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Posted on 2/28/23 at 8:14 am to Bronc
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In a time where the fastest paced team in the league would be near dead last in pace in today’s game.
So? That’s how the coaches choose to play. Doesn’t mean we should change anything
Posted on 2/28/23 at 8:39 am to SPEEDY
That would be very bad for the NBA to do. They already have a problem with this rest crap. This league is gonna shoot itself in the foot with the players wanting to be coddled. And even the thought of taking 10 games out of the currsnt season is even more bad. The NFL has added an extra game and is 100 x a more physical than the NBA… man I miss the 80’s and 90’s NBA when REAL men played.
Posted on 2/28/23 at 8:43 am to hg
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“Wait a minute, you gonna make $70M and you can’t play basketball 3 or 4 days a week?’… They fly private. They got the best medical stuff ever created… People working in the steel mill every day, I’m pretty sure they tired too, but they go to work every day.”
-Charles Barkley
And what that quote doesn't include is the fact that NBA players retire at like 30 as multi-multi-millionaires and the steel workers still work 5 days a week all year for the 35 years after the NBA player retires.
Posted on 2/28/23 at 8:53 am to SPEEDY
Obligatory, Wilt Chamberlain once averaged 48.5 minutes a game for a season where he played 80 games.
Yet you mean to tell me Kawhi Leonard can't play 46 minutes for a single gme without his body breaking in half.
Yet you mean to tell me Kawhi Leonard can't play 46 minutes for a single gme without his body breaking in half.
Posted on 2/28/23 at 8:57 am to Syd
defense is much harder than ever to play because of pacing and space. You dont just have dudes going iso or throwing it into the post.
Posted on 2/28/23 at 9:00 am to SPEEDY
What a fricking terrible idea.
Posted on 2/28/23 at 9:04 am to brgfather129
Just cut games if you're worried about mileage on players. Obligatory the lockout season was the best season post.
Posted on 2/28/23 at 9:08 am to Bronc
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In a time where the fastest paced team in the league would be near dead last in pace in today’s game.
Technology has vastly improved training methods and the overall quality of today’s athlete, at least that’s what I’m told when anyone tries to glorify the 90’s. These pro athletes can handle it.
Posted on 2/28/23 at 9:43 am to dukke v
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man I miss the 80’s and 90’s NBA when REAL men played.
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"
This post was edited on 2/28/23 at 9:50 am
Posted on 2/28/23 at 9:47 am to SPEEDY
Or here's a better idea tell NBA players to do their job and play until the game is over and stop being soft arse little bitches.
Posted on 2/28/23 at 9:50 am to SPEEDY
Kawhi rule. Dude works a 14/14 in the NBA
Posted on 2/28/23 at 9:55 am to Bronc
Ok it
Get ya. I guess what bothers me more is the fact that the 12th guy on the bench sits there for 46 mins and MAY get to play that night or not. Yet they are millionaires and would love to play like 20 mins a game… the amount
Of time these so called superstar play should not shut their body down to where they have to (rest). And players today are pussies and entitled way to much. And severely overpaid.
Get ya. I guess what bothers me more is the fact that the 12th guy on the bench sits there for 46 mins and MAY get to play that night or not. Yet they are millionaires and would love to play like 20 mins a game… the amount
Of time these so called superstar play should not shut their body down to where they have to (rest). And players today are pussies and entitled way to much. And severely overpaid.
Posted on 2/28/23 at 9:56 am to SPEEDY
All these leagues keep changing the rules for some stupid reason. They say its length of the game, but why would I ever want a football game to be shorter...same for a close basketball game, or baseball game.
Posted on 2/28/23 at 10:10 am to SPEEDY
-Start the regular season Christmas day.
-Cut the season to 50 games.
-Stop having the playoffs last 3 months.
Doing this would make the NBA much more enjoyable, but of course if they did this the players would have to take big paycuts so it will never happen.
-Cut the season to 50 games.
-Stop having the playoffs last 3 months.
Doing this would make the NBA much more enjoyable, but of course if they did this the players would have to take big paycuts so it will never happen.
Posted on 2/28/23 at 10:12 am to dukke v
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Of time these so called superstar play should not shut their body down to where they have to (rest). And players today are pussies and entitled way to much. And severely overpaid.
I mean do some just want players to play through fractured feet, shattered ankles, and torn MCL's?
The problem with the league is this shite is beyond players like AD that take a week off for every boo-boo.
The league is more athletic than ever, more offensively and defensively complex, which means more complex movements, more athletic exertion, and more opportunities for injury.
And a lot of it isn't specifically the players. Teams are wanting to protect their investments and do season-long preventive maintenance to try and keep players fresh for the playoffs. Paying a guy 40 million a year and then grinding him down during the regular season only to get bounced in round 1 isn't smart business or smart basketball.
The solution is to shorten the number of games and maybe even slightly lengthen the duration of the season so players get even more rest.
As for overpaid, a guy like Giannis or Lebron brings in 10x their salary for the organizations they play for. In an uncapped market guys like Lebron, Giannis, Luka would make 2 to 3x as much. Maybe more
Posted on 2/28/23 at 10:14 am to T
Roger Murdock might have benefited from load management back in his day. If he only had to drag Walton and Lanier up and down the court for 33 minutes a night instead of 48 minutes, he would have been able to try hard all season instead of just the playoffs.
Posted on 2/28/23 at 10:15 am to SlowFlowPro
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Decreasing total games seems to be what makes the most sense but owners will be giving up revenue. I could see this being a give/take in the next CBA. Players give up like 0.5% of revenue to decrease games.
The lockout* shortened season from a few years ago made every game more exciting, IMO. Of course they also had back-to-back-to-backs, which shouldn't come back
This post was edited on 2/28/23 at 10:25 am
Posted on 2/28/23 at 10:51 am to SPEEDY
Lol, that's super pussy
Posted on 2/28/23 at 11:00 am to Bronc
My point is players back in the 80’s and 90’s played basically every game unless it was some MAJOR injury. Sore toes and a bruised knee shoulder pain or a headache these guys played through. If todays players have all the new ways to make themselves better then why are they soft as charming tissue.Anthony Davis wouldn’t last ten games back then.
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