was 2/5 or 3/5 players that defenses had to be aware of. I appreciate history players and the way the game was played back then, but today - besides the flopping issue - I enjoy it even more.
@@AndenSeefahrer To call post up play boring and predictable vs a 3 point jump shot is kind of silly. A 3 point jump shot is catch and shoot - the exact same thing all the time. Post up play changes depending on the defense and the defender. It's not the same from play to play at all. And when there were great centers on each team, the strongest didn't always win. If you've watched it as long as you have, you should be able to agree with that. Your experience doesn't sound very honest. The skillset of players these days is minimal. It's all face up play, and the defense is weak at best, and yet they still miss simple jump shots from 10-15 feet. They aren't more skilled at all. I'll give you more athletic since they run way more these days than before. The game was slower then. But it's not more skilled. Your claim that "everyone can shoot" is just false. Did you know that 3 point shooting is only 2% better today than it was in the 90's? Look it up. Shooting today is more prevalent, but not more effective. There are more possessions today, not better shooting. So scoring is up because they're taking more shots, not because they're better at making them. Sorry man, those are the numbers talking, not just me.
Feel exactly the same for many many years. Born in 81, watched NBA at night in Germany. Man those good times are long gone. Lebron, KD, Steph really destroyed the game for us tbh. No pride, no respect for the GOAT MJ and all the greats back then. Instead we travel around the world nine times per games and have to watch like 90 3s. Wtf happened to game we all loved. My entire early life was about basketball, the NBA, the players, the shoes, the gear, the culture. Nothing is left. Wemby start flopping and shooting one leg 3s is a nightmare. Wtf is going on!
Lol, we both started our videos about this the same way, “What took everyone so long?”… Adam Silver needs to be fired”. You’re absolutely right about blaming the wrong people. I’m so sick of Silver being a spineless wimp who makes excuses. He said the All-Star game would bring back defense…. And the opposite happened. He said they would crack down on flopping… and they’re doing it now more than ever. He’s done nothing about load managing or traveling, and we literally have him on film admitting that HE CHOSE to inflate scoring by making the game less physical. I’ve honestly given up on this league improving until this guy is fired. He needs to be out TODAY
But he brought in all that Saudi money! Not to mention all the China money! He's doing a great job!! Who cares about ratings?? Don't forget to fight for "social justice" while they take money from these places also...what an absolute joke!
Sean, I so appreciate your emotional take on the game you love and grew up with. You pull no punches. Another huge part of how the NBA is dying is the absolute disregard for the fans that the league and players demonstrate. I'm making $50m per year and I need to rest for a game or two? Load management? Of course, as the league is run by the players, this is acceptable. Keep the league's feet to the fire Sean.
A much much higher percentage of the public were watching those games compared to now. MJ had almost 40 million people watching his las finals when there were only 270 million people so basically 15% of the public was watching. This last finals barely drew in 3% of the public. Let that sink in. 3%. So basically 97 out of 100 people couldn’t be bothered to watch a single second of the game while 1 out of every 6 people watched MJ. Those numbers really brings the decline into stark clarity.
Basketball was my favorite sport in the 80s and 90s. Even the early 2000s, it was tied for first with me. It was right there with football at that point in my life. Now, it isn’t even in my top 5. I prefer football, hockey, baseball, soccer and rugby more than the nba. Shoot, I enjoy MLG more than the crap they call basketball today. love your channel and I love your take. I couldn’t agree more. I still watch the playoffs and pay attention to who wins the championship. I enjoy sports. But the regular season means nothing to me anymore. The stars don’t seem to care so why should I? I haven’t in a decade almost. I have not gone to a game in person since 08. It’s a shame. There is some fantastic talent in today’s game. Or do we just say today’s “3 point contest”? That clip you shared…god I wanted to throw my phone looking at that crap. That’s not competitive basketball. That’s a crock of shit that they call basketball.
I'm from Brooklyn NY and was watching a Nets game the other day and it was a Three on one fast break and guess what the other two players without the ball did??? Ran to the three point line and missed the shot..... I was floor cause back in the day's you're going straight to the bench for that..... Not in today's NBA
Noticed this a while back.So players most likely no longer do figure 8 drills,no longer do 3 on 1 drills where the ball doesnt touch the floor etc like we were trained back in the day?no wonder so called skilled players today are so fundamentally weak. The game has devolved.
Preach! I tried to watch my Bulls play last night and all they did was jack up 3s. They weren’t hitting, but instead of adjusting they just continued to jack that crap up. I know the Bulls aren’t great this year, but the game is soooo simplified it’s infuriating.
Lebron being the star of the league, allowing James Hardens step back to be a move and not a travel, sloppy play with the chucking up 3's.. the whole revolving the 2020 season around George Floyd & Breonna Taylor... that stuck a fork in it.
yeah and whats also messed up is how they basically used the eurostep as a get out of jail card for almost every player now being allowed to just do 3 steps before a layup or a shot, without ever actually performing a euro. It is absolutely crazy right now, and refs simply look on and not call that. If you talk about this, all these clowns come up with "its a gather step" which in 99% of the cases simply ISNT the case, but it just sounds great to just call it that to ignore it as a problem. And to then tell us these players are just more skilled? LOL, they just get away with way more stuff than previous generations of players who had to play against real tough defense, could not move as freely on offense and had coaches who would have ripped them a new one if they ran a fastbreak and instead of finishing it with a almost 100% chance of making a 2pt layup, go to the three point line and miss a goddamn three point shot on a fastbreak. This just happened a couple nights ago... what the f is wrong with these players?
yeah I rather watch hard nosed defense and interior play that leads to two points at a much higher percentage of making the shot than people clanking 3s. Average 3pt percentage is around 35%, so 2 out of 3 shots are misses... compared to around 50% when you go towards the basket, and even when the interior play leads to nothing, at least there is action while fighting for loose balls, rebound battles etc, compared to somebody parking on the wing, and shooting almost fully uncontested threes and the most that happens is the player falling backwards trying to fish for a call from the refs without actual contact...
These crazy people claiming that we do not like NBA because too many 3-pointers! Now these Same crazy people go crazy when Caitlin Clark shooting boring 3-pointers! Stephen A Smith and crazy people want tough defence low scoring NBA! Same people want Caitlin Clark to be free to shoot! Caitlin Clark won athlete of year award only because she is White! Simone Bilels and Shohei Ohtani better than Clark this year! Denver Nuggets scored 126,5 points in 1982 scoring NBA team regular season average record! And NBA was only 3rd most popular sport in USA! World Series baseball had two times bigger tv ratings than NBA Finals in 1980s!
@@MrSheduur Except that's not true. FG% is historically high these days. Take out the 1980s (1979-90 to be specific) and the past two years would have actually been the highest two years for FG% in NBA history.
I first saw NBA 1990 when I was 9 yrs old in my neighbors TV who had cable it was a game between the Bulls and Pistons and fell in love with it instantly now I can't even finish watching a single quarter of the game.
I started watching before Jordan started at North Carolina. Most of it is crap, but watching Luka and Joker is always entertaining. I miss the defense, but that level of dominance over the entire court is great to watch.
My love of the game started in the late 70's with The Dr. himself. In 80 I turned 10 and was privileged to watch the NBA grow and grow. Kareem was already there, then Magic and Bird and so many more came in OMG. Then Jordan. All being cultivated properly. It was an honor to see. Now with horrible rules and all you have mentioned. Its just sad to see the decline of what was one so much greater.
We can blame the NBA Board of Governors. Each NBA team has a representative on the board. Adam Silver was given an extension by the NBA Board of Governors earlier this year that will keep him as the commissioner until around 2030.
These corporations will never learn that the bread and butter will always be American consumers. They can get all the international deals they want, if the we lose interest, the world will lose interest.
I'm 💯 percent in agreement. I think they need to start by removing Siliver and the James's from the NBA. Change the rules back to style of play in 90s. Make a rule where so much of your paycheck is dependent upon you perfomance on the court and how many games you play. An find a kid with that killer mentality of Kobe,Jordan,Magic, or Bird and promote the shit out of him to make him new face of NBA.
That’s how those guys in the NFL get paid. Mostly inducements. It’s why the product is a million times better than the NBA. Those guys went to get paid. They don’t get to collect a full paycheck while not playing games. I think you’re right. If the NBA went back to that we’d see a massive change in their attitudes.
And on top of all that drama the leagues self-proclaimed king quit social media as his past interactions with a shady hip hop mogul resurface to haunt him…!
I cannot wait for the day this dude finally retires, or at least the Lakers trade him... it has been almost 7 years now for the Lakers to be held hostage by Lebron. I would have rather watched them build with what they had, even it that had meant a couple years of being bad to mid, than to see all of his arrogance at full display, while playing zero defense, and still trying to call himself the GOAT.
@ not just the Lakers mate,the one thing he dominated for 20 years is media narratives and the whole Bronny debacle is the cherry on top of his pile of bs!
Im a younger fan and while I still love the game I can’t help but sigh when I see a 3 on 1 fast break end in a 3 point shot or every other play being a pick and roll ending in either a 3 or a lob pass
The modern NBA is terrible. A far cry from what it use to be. So many issues. Too many 3s (many back and forth bricks), terrible officiating, load management, entitled players, little to no defense, no serious competition, too many flops and ticky tacky fouls. It's a mess.
