then nagpasabot diay ni na ang ni vote ni MJ walay knowledge sa basketball lol....
sa ako pud no, if kobe is better than MJ I would vote for kobe. but as of now perti pa gyud niyang layoa..
dili ma question na siya ang pinakamaayo karon na player, but being the greatest impossible pa kaayo...
then nagpasabot pud ni imo post na weak ang Detroit Pistons, Weak ang New York Knicks, Weak ang Boston Celtics..... hahahaha ka weak. oy
ayaw pud kalimot sa Indiana Weak pud... Dale Davis og Antonio Davis plus Rick Smits. gagmay ra kaayo nya weak pa gyud hahahaha
BASIN SA PANAHON RA KA NI KOBE NAGTAN AW OG NBA.... tan aw pud og NBA Classics haron naa pud ka idea sa panahon ni MJ.
were: read this mga BAG - ONG TUBO HARON KASABOT MO
The Style
Go watch ESPN Classic some time, or even NBA TV, and check out some old NBA games. In between the run-and-gun years of the 70s and 80s, and the similar hustle-and-flow flavor of today's game, there was the 90s.
Seriously, try and find the time to watch this stuff. Granted, I'm sure your recollection serves just fine in general, but you would be surprised how the details resurface in a different light now, contrasted against the way the game is played today.
Watch closely. Reggie Miller gets bumped and grabbed one too many times going around screens back in his old Pacers days; you almost find yourself yelling "foul" at the TV, already reconditioned to the touchy feely standard of officiating games these days. MJ gets cracked an elbow in the ribs, once, twice, three times, at the top of the key by his defender. "Damn," you find yourself muttering under your breath, "isn't that a foul?" Today, yes. Back when they played real ball, no.
Hand checks were frequent, and not only accepted, but encouraged. And if your quickness, handles, and upper body strength could keep you on balance and on course enough to manage a drive down the lane or towards the baseline, there would be seven feet and two hundred and seventy pounds of pain waiting for you at the rim in the form of an opposing big man. No touch fouls here. If you went up, you were going to get hammered. And this was in the days when contact around the rim wasn't considered an automatic trip to the free-line, just the usual routine drive, bang, and bucket of the NBA in the 90s.
If you wanted to score, you had to earn it - the hard way.
And that was just the guards, playing down low was a battle on an entirely different scale. The big men in the 90s may have been the best group of post players, league wide, that the NBA had seen since the days when Wilt Chamberlain and Bill Russell battled it out. Hakeem Olajuwon, David Robinson, Patrick Ewing, Alonzo Mourning, Shaquille O'Neal, Dikembe Mutombo. There won't be that many truly great centers in the NBA for the next twenty years, much less all in the same decade.
The 90s were the time when big men were real big men, warriors, giant forces of intimidation and dominance - they were colossal, not merely in stature but results. There were no Barbie Doll Princess, "please don't touch me," big men like Dirk Nowitzki in the 90s, there couldn't be. Mark my words, players like Dirk Nowitzki couldn't even survive in that era. (Technically Dirk did play half a season in the '98-'99 lockout campaign, in which he sucked, thereby proving my case.)
Big men pounded and battled for position in the lane like sumo wrestlers contend for space in a circle that's too damn small, pushing, shoving, elbowing, treating every inch of painted real estate like it was priceless. Today, if you get hit down low you instantly get put on the line. Back in the day? There was no 'if' involved, you were going to get hit, and unless you got the living @!$%# smacked out of you and hit the hardwood, you probably weren't getting a call.
So what does all this mean? Why does it matter? And most importantly, why does it make the 90s better than any other NBA era? Because players were tougher, both mentally and physically, then they are now. There was a style of physicality that has been deliberately removed by the league in favor of a softer, gentler, more offensive driven league, all because the networks and David Stern believe high scoring, no defense, basketball is the only thing that can get ratings. The 90s weren't just the era of Jordan, or the era of some of the best big men ever, it was the era of the badass.
dapa o ta aw sa video kung unsa ka lisod pag 90's
YouTube - Michael Jordan vs 90's defenses, the breakdown Vol 1 Part 1
Larry Brown in an interview said:
"The league wants that. You can’t guard anybody anymore, If Michael (Jordan) played today he’d average 60 a game, as much as they call fouls on the perimeter. You’ve got to have people that can keep guards in front of them without fouling. It’s unbelievably important now. And now you need guys that can penetrate and play pick-and-roll and get people involved."
MJ was also the better defender of the 2
YouTube - michael jordan defense
And remember MJ also played in 2001 - 2002 were the zone defense was implemented that the thread starter said was tough. lol tsk tsk tsk
pila ave. ni MJ ? 20 ppg pila iya age - 40... the question here what if MJ was in his prime pila kaha iya ma score/ave in todays league? tubag!!!!!!!!!
Originally Posted by sadahkingjam
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