Let's be serious the >muh 90's were better Peo

>>75414075
You're talking about the 1990s, not the 1950s. The level of athleticism hasn't increased that dramatically.

>>75414075

Yea teams/players are much better+smarter but thats a given

You now remember the literal choker Latrell Sprewell.

>>75414208
Just look at the video.The 99's Spurs was worse than the current Nuggets.It is almost cringie to watch their offense and they won a fucking ring

>>75414238
Idk seems like players see less athletic now. I swear seeing a windmill, tomahawk, reverse dunk in traffic was common back then, even manlets like Spud Webb and Robert Pack were doing it, now it seems niggas can barely dunk these days.

worth noting the increase in injuries over the years only seems to go up, while the 90s isnt as different, the modern era still is more difficult than some believe.

No more hand check changed the game. It's not as easy to constantly drain threes when a player is actually being defended. It was more of a physical game then and current players would get tought a lesson by the likes of Bruce Bowen

>>75414238
99 Spurs won in a lockout year, the season didn't start until February. They would've lost that Finals if Ewing didn't get hurt in the ECF.

>>75414570
That team wouldn't make the playoffs nowadays.

>>75414075
lol the bulls had 3 of the 5 best defensive players in the league (jordan, pippen, rodman), kucuck was 6th man of the year

>>75414075
>Any current team would cruise a 90's side with ease
I think they just thought the league was more fun to watch.

there is literally no more defense in the league.

>>75414075
90sfags always fall back to muh physicality, muh soft league.

Shit don't matter. You can't play physical when people aren't attacking the basket and are instead chucking 3s.

The Warriors would destroy any team from the 90s.

>>75414075

the competition across the league has gotten better certainly but atleast they played defense in the 90s

The NBA today is awful, OP, and I didn't watch back then. It had to have been better.

>>75418182
I'm pretty sure chucking 3s would be way harder if the defenders were allowed to make hand checks like in the 90s

>>75417172
kawhi a better defender than any 90s guard or forward

Just look at 2014 Spurs. Do you seriously think that any defence of the 90's wouldn't get cruised by a 1 year winning team of this era? Even da Bulls would get BTFO by a team like this

In todays NBA we have MCW as rook of the year. In 90s NBA we had Shaq as rook

>>75414075
I agree, it's very similar to how fags ride ali's dick in boxing

>>75418351
Either trolling or genuinely retarded.

File: goatniggas.jpg (273KB, 853x1024px) Image search: [Google]

273KB, 853x1024px

>>75414075
>current millenial meme league babbies are better than players from the golden era

You have to be at least 18 to post here, you fucking faggot millenial.

Pic related is objectively the greatest team ever assembled in the history of sports.

>>75419236
didn't know Don Francisco coached the Dream Team

>>75419583

I cant unsee that

>>75419236
who's the white guy between magic and jordan?

NBA on NBC.

>>75419681
Christian Laettner.

>>75419720
why is he even on the dream team? 0 rings and 1 all stars

>>75419761
Had arguably the greatest college career ever.

>>75414075
1. You will never prove your theory

2. You fail to take into account that 90s players would also have access to today's training, drugs, style of play, game strategy etc. if they were somehow playing against a team from today

You're clearly just some teenage faggot who never actually lived through the GOAT era of the NBA and resort to unorovable """"theories"""" as a means of plugging your ears and running away screaming.

Kill yourself

The only thing that matters is which era is more fun to watch, and the 90s were far more entertaining.

File: Dennis Rodman u dumb.jpg (282KB, 736x1118px) Image search: [Google]

282KB, 736x1118px

>>75414292

Nah, the players are way more athletic now, your memory is faulty

>>75418351

Scottie was better, Kawhi is amazing though

>>75419761
It was him or Shaq and there were too many blacks in the team already.

>>75414075
People who say the 90's were tougher in sports, say that because the sports were farm more physical. All of the big four sports in America have neutered their rules to try to lessen the physicality and possibility of injury. The fact is, because sports medicine and science wasn't as developed back then, and there are a lot more options available for players, players don't have to be as tough

>>75414075
Give the 90's Bulls today's human growth hormone and foul calls and they'd beat teams by 70 points. You have no fucking clue what you're talking about.