Adam Silver controls the officials. Refs regularly shade heavily for league preferred outcomes. After long enough, players stop trying to win and instead promote their own individual brands.
20 REASONS WHY NBA RATINGS ARE DOWN 1. traveling not called (palming the ball) 2. team hopping 3. super teams 4. no defense 5. load mgmnt 6. no post play 7. no midrange play 8. forced lebron goat narrative 9. politics included in sports 10. horrible allstar weekend 11. non-competitive players 12. flopping 13. traveling not called (too many steps) 14. no team rivalries 15. no unique team identities 16. feminist man-hating sports pundits (malaika) 17. games are too expensive to attend 18. officials seem corrupt 19. streaming games is expensive 20. other non-failing sports are taking viewers' attention (and money) BONUS! 21. if overpaid players dont care, why should paying fans?
Fix the NBA Blueprint: 1. Make it easier/affordable to watch the NBA and stop blocking home games on league pass 2. Bring back hand checking 3. Allow defense to stand in paint for as long as they want 4. No freedom of movement rule 5. Take away the gather step 6. Start calling all travels/carries/moving picks again 7. Give extremely harsh punishments for load managing 8. Harsh punishments for flopping 9. Stop allowing refs to give techs for the silliest things, we’re there to see the players not the refs 10. Allow players to talk trash all they want aka let them be competitive that’s what we want 11. Take politics out of sports, if players/coaches want to be vocal let them do it on their own platform but any political jargon in the NBA press conferences or games shall be severely punished. We’re watching sports to take our mind off politics 12. Don’t allow players to change teams so frequently. We can’t root for a team anymore because the roster changes drastically every year and have no identity. 13. Take out the in season tournament, it’s so complicated and pointless. Make the regular season regular again. 14. Add a 1 on 1 tournament to the all star game 15. Make the all star game regular east vs west again, make the all star game affect the record of all the players teams 16. Stop advertising so much sports betting 17. Enforce a dress code again. I don’t think families want their kids to see their favorite super star dressed like Zoolander, we want them to set an example for the working man. Suits only and coaches need to wear suits again 18. Make jersey’s look cool again, fire the current jersey designers 19. Go back to the classic court designs from the 2000’s and for the love of god never bring those ugly colorful courts from the in season tournament again! 20. Don’t ever allow players to have so much power that they can force their team to draft their son who obviously isn’t good enough to play in the league. The Bronny situation was insulting to our intelligence as basketball fans If Adam Silver can execute these rules the NBA has a chance to boost ratings. If not then Adam Silver has to go.
I'm 100% with you on this! As a fan as a baller who grew up in the 80s and in the 90s, I miss hand-checking. Also, bigs being allowed to man the middle! Plus they used to d up even at all star games! The game meant something back then! And there's also the dunk contest where back in the day the best high flyers in the NBA would compete like Dr. J, Larry Nance, Dominique Wilkins, Spud Webb, Michael Jordan, Clyde Drexler, Scottie Pippen, Kobe Bryant, Vince Carter, T-Mac, Stevie Franchise (I get it the 2000 dunk contest wasn't in the 90s but you get what I'm saying), and plus all-star games where they actually gave a damn about competing! Speaking of competition, guys wanted to compete against each other instead of forming superteams! Thank God for Giannis and Jokic who showed that even in today's watered-down version of the NBA you can still win a championship! And do away with load management by lowering the boom on those lazy dudes, by fining them millions of dollars! If Michael Jordan played in all 82 games 9 times in a much more physical era! And let's not forget that some people legitimately think that LBJ is the goat! I'm 47 years old and it's the first time in my lifetime where there's a considerable amount of people who think that someone who stacks the deck, never been part of a dynasty, and has a losing record in the NBA finals plus has lost in international competition, yup, that guy they consider him the goat! Which tells me that these unfortunately they don't have a winning mentality! Back in the day guys in the goat convo had winning records in the NBA finals, while sticking it out on one team, instead of guys like LBJ and KD tryna form the Avengers and the Justice League destroying the competitive balance and again I thank God for Giannis and the Joker!
Why? Its doesn’t matter when the game is if the players don’t play with some kind of effort. I think they shouldn’t make the players do all these press conferences and meet-and-greets during the weekend. But the players need to give more effort.
David Stern was a fantastic commissioner. Silver honestly needs to be fired at this point. You really can't even call it basketball anymore at this point.
Bro, these players are not better, its simply that they dont get tired out during the game because they do nothing else but stand around the 3 point line waiting for the open 3. I guarantee you if any of these teams would play the bulls of the 90's the second half score would be 60-30, they would get so tired they would need medical assistance. And dont give me the "they are more athletic" bs, Charles or Shaq or even Karl for that matter, if went up for a dunk and got contested by todays guys, it would be the end of their careers. Very few could hold their grounds if they were back in the 80's and 90's.
Preach man! I fkn hate todays NBA. They’re all friends, no rivalry. Soft. 3 point contest every game. Flopping. Foul baiting. Rest. No respect for fans. Play a quarter at least for that kid in the stands that came to see you (injuries aside).
The NBA has become unwatchable. Fire Adam Silver and name Charles Barkley as the new Commissioner. Get The White Mamba as his deputy, since they’re the only 2 people I’ve heard coming up with logical solutions.
I hate everything about the modern NBA. Everything. Weak beta male players, traveling, soft refs, the 3s, no defence, high scoring games. Constant advertising during the game. ENOUGH!
if i could give you 1000 likes for this video, i would. you are speaking my mind, brother. i am so glad you showed that clip of passing up a wide open dunk to pass out for a 3. every time i see guys running a fast break, getting to the rim only to pass it out for a 3, i fucking lose my shit! the nba game has become a damn joke, and you are right, it has been happening for years. from adam silver to the referees to the players and even the coaches - no damn accountability anywhere to be found. oh wait, there is one dude who, if he's under the basket, he is definitely not passing it out for a 3. lebron james. but there's a huge difference between basketball IQ and stat seeking.
David Stern had Mj, Adam Silver is trying to replicate what David by creating fake narrative to build Lbj as his guy but the public isn’t believing because we have eyes and it’s pushing lots of hard core and casual fans away, add in the no calls for traveling, carrying, getting a technical for playing defense and all teams are scrimmaging instead of competing so I’m glad it’s falling off a cliff
I stopped watching the NBA about 9 years ago. The players have too much say in the NBA. I remember in the 80’s you had lakers, Celtics, Pistons 76ers and then the Bulls and the knicks. And let’s not forget the explosion of centers in the 80’s and 90’s. Lack of passion, too many 3 point attempts and too much politics is why I don’t watch NBA anymore.
Who would’ve known peddling the narrative that winning doesn’t matter to prop up a loser would very obviously take away competitiveness in favor of every player considering padding their own stats as their main priority
Adam Silver was never the right guy for the job. All these wierd gimmicky ideas that always get thrown around. Remember when they openly discussed the 4pt shot? Like WTF... it does not get more gimmicky and further off from what people like than this dumb idea. And he floated this idea around not just once but even when he just got the job he pitched the idea..
Travels, carries and moving screens dont get called, everything is a tech now, constant foul baiting, load management, a barrage of gambling ads and its becoming more difficult and expensive to watch NBA games. No other basketball league has these problems to that degree, not college or euroleague. Olympic games played with FIBA rules and refs were a breath of fresh air.
1000% agree Grew up with the 90s NBA. Today's NBA is an embarrassment to the sport. Top players are to blame. Commissioner is to blame. To journalists are to blame. NBA had become a ridiculous circus. Nobody appreciates it worldwide The Euroleague is 10 times more interesting today
If the players werent being paid as much as they are, then maybe this wouldn't be as big an issue as it is.. But throw in the 3 point shoot out, the nba is boring as fk these days.. Its positionless basketball and boring as fk
The refs are horrible. They give out technicals like hotcakes. The NBA and its players are involved politically. They supported BLM and anti-Trump. I just wanted to watch basketball and the political propaganda is the last thing I need.
Everything started to go wrong in when the Hornets, Heat, Magic, and Timberwolves were added to the NBA. That meant that there were 4 full rosters of players in the league that were not good enough to make the league in years prior. In order to make them viable rules had to be altered. When you introduce players of a lesser ability into a competitive league everybody else performs better; for example no one in MLB has batted .400 in the last 80+ years, but before that the feat was accomplished a few times a decade. When MLB broke the color barrier the players that didn't belong got replaced by real major leaguers and batting .400 became exponentially more difficult. The NBA is hustling backwards, by introducing (currently 7) full teams worth of talent into the ecosystem everybody else looks better than they would otherwise. Compound that with changing the rules to accommodate the weaker players, and everyone else looks better yet.
I think its safe to say that the talent pool has long since recovered from expansion in the 1980s. It's not a talent problem. Europe alone has more than provided for ample talent to fill the expansion teams. If anything, it's a health problem as players bodies are breaking down due to the way the game is played now. For that matter, the number of MLB players has almost doubled since Jackie Robinson, black players have never accounted for more than 20% of the league, and all sorts of other records have fallen since then. Not to mention the talent influx was rather disproportionately in favor of hitting, not pitching.
