Players you miss watching
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=UKoGDiAKxco
imo, a very underrated player ... i'd pay to watch his beautiful jumpshot.
LOL Y U MAD THO?
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OldSchoolNoBull
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I could list all the players that have already been listed, but I'd like to talk about some league-wide things that I miss...
1.I miss 'real' defense. I started watching basketball in 1991, so I grew up with the 90s NBA. The defense in the 90s NBA was much, much, much rougher than it is now, and even then it wasn't as rough as it was in the 80s. There was a recent interview with Larry Bird, and he was talking about how when he was playing, teams had 'no-layup' rules. This essentially meant that if someone on the opposing team has an open path to the basket, you take him down. Period. This was the norm in those days, and a lot of the time those moves weren't even called for fouls. Real defense as allowed. And it was allowed in the 90s too, albeit somewhat toned down. People knocked each other around playing D. That kind of defense gave the game an ENTIRE ELEMENT, an ENTIRE DIMENSION, that is now missing from the game. You can't breath on a guy without getting called for a foul, especially is said guy is a 'star'. Ticky-tack fouls are called all over the place. You simply CANNOT get physical AT ALL on the defensive end anymore. It is no longer within the rules. What used to be a 'hard playoff foul' or even just a 'rough defensive non-foul take-down' is now a flagrant foul and a possible suspension. If you applied today's rules to the games from back in the day, you'd have 10 or 20 flagrant fouls called per game. Guys in the new generation(LeBron, Wade, etc) have never played in the NBA with defensive rules any different than they are now, and so they often complain about 'hard' fouls that are a fraction of the kind of thing you'd often see multiple times per game in the 80s and 90s. They've never dealt the kind of physical 'real' defense that Bird/Magic/MJ/Barkley/Ewing/etc dealt with. So, I miss that.
2.I miss when the NBA cared about network television. The fact that they re-upped with ABC through 2016 or whenever it is clearly shows that they don't care about network television anymore. It's not just the lack of quality in ABC's broadcast, it's that ABC doesn't air many games. They own ESPN, so if ABC really wanted to, if they felt they would profit from it, if they felt it was in their best interest, they could air more games on ABC and less on ESPN, and have double-headers more often or even triple-headers. But we are now at the start of the conference finals and there has been, in my count, exactly one double-header on ABC. By my count, there have been between 60 and 70 playoff games played so far this year, and I would be shocked if the number of those games shown on ABC is above ten. And David Stern knew that would be the case. Fact is, most major sports are showing more games on cable than on networks anymore, so I can't say it's just the NBA. I guess the whole NBA television setup these days just irks me.
TNT is still great, but it's the only quality NBA broadcast still around. ABC and ESPN have too many problems to count. The 90s NBA television setup will never be topped, the legendary NBA on NBC for networks(with double and triple headers all the time) and the TNT/TBS cable combo. The CBS/USA combo in the 80s was a classic NBA broadcast in its own right as well, but nothing - NOTHING - can top the 90s setup. Because TNT/TBS are absolutely top-notch and NBC was absurdly, ridiculously beyond top-notch. I don't ask ABC/ESPN to match what the NBC was, but they could at least be decent.
I can't be the only who gets nostalgic whenever I see old 'NBA on TBS' clips, can I? TNT is still around but I haven't watched an 'NBA on TBS' game in practically a decade, and you hardly ever see clips of it in retrospectives, whereas you see NBC clips everywhere. So when I see an 'NBA on TBS' clip, there's a certain quaintness to it. Like a relic from distant time.
1.I miss 'real' defense. I started watching basketball in 1991, so I grew up with the 90s NBA. The defense in the 90s NBA was much, much, much rougher than it is now, and even then it wasn't as rough as it was in the 80s. There was a recent interview with Larry Bird, and he was talking about how when he was playing, teams had 'no-layup' rules. This essentially meant that if someone on the opposing team has an open path to the basket, you take him down. Period. This was the norm in those days, and a lot of the time those moves weren't even called for fouls. Real defense as allowed. And it was allowed in the 90s too, albeit somewhat toned down. People knocked each other around playing D. That kind of defense gave the game an ENTIRE ELEMENT, an ENTIRE DIMENSION, that is now missing from the game. You can't breath on a guy without getting called for a foul, especially is said guy is a 'star'. Ticky-tack fouls are called all over the place. You simply CANNOT get physical AT ALL on the defensive end anymore. It is no longer within the rules. What used to be a 'hard playoff foul' or even just a 'rough defensive non-foul take-down' is now a flagrant foul and a possible suspension. If you applied today's rules to the games from back in the day, you'd have 10 or 20 flagrant fouls called per game. Guys in the new generation(LeBron, Wade, etc) have never played in the NBA with defensive rules any different than they are now, and so they often complain about 'hard' fouls that are a fraction of the kind of thing you'd often see multiple times per game in the 80s and 90s. They've never dealt the kind of physical 'real' defense that Bird/Magic/MJ/Barkley/Ewing/etc dealt with. So, I miss that.
2.I miss when the NBA cared about network television. The fact that they re-upped with ABC through 2016 or whenever it is clearly shows that they don't care about network television anymore. It's not just the lack of quality in ABC's broadcast, it's that ABC doesn't air many games. They own ESPN, so if ABC really wanted to, if they felt they would profit from it, if they felt it was in their best interest, they could air more games on ABC and less on ESPN, and have double-headers more often or even triple-headers. But we are now at the start of the conference finals and there has been, in my count, exactly one double-header on ABC. By my count, there have been between 60 and 70 playoff games played so far this year, and I would be shocked if the number of those games shown on ABC is above ten. And David Stern knew that would be the case. Fact is, most major sports are showing more games on cable than on networks anymore, so I can't say it's just the NBA. I guess the whole NBA television setup these days just irks me.
TNT is still great, but it's the only quality NBA broadcast still around. ABC and ESPN have too many problems to count. The 90s NBA television setup will never be topped, the legendary NBA on NBC for networks(with double and triple headers all the time) and the TNT/TBS cable combo. The CBS/USA combo in the 80s was a classic NBA broadcast in its own right as well, but nothing - NOTHING - can top the 90s setup. Because TNT/TBS are absolutely top-notch and NBC was absurdly, ridiculously beyond top-notch. I don't ask ABC/ESPN to match what the NBC was, but they could at least be decent.
I can't be the only who gets nostalgic whenever I see old 'NBA on TBS' clips, can I? TNT is still around but I haven't watched an 'NBA on TBS' game in practically a decade, and you hardly ever see clips of it in retrospectives, whereas you see NBC clips everywhere. So when I see an 'NBA on TBS' clip, there's a certain quaintness to it. Like a relic from distant time.
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