Showtime 80 wrote:Braggins wrote:Sedale Threatt wrote:What's crazier to me is how many people pine for the return of mid-range jumpers, like they're significantly different from 3s. A jump shot is a jump shot is a jump shot.
I'm honestly baffled at people who think its better basketball when offensive players are less skilled and miss more shots and defensive players just flagrantly foul guys that they can't guard to "intimidate" them or whatever nonsense.
LOL again, literally 27 out of the 30 highest rated NBA Finals games were from 1988 to 1998!
https://hoopshype.com/lists/nba-finals-the-games-with-the-highest-ratings-of-all-time/
Turns out people enjoyed having variety in styles of play with teams being able to impose their will on the defensive end without neutering them with a bunch of artificial rules to enhance offensively limited and soft players that can only shoot 3’s and drive open lanes!
Physicality created intense rivalries which have become virtually non-existent in today’s soft AAU buddy buddy “chuck till you drop” sanitized soccer mom friendly NBA.
This is why former players and older fans don’t respect this “beginner level” incarnation of the game and to tell you the truth players like Jordan, Bird, Magic, Dream or Kareem would’ve probably lost interest quite rapidly playing in the present boring league without much defensive resistance!
You can't be seriously citing TV ratings comparisons to modern day as evidence of a lack of popularity and therefore viability.
I guess literally everything that's televised markedly worse than it was 30 years ago.