We done with the 90s, but not really #nba
The debate of old heads vs new age basketball has never been this hot, this divided.
While this account might be joking or not, the response is real.
Plumbers not moving their feet, tackling people because they ain’t good, players shooting bricks, and the greatest player of all time, Michael Jordan, didn’t even have a left hand. Is this all true? Are we done with the 90s?
I’m tired of seeing based commentary everywhere so I decided to look for myself** and what I found, well you and I both won’t like it so strap in, cause we goin deep.
It would be pretty sad if basketball stagnated, if players didn’t build on what they saw growing up. For example, if you were 13 years old and saw Allen Iverson cross over Michael Jordan and it wasn’t called for a carry, you might go out on your driveway and practice that move. And eventually you’d get it down and add your own twist to it. That example I gave, LeBron was 13 years old when Allen Iverson crossed MJ. And somewhere saying he knew that AI was gonna get Mike.
I mean look at 3s now. When Steph Curry hit 400 threes in a season, it was bonkers. But 3 seasons later, Harden made 378. The previous record before that was Ray Allen with 269 in 2006. Now we have 7 players that have eclipsed that, some several times.
**And I think that in this debate of which era was better,** each side tries to use the argument of which players were better but have different definitions. And then the debate devolves into shouting and personal insults and we get no where, **more than any other sport I’ve ever seen.**
It’s also ludicrous to think that NBA players can’t adapt to the rules of different eras. In fact, we can see it.
If the players of yesterday were so bad, then why did the next generation immediately proceed to struggle?
But something that is indisputable is that basketball was more popular back in the 90s, at least by tv ratings.
And you can say TV ratings are archaic, in a world of social media, it’s impossible to capture the reach of the NBA versus then, and that’s probably right. But if players are better now, why is viewership of each game so much lower and struggled for the past 5 years, a problem that eventually got acknowledged by the commissioner Adam Silver. That has something to do with the style of basketball and not in the way you would think.
There’s a difference between players becoming more talented which has happened, and the NBA pushing to make things easier to also replicate the special. And there’s a couple of examples of this.
We have the removal of hand checking in 2004 to help the league help the offense after Jordan retired so that ratings could go back up.
The NBA has always been moving towards helping the offense slowly too.
They still made rule changes to help out Jordan like introducing flagrant fouls after the bad boy Pistons did unspeakable war crimes to him on national television. That was the league back then and not just with Jordan but the NBA knew they had to allow players to play without the fear of getting impaled. But the trend went further and further until it went way too far, something we’re seeing today.
Like the freedom of movement rules brought on in 2018.
We’re looking at the wrong debate man. And I think that is something all fans can agree on that the NBA has sort of lost a handle, no pun intended, on this offensive crazy NBA that they’ve created. Because they have forced the NBA to be a certain way rather than letting the players and their own unique styles dictate what happens.
Removing hand checking was to make guard play be more prevalent because they wanted more Michael Jordan types. Freedom of movement so they could have more Steph types. And once analytics had it’s run, now there was the most efficient way that every player should play and if they didn’t fit that mold, they out the league.
In fact if we look at pace over the years, it has dramatically changed each decade.
And that has led to a lot of regular season games becoming meaningless.
We’re seeing players sit out more and more, we’re seeing players gage their effort, preserving them in time for the playoffs, typically meaning defensive effort has taken a step back. And when players were able to get away with it for years, especially after David Stern stepped down, players kept pushing the boundaries.
I think why so many people, even former players keep saying that older basketball was better is because culture was different around games. Regardless of skill or lack of skill, players appeared to show more effort, games had more meaning and importance. I think if you hear how older players talk about having to ball out in the regular season for fans, for important match ups, it’s different than players choosing to sit out, needing a whole in season tournament just to have competitive basketball in the regular season.
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