@JonSmith-hk1bq That less than 20% in MLB essentially ended .400. Hitters also field, and pitchers have always made up less than 1/3 of the league.Changing the rules to accommodate the leagues weakest players is what's causing the issues of the day.
@@williamking7941 Again, batting average is only one aspect of baseball, one that was falling well before integration. Other aspects of the game have reached new highs. And while pitching may only make up about 1/3 of the players, it certainly accounts for the lion's share of hitting futility. And for whatever reason, there have simply never been that many black pitchers in MLB. Integration did much more to give MLB offenses the advantage.
the 'play-in' didnt help the nba either. in the nfl you need to have a good regular season to make it into the playoffs. it makes the regular season matter. in the nba, 20 out of 32 teams are in. thats ridiculous. multiple teams can make it into the playoffs without even having a winning record. it lowers the value of normal games. they feel like they are just for fun or something. and if they arent important then why should the viewers care about them?
wtf? 20/32?? How about creating a competitive environment instead of gimmicks. They have one of the best products in the world and they can’t take advantage of it. What a joke.
This is the equivalent of "work smarter, not harder". This generation is raised thinking that just because the job is done quickly and efficiently, it's done correctly... except this approach disregards the craftsmanship and meticulous care that focuses on the minutiae and instead focuses on the end goal. It's more efficient to shoot threes, but the craft of basketball is lost due to the focus of high percentage shots and scoring.
Adam Silva, game is soft, it’s me, me basketball, the team game is gone and Zero loyalty and heart. LaChyna James, activist, out spoken on defund police, obvious race bating and now No party like Diddy. Greed is the Root of All 😈, where have we heard that before? Politics and SJW’s that divide people, especially people use to watch sports for rivalry’s, escape politics, to be honest the plan to divide and conquer branches out like intended. Thank God I was able to enjoy Bird/Magic and MJ/vs League of 90s. The 80s was the greatest of NBA
Hey man sports have always been political. Mohammed Ali’s ban. The US hockey team beating the Soviets. The Dream Team. Bill Russell and his engagement with racism and discrimination? Let’s not forget Red Auerbach refusing to take his players to places that allowed discrimination. The Olympics. Jesse Owens. The negro leagues? How black players weren’t integrated to the MLB, Jackie Robinson? Y’all be finding so many reasons to separate yourselves from the world. You guys that grew up in the 80’s and 90’s talk about all these changes but it’s nothing new. It’s always been there. Colin Kapernick helped highlight racism through police brutality.
Ive been saying this for the last 3 years. If the NBA players keeps shooting 3 every game. All the fans will tune out and leave. People don’t want to see that
I'm 100% right there with you on everything you said! Including not liking to listen to Steven A, listening to Steven A is like trying to watch todays NBA!
Totally agree! The NBA keeps changing, but many parts of the 80s and 90s were undeniably superior. Here’s what needs to happen, and it needs to happen now: 1. Push Back the Three-Point Line It’s infuriating that nearly everyone can sink a three like it’s a free throw. Move the line further out. Stop rewarding mediocre long-range shots that anyone can make. If you want three points, you should have to work for it. 2. Ban Zone Defenses Zone is for amateurs who can’t handle real defense. Man-to-man challenges players to step up and guard their matchup without hiding behind a lazy scheme. Get rid of zone defenses entirely. The NBA should showcase elite, in-your-face defense-not timid formations better suited to high school teams. 3. Enforce Traveling Again The NBA’s so-called “gather” steps and pivot foot loopholes are a disgrace. Traveling is traveling, end of story. No more extra steps or bizarre rule interpretations that let stars break the most basic rule in basketball. Referees need to call it every single time.
i was just put in charge, and here are my first steps: - fire adam silver, hire magic johnson and larry bird as co-commissioners. (thanks for the idea sean!) - eliminate guaranteed contracts, for players AND coaches. incentives, whatever. - implement an oversight board for referees. blatantly missed calls/non-calls, stupid techs, etc get penalized, increasing with each incident. and extra super-duper penalty for when they affect game outcomes. this includes correctly enforcing rules like traveling, palming, offensive fouls, moving picks, etc. - implement an oversight board for stat keepers. make sure stats are being accurately recorded according to the applicable rules. - rule changes: - no more defensive 3 seconds - reinstate hand-checking - unlimited successful challenges, with penalties for frivolous usage (1st - tech, 2nd - 2 shots and the ball, 3rd - turn over your first born male child, ...). refs decide/vote on what is frivolous, with regard to 3rd item above. - teams limited to X number of made 3 pointers per game (or quarter?). after that, they only count for 2. [i saw this somewhere, sorry to whoever i got it from, i forget or i'd give credit] - eliminate the corner 3 - anybody over 7' must attempt at least as many shots in the paint as from beyond the arc. penalty is shaq and kg get to pummel your ass.
Love your show, man. I would love to see a follow-up about what specifics you would change (aside from actually having traveling calls). My first intro to the NBA was the Jordan mid-air hand switch against the Lakers in the 91 Finals ... so I appreciate your sentiments. Thanks again for your channel!
Right on brother. I asked the same question. What the hell took so long? That pass out to the three point line wouldn’t even have been done in an all star game back in the day
Dear Sean, you'r spot on. Silver degenerated into a mere product manager. Looking to pay max contracts to saturated players and top dollar to investors. It is about a product and not about a sport anymore. There is no more ferocity to the game and no visible competition at any cost. Instead players seem to have settled on a truce. Why would superstars risk getting hurt when they earn 9 figures on a contract, sneaker deal and commercials anyway? There is still hope though: Euroleague. Sidenote: You f... love the game. You call it "game" and "sport" instead of "product" like so many others.
i´m with you! one of the biggest problem, in my opinion, is the way of officiating.... carry, travel, tech fouls for nothing.... they wanna take the emotion of this sport... the other side is the motivation of the players... there is not enough love for the game, it´s all about the money
I totally agree at 100% with you man! And it's lovely to see and feel how much you love this game bro! I got a double different point of view about the nowadays NBA, as I was raised watching this game 30 years ago, and plus I'm European. I feel lucky to have seen one of the best NBA age like the '90s, and I can't blame a 20 years old boy who like the current NBA. But at my age I can compare the old-school game with this one and objectively it has worsened in every respect. Since Silver came up: the salary cap has increased (more opportunity to build up super teams), players earn more, wich means more likely to see spoiled and listless young players, no defense at all, at least till the PO (there are great defender in NBA, but there's a lack of team defense mentality), tons of 3 point, no midrange shots and the refereeing method exclusively defends the attacker to the detriment of the defender. I don't even consider the ASG, because for years it has become the maximum expression of all this. I'm European, I always watched the NBA game since I was 15, but recently I started to watch more the Euroleague, and boy... IS MUCH BETTER! Is there the same athletic quality? Of course not . Is there the same individual technical level? No. But there's something that in NBA is disappearing... INTENSITY, DEFENSE PHYSICALITY and FEWER MATCHES (people don't give a s**t to watch 82 games or RS since the most of those are pure trash). I'm not here to provide a solution for all these problems, but I'm sure that changes (for better) should start from these points
When I was a kid, there was only 2-3 plays I could see at the end of a CNN show and I would spent hours waiting for this moment. We also had a magazine with a few plays we could see if we turned the pages very fast, like an old comic. That's when I was in love with this game, that I was barely able toe to see here in Switzerland. There's not much to see nowadays. Travels not called, foul baiting, no post play... Most of these guys have no respect for the game, and I'm not only talking about the players.
I haven't watched in at least 5 years. The competition is non existent. Teams routinely get blown out. I grew up watching ball in the late 80s and 90s. Back then a 10 point win was a blowout. It's insane how this is normal.
I totally agree with you. The changes the NBA have made under Adam Silver are short sighted and shallow. Why not just get rid of the 3 pt line or bring back the handcheck rule?
I agree! What drives me crazy is refs no longer being able to call players for traveling, double dribble, palming the ball, up and down. The game can change but these rules should have remained the same.
Your takes is on point Sean. The one that stands out the most is Magic as commish. I feel like he's at a perfect time in his life to take on this challenge. Years ago he leaned in on being politically correct but now he's much more transparent / honest with his NBA commentary. I'm all in for: #Magic4Commissioner Let's get this hashtag going!!!!! Cheers
The NBA being an inheritance of tall but untalented NBA sons has also contributed to the decline in my opinion. For every Steph Curry or Klay Thompson, there are 100 Bronny James. By today's approach to the NBA draft and recruiting, Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, and Bird would have never gotten the opportunity to be seen. The NBA needs to draft the best talent and young men who want to play, not young men with this connection and from that background....bring the best talent to the league.
The problem is even beyond the NBA, it is also on FIBA and affects so many rec leagues. When FIBA implemented the zero step that opened a pletora of missed travel calls, because every ref has a criteria and sometimes gets so ridiculous. In my last rec league game of this year we played a team that had guys in their early 20s (we are an almost 40s guys team) and I swear, a player from the opposite team did a lot of extra steps a lot of times, just like B.dot Armstrong when he mocked Harden in a celebrity game, and none of those was called a travel even when that player gather the ball with two hands and took 4 or 5 steps after that. Basketball today is unplayable because all the rule changes lead to different interpetations that could be totally opposite one from another.
