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re: Anthony Edwards: Outside of Jordan, nobody in the NBA had any skills until Kobe came along
Posted on 8/21/24 at 10:21 am to SlowFlowPro
Posted on 8/21/24 at 10:21 am to SlowFlowPro
Nope, NBA teams were playing zone and trapping full court in the 1980s which has been proven many times with articles and video on this board. You’re dishonest he’s just ignorant
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Posted on 8/21/24 at 10:23 am to PrimeTime Money
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That doesn’t matter. 3 > 2. They’ll willingly trade post up 2’s for 3’s. And on defense Shaq would be taken to the perimeter and abused in today’s game.
Lol no he wouldn’t. Under today’s rules he can camp out near the rim and be the GOAT rim protector.
Posted on 8/21/24 at 10:25 am to Dairy Sanders
Notice all the conflicting arguments they make? They don’t understand what they’re talking about and they’re married to their ignorant bias.
Posted on 8/21/24 at 10:38 am to Bench McElroy
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I didn't watch it back in the day so I can't speak on it
Posted on 8/21/24 at 10:43 am to VA LSU fan
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90’s NBA was horrible. All of the great players of the 80’s were gone by 92 outside of Barkley and Olajuwon.
Forgot someone?
Posted on 8/21/24 at 10:48 am to Bench McElroy
“I can’t speak on it since I didnt watch, but let me tell you what I think.”
He’d be a great journalist.
He’d be a great journalist.
Posted on 8/21/24 at 10:52 am to SlowFlowPro
quote:I don’t know what else to tell him. We’re obviously right. He’s sitting here telling us zone existed in the NBA in the 80’s and 90’s. It’s just factually wrong and there’s not really anything else more to be said to someone who rejects easily verifiable facts.
He's going to shift from a discussion about the rules to one about the refs, to avoid admitting reality.
Posted on 8/21/24 at 10:55 am to PrimeTime Money
More irony
Posted on 8/21/24 at 11:00 am to WestCoastAg
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The NBA was pretty shitty in the 80s and 90s if we are just being honest
90's maybe. 80's no.
Before Magic v Bird, it was commonplace for the Finals to be broadcast on tape delay. Literally, CBS didn't broadcast the deciding game 6 of the 1980 Finals to most of the country until 11:30 pm (ET)!!!...even though the game tipped 2.5 hours earlier. The reason is because they didn't want to bump The Dukes of Hazzard and Dallas to broadcast the game live. THAT'S how irrelevant the NBA was at the time.
The Celtics/Lakers rivalry was massive and increased the NBA's popularity significantly. You also still had guys like Kareem and Dr. J playing. Those factors, combined with the marriage of Jordan and Nike exploded the NBA.
You had superstars that stayed on the same teams and didn't try to "pair up" to chase rings. Teams generally stayed together...which created great, and often heated, rivalries. Prior to the 1980's the NBA was a DISTANT third to MLB and NFL in interest/popularity.
Posted on 8/21/24 at 11:36 am to SelaTiger
There are a ton of people on here who didn’t watch but THINzk they know.
Posted on 8/21/24 at 11:50 am to dukke v
The Lakers used to play zone against MJ all the time. They did it in the 90 finals, there’s video of it everywhere. The Pistons used to play this weird 3-2 zone against him before they came up with the idea of just beating him into submission. The Sonics trapped, the Celtics trapped full court all game sometimes, the Bulls trapped, the Bucks played a lot of zone. This is all just one google or YouTube video away but notice he’d prefer to repeat his BS than just look and find out. Too scared to face reality seems to be a running theme with guys like that.
This post was edited on 8/21/24 at 11:54 am
Posted on 8/21/24 at 12:08 pm to Madking
Sending double teams is not a zone. Zone means defending space on the floor, not a man. That was illegal.
You could kind of play zone as long as you didn’t venture beyond the lines you were limited to by the illegal defense rules based on where your “man” was. But it’s still not a true zone.
You could kind of play zone as long as you didn’t venture beyond the lines you were limited to by the illegal defense rules based on where your “man” was. But it’s still not a true zone.
This post was edited on 8/21/24 at 12:12 pm
Posted on 8/21/24 at 12:12 pm to PrimeTime Money
No it was illegal to stand 8 feet below your man if he was outside the arc and 6 feet below if he was under it. Again you don’t know what the rules were and again you refuse to just do a quick search to inform yourself and your argument which only proves you’re not objective about the topic and are just repeating garbage you read somewhere. You don’t know what you’re talking about.
This post was edited on 8/21/24 at 12:14 pm
Posted on 8/21/24 at 12:16 pm to PrimeTime Money
“But it’s still not a true zone.”
Neither are the defenses of today
Neither are the defenses of today
Posted on 8/21/24 at 12:20 pm to Madking
There’s a lot more to it than that. If the ball is on the opposite side of the floor than your man, you can’t go into the paint.
You could literally iso with an entire side of the floor open. Teams used to exploit this all the time. They’d send their non-shooting center out to the 3-point line and his man had to follow him outside the paint.
You could literally iso with an entire side of the floor open. Teams used to exploit this all the time. They’d send their non-shooting center out to the 3-point line and his man had to follow him outside the paint.
Posted on 8/21/24 at 12:20 pm to PrimeTime Money
No that was taken out in the 80s because of MJ
This post was edited on 8/21/24 at 12:21 pm
Posted on 8/21/24 at 12:21 pm to Bench McElroy
dude is an idiot. he should shut up so people won't know.
Posted on 8/21/24 at 12:26 pm to Madking
Late 80’s. But it was the rule for a long time. And isolation was still exploited with all iterations of the rule. You could still take the big man out of the paint on the weak side and big men on offense had a lot easier time than they do now.
Posted on 8/21/24 at 12:29 pm to PrimeTime Money
So you think Greg Ostertag at the three point line is going to deter a double team on someone like Barkley or MJ? Besides that has nothing to do with the point which you were incorrect about.
Posted on 8/21/24 at 12:32 pm to therick711
96 team would struggle with Jokic too. And good luck to them trying to stop KD, Steph, Lebron.
This post was edited on 8/21/24 at 12:34 pm
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