How could someone stomach watching this game in its entirety?

[NYC Rebel]

I dare someone to wade through two of the top 4 NBA teams facing off in this two hours of trash.



If you were fortunate enough to watch 1980s up and down pace of NBA basketball, there was NO WAY you could sit there, watch this shyt and not think NBA play fell off the cliff.

68 points by the knicks. Having to stomach Dale Davis post moves vs Anthony Mason (RIP) & company. An exasperated Marv Albert FINALLY happy that the Knicks hit a FG. Relying on players who had more yesterdays in their careers than tomorrows because of expansion . Yes….its one game but it was far more a reflection of the low scoring, shyt for ball movement quality in pIay we saw back then. I will take the jacking of threes any DAY over this bullshyt.

 

[KidJSoul]

Nah breh...

It's the 90s doe

You wouldn't get it bro



I agree op, as with everything nostalgia and anti-recency bias clouds everything. People don't realize that not every 90s game was the bulls or pistons.

A lot of games had frequent scoring droughts

 

[Rekkapryde]

The rose colored glasses cats my age and older have for this shyt is comical.

Was smiling so hard when Big O Oscar Robertson said he loves today's game and stars. Hatin' nostalgic cats were so mad. They couldn't understand

 

[feelosofer]

I would make the argument misplaced nostalgia has hurt the NBA more than anything.

 

[Bigwhite2498]

Same dudes be shytting on the college game for the exact reasons they big up the 90s game

 

[NYC Rebel]

The 94 playoffs saw the NBA all time scoring low for points in a game happen TWICE. The Pacers scoring 69 points vs the Hawks (high scorer had 12 points for the Pacers ) and then the Knicks scoring 68 points vs the Pacers.



And yall WONDER why NBA ratings dropped 50% when MJ first retired?

I dont give a fukk what anyone says. I called that era trash in real time because it was. I will take today’s play over that stagnant bullshyt any day

 

[OneManGang]

There was nothing wrong with this game. The energy was there, the rivalry, crowd was into it, and they played hard. All I could ask for as a fan of basketball. Pacers Knicks were wars of attrition

 

[NYC Rebel]

There was nothing wrong with this game. The energy was there, the rivalry, crowd was into it, and they played hard. All I could ask for as a fan of basketball. Pacers Knicks were wars of attrition

shyt was trash. Dale Davis work in the post?

Derek Harper guard penetration at his age?

Watch the game. shyt was trash

 

[FukkaPaidEmail]

A game that devolves into a 3 pt contest or a lay up line can be seen as just as trash by some people

Idk why that’s hard to grasp.

 

[NYC Rebel]

A game that devolves into a 3 pt contest or a lay up like can be seen as just as trash by some people

Idk why that’s hard to grasp.

zero scoring and lack of movement basketball is worse.

Especially seeing the falloff from scoring of the 80s.

 

[Consigliere]

Does this count as negativity towards the sport and hating on players?

 

[NYC Rebel]

Does this count as negativity towards the sport and hating on players?

It counts towards an era being overrated and used to tear down the current day.

NBA fans did NOT watch this era minus MJ.

 

[Dem313wayz]

Disgusting shyt and this is the ECF cmon

 

[Consigliere]

It counts towards an era being overrated and used to tear down the current day.

NBA fans did NOT watch this era minus MJ.

Oh. So we gotta tear down that era to protect this era.

 

[Rekkapryde]

I would make the argument misplaced nostalgia has hurt the NBA more than anything.

That and the fact cats really gotta let MJ go. Love that Mike always respected those who came before him.

Really hope NBC and Amazon does a better job of promoting the game. Silver also needs to tell the tv partners to stop the denigration rhetoric openly on their platforms. Cats talk about Inside The NBA but pre Shaq the show respected