1990s NBA teams vs Current teams.

[Malta]

@Malta prepping his excuses for Lebron

You must have missed my Tim Duncan (PBUH) celebratory thread after the Spurs beat LeBron and the Heat last year

Speaking of which, 90s teams would have no clue how to deal with last years Spurs

 

[Rakim Allah]

Bruh, can you please explain why anyone would give him the green light? I mean if you gave Darren Collison the green light he could probably get to 20ppg, but you'd be losing a ton of games as a result. You keep saying to give him the green light, the question becomes why would any sane coach do that



He didn't make the 3 then, he ain't making it now, distance is the same as it was then. Maybe his disability wasn't enough to make him improve that shakey three pointer his first 4 years in the league

Neither did Jordan but they both had the mid range game. If Mahmoud's mid range game was average and he shot sub .400 then I would agree with you. Who's to say he couldn't improve his 3pt % if played during this era where the 3 is a big focus. He never would of made it in the league in that era if he couldn't shoot.

Him raining 8 threes on Stockton would be damn near a regular ocurrence if he played today. Dude came into the NBA in the worst era for him.

Let's look at the genius of Mahmoud.









"Oh Neeeele Chris Jackson's on fire" - Keith Jackson

 

[Rakim Allah]

Brandon Jennings is a bad comparison, but 5 scoring titles isn't

Come on we'll never know so I had to put some extras on it.

 

[Rakim Allah]

Oh and the Nuggets for firing Doug Moe.

Bless that old cac's heart for seeing the greatness in a young Mahmoud.

Douglas, you too were not for meant for that classless era.

 

[Swagnificent]

Hardaway, Webber, McGrady, Hill, and Mourning were injury plagued.
Wallace was an underachiever
Stop exaggerating the 90's talent.

they still had stretches of their career where they dominated and look like HOF players. you don't see me dissin the 2008 draft cause Rose is injury plagued. he had a stretch where he was MVP of the league and looked like a surefire HOFer.

in the last 4 drafts before 2014 only Anthony Davis has looked like a future HOFer. that is PATHETIC.

 

[RiffRaff]

"But but but but the handchecking "

Out of all the nostalgia revisionist history ass nikkas out there, those who cape for 90's basketball got to be the worst.

And y'all got absolutely destroyed in this topic good god

OP brought the stats to the equation and most of y'all arguments only consist of ignorant hypotheticals, revisionist history of how "great" some players were, and of course handchecking

I don't think anyone denies that if the teams of today were brought into the future all other things being equal they would adjust to how the game is played, but the way y'all nikkas tell it, the teams AS THEY WERE in the 90's would on average beat the teams today. And that simply isn't true

I hate y'all 90 basketball nikkas, I really really do.

 

[Swagnificent]

You lost all credibility when you listed Rasheed Wallace as a superstar/HOF caliber player

all the PFs in the west during the early 2000s, KG/Duncan/Webber/Dirk said he was the most talented among them. he just had emotional issues that stunted his growth. in 2000, he was the best player on the Blazers team that pushed the Lakers to the brink of elimination in the western conference finals.

I was initially not going to include him, but I needed a second guy from the 95 draft.

 

[Swagnificent]

You must have missed my Tim Duncan (PBUH) celebratory thread after the Spurs beat LeBron and the Heat last year

that was mostly to spite kobe. he's still the sun that the nba rotates around eventhough he ain't been healthy for 2 years.

 

[holidayinn21]

Teams would just go at Schrempf on the perimeter

Think about either Perkins or Detlef having to guard Barnes, Bron, Green, etc any of the guys being put at the small ball 4 right now. That is what makes the whole going small shyt so dangerous now, we're approaching a place where the guy who is at the 4 can go off the dribble, defend his position and then hit the 3.

Lowe just did a really good piece on how teams want playmaking 4s now, the whole "Stretch 4" that can only shoot is about to go the way of the dinosaur.

schrempf averaged 6 APG one season. he was definitely a playmaker tho. as far as his D is concerned, if you could win with dirk and diaw as your starting 4's, you could win with schrempf, as long as you have a defensive anchor behind him(chandler, duncan), which he had in kemp.

and neither bron or draymond are shooting well this postseason, especially bron.

 

[ghostwriterx]

You must have missed my Tim Duncan (PBUH) celebratory thread after the Spurs beat LeBron and the Heat last year

Speaking of which, 90s teams would have no clue how to deal with last years Spurs

Most teams today have no clue


For all this talk about 90s teams vs. today's teams. Aren't we really talking about 2 teams? San Antonio and Golden State. Small ball is more popular but its not like there's a bunch of 4s who can put the ball on the floor, shoot threes and guard athletic bigs. Outside of Draymond who else does that at a high level?

Sure teams like NY and Indiana would struggle with certain small ball schemes, but those teams didn't really have elite talent anyway. Grizzlies won 55 games, made the playoffs and lost in 6 to a 67 win team. I don't think those 90s teams would get run off the court every time out.

The biggest take away from this is that they were very few truly elite teams in the 90s.

Bulls were the best team in the 90s, given time and a few roster tweaks I think they could've adopted to small ball fairly well.

 

[Rakim Allah]

Most teams today have no clue


For all this talk about 90s teams vs. today's teams. Aren't we really talking about 2 teams? San Antonio and Golden State. Small ball is more popular but its not like there's a bunch of 4s who can put the ball on the floor, shoot threes and guard athletic bigs. Outside of Draymond who else does that at a high level?

Sure teams like NY and Indiana would struggle with certain small ball schemes, but those teams didn't really have elite talent anyway. Grizzlies won 55 games, made the playoffs and lost in 6 to a 67 win team. I don't think those 90s teams would get run off the court every time out.

The biggest take away from this is that they were very few truly elite teams in the 90s.

Bulls were the best team in the 90s, given time and a few roster tweaks I think they could've adopted to small ball fairly well.

Humans adapting to their environment.

 

[Made Myself A Boss]

This comparing of different eras in sports shyt is getting lame..

Sure this era is better if you want to look at a stat sheet.. The entire game of basketball is different today

You simply cannot compare players in this era where analytics is the driving force.

Players these days do what some MIT grad in a suit tells them to do based on pie charts and line graphs.

Back in the day people just played and their personal will was the driving factor behind whether they won or loss, not a statistician

 

[MooseMouthMthafuga]

These anti 90 nikkaz then rolled up to the drawbridge with a battering ram(@Malta )

They really wanna tear our 90's down

But....hey can't take away what we where, man.

 

[blackestofpanthers]

I do find it funny how people are trying to argue that teams from the 90s would adapt to this era yet they are the same guys who would say so and so player from this era would suck back then because " the league was so tough." Players from this era can't adapt but entire teams from that era would

 

[LV Koopa]

was gonna come in here and school cats but I already see the nonsense going on. to OP for stating what's obvious to people that know their shyt.