76ers: 70's ball

[lefty]

And like I said, Curry is a truck driver or an accountant if he was born in 1950.

He had terrible mechanics as a kid, wasn't recruited out of high school, and has relatively poor natural athleticism, but he was able to overcome those obstacles through applied knowledge. They didn't have that luxury in the 60's. You practiced in your driveway or at the playground. No filming your jumpshot. No working with a Chip Engelland. No strength and conditioning coaches. No strobe technology. Etc, etc.

In many ways, I have more reverence for older players because they had to invent a lot of these techniques and such out of thin air. No army of coaches at some compound "teaching" it them.

Not bad

[Down Under]

wtf..Robertson would ve undrafted in todays nba.

It was a pisstake of him saying teams don't know how to play defense today.

[JoeTait75]

Wasn't it also an extremely unpopular time for the nba? I don't think people understand that the nba isn't like the nfl, it wouldn't do well with complete parity.

Yeah, that was around the time CBS started showing Finals games on tape-delay after the late local news.

[ezau]

And like I said, Curry is a truck driver or an accountant if he was born in 1950.

He had terrible mechanics as a kid, wasn't recruited out of high school, and has relatively poor natural athleticism, but he was able to overcome those obstacles through applied knowledge. They didn't have that luxury in the 60's. You practiced in your driveway or at the playground. No filming your jumpshot. No working with a Chip Engelland. No strength and conditioning coaches. No strobe technology. Etc, etc.

In many ways, I have more reverence for older players because they had to invent a lot of these techniques and such out of thin air. No army of coaches at some compound "teaching" it them.

What a post, tbh.

[-21-]

I don't get the point of ting on past eras? Evolution in sports doesn't just happen instantaneously, sprung from the proverbial head of Zeus. Without these past players paving the way, there is no modern game. And a lot of modern players, not having the benefit of modern training and knowledge, probably wouldn't have been NBA players in the league's formative years. Steph Curry is probably driving a truck or something if he was born in 1950. I mean, his jumpshot mechanics were pure when he was a kid (worse than those of 70's players), and if he was born without the advantage of being an NBA player's son and the additional advantage of modern training (there were no Chip Engellands in those days), he would've never changed his jumper most likely and flamed out of basketball in high-school.

And like I said, Curry is a truck driver or an accountant if he was born in 1950.

He had terrible mechanics as a kid, wasn't recruited out of high school, and has relatively poor natural athleticism, but he was able to overcome those obstacles through applied knowledge. They didn't have that luxury in the 60's. You practiced in your driveway or at the playground. No filming your jumpshot. No working with a Chip Engelland. No strength and conditioning coaches. No strobe technology. Etc, etc.

In many ways, I have more reverence for older players because they had to invent a lot of these techniques and such out of thin air. No army of coaches at some compound "teaching" it them.

Truth bombs.

[Splits]

todays nba.