Almost every single player today carries and travels anytime they have the basketball. Its infuriating!
And then we’re told how skilled they are and what incredible ball handlers they are while trashing players of yesteryear who dribbled the ball according to the actual written rules. I’d take plumbers and firemen any day over these podcasters and instagram models.
I started really noticing the traveling in the 90s. Patrick Ewing traveled on every drive.
@@Hecules-p7k And he got called for those travels you're talking about.. This brings me to my question, is he the only example you have, or did you get the info from people who said Stockton and MJ couldn't go left??
@ I only watched Knick games and quite frankly I’m not a basketball fan since it’s a sport you only need to watch the last minute of every game but I distinctly recall saying to whoever I was with that I can’t believe they don’t call that along with most of the fouls.
@@Hecules-p7k You need to be a fan of basketball in order to make comments about it.. How am I supposed to take your word for anything if you can't watch an entire game?? If what you say about Ewing is true, then it solidifies MJs case, since he had to battle Ewing who was being helped by the refs
Today NBA is unwatchable.
10 3 pointers in a row all bricks, obvious traveling, constant foul bating, free throws, free throws, free throws, zero defense, zero hustle, zero team play, star players walking around like a crack head, etc... its absolutely embarrassing.
Don't forget, no touchy, touchy.
You also forgot flopping
I agree!
It’s like watching my friends play nba live on Super Nintendo. Literally.
@@tapoemt3995 and friggin load fkn management bro!!
I went from an everyday NBA watcher to the point where I haven't watched in 5 years.
Same here. I stopped being an everyday watcher for 12 years and it has dwindled down to only some highlights and some scores. But it's for many reasons, not just Adam Silver. He is just one of the problems. It started back when David Stern was still the commissioner of the league. The overreaction to the drops in popularity in after the retirements of Michael Jordan and his overcorrection to the "Malice In The Palace". There are plenty more other things.
Same
Same! I miss real basketball not the clown show Silver and LeFraud haven turned it into.
I’m 50 and in the same boat
yeah every game being a 3pt contest is like watching a random numbers generator. Absolute not fun anymore, especially when the players currently got the charisma of a sack of potatoes, and the refs do not even allow for any emotion anymore, so it will not really give the guys a chance to be somewhat relatable. Add all the dumb marketing shit to it that players want to pitch to people. These guys are less nba players but more so influencers. This has to change, it should be about the sport itself and not drama and trying to weave stupid storylines that noone cares about except for some brainwashed consumerism victims...
Don't forget: We were the ones who stayed up all night (because we live in Germany and fell in love with the game during the '92 Olympic games) to watch MJ and Barkley go at each other in the finals. Before the days of the internet, the whole world still tuned in to see these absolute legends battle it out. It just makes me so angry and frustrated to see what the game has become, because this is not the game I love and that have been playing for over 30 years. I feel your pain, Sean. I really do. I never thought I'd say this, but I actually loathe NBA basketball now.
yes, I actually started watching euroleague way more, because they pretty much still play real basketball, kinda how the nba was around 90s/2000s, with most of the focus on TEAM basketball and running proper sets and adjust in the right way to traps and defensive changes etc.
I was living over seas when I was 12 I was watching nba games at 3 am
Oh ja, damals habe ich noch jedes Finalspiel in voller Länge angesehen. Zum Teil mehrfach. Inzwischen ist man mit den "Highlights" zufrieden bzw. weiß, dass man sich das ganze Spiel auch nicht hätte ansehen müssen. All Star Games kann man sich überhaupt nicht mehr ansehen.
@@MrSheduur Euroleague may less talent individually but watching team basketball in Euroleague is fun to watch.
@@bball3048mm I had to wake up at 4am to watch NBA. Good times...
The NBA game is broken basketball top to bottom.
NBA is no longer a sport. It is a show. A 3pt contest. There is no defense whatsoever. No rivalries. No intensity. Every team is playing the same. It is boring as hell. Adding some aweful ref decisions (travels) and you got the most boring sport in the world.
👏🏾Yeah I agree, the refs are no help at all, infact they are helping the game go to 💩 because of the horrendous no calls on a certain old ass Super ⭐ that needs to retire next season for example.🤷🏾♂️
A freak show, to be more precise.
It's a glorified shootaround. Effort in the all-star game isn't the problem. It's lack of effort in the actual games that's the issue
perfectly said 👍🏿. a disgrace smmfh
Having women ref was the wrong move.
I love what you said here. This is ridiculous.
I see it as an intertwined 3 part issue.
1. Silver. What a soft clown.
2. Players. Soft, half hearted effort. Saying they are more “skilled”. It’s not more skill. It’s more flexibility with the rules. You can do more moves when you’re allowed 5 steps.
3. Officiating. The refs are horrible. The game is officiated in a horrible way. Call a travel. A carry. A lane violation. Don’t let the player cross the free throw line before the ball hits the rim when shooting free throws. Simply choosing what to call and what to ignore has led us here.
And all 3 of these are intertwined. I think the easiest thing to do is get a new commish who cares about the game, and not just the money. I understand the money matters, but if no one watches the game the money goes away. Next, call the game straight, by the rules. If refs can’t do that, replace them. And finally, if the players want to complain about having to play a back to back, or continue to flop and cry, get rid of guaranteed contracts.
Someone once said, it’s tough to get up and train like your life depends on it when you’re sleeping in silk pajamas. That is today’s players. They got it so easy that having to put any effort in seems like the end of the world.
There’s more details, but this covers a good chunk. Thanks BTM!
also high up on the list : setting offensive screens while moving and elbowing the defensive player seems to be a new sport now, and player seem to try their best to find the limit of what they can do before a ref finally finds his whistle when they pretty much wrestle people while setting offensive screens.
Wry good points you made I also covered some of those in my rant in the comments 😝
Skipping college also had a little to do with it. I think it lead to your number two. The lack of fundamental basketball has made the game less entertaining to watch. There’s been more one on one and less team basketball. Players don’t seem to appreciate what it took to get to where they are.
@@Kunfucious577 I agree. There’s so many tentacles to all this.
I’m done with the NBA forever, very sad! I used to be so passionate about the league.
Fr never thought I’d be here not having watched a whole game in 4-5 years now
Adam Silver absolutely needs to be fired and Lebron James needs to retire. Dude is bad for the game.
Also, Adam Silver looks like the villain in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
He just looks like a villain.
I would tell you what adam silver looks like. But I'd get a ban.
@@pierovittori1076nosferatu
Lol he makes me think of Jim Rash. Aka Dean Craig Pelton from Community. Just more serious lol
😂😂😂 thats fuckin perfect!
Christopher Lloyd as Judge Doom!!
Labron coming into the league was the beginning of the end. No rivalries like the old days. No run and gun aggression. 3 pointers are boring
3 pointers aren't the worst thing but it needs to be like the 90s. If that's not possible then no more 3 points.
💯 Right
Makes no Sense at all
*You saw that CORNY All-Star Game* ???????????
I agree.
He created the superteam team era and player entitlement that they are bigger then the game. He took away competition in the league and team identity. Instead of teams improving you just team up with not one but two other ten ten players Then complain hears later the team wasn’t good enough and you needed more help 🙄
Great video, and I couldn’t agree more. I grew up watching the nba in the 80’s and 90’s and loved it. Now it’s unwatchable. The blatant traveling is ridiculous.
🤦🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️Exactly, I have the You Tube TV app/sub with the NBA League Pass and I still don't 👀 the games because every time I try to 👀 for the first 5 to 7 possessions from "😳both" teams are 3 point shot attempts🤦🏾♂️ It's very very horrible to 👀.🤷🏾♂️
Take the nostalgia glasses off and keep up with the times.
@@jacobyscommentaryI do in fact. Didn't watch nba in almost 10 years. If I want to watch basketball I watch Euroleague. There's some real basketball left in Europe. That's why nba is trying to take it over, they want to kill that game too in order to have no competiton
make the contracts non-guaranteed and performance-based.
force them to play. force them to do their job and show up for work like the rest of us, who arent lucky enough to be paid millions of dollars.
then, if the players dont want to play, get new players.
it wouldnt be hard to find 450 new talented players who are grateful for the opportunity and willing to play hard.
and seriously, what are the current players going to do? walk away from their money and the easy life? we all know how quickly they all go broke once they stop playing.
I think rules should also be changed, allow more contact - return hand check maybe?-, today's NBA has less friction than All Star games in the 90s. It's extremely boring
@@federicovelazquez3882I’m born and raised in the Bay Area. Been going to warriors games since the late 80s as a kid. I hadn’t missed a game on tv or in person in almost 30 years. This season I’ve only watched a small handful of games. You’re right. They’re boring three point contests and wide open layup lines. The players are basically just traffic cones on defense. Then we’re told how skilled they are when they travel and carry every time they touch the ball and still struggle to average 30 ppg when the finals scores are 160-155 and absolutely nobody is playing defense. That doesn’t point to highly skilled players. Did you know the average three point shooting percent back in the 90s was only 2% lower than the current NBA league wide three point percentage? That doesn’t point to better shooters, just points to them taking a lot more of them. You know five mins into a game how your team is going to do. If they aren’t hitting threes and the other team is it’s game over. That’s incredibly boring basketball.
