Pelon chingon wrote:It was clearly the golden age of the nba along with the early 2000s.
Unfortunately most will be deaf to the irony.
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Pelon chingon wrote:It was clearly the golden age of the nba along with the early 2000s.
Warspite wrote:Billups was a horrible scorer who could only score with an open corner 3 or a FT.
One_and_Done wrote:Pelon chingon wrote:It was clearly the golden age of the nba along with the early 2000s.
Unfortunately most will be deaf to the irony.
Warspite wrote:Billups was a horrible scorer who could only score with an open corner 3 or a FT.
D.Brasco wrote:One_and_Done wrote:Pelon chingon wrote:It was clearly the golden age of the nba along with the early 2000s.
Unfortunately most will be deaf to the irony.
Irony or nostalgia? A lot of old millennials' (I'm one of them) are looking back at the 2000s with rose colored glasses when it was a lot low scoring games and an overdose of iso hero ball.
I think the league had the right balance of things around the 2010s, decent volume scoring, decently paced games without the super abundance of 3s. Superior to the 90s too in my view.
TheGOATRises007 wrote:
You can find a clip of this for LeBron in the finals vs the Warriors.
It's silly to focused on an isolated clip.
TheGeneral99 wrote:It had more to do with the 1980s and 1990s players/analysts lashing out at the current generation and acting like players from this era wouldn't even be that good if they played back then, which is just utterly ridiculous. These guys are acting like the league back in the 1980s and 1990s was like full-contact NFL, and some of the current stars would be shut down, which is honestly far from the truth.
Now you are getting push back the other way because while the 1980s and 1990s produced some great basketball and legends, you cannot reasonably argue that the level of basketball was better.
I think players/analysts need to give respect to the older generations for what they did to evolve the game, and older players/analysts need to acknowledge that the current generation of players are just better overall.
zero rings wrote:Hair Jordan wrote:What’s up with this generation of youngsters absolutely hating on any and every generation that came before them? First it was calling 50’s and 60’s era players plumbers and fireman. Then they started trashing the 80’s. Now they’re “done with the ‘90’s” and trying to claim that Jordan has no left hand and would be DeMar DeRozan in the modern era. Don’t they realize that every modern player is another generations plumber? Don’t they realize that 30 years from now kids will watch lowlights of Lebron, Curry, Durant, Kyrie, Luka, Jokic etc and call them Uber drivers and baristas? They’ll get their comeuppance in 40 years when someone says Lebron or Curry wouldn’t make the G League. I hope I’m alive to see it
Nobody would even care to hate on the 90’s if you boomers weren’t so obnoxious.
Hair Jordan wrote:zero rings wrote:Hair Jordan wrote:What’s up with this generation of youngsters absolutely hating on any and every generation that came before them? First it was calling 50’s and 60’s era players plumbers and fireman. Then they started trashing the 80’s. Now they’re “done with the ‘90’s” and trying to claim that Jordan has no left hand and would be DeMar DeRozan in the modern era. Don’t they realize that every modern player is another generations plumber? Don’t they realize that 30 years from now kids will watch lowlights of Lebron, Curry, Durant, Kyrie, Luka, Jokic etc and call them Uber drivers and baristas? They’ll get their comeuppance in 40 years when someone says Lebron or Curry wouldn’t make the G League. I hope I’m alive to see it
Nobody would even care to hate on the 90’s if you boomers weren’t so obnoxious.
