I think it does. I mean nearly every team has some intriguing players and there are fantastic games every night. The is certainly the silver age of basketball. The game is sooo good.
I don't think that way about things I love: food, music, p***y and basketball. I like the stars from every era since the '80s began. I have no problem with any of them. The only problem now is the profound disparity between the conferences. I'm not much of an NFL fan, but it would be hard to find many diehard NFL fan saying the NFL was better in the '70s or '80s.
you think there aren't many nfl fans that preferred the nfl back when defensive players weren't a perpetual villain class?
80's teams would have a feast with today's NBA rules... they played at a high proficiency level AND were physical. On the flip-side, if today's teams would have to play with 80's rules, scoring would go waaaay down. Then again, players are bigger/stonger/faster than ever so maybe it was necessary.
Older people have the experience to know better. They're not reading about it or watching grainy YouTube clips.
The 80's maybe, but not the 90's. How many big men today have the touch that it seemed ten big men had in that decade? I'm talking Hakeem, Robinson, Ewing, Shaq, Rik Smits, and then you go to the defensive end where there was Parish, Mourning, and Mutombo. Basketball today has only Duncan and then maybe Pau Gasol--guys who have, not coincidentally, seven rings between them. As Hakeem said, basketball will always be a big man's sport. Yea, the rules are harder on them now, allowing for zone D and such, but look at what DMo is able to do just by dusting off some of McHale's old moves. Players today are certainly more athletic than ever, but where are the skills? At a certain point, the cost:benefit ratio of working out versus actually working on your game starts to skew in the other direction. For me that fulcrum point was the 90's: the height of NBA basketball.
It's awesome. Great games all the time. Really smart offenses (with certain exceptions *cough Lakers cough*) trying to beat really smart defenses. All time athletes flying down the court and hitting crazy shots. All time players like LeBron, Durant, Harden )) playing at insane levels.
Don't know about the 80s but I would love to see a 90s Hakeem vs current DMo in the post. Dream would teach DMo about fockass.
This is my sentiment as well. I would have to honestly throw in ANY era of competitive Pro Ball. I love watching BASKETBALL. I cannot get enough. I'm never again going to live my life without NBA League pass. It doesn't matter who is playing, I'll watch it. Like heypartner, I also agree with the disparity in the conferences. It's been like this for a while though. I would much rather see a playoffs system based purely off of RECORD. Let THE BEST teams play for the championship.
I like the 80s and 90s better. Since i like post ups and playing inside out. I do like this era better than the 2000s to me that was an alltime low for the nba. No good centers (except shaq and maybe Yao) and a lot of inefficiënt isolation playing guards.
Apples and oranges. The 3 point offenses completely changes the NBA. I imagine 80s teams would struggle with defending the 3 point offenses, but the 80s teams would dominate the interior even when you stuffed it.
80's rosters were less watered down because we didn't have all these superfluous newbie expansion franchises in C-level cities back then
The game is different today. The money the players make. The players that just coast through the season. It's more of a business than a game.
The league has only added three teams since the late 1980s and has seen a massive influx of foreign players. I don't think the talent level is watered down.
