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Camby would have Anthony Davis stats in tday's NBA
Camby would have Anthony Davis stats in t
What has posting etiquette have to do with five guys standing around the arc?
Try to stay consistent in your posting like you stay consistent with your high fat diet.
See what I was responding to?B-listers like Daugherty, Mourning, Smits and Seikaly would dominate the paint in
People like David and Hakeem would not develop as well in today's league. They wouldn't be the focal point in college or the NBA on offense.
I envision an Hakeem shooting 3's
As a viewer and former player: I prefer 5 positions.
Daugherty, Mourning would have to change their game; but they could have decent careers. Definitely, the new rules would diminish their impact though.
Yeah. And going off topic while you are preaching about staying exactly on topic as per subject.
Serious question though, why do you hate yourself so much that you have to pretty to be white and not fat? What is wrong with either one?m
But to respond to your off subject remark, players with no post moves are dominating the paint in
Yeah. And going off topic while you are preaching about staying exactly on topic as per subject.
Serious question though, why do you hate yourself so much that you have to pretty to be white and not fat? What is wrong with either one?m
But to respond to your off subject remark, players with no post moves are dominating the paint in
Defense in the 90s was atrocious. Lazy defense all around.
Even if NBA defenses are essentially the equivalent of defense in past NBA eras, it still doesn't change the fact that today's game is the most aesthetically unpleasing (and unbalanced) game of the past four decades. Yes, 80's ball had lax defense and high scores, but scores came via more fast breaking into penetration and the like. The post-game was also still a big weapon in 80s basketball. Watching a "fast break" today conclude with a chucked 3 makes the sport look like pickup basketball.
"What about 90s and grit-and-grind 00s ball? Now that was ugly!"
Perhaps, but since those were lower scoring, there was a tense attritional element to each and every basket, especially during the playoffs. A big 4th quarter 3 with a couple minutes left to break a tie felt backbreaking, whereas today, teams will probably trade 3s till the buzzer. This relates to the primary complaint from people who don't like basketball that there's too much scoring and no score really feels like it alters the balance of the game until the closing moments. Scores and leads have never felt so "meaningless," which makes comebacks less impressive and exciting.
It's not about old vs. new or any of that bull . Players have caught up to the dimensions of the 3 point line where the shot isn't really any more difficult than a standard midrange jumper. When the 3 point shot was first introduced, I think the league wide percentage was 20%. It was designed to be basketball's home run/hail mary. The comparative rarity of those events compared to standard plays is what makes them exciting. The 3 point shot needs to be similarly rare in context. Move the line back to 35 feet and take away the corner lines.
And to further illustrate why this is not merely older basketball fans railing against modernity while resorting to nostalgia, the central culprit here is analytics. "Now you're sounding like an old, bitter player!" No. Analytics or any kind of mathematically driven approach to strategy will always find the most efficient and effective tactics to exploit. Any coach would love to have just one single approach that works because there's less moving parts to implement. Analytics has found this to be the 3 point shot in basketball, and since the 3 point shot is horrifically unbalanced, no competing approaches (i.e. a team that wanted to run a balanced inside/out system mixing in post, penetration, and shooting) make mathematical sense.
Since basketball has such an exploitable flaw, the sport is on a road map to becoming one dimensional (even bigs are taking 5 threes per game). And compared to the other major sports, basketball is the most one dimensional of all. The analytical approach that teams take today should force the brass in all sports to be constantly vigilant and willing to "rebalance" the game as needed to make a variety of strategies viable.
My apologies. I meant pretend. Typo on phone.
But this is off topic though. So not sure why you at responding.
There is nobody in today's game even close to the 93 Sonics defensive level.
The solution, in my opinion, is to develop an alternate league. Loyalty to the league has never been lower, and a league playing the game the right way. Physical play where the centers are allowed to play would draw lots of interest. The ABA did it, it can be done, again.
They already have an alternative for the NBA that is based on the 90s and early 2000s, it's the Big 3..
Add two players and franchises around the country and then maybe you will have something.
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