Anthony Edwards - "Nobody had skill back in the day, MJ was the only one."

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All i can say is todays athletes are stronger, faster, they have way more skills and are even better at shooting the ball
I honestly don't believe they're really stronger or faster past the 70's, ant himself bout as athletic as Dominique Wilkins and Vince Carter, I've been looking at a lot of old footage and I feel like athleticism peaked in the 90's for bball, plus skill wise the leauge just fought too long to allow how dudes played in the streets into the leauge so a lot of movement and skills were sanitized in the product imo. , they have more skill now but who wouldn't in a game that's 77 years old now, I bet you would dust some nikkas in the 60's on your level too.
 

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I honestly don't believe they're really stronger or faster past the 70's, ant himself bout as athletic as Dominique Wilkins and Vince Carter, I've been looking at a lot of old footage and I feel like athleticism peaked in the 90's for bball, plus skill wise the leauge just fought too long to allow how dudes played in the streets into the leauge so a lot of movement and skills were sanitized in the product imo. , they have more skill now but who wouldn't in a game that's 77 years old now, I bet you would dust some nikkas in the 60's on your level too.
The atheltes today have better nutrition, better access to medicine, better research etc, its not comparable .Alot of it is mystique about that era
 

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3 years boss. 3 years. Every NBA player has about 3 years to be the darling and still looked at as a kid who can do no wrong …..until it flips and now they throwing ‘why you ain’t got no rings’ in your face

It’s something I first noticed with Dwight Howard. Dwight was the lovable goofball for a few years then all of a sudden shyt turned quick And you can go look back at any highly regarded top pick who didn’t win right away, Jordan, Shaq, Embiid, Blake griffin.

So Any you got like 1 more year and that goodwill gon dry out he won’t be ‘young’ anymore and all this shyt wont be seen as ‘cute’


Dwight was Tebow before Tebow to a lesser degree. All American Christian Guy that was a raw talent, tbh. Russell Wilson pretty much perfected that Dwight Howard and Tim Tebow lane.

Dwight Howard didn't have any less than clean cut image until many years into his career.
 

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Grant Hill had a beautiful game (ugly jumper doe), Penny had a beautiful game, Glen Robinson had a nice looking game, Tim Hardaway, Rod Strickland, Chris Jackson, C Webb, ect.

All these nikkas can be placed in today's game, AS IS in their era, and look exactly like the best players of today.

The 80's still had a bunch of ugly looking ass games. Vinny Johnson has one of the ugliest games in NBA history and was considered the Jamal Crawford of his era.

That shyt was nasty work.
 

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Grant Hill had a beautiful game (ugly jumper doe), Penny had a beautiful game, Glen Robinson had a nice looking game, Tim Hardaway, Rod Strickland, Chris Jackson, C Webb, ect.

All these nikkas can be placed in today's game, AS IS in their era, and look exactly like the best players of today.

The 80's still had a bunch of ugly looking ass games. Vinny Johnson has one of the ugliest games in NBA history and was considered the Jamal Crawford of his era.

That shyt was nasty work.
:mjtf: You from the D but I done seen you shyt on Zeke and now The Microwave in here. Who’s next Dumars?
 

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:mjtf: You from the D but I done seen you shyt on Zeke and now The Microwave in here. Who’s next Dumars?
They were great, but compared to the finesse of today's game, Isiah's game was simple (not ugly, just not at all creative) and The Microwave game was just ugly ASF to watch lol.

All bro shot was 2 hand pushers. Absolutely no finesse or creativity in his game AT ALL. Still a great scorer, just an ugly scorer.
 
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