re: Watch this video, and tell me NBA superstars didn't have it easier in the '90's

I haven't read the OP yet or watched the video(I will in a sec) but I made a long post about this exact thing the other day.

I watched an old Bulls game against the Knicks. In the first quarter, the Bulls had a run where 6 or 7 out of 10 possessions or so, went to Jordan. Now, this IS NOT an attempt to diminish his game. And people can roll their eyes at this all they want, but it's exactly what happened....

Each time he touched the ball in this section of the game, Jordan ran up the right side of the court as the ball handler brought it up the floor. Each time Jordan sorta posted up near the block. The 3 other Bulls players parked it on the left side of the court, behind the 3 point line, and the ball was dumped to Jordan. I'm not exactly a rules expert over here, but it was obvious that man to man rules were nuts, because the Knicks players were all beyond the free throw line, save for the little dude guarding MJ.

With the ball in his hand, he's face up his defender, pump fake, jab step, turn his back, jab step, and pretty much just fell out the situation and create space. The man guarding him was the only player between him and the basket.

2 of the 6 or 7 possessions he put the ball on the floor but for some reason, illegal defense was called. I assume because a Knick defender came to double him too early...? The other times he shot little 12 footers over the man guarding him like there was nobody there....which he was a master at.

What really blew my mind was thinking about what the Spurs to do Lebron(which is amazing). There a plenty videos and pictures to show how difficult it is for guys to get to the basket when the Spurs don't want them to. If/when Lebron beats his man, 2 or 3 Spurs players immediately sink to the basket. It's a feat in and of itself just to get a path to the rim. It's just not realistic to dribble through that many guys for a clean look.

I don't know if it was always like this for Jordan, but in the game I watched, he didn't have to deal with ANYTHING like that. Hell, it was downright ridiculous how he could maneuver around the court.

What I took away from it was defenses now would be MUCH more difficult for guys back in the day to score on. Kobe's game would have been PERFECT against what I saw. He reminds me so much of Jordan now that I've seen full Bulls games. Lebron's size and speed would have demolished the man to man he would have seen. Not saying he would have averaged 40 or anything, but damn.

Sorry for this insanely long post, but I'm so interested in this discussion.

ETA: A more level headed and knowledgeable fan...looking at you, RTR and Spur, will correct this if need be....but I honestly believe that if Lebron played under the same system that Michael Jordan did, he'd be considered the better player by the majority of basketball fans.