re: To help players, like Kawhi playing 46 minutes, the NBA may try target scores for OT

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man I miss the 80’s and 90’s NBA when REAL men played.

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This is typical "back-in-my-day" Boomer revisionist nonsense

Mandatory man-to-man defense, no illegal defense, no restricted area, legal handchecking meant it was a lot easier to be a low post scorer, but a lot harder to be a guard(this is why what Jordan did is so damn impressive, he was a GOAT guard in a game designed for bigs to dominate). Defenses were simple to the point of laughable compared to the modern era(there is a reason the mid to late 80's thru the early 90's saw average PPG that were only surpassed a few years ago with the pace and space era).

If you want peak defense and peak toughness in the league, it was the 00's. Where the legalization of zone defense and the not yet fully adjusted offensive-focused rules ushered in the defensive era, where the average PPG hit a historic low that has never come close to being matched....It was also often considered the most boring era of basketball. And the one where Boomers got all pearl clutchy cause the game was too "thuggish and violent"