@@cotati76
I completely agree. As we saw in this video, there's no competitive nature. Last season I enjoyed a little of the playoffs, specially in the west matchups, with Wolves and Mavs playing a more physical basketball, but ended up there. In MJ times it was hard to get under the rim but 3s weren't easy, and teams were taking around 10 3s ppg, now more than a 50% are 3p. Unwatchable. Hope they realize this cannot continue this way.
The NBA, NFL and MLB generates billions of dollars, and you're complaining about how much the players get paid?
Shouldn't the players get all the money they generate?
And if you want to make millions?
Learn how to play a sport..
Stop pocket watching people, only shows how miserable you are
I appreciate the honesty. I would also like to see adam silver go. he does nothing about these ego tripping refs. Also the lakers winning the in-season tournament last year? And the covid ring? Its a business and a product. I think the money is more important than the game for them
The COVID ring was the last straw. Just shameless. Adam Silver's solution to a problem appears to be ...create a new gimmick. Don't mention the traveling. I tell my son that no one grew up playing basketball like they play in the NBA
well of course it is a business, it always has been, but the way they are running it now, they are driving it to the ground, they are at historic levels of suck. they are basically cratering their entire product nose first into the ground like a tumbling jumbo jet. 48% lower viewership, this is nothing short of catastrophic, and I would not be surprised if they sack Silver after this season.
I don’t like watching the modern NBA because it’s become a 3-point shooting contest
Your absolutely right. Now all the centers want to shoot 3s. What happened to the big man posting up . Fowards rebounding. Point guard assisting and shooting guard shooting 3s.😢. What happened. 😂😂😂
It's not the only reason.
same
😂 You just now noticed that🤦🏾♂️,This 3 point contest in the NBA has been going on for "Years" this ain't nothing new trust and believe.😂😂
And very poor shooting by the way! It might be watchable if they were good at that! It's a suffering display of bricks and air balls!
It should be mandatory for NBA players to watch the Netflix Celtic/Lakers documentary and Pistons 30 for 30…back when rivalry and tough competition was in the league
Yes
What good would it do? Even if the players were willing to try and copy that, everyone would get ejected half way through the second quarter.
It's not even the same sport anymore.
Don’t forget to bet on the game!
That's like the emphasis on most sports these days. Can't watch a game without them advertising it smh. It's like they are enticing us with it to keep our attention to watch it
@@harrisonshouldice5451That's like the emphasis on most sports these days. Can't watch a game without them advertising it smh. It's like they are enticing us with it to keep our attention to watch it
Exactly. It's completely disfigured.
This is where it started from....No hand checking will produce no effort and Defense...on Top of that players was hypnotized on Stephs ability to shoot the 3 point shot and when they saw all the praises he was getting from shooting the 3 ...it started causing the players to envy The attention steph was getting and they started shooting 3's trying to get the same response from the fans like the fans were giving Steph...No player wanted to create their own identity instead they wanted what Steph had...THE ATTENTION....
Or... they all realized that 3pts are 1 more than going for a 2pt shot.
I saw a video where a former NBA player said that he attended a little kids tournament (under 10) and they were attempting 3pt shots despite not being strong enough to get the ball to the rim.
@@AndenSeefahrer A 2 point dunk is a 99% shot percentage. A "good" 3 point shot percentage is 40-45%. That's not even as good as a coin flip. So you'll give up 60% chance of a shot going in for 1 point? That's not even mathematically sound. The whole point used to be to get as close to the rim as possible for the best shot percentage. The only reason putting up 50 threes a game is viable today is because the other team is doing the same ridiculous thing. But there are barely any big men even playing in the paint, and no one knows how to post up anymore, and no one can shoot a hook which is literally an unblockable shot. Instead, all we get to see is face up basketball where players turn down open dunks for a potential 3 pointer that has a higher percentage of missing than making.
@MikeSchmidt969
Sure, the higher percentage is a good point.
On the other hand many teams still have a good balance between shooting threes and going to the paint even without any boring three dribblings from a big man isolation post up play. It was always the same and predictable. The most powerful wins this matchup (Shaq!). Wow!
I follow the NBA since 1994 and haven't enjoyed it more ever since.
The skillset is the highest that has ever been there. We are seen more handles and moves than ever. Defenders have to respect every single player because everyone can shoot. In the past it was 2/5 or 3/5 players that defenses had to be aware of.
I appreciate history players and the way the game was played back then, but today - besides the flopping issue - I enjoy it even more.
@@AndenSeefahrer To call post up play boring and predictable vs a 3 point jump shot is kind of silly. A 3 point jump shot is catch and shoot - the exact same thing all the time. Post up play changes depending on the defense and the defender. It's not the same from play to play at all. And when there were great centers on each team, the strongest didn't always win. If you've watched it as long as you have, you should be able to agree with that. Your experience doesn't sound very honest. The skillset of players these days is minimal. It's all face up play, and the defense is weak at best, and yet they still miss simple jump shots from 10-15 feet. They aren't more skilled at all. I'll give you more athletic since they run way more these days than before. The game was slower then. But it's not more skilled. Your claim that "everyone can shoot" is just false. Did you know that 3 point shooting is only 2% better today than it was in the 90's? Look it up. Shooting today is more prevalent, but not more effective. There are more possessions today, not better shooting. So scoring is up because they're taking more shots, not because they're better at making them. Sorry man, those are the numbers talking, not just me.
Feel exactly the same for many many years. Born in 81, watched NBA at night in Germany. Man those good times are long gone. Lebron, KD, Steph really destroyed the game for us tbh. No pride, no respect for the GOAT MJ and all the greats back then. Instead we travel around the world nine times per games and have to watch like 90 3s. Wtf happened to game we all loved. My entire early life was about basketball, the NBA, the players, the shoes, the gear, the culture. Nothing is left. Wemby start flopping and shooting one leg 3s is a nightmare. Wtf is going on!
NBA is like the WWE same same .
Yep
Except the WWE is going through a resurgence.
@ cool 😎 don’t care 🤷♂️ hope it works
I completely agree with you. Todays NBA is just a boring unwatchable thing I wouldn't even have as a background noise on TV.
Yes
Lol, we both started our videos about this the same way, “What took everyone so long?”… Adam Silver needs to be fired”.
You’re absolutely right about blaming the wrong people. I’m so sick of Silver being a spineless wimp who makes excuses. He said the All-Star game would bring back defense…. And the opposite happened. He said they would crack down on flopping… and they’re doing it now more than ever. He’s done nothing about load managing or traveling, and we literally have him on film admitting that HE CHOSE to inflate scoring by making the game less physical.
I’ve honestly given up on this league improving until this guy is fired. He needs to be out TODAY
Hey. I came across your channel few weeks ago. Good work!
But he brought in all that Saudi money! Not to mention all the China money! He's doing a great job!! Who cares about ratings?? Don't forget to fight for "social justice" while they take money from these places also...what an absolute joke!
@@RealSeanDavidTV Thanks, I appreciate it man! Been following you for a while. I appreciate your voice for us old school hoops fans.
Good to see you here, Jonny
Jonny and Sean! I feel like we’re at the fourth wall.
I was done when they "got rid" of the Supersonics. 😡
I can still hear Kevin Calabro in my dreams.
i heard they are coming back.
Same
Du ma
Loved that 90s team with Payton, Kemp, Detlef, McMillan, Perkins. Also, I know it’s not b-ball lol, but love that SuperSonic song by JJ Fad. 💯
Sean, I so appreciate your emotional take on the game you love and grew up with. You pull no punches.
Another huge part of how the NBA is dying is the absolute disregard for the fans that the league and players demonstrate.
I'm making $50m per year and I need to rest for a game or two? Load management? Of course, as the league is run by the players, this is acceptable.
Keep the league's feet to the fire Sean.
Adam sliver and Lequeen james 😂 steph curry era when MJ played NBA viewership was on the all time high with out social media 😂
A much much higher percentage of the public were watching those games compared to now. MJ had almost 40 million people watching his las finals when there were only 270 million people so basically 15% of the public was watching. This last finals barely drew in 3% of the public. Let that sink in. 3%. So basically 97 out of 100 people couldn’t be bothered to watch a single second of the game while 1 out of every 6 people watched MJ. Those numbers really brings the decline into stark clarity.
Even highlights are boring now.
I know. Also it’s not unpredictable anymore. I remember getting anxious because I didn’t really know who would win.
Basketball was my favorite sport in the 80s and 90s. Even the early 2000s, it was tied for first with me. It was right there with football at that point in my life.
Now, it isn’t even in my top 5. I prefer football, hockey, baseball, soccer and rugby more than the nba. Shoot, I enjoy MLG more than the crap they call basketball today. love your channel and I love your take. I couldn’t agree more. I still watch the playoffs and pay attention to who wins the championship. I enjoy sports. But the regular season means nothing to me anymore. The stars don’t seem to care so why should I? I haven’t in a decade almost. I have not gone to a game in person since 08. It’s a shame. There is some fantastic talent in today’s game. Or do we just say today’s “3 point contest”? That clip you shared…god I wanted to throw my phone looking at that crap. That’s not competitive basketball. That’s a crock of shit that they call basketball.
