Yes a different game my friend
A game where they used to play defense
Guys like Jordan & Bird averaged 30ppl when they actually played D and were double teamed consistently
Imagine what they would average today with no defense at all being played
Most of us will agree that LeBron cries about everything
Can you even imagine the look on his face when he would get hammered to the floor by those Knicks & Pistons teams with Laimbeer, Mahorn, Salley, Anthony Mason, Oakley, and other teams & players like that?
Actually, it would be hilarious @)
Can you even imagine the look on his face when he would get hammered to the floor by those Knicks & Pistons teams with Laimbeer, Mahorn, Salley, Anthony Mason, Oakley, and other teams & players like that?
Actually, it would be hilarious @)
These guys hustle just as much they did back then.
But back then they were only guarding the paint, nowadays they have to guard from sideline to sideline.
And if you double team someone, that means someone is wide open for an uncontested 3.
Do you wanna double team KD and leave Curry or Thompson wide open??
And would I wanna double team Jordan or Bird??
Yes because whoever they pass off to is not that great of a shooter (certainly not like Curry or Thompson)
Advantage today's teams
Shaq was the biggest beast of all and those kind of players still beat him up.
But I understand your point
You are of course absolutely correct
Pro athletes in all sports are - as a collective - fully superior to their counterparts from 1970s-1990s
Likely 50% or more of fulltime pros from 1970s-1990s would be unemployable were they magically transported into the year 2021
The most vocal objectors to this truth are by and large males aged 50+ who also insist that their (our...I'm 61) generation of human beings are far superior to the current generation of adults aged 16-41 when in fact every emerging human is biologically more highly evolved than the humans who birthed them
I always find the "athletes have evolved" theory kinda hilarious.
So let's break this down, and it's very simple.
If humans have truly evolved, it takes millions of years to do so.
But we have ppl believing that we have evolved into far superior athletes in a mere 20-30 years.
It's ridiculous guys.
I will say this....
We have more ppl playing sports, and more ways of being healthier.
But these athletes today are no faster or quicker and don't jump any higher than years ago.
There's just more of them.
Now we can talk about what today's players are Lacking.
Defensive skills
Heart
Post up play
Humbleness
toughness
among other things I'm sure I'm leaving out
So let's break this down, and it's very simple.
If humans have truly evolved, it takes millions of years to do so.
But we have ppl believing that we have evolved into far superior athletes in a mere 20-30 years.
It's ridiculous guys.
I will say this....
We have more ppl playing sports, and more ways of being healthier.
But these athletes today are no faster or quicker and don't jump any higher than years ago.
There's just more of them.
Now we can talk about what today's players are Lacking.
Defensive skills
Heart
Post up play
Humbleness
toughness
among other things I'm sure I'm leaving out
