NBA: Hubie Brown on evolution of the game

[spurraider21]

any decent scorer can handle handchecking fine.

i'm doubtful that some of the modern day decent scorers would have translated that well in previous eras, especially today's guards that dont have jump shots

[bulakenyo]

The hand checking in basketball must have been really blatant in the 1980s.

I saw some old Philippine pro league game re-runs, early to mid 80s, and I was kinda shocked how crazy the handchecking was at the time.

A defender can literally push a ballhandler with one hand, not fully extended, but almost sumo wrestler type of pushing.
As long as the ball handler was not in the act of shooting or airborne, you could basically sumo wrestle the guy.

It was hilarious.

[spurraider21]

Hubie picking his greatest players of all time