The problem is that Adam Silver does not work for us, he works for the owners and the owners are making more than ever before.
No change is coming.
I'm from Brooklyn NY and was watching a Nets game the other day and it was a Three on one fast break and guess what the other two players without the ball did??? Ran to the three point line and missed the shot..... I was floor cause back in the day's you're going straight to the bench for that..... Not in today's NBA
Happens every game..just complete stupidity
Noticed this a while back.So players most likely no longer do figure 8 drills,no longer do 3 on 1 drills where the ball doesnt touch the floor etc like we were trained back in the day?no wonder so called skilled players today are so fundamentally weak. The game has devolved.
Preach! I tried to watch my Bulls play last night and all they did was jack up 3s. They weren’t hitting, but instead of adjusting they just continued to jack that crap up. I know the Bulls aren’t great this year, but the game is soooo simplified it’s infuriating.
Lebron being the star of the league, allowing James Hardens step back to be a move and not a travel, sloppy play with the chucking up 3's.. the whole revolving the 2020 season around George Floyd & Breonna Taylor... that stuck a fork in it.
Big facts!
yeah and whats also messed up is how they basically used the eurostep as a get out of jail card for almost every player now being allowed to just do 3 steps before a layup or a shot, without ever actually performing a euro. It is absolutely crazy right now, and refs simply look on and not call that. If you talk about this, all these clowns come up with "its a gather step" which in 99% of the cases simply ISNT the case, but it just sounds great to just call it that to ignore it as a problem. And to then tell us these players are just more skilled? LOL, they just get away with way more stuff than previous generations of players who had to play against real tough defense, could not move as freely on offense and had coaches who would have ripped them a new one if they ran a fastbreak and instead of finishing it with a almost 100% chance of making a 2pt layup, go to the three point line and miss a goddamn three point shot on a fastbreak. This just happened a couple nights ago... what the f is wrong with these players?
don't forget "load management", ha! million dollar athletes needing a day off, what's the matter are your footsies tired?
I agree with all you said except the George Floyd / Breonna Taylor part.
Yes it did,I fully agree with you 💯.🤦🏾♂️🙄
I can't watch two teams miss 3 pointer after 3 pointer either. Todays NBA is unwatchable for me
yeah I rather watch hard nosed defense and interior play that leads to two points at a much higher percentage of making the shot than people clanking 3s. Average 3pt percentage is around 35%, so 2 out of 3 shots are misses... compared to around 50% when you go towards the basket, and even when the interior play leads to nothing, at least there is action while fighting for loose balls, rebound battles etc, compared to somebody parking on the wing, and shooting almost fully uncontested threes and the most that happens is the player falling backwards trying to fish for a call from the refs without actual contact...
These crazy people claiming that we do not like NBA because too many 3-pointers! Now these Same crazy people go crazy when Caitlin Clark shooting boring 3-pointers! Stephen A Smith and crazy people want tough defence low scoring NBA! Same people want Caitlin Clark to be free to shoot! Caitlin Clark won athlete of year award only because she is White! Simone Bilels and Shohei Ohtani better than Clark this year! Denver Nuggets scored 126,5 points in 1982 scoring NBA team regular season average record! And NBA was only 3rd most popular sport in USA! World Series baseball had two times bigger tv ratings than NBA Finals in 1980s!
@@MrSheduur Except that's not true. FG% is historically high these days. Take out the 1980s (1979-90 to be specific) and the past two years would have actually been the highest two years for FG% in NBA history.
Simple fix, bring back the late 80s-early 2000s rules. Hate the flopping, stupid fouls. We wanna see late 80s - early 2000s ball.
I first saw NBA 1990 when I was 9 yrs old in my neighbors TV who had cable it was a game between the Bulls and Pistons and fell in love with it instantly now I can't even finish watching a single quarter of the game.
I started watching before Jordan started at North Carolina. Most of it is crap, but watching Luka and Joker is always entertaining. I miss the defense, but that level of dominance over the entire court is great to watch.
My love of the game started in the late 70's with The Dr. himself. In 80 I turned 10 and was privileged to watch the NBA grow and grow. Kareem was already there, then Magic and Bird and so many more came in OMG. Then Jordan. All being cultivated properly. It was an honor to see. Now with horrible rules and all you have mentioned. Its just sad to see the decline of what was one so much greater.
We can blame the NBA Board of Governors. Each NBA team has a representative on the board. Adam Silver was given an extension by the NBA Board of Governors earlier this year that will keep him as the commissioner until around 2030.
Cuz he made a deal with Saudi Arabia that brought a bunch of money into the league. Money over integrity of the game
You’ve got to be fucking kidding me?!
These corporations will never learn that the bread and butter will always be American consumers. They can get all the international deals they want, if the we lose interest, the world will lose interest.
I'm 💯 percent in agreement. I think they need to start by removing Siliver and the James's from the NBA. Change the rules back to style of play in 90s. Make a rule where so much of your paycheck is dependent upon you perfomance on the court and how many games you play. An find a kid with that killer mentality of Kobe,Jordan,Magic, or Bird and promote the shit out of him to make him new face of NBA.
That’s how those guys in the NFL get paid. Mostly inducements. It’s why the product is a million times better than the NBA. Those guys went to get paid. They don’t get to collect a full paycheck while not playing games. I think you’re right. If the NBA went back to that we’d see a massive change in their attitudes.
And on top of all that drama the leagues self-proclaimed king quit social media as his past interactions with a shady hip hop mogul resurface to haunt him…!
I cannot wait for the day this dude finally retires, or at least the Lakers trade him... it has been almost 7 years now for the Lakers to be held hostage by Lebron. I would have rather watched them build with what they had, even it that had meant a couple years of being bad to mid, than to see all of his arrogance at full display, while playing zero defense, and still trying to call himself the GOAT.
@ not just the Lakers mate,the one thing he dominated for 20 years is media narratives and the whole Bronny debacle is the cherry on top of his pile of bs!
Sean I couldn't agree more with your take. Chicago and Warriors shot a combined 108 three point attempts. I can't watch this style of ball
Im a younger fan and while I still love the game I can’t help but sigh when I see a 3 on 1 fast break end in a 3 point shot or every other play being a pick and roll ending in either a 3 or a lob pass
If they wore tighter shorts and smaller shoes they would start acting right brugh
Bringing the truth.
The modern NBA is terrible. A far cry from what it use to be. So many issues. Too many 3s (many back and forth bricks), terrible officiating, load management, entitled players, little to no defense, no serious competition, too many flops and ticky tacky fouls. It's a mess.
Hellyeah bro! We gave NBA so much money and time an this is what NBA gave us, LeFloppin Contest! We want Magic! Showtime!
Adam Silver controls the officials. Refs regularly shade heavily for league preferred outcomes. After long enough, players stop trying to win and instead promote their own individual brands.
3:20 Adam silver and LeBron James are the problems
Tell me how Lebron is the problem 🧐 please tell me
20 REASONS WHY NBA RATINGS ARE DOWN
1. traveling not called (palming the ball)
2. team hopping
3. super teams
4. no defense
5. load mgmnt
6. no post play
7. no midrange play
8. forced lebron goat narrative
9. politics included in sports
10. horrible allstar weekend
11. non-competitive players
12. flopping
13. traveling not called (too many steps)
14. no team rivalries
15. no unique team identities
16. feminist man-hating sports pundits (malaika)
17. games are too expensive to attend
18. officials seem corrupt
19. streaming games is expensive
20. other non-failing sports are taking viewers' attention (and money)
BONUS!
21. if overpaid players dont care, why should paying fans?
Fix the NBA Blueprint:
1. Make it easier/affordable to watch the NBA and stop blocking home games on league pass
2. Bring back hand checking
3. Allow defense to stand in paint for as long as they want
4. No freedom of movement rule
5. Take away the gather step
6. Start calling all travels/carries/moving picks again
7. Give extremely harsh punishments for load managing
8. Harsh punishments for flopping
9. Stop allowing refs to give techs for the silliest things, we’re there to see the players not the refs
10. Allow players to talk trash all they want aka let them be competitive that’s what we want
11. Take politics out of sports, if players/coaches want to be vocal let them do it on their own platform but any political jargon in the NBA press conferences or games shall be severely punished. We’re watching sports to take our mind off politics
12. Don’t allow players to change teams so frequently. We can’t root for a team anymore because the roster changes drastically every year and have no identity.
13. Take out the in season tournament, it’s so complicated and pointless. Make the regular season regular again.
14. Add a 1 on 1 tournament to the all star game
15. Make the all star game regular east vs west again, make the all star game affect the record of all the players teams
16. Stop advertising so much sports betting
17. Enforce a dress code again. I don’t think families want their kids to see their favorite super star dressed like Zoolander, we want them to set an example for the working man. Suits only and coaches need to wear suits again
18. Make jersey’s look cool again, fire the current jersey designers
19. Go back to the classic court designs from the 2000’s and for the love of god never bring those ugly colorful courts from the in season tournament again!
20. Don’t ever allow players to have so much power that they can force their team to draft their son who obviously isn’t good enough to play in the league. The Bronny situation was insulting to our intelligence as basketball fans
If Adam Silver can execute these rules the NBA has a chance to boost ratings. If not then Adam Silver has to go.
I'm 100% with you on this! As a fan as a baller who grew up in the 80s and in the 90s, I miss hand-checking. Also, bigs being allowed to man the middle! Plus they used to d up even at all star games! The game meant something back then! And there's also the dunk contest where back in the day the best high flyers in the NBA would compete like Dr. J, Larry Nance, Dominique Wilkins, Spud Webb, Michael Jordan, Clyde Drexler, Scottie Pippen, Kobe Bryant, Vince Carter, T-Mac, Stevie Franchise (I get it the 2000 dunk contest wasn't in the 90s but you get what I'm saying), and plus all-star games where they actually gave a damn about competing! Speaking of competition, guys wanted to compete against each other instead of forming superteams! Thank God for Giannis and Jokic who showed that even in today's watered-down version of the NBA you can still win a championship! And do away with load management by lowering the boom on those lazy dudes, by fining them millions of dollars! If Michael Jordan played in all 82 games 9 times in a much more physical era! And let's not forget that some people legitimately think that LBJ is the goat! I'm 47 years old and it's the first time in my lifetime where there's a considerable amount of people who think that someone who stacks the deck, never been part of a dynasty, and has a losing record in the NBA finals plus has lost in international competition, yup, that guy they consider him the goat! Which tells me that these unfortunately they don't have a winning mentality! Back in the day guys in the goat convo had winning records in the NBA finals, while sticking it out on one team, instead of guys like LBJ and KD tryna form the Avengers and the Justice League destroying the competitive balance and again I thank God for Giannis and the Joker!
All Star game should be 2-3 weeks after the Finals.
Why? Its doesn’t matter when the game is if the players don’t play with some kind of effort. I think they shouldn’t make the players do all these press conferences and meet-and-greets during the weekend. But the players need to give more effort.
David Stern was a fantastic commissioner. Silver honestly needs to be fired at this point. You really can't even call it basketball anymore at this point.
Bro, these players are not better, its simply that they dont get tired out during the game because they do nothing else but stand around the 3 point line waiting for the open 3. I guarantee you if any of these teams would play the bulls of the 90's the second half score would be 60-30, they would get so tired they would need medical assistance. And dont give me the "they are more athletic" bs, Charles or Shaq or even Karl for that matter, if went up for a dunk and got contested by todays guys, it would be the end of their careers. Very few could hold their grounds if they were back in the 80's and 90's.
Preach man! I fkn hate todays NBA.
They’re all friends, no rivalry.
Soft.
3 point contest every game.
Flopping.
Foul baiting.
Rest. No respect for fans. Play a quarter at least for that kid in the stands that came to see you (injuries aside).
The NBA has become unwatchable. Fire Adam Silver and name Charles Barkley as the new Commissioner. Get The White Mamba as his deputy, since they’re the only 2 people I’ve heard coming up with logical solutions.
Sehe ich genauso. Wenn ich überlege wie besonders die Spiele fruher noch waren. Das gegurke heute tut nur noch weh.
I hate everything about the modern NBA. Everything. Weak beta male players, traveling, soft refs, the 3s, no defence, high scoring games. Constant advertising during the game. ENOUGH!
if i could give you 1000 likes for this video, i would. you are speaking my mind, brother. i am so glad you showed that clip of passing up a wide open dunk to pass out for a 3. every time i see guys running a fast break, getting to the rim only to pass it out for a 3, i fucking lose my shit! the nba game has become a damn joke, and you are right, it has been happening for years. from adam silver to the referees to the players and even the coaches - no damn accountability anywhere to be found.
oh wait, there is one dude who, if he's under the basket, he is definitely not passing it out for a 3. lebron james. but there's a huge difference between basketball IQ and stat seeking.
When I saw the rigging, I stopped watching. That rigging is Queen James winning against the Warriors on the real king James birthday.
David Stern had Mj, Adam Silver is trying to replicate what David by creating fake narrative to build Lbj as his guy but the public isn’t believing because we have eyes and it’s pushing lots of hard core and casual fans away, add in the no calls for traveling, carrying, getting a technical for playing defense and all teams are scrimmaging instead of competing so I’m glad it’s falling off a cliff
Adam has to go he’s destroying the game of basketball for everyone who grew up loving the game
I stopped watching the NBA about 9 years ago. The players have too much say in the NBA.
I remember in the 80’s you had lakers, Celtics, Pistons 76ers and then the Bulls and the knicks. And let’s not forget the explosion of centers in the 80’s and 90’s.
Lack of passion, too many 3 point attempts and too much politics is why I don’t watch NBA anymore.
Who would’ve known peddling the narrative that winning doesn’t matter to prop up a loser would very obviously take away competitiveness in favor of every player considering padding their own stats as their main priority
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There are more than handful of the wrongs that make the NBA an unwatchable product. The Bronny nepo baby story is the top reason for me personally.
Adam Silver was never the right guy for the job. All these wierd gimmicky ideas that always get thrown around. Remember when they openly discussed the 4pt shot? Like WTF... it does not get more gimmicky and further off from what people like than this dumb idea. And he floated this idea around not just once but even when he just got the job he pitched the idea..
Travels, carries and moving screens dont get called, everything is a tech now, constant foul baiting, load management, a barrage of gambling ads and its becoming more difficult and expensive to watch NBA games. No other basketball league has these problems to that degree, not college or euroleague. Olympic games played with FIBA rules and refs were a breath of fresh air.
Adam Silver, LeBron, the owners and media.
1000% agree
Grew up with the 90s NBA.
Today's NBA is an embarrassment to the sport.
Top players are to blame.
Commissioner is to blame.
To journalists are to blame.
NBA had become a ridiculous circus.
Nobody appreciates it worldwide
The Euroleague is 10 times more interesting today
If the players werent being paid as much as they are, then maybe this wouldn't be as big an issue as it is..
But throw in the 3 point shoot out, the nba is boring as fk these days.. Its positionless basketball and boring as fk
The refs are horrible. They give out technicals like hotcakes. The NBA and its players are involved politically. They supported BLM and anti-Trump. I just wanted to watch basketball and the political propaganda is the last thing I need.
5:49 Shit! That clip was crazy... 🫨
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If Stern were put back in, the League would do better. It's only been 4 years, he's still salvageable.
Everything started to go wrong in when the Hornets, Heat, Magic, and Timberwolves were added to the NBA. That meant that there were 4 full rosters of players in the league that were not good enough to make the league in years prior. In order to make them viable rules had to be altered. When you introduce players of a lesser ability into a competitive league everybody else performs better; for example no one in MLB has batted .400 in the last 80+ years, but before that the feat was accomplished a few times a decade. When MLB broke the color barrier the players that didn't belong got replaced by real major leaguers and batting .400 became exponentially more difficult. The NBA is hustling backwards, by introducing (currently 7) full teams worth of talent into the ecosystem everybody else looks better than they would otherwise. Compound that with changing the rules to accommodate the weaker players, and everyone else looks better yet.
I think its safe to say that the talent pool has long since recovered from expansion in the 1980s. It's not a talent problem. Europe alone has more than provided for ample talent to fill the expansion teams. If anything, it's a health problem as players bodies are breaking down due to the way the game is played now.
For that matter, the number of MLB players has almost doubled since Jackie Robinson, black players have never accounted for more than 20% of the league, and all sorts of other records have fallen since then. Not to mention the talent influx was rather disproportionately in favor of hitting, not pitching.
@JonSmith-hk1bq That less than 20% in MLB essentially ended .400. Hitters also field, and pitchers have always made up less than 1/3 of the league.Changing the rules to accommodate the leagues weakest players is what's causing the issues of the day.
@@williamking7941 Again, batting average is only one aspect of baseball, one that was falling well before integration. Other aspects of the game have reached new highs. And while pitching may only make up about 1/3 of the players, it certainly accounts for the lion's share of hitting futility. And for whatever reason, there have simply never been that many black pitchers in MLB. Integration did much more to give MLB offenses the advantage.
Thank you Sean. It had to be said. I watched the NBA religiously for years. Now, I only watch the playoffs and even that is difficult to do
It all started going wrong in the 90s when Stern decided to feature rookies, like Iverson, over the veterans.
BTM crashing out on Christmas eve like John McClaine.
Bravo 👏
the 'play-in' didnt help the nba either. in the nfl you need to have a good regular season to make it into the playoffs. it makes the regular season matter. in the nba, 20 out of 32 teams are in. thats ridiculous. multiple teams can make it into the playoffs without even having a winning record. it lowers the value of normal games. they feel like they are just for fun or something. and if they arent important then why should the viewers care about them?
wtf? 20/32?? How about creating a competitive environment instead of gimmicks. They have one of the best products in the world and they can’t take advantage of it. What a joke.
