The fact that a capable player like TD was sitting on the bench at end of games vs. the Warriors was a sad commentary on the league tbh.
The NBA was looking to go fast paced fun and gun D'antoni style for a long time. TD and the Spurs were "boring". The writing was on the wall.
That’s what you took away from it?
There was defense when I was a kid growing up btw. Sorry you didn’t get to see the Bulls in the 90s smothering teams or the 99-03 Spurs or heck even the 04-05 Pistons.
I did watch the Bulls in the 90s and didn’t see all that amazing D or muhphysicality every nostslgic dude is talking about : lol
I mean look at this
https://youtu.be/5zQAGYRjaIs
90s Knicks « defense »
Ian Mahinmi
https://youtu.be/vcktdn1WnaU
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Lefty's trolling. A few years ago he was a Jordan stan who used to on today's NBA for all the softness and three point shooting
I've been watching alot of Food Network
Guy's Tournament of Champions was intense
Lol we’re not robots , opinions can change
I removed nostalgia goggles that’s all
lol its funny to me bc we used to argue relentlessly against each other on this same topic. then I had stopped posting here for a couple years, come back and see you agreeing with me. i was convinced you were trolling at first too
yep i'd also add the bit about nba marketing focus on drawing in the casuals (ie social media strategy, highlights, also i think broader rule changes like the 3pters, high scores, less defense, prop up snowflake shooters, etc.) while neglecting/annoying actual fans ... and not drawing in the casuals because WHY WOULD YOU FOCUS ON MARKETING BASKETBALL TO PEOPLE WHO DON'T REALLY LIKE BASKETBALL
Also other sports/leagues have done a good job gaining a lot of new, younger fans through good PR/com/use of social media
Formula 1 is a good example of that
And went overboard. Athleticism is not a be all.
Today's player lacks for ude. Game is soft as Charmin now.
Yeah it was so soft back in the days that Kareem and Magic looked at the refs instead of tracking back everytime someoe stripped the ball from them
Or Jordan who cried to Stern because the Pistons were to tough for him
Or Jordan who complained to the refs every night during his career
Tough guys
But that's the point. Stern had to soften it up for his pets; but the game on the whole was tougher. Bird and Dr. J never ed.
Bird?
Are you sure?
Please put the goggles back on old man
There is no way 80 to 90% of people even know what the phrase iden y politics even means lmfao
If we're not counting calling out with cause as ing, then yea, I'm quite sure.
For purists. It garnered all kinds of money for the league in theory.
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If he was a real man he wouldn’t have ran away from his daughter
He is a ing pussy
So that means the NBA died in the 80s-90s
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