File: Slowbe Cryant.jpg (30KB, 300x400px) Image search: [Google]

30KB, 300x400px

>>75420119

Nah, you'd have to go back to the 2010 Lakers before you'd find a recent championship team that they would beat

Bitches like you need to take off your faget colored glasses when nostalgiaing about the past

File: khaleesi.jpg (181KB, 690x939px) Image search: [Google]

181KB, 690x939px

>>75420253
>cavs are barely squeaking out wins against the fucking pacers
>b-b-but they'd definitely beat Jordan/Pippen/Rodman

apex kek

File: Pistol.jpg (117KB, 880x592px) Image search: [Google]

117KB, 880x592px

>>75419784

ITT: sub-70 IQ cocksucker.

>>75420434
Mid rangers are obsolete now and that was basically the Bulls game. The Warriors would unironically beat them by 30 by the third quarter

Imagine if Larry Bird had 3 nutritionists, a back doctor, a legs doctor, a heart doctor, a head dcotor and 4 fitness trainers like today's betas such as LeBum, Durant etc.

Great thread. Anything before 2005 is irrelevant

>>75423284
Kek, the Warriors would get swept. Rodman would make Apemond chimp out by 3rd quarter of Game 1 and earn suspension. Curry would struggle to score 15ppg against Jordan, Pippen would obliterate Klay, Longley would be a double-double machine against Zaza.

>>75423368
The Bulls have no fucking answer to Durant.Your nostalgia googles just decieve you.Jordan can't guard a PG so small and would end up defending Klay or Durant.Apemond is better than Rodman and the Warriors bench is miles better.The 90's offenses were pretty basic compare to the current tactics and in 10 possesions the Warriors could end up having a 15 point lead over the Bulls.If you watch any clip of the 90's you will see how laughable their defence and offenses are.Just watching the transition of the Spurs is hillarious.Their first championship team looks D tier compared to their 2014 counterpart

>>75423545
You need to have IQ over 70 for basic comprehension, Abdul.

>>75423314
Instead he's got you gagging on his cock.

>>75423589
>Abdul
>That flag
Are you serious? Either way you are a moron.The current Rockets could beat the Bulls

>>75423623
You almost made my day with your borderline hilarious stupidity, Abdul.

>>75414075
maybe in the euro league

Jordan would be dunking over leflop in every ecf if they played in the same era

That is if laimbeer didnt fracture lechoke's supraorbital ridge in the semis

>>75423284
>the warriors
Horrible example. Pippen and Jordan are incredible perimeter defenders and would shut them down so fucking hard. Also with the Warriors lack of fucking lane presence, they'd get dunked into oblivion by MJ alone.

>>75421047
Maybe if Laettner's dad coached Duke and let him shoot every time he touched the ball, his stats would be like Petes

>>75419761
>>75420043
They wanted to have at least one non-pro. Laettner was still in college. Shaq was a rookie.

>>75423314
They would have him rest every other game

File: IMG_3561.jpg (1MB, 4032x3024px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 4032x3024px

Players of back then would demolish these pussy ass players. The get their head kick in. Just with a little of trash talk they cry

>>75423545
The tactics are the biggest difference. They were laughibly bad, I even understood that back then as a kid watching it, and it's clearly empirically provable. The biggest example is the mid-range shooting. Mathematically it is and always has been asinine to take 15 ft jumpshots for any reason. In the 90s it was the cornerstone of a guards offensive portfolio. 3s were looked at as a specialist tool.

>inb4 muh handchecks
Even if you believe that, the numbers were always there that 3s were underutilized. Steve Kerr shot over 50 fucking percent for the Bulls twice playing every game for them both years and was averageing less than 3 3-pt attempts/game. That's pure idiocy. This was under the supposed Zen Master as well.

90s strategy alone makes it barely watchable now.

File: Shepley-Rolling-Eyes.png (78KB, 210x309px) Image search: [Google]

78KB, 210x309px

>>75423545
You entire post just says, "I've never watched a game from the 1990s".

You literally bring no proof, just pure conjecture. You aren't even good at bullshitting. Give proof or shut the fuck up.

File: payton kemp.jpg (829KB, 3000x1999px) Image search: [Google]

829KB, 3000x1999px

Can we talk about how much better NBA uniforms were in the 90's?

back then, every team had multiple good jerseys.