This is the equivalent of "work smarter, not harder". This generation is raised thinking that just because the job is done quickly and efficiently, it's done correctly... except this approach disregards the craftsmanship and meticulous care that focuses on the minutiae and instead focuses on the end goal. It's more efficient to shoot threes, but the craft of basketball is lost due to the focus of high percentage shots and scoring.
Adam Silva, game is soft, it’s me, me basketball, the team game is gone and Zero loyalty and heart. LaChyna James, activist, out spoken on defund police, obvious race bating and now No party like Diddy. Greed is the Root of All 😈, where have we heard that before? Politics and SJW’s that divide people, especially people use to watch sports for rivalry’s, escape politics, to be honest the plan to divide and conquer branches out like intended. Thank God I was able to enjoy Bird/Magic and MJ/vs League of 90s. The 80s was the greatest of NBA
Hey man sports have always been political. Mohammed Ali’s ban. The US hockey team beating the Soviets. The Dream Team. Bill Russell and his engagement with racism and discrimination? Let’s not forget Red Auerbach refusing to take his players to places that allowed discrimination. The Olympics. Jesse Owens. The negro leagues? How black players weren’t integrated to the MLB, Jackie Robinson? Y’all be finding so many reasons to separate yourselves from the world. You guys that grew up in the 80’s and 90’s talk about all these changes but it’s nothing new. It’s always been there. Colin Kapernick helped highlight racism through police brutality.
Ive been saying this for the last 3 years. If the NBA players keeps shooting 3 every game. All the fans will tune out and leave. People don’t want to see that
Bring back hand checking.
Mo Cheeks style
Implement a 5 second violation instead of 3 seconds and a 3 second offensive violation outside the 3 point line
I really appreciate your ability to make quality content. Your videos always stand out from the rest. Keep up the good work!👑🤖🐋
I'm 100% right there with you on everything you said! Including not liking to listen to Steven A, listening to Steven A is like trying to watch todays NBA!
NBA media is the worst with the exception of Shaq/Charles etc.
@@danielpauley9113 I love watching Shaq and Charles go at it! Those are true brothers that know how to pull each other's strings!
@ they’re national treasures. I don’t understand how anyone even listens to fools like Nick Wright and Shannon Sharpe
@@danielpauley9113 As long as the make their money they are cool with anything it would seem!🤫
Thanks Bro - You said I'm thinking and talking for so many years. High five from Cracow - Poland
Totally agree! The NBA keeps changing, but many parts of the 80s and 90s were undeniably superior. Here’s what needs to happen, and it needs to happen now:
1. Push Back the Three-Point Line
It’s infuriating that nearly everyone can sink a three like it’s a free throw. Move the line further out. Stop rewarding mediocre long-range shots that anyone can make. If you want three points, you should have to work for it.
2. Ban Zone Defenses
Zone is for amateurs who can’t handle real defense. Man-to-man challenges players to step up and guard their matchup without hiding behind a lazy scheme. Get rid of zone defenses entirely. The NBA should showcase elite, in-your-face defense-not timid formations better suited to high school teams.
3. Enforce Traveling Again
The NBA’s so-called “gather” steps and pivot foot loopholes are a disgrace. Traveling is traveling, end of story. No more extra steps or bizarre rule interpretations that let stars break the most basic rule in basketball. Referees need to call it every single time.
i was just put in charge, and here are my first steps:
- fire adam silver, hire magic johnson and larry bird as co-commissioners. (thanks for the idea sean!)
- eliminate guaranteed contracts, for players AND coaches. incentives, whatever.
- implement an oversight board for referees. blatantly missed calls/non-calls, stupid techs, etc get penalized, increasing with each incident. and extra super-duper penalty for when they affect game outcomes. this includes correctly enforcing rules like traveling, palming, offensive fouls, moving picks, etc.
- implement an oversight board for stat keepers. make sure stats are being accurately recorded according to the applicable rules.
- rule changes:
- no more defensive 3 seconds
- reinstate hand-checking
- unlimited successful challenges, with penalties for frivolous usage (1st - tech, 2nd - 2 shots and the ball, 3rd - turn over your first born male child, ...). refs decide/vote on what is frivolous, with regard to 3rd item above.
- teams limited to X number of made 3 pointers per game (or quarter?). after that, they only count for 2. [i saw this somewhere, sorry to whoever i got it from, i forget or i'd give credit]
- eliminate the corner 3
- anybody over 7' must attempt at least as many shots in the paint as from beyond the arc. penalty is shaq and kg get to pummel your ass.
Love your show, man. I would love to see a follow-up about what specifics you would change (aside from actually having traveling calls). My first intro to the NBA was the Jordan mid-air hand switch against the Lakers in the 91 Finals ... so I appreciate your sentiments. Thanks again for your channel!
Fire Adam Silver!!!!
Adam Silver NBA final off joke👀👍🏿👍🏿
Right on brother. I asked the same question. What the hell took so long? That pass out to the three point line wouldn’t even have been done in an all star game back in the day
Dear Sean, you'r spot on. Silver degenerated into a mere product manager. Looking to pay max contracts to saturated players and top dollar to investors. It is about a product and not about a sport anymore. There is no more ferocity to the game and no visible competition at any cost. Instead players seem to have settled on a truce. Why would superstars risk getting hurt when they earn 9 figures on a contract, sneaker deal and commercials anyway? There is still hope though: Euroleague.
Sidenote: You f... love the game. You call it "game" and "sport" instead of "product" like so many others.
Sean David, I feel exactly the same. Players used to have a reverence for the game. Now players think they should be revered over the game.
i´m with you! one of the biggest problem, in my opinion, is the way of officiating.... carry, travel, tech fouls for nothing.... they wanna take the emotion of this sport... the other side is the motivation of the players... there is not enough love for the game, it´s all about the money
I totally agree at 100% with you man! And it's lovely to see and feel how much you love this game bro! I got a double different point of view about the nowadays NBA, as I was raised watching this game 30 years ago, and plus I'm European. I feel lucky to have seen one of the best NBA age like the '90s, and I can't blame a 20 years old boy who like the current NBA. But at my age I can compare the old-school game with this one and objectively it has worsened in every respect. Since Silver came up: the salary cap has increased (more opportunity to build up super teams), players earn more, wich means more likely to see spoiled and listless young players, no defense at all, at least till the PO (there are great defender in NBA, but there's a lack of team defense mentality), tons of 3 point, no midrange shots and the refereeing method exclusively defends the attacker to the detriment of the defender. I don't even consider the ASG, because for years it has become the maximum expression of all this. I'm European, I always watched the NBA game since I was 15, but recently I started to watch more the Euroleague, and boy... IS MUCH BETTER! Is there the same athletic quality? Of course not . Is there the same individual technical level? No. But there's something that in NBA is disappearing... INTENSITY, DEFENSE PHYSICALITY and FEWER MATCHES (people don't give a s**t to watch 82 games or RS since the most of those are pure trash). I'm not here to provide a solution for all these problems, but I'm sure that changes (for better) should start from these points
Thank you for addressing the frustrations of the majority of basketball fans out there.
When I was a kid, there was only 2-3 plays I could see at the end of a CNN show and I would spent hours waiting for this moment. We also had a magazine with a few plays we could see if we turned the pages very fast, like an old comic. That's when I was in love with this game, that I was barely able toe to see here in Switzerland. There's not much to see nowadays. Travels not called, foul baiting, no post play... Most of these guys have no respect for the game, and I'm not only talking about the players.
I haven't watched in at least 5 years. The competition is non existent. Teams routinely get blown out. I grew up watching ball in the late 80s and 90s. Back then a 10 point win was a blowout. It's insane how this is normal.
I totally agree with you. The changes the NBA have made under Adam Silver are short sighted and shallow. Why not just get rid of the 3 pt line or bring back the handcheck rule?
I agree! What drives me crazy is refs no longer being able to call players for traveling, double dribble, palming the ball, up and down. The game can change but these rules should have remained the same.
Your takes is on point Sean. The one that stands out the most is Magic as commish. I feel like he's at a perfect time in his life to take on this challenge. Years ago he leaned in on being politically correct but now he's much more transparent / honest with his NBA commentary. I'm all in for: #Magic4Commissioner Let's get this hashtag going!!!!! Cheers
The NBA being an inheritance of tall but untalented NBA sons has also contributed to the decline in my opinion. For every Steph Curry or Klay Thompson, there are 100 Bronny James. By today's approach to the NBA draft and recruiting, Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, and Bird would have never gotten the opportunity to be seen. The NBA needs to draft the best talent and young men who want to play, not young men with this connection and from that background....bring the best talent to the league.
Who’s sons are playing in the NBA??
The problem is even beyond the NBA, it is also on FIBA and affects so many rec leagues. When FIBA implemented the zero step that opened a pletora of missed travel calls, because every ref has a criteria and sometimes gets so ridiculous. In my last rec league game of this year we played a team that had guys in their early 20s (we are an almost 40s guys team) and I swear, a player from the opposite team did a lot of extra steps a lot of times, just like B.dot Armstrong when he mocked Harden in a celebrity game, and none of those was called a travel even when that player gather the ball with two hands and took 4 or 5 steps after that. Basketball today is unplayable because all the rule changes lead to different interpetations that could be totally opposite one from another.