re: My nostalgia for Larry Bird- Magic Johnson era NBA basketball has reached absurd levels

Irrelevant but ok, show this “data”

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An analogy would be the people you’re talking about are interested in the look and color of a car while people from our generation prefer to know what’s under the hood and how it works.

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Jesus Christ, it’s the exact opposite.


If you pick 1000 MJ fans from a sample reflective of typical basketball fans, and do the same for Lebron, I’d bet my fricking life the MJ fans debated using far less facts/data.

You mfers can’t even have a conversation about illegal defense.

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None of what you said applies to anything I’ve posted

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An analogy would be the people you’re talking about are interested in the look and color of a car while people from our generation prefer to know what’s under the hood and how it works.

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What is this?

I get it now, you think stats represent the nuts and bolts of basketball lol. So absurd I didn’t even consider you’d be that ignorant.

Not what I said. Maybe you just don’t understand the analogy which would make a lot of sense.

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If those great centers from Ewing to Duncan’s era played today they’d be unstoppable. Think about the numbers Embiid puts up, all of those players were better than him.

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There isn't a single 7 footer outside of Shaq that played from Ewing to Duncan that has more pure talent than Embiid. Embiid being a big time foul baiter and injury prone has really tricked people into thinking he's not good. He is an all time talent.

I should've prefaced - all time *offensive* talent. He's still a 3 time all defense player. But we're talking about a borderline 50/40/90 7 footer who's averaging 5+ assists a game while making all defense teams.

I'll even concede Malone, even though he got to play in an error where he essentially couldn't be double teamed and Embiid is doubled more than a third of the time he touches the ball.

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Ewing, Hakeem, Shaq and Robinson were all better athletes, all of them were more physical

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Will concede this.

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all of them were better defensively and all of them save Robinson had better footwork and feel in the post

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I think Embiid is a lot better defensively than he's given credit for.

Embiid's ability to step outside is what gives him the offensive edge over all of them, sans prime Shaq. That and he's an 83% FT shooter on 10 a night.

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Ewing, Hakeem, Shaq and Robinson were all better athletes, all of them were more physical, all of them were better defensively and all of them save Robinson had better footwork and feel in the post

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Pre-illness Mourning was also a strong post scorer with some muscle and high end defense

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Not what I said. Maybe you just don’t understand the analogy which would make a lot of sense.

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That would make much more sense.

Can you explain it to me, please?

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Except the data does not say that, but don’t let facts get in the way of your opinion.

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