Black Mage wrote:Negrodamus wrote:Black Mage wrote:
Not true. Joel isn't allowed to spin to the basket and have his elevated elbows blowing up an opponent's face. The game is called very differently for post players. Shaq's physical demolition style doesn't play in today's game.
I think Embiid had one season early on where he was top ten in offensive fouls and decided that the style was not conducive to scoring a lot of points or even staying on the court.
It's a very different game today. I watched a bit more on the Shaq, Dikembe and other center highlights. Centers in the post were allowed to use their arms a lot more to push guys off them. Arms were often up around the defenders collarbone or neck. Defenses have also changed; there was a lot less of the "swarming" wings back then. Often times you'd watch two lumbering bigs working on Shaq, but rarely were wings coming in while Shaq was backing a guy down to steal the ball.
Yeah I mean you also literally could not play zone (officially) until the 00s and the soft doubles they do against Embiid all the time now would have been illegal defense. Watch the 01 finals Mutombo is on a complete island on Shaq with no help.