Boomer? I’m a Gen Xer
Hair Jordan wrote:What’s up with this generation of youngsters absolutely hating on any and every generation that came before them? First it was calling 50’s and 60’s era players plumbers and fireman. Then they started trashing the 80’s. Now they’re “done with the ‘90’s” and trying to claim that Jordan has no left hand and would be DeMar DeRozan in the modern era. Don’t they realize that every modern player is another generations plumber? Don’t they realize that 30 years from now kids will watch lowlights of Lebron, Curry, Durant, Kyrie, Luka, Jokic etc and call them Uber drivers and baristas? They’ll get their comeuppance in 40 years when someone says Lebron or Curry wouldn’t make the G League. I hope I’m alive to see it
its my last message in this thread, but I just admit, that all the people, casual and analytical minds, more or less have consencus who has the weight of a rubberized duck. And its not JaivLLLL
Repeat 3-peat wrote:TheGOATRises007 wrote:
You can find a clip of this for LeBron in the finals vs the Warriors.
It's silly to focused on an isolated clip.
Or Spurs in 2013.
Special_Puppy wrote:sp6r=underrated wrote:I'm an old. Look at what year I joined this site and recognized I could drink legally before that date. One thing I've noticed about basketball is that generational conflicts are much deeper. The same thing said in 2024 about 2004 players was said in 2004 about 1984 players.
Why do you think generational conflicts are much deeper in the NBA than other sports? I honestly never even hear American football fans discussing players before 2000 that much.
lessthanjake wrote:Kyrie was extremely impactful without LeBron, and basically had zero impact whatsoever if LeBron was on the court.
lessthanjake wrote: By playing in a way that prevents Kyrie from getting much impact, LeBron ensures that controlling for Kyrie has limited effect…
OhayoKD wrote:Hair Jordan wrote:What’s up with this generation of youngsters absolutely hating on any and every generation that came before them? First it was calling 50’s and 60’s era players plumbers and fireman. Then they started trashing the 80’s. Now they’re “done with the ‘90’s” and trying to claim that Jordan has no left hand and would be DeMar DeRozan in the modern era. Don’t they realize that every modern player is another generations plumber? Don’t they realize that 30 years from now kids will watch lowlights of Lebron, Curry, Durant, Kyrie, Luka, Jokic etc and call them Uber drivers and baristas? They’ll get their comeuppance in 40 years when someone says Lebron or Curry wouldn’t make the G League. I hope I’m alive to see it
Bringing up the 50's and 60's and 70's like it wasn't 90's mythmakers who erased that era of players is funny. It wasn't the zoomers that named an MVP after someone who had no basketball based claim to the award. Nor was it zoomers who spun the narrative that Bill Russell was carried by hall-of-famers to his 11 titles. Nor was it zoomers who enshrined made up math formulas as objective data to reinforce their biases.
It was your generation that ruined basketball discourse, stand proud.
lessthanjake wrote:Kyrie was extremely impactful without LeBron, and basically had zero impact whatsoever if LeBron was on the court.
lessthanjake wrote: By playing in a way that prevents Kyrie from getting much impact, LeBron ensures that controlling for Kyrie has limited effect…
TheGOATRises007 wrote:
You can find a clip of this for LeBron in the finals vs the Warriors.
It's silly to focused on an isolated clip.
Hair Jordan wrote:zero rings wrote:Hair Jordan wrote:What’s up with this generation of youngsters absolutely hating on any and every generation that came before them? First it was calling 50’s and 60’s era players plumbers and fireman. Then they started trashing the 80’s. Now they’re “done with the ‘90’s” and trying to claim that Jordan has no left hand and would be DeMar DeRozan in the modern era. Don’t they realize that every modern player is another generations plumber? Don’t they realize that 30 years from now kids will watch lowlights of Lebron, Curry, Durant, Kyrie, Luka, Jokic etc and call them Uber drivers and baristas? They’ll get their comeuppance in 40 years when someone says Lebron or Curry wouldn’t make the G League. I hope I’m alive to see it
Nobody would even care to hate on the 90’s if you boomers weren’t so obnoxious.
Boomer? I’m a Gen Xer
RRR3 wrote:TheGOATRises007 wrote:
You can find a clip of this for LeBron in the finals vs the Warriors.
It's silly to focused on an isolated clip.
The difference is LeBron fans don't claim he's some deadly shooter like MJ fans do.