re: Are the people who think Lebron couldn't play against the Bad Boys watching tonight?

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I think people confuse all the fighting from back in the day and think players today don't care much or they're soft, when those people just don't understand the difference in the rules/punishments for those things back then compared to nowadays.

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very good point.

I really hadn't considered that but I probably should have. That is one of the reasons the NFL is taking a slide right now in my opinion. I still watch but just not with as much enthusiasm. Probably a combo of me getting a little older and the game (football anyway) constantly shifting its rules.

things will continue to be lax too I think because:

1) as long as the powers at be aren't losing money.. they won't care.

2) Social media and the way ESPN has shifted into a totally different way people view sports. Either people are show boating or spending too much time arguing with Joe Blow on the internet about some game.

3) or they react emotionally to some side show circus show like First Take or SC6. They don't really talk about sports they go off in some tangent that has nothing to do with the god damn game most of the time.

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Bad Boy Pistons were a lot better than many people give them credit for. Aside from the hard fouls and "dirty" play they were still a tremendous team.

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Those same players in the 80's and 90's would be much bigger/more athletic if they had the same advances in training and nutrition that the players have now.

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Its funny when people talk about the big bad 80s ans 90s teama. The players then where nowhere near as athetic as they are now. Lebron wouod shite all over those teams. The nba back the were boys compared to the men that play it now

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It should be worth noting that Lebron spends more a year on his body than 95% of players actually made in the 80's. Be interesting to see certain players from that era with the benefit of personal nutritionists, multiple personal trainers, massive home gyms, hyperbaric chambers, etc

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Lebron would get eviscerated by the Bad Boys. Mahorn would decapitate him.

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If Mark Price could handle it, well...

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Jordan 20-7

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Lebron 9-6

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Discussion over. They really don't play defense comparatively in the NBA these days either. These youngsters are soft and whiny. That wouldn't fly in the 80's and 90's.