>>75414238
Bill Russell literally jumped over a 7 footer in the 60s

MJ is the goat

90s wasn't particularly worse. The only real issue was the fact that the league was expanding and Jordan, who was undeniably skilled, was playing people akin to Irving.
Good players, but ones that could beat a superstar.

Currently the game has way too many random people who are incredibly good. The warriors are a mega-super team which would roll over non-Pippen Bulls.

Micheal Jordan is the current goat, there is no denying that, but if LeBron wins against the Warriors this year, then I think he takes the crown.

>>75443067
It is not conjecture.The defenses were player to player and mid rangers and isolation were basically the only offensive repertoir of any team.Just look at the 2 best teams of the 90's playing against each other
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1JzL2HFX2c
And compare it to the WC semifinals from the last year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS0i949zwfo
Current teams are way more efficient and dynamic

Ron Harper
Toni Kuköc
Dennis Rodman
Scottie Pippen
Michael Jordan

They were pretty overpowered in their day. Even the supporting cast won some awards before going to the 96 Bulls.

>>75443563
>Micheal Jordan is the current goat, there is no denying that, but if LeBron wins against the Warriors this year, then I think he takes the crown.
Nope. LeBron won his last two rings mostly luck bouncing his way. The Spurs got cocky, and Warriors losing Green for one critical game and losing Bogut significantly impacted that series. The Cavs were in danger of losing in 5 before that. And that was with the Splash Bros being cold for long stretches in the Final.

Plus LeBron had a less competitive East than Jordan did. Jordan had to deal with the Bad Boy Pistons early on his career. The Bulls were ubermensch but the East had the Knicks, Pacers, even the Heat in the latter half of the 80s. In the 90s, the East was like what the West is today. Only real contest that LeBron faced that was Piece/Jesus Shuttleworth/KG3 that lasted for like 3 seasons.

Plus MJ never faltered or lost a Final and he did all of this shit starting the league 4 years older than LeBron.

LeBron would be a solid #2 though.

>>75444259
The Big 3 Celtics were better than the Bad Boy Pistons. Their window was just shorter. MJ had less early success than Lebron, even. Dude got to the finals at 22 when MJ was just fresh out of college.

MJ never lost a final because he fucking lost before getting to the finals tons of times. If you think losing in the EC semis is better than making it to the finals and losing then you're dumb as a brick.

>>75444467
LeBron barely played against the Celtics though and he snapped Ray Allen from them.Tbh his success have come from jumping from one superteam to another draining the east out of talent

>>75444493
Yeah man and Jordan lost to the Magic, too. What's your point?

You can't shit on Lebron for making it to the finals and losing. That's retarded. That's the second best thing you can do. Do you think someone with 6 gold medals is mores successful than someone with 6 gold medals and 6 silver medals? Of course not, silver medals are still great accomplishments.

People use Jordan going 6for6 as if he was unbeatable. Nah, he was quite beatable. He got beaten before he got to the finals plenty of times.

>>75444493
>LeBron barely played against the Celtics though and he snapped Ray Allen from them.

Jordan literally won 3 titles with Dennis Rodman, the dude who wrecked his shit for years. You kidding me, dude?

>>75444531
The East was way more competitive during Jordan's time relatively speaking.I steal think that LeBron would have caused havoc in the 90's and dominated the league.But still since the Pacers great season no body has really challenged LeBron's team in the east.
>>75444518
When did I claim this? LeBron is just playing on a team that is way better in every measurable way to any other team in his conference.

>>75419236
why do americans take such pride in beating a bunch of literal whos who don't even care about your fucking sport?

>>75419236
Definitely one of the ugliest

>>75423194
Don't be so hard on yourself

>>75418282
I thought the 3 pt line was farther out.

ITT: nu-male braindeads born after 2000 who don't realize long 2s are more difficult to defend than 3s

why do you all know so much about basketball? what's the point?

File: filosmostmasterrace.png (148KB, 400x267px) Image search: [Google]

148KB, 400x267px

>>75443657
Typical Filo nigga acting like he know ball

>>75445657
Point is the thing you get when you shoot the ball inside the hoop.