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I haven't denied that perimeter bodying/handchecking makes a difference. My point is that that's not the totality of the changes. Illegal defense...
Well, he has declined from his peak. But his peak was so high that he's still a top-five superstar and not that far from the top.
Do you really believe that players saying that they and their era cohort were the best ever are free of bias? There's a pretty obvious element of...
But why would we presume that both players would have more success today? That requires the underlying bias of believing that defenses are worse...
That presumes that most people thought the Warriors struggled (or were lucky) to win the title. That wasn't my perception at all. Those who...
This is true, we can never know a hypothetical, but I tend to think, considering that rule changes have helped both offense and defense, that...
The muck-it-up style was largely geared to slow isolation scorers who relied on "first step explosion" to beat their man at the point of attack. I...
You're confusing playing to the edge of the illegal defense rules with playing zone and getting away with it. There was no way to "zone" clear-out...
I don't think league specifically wants less defense/more offense, I think it's more nuanced than that. What they don't want is more "muck it up"...
Well, the didn't hide the zones they were running because they largely weren't...the illegal defense rule being retired is the main reason that...
No, I said by your logic (wins and losses are all that matter), the Warriors are gigantically superior.
I like watching Curry play. I liked watching Jordan, Magic and Bird too (though I was pretty young when Magic and Bird were playing). Those types...
Considering that has nothing to do what I said, this is baffling. My point is that you're leaning on point differential (in the two games...
Er, except that by wins and losses, the Warriors are gigantically superior to the Thunder. Check their records. By wins and losses between the...
Actually, I was 12 in 1990. I grew up on 1990s basketball and enjoyed it a ton because the Rockets won two titles and the Jordan/Pippen Bulls were...
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Yeah, you've implied before that the Warriors weren't dominant in the playoffs last year, but that's completely wrong. They had a point...
It's pretty obvious you have an axe to grind with Curry (and, I guess, this entire era of basketball) but this is getting silly. Dell Curry didn't...
Hand-checking on the perimeter was largely to slow players from blowing past you. It wasn't to keep them from moving laterally and it definitely...
It's amazing to me that people think that simplistic concepts like "stay right on top of Curry all the time" and "extend your defense out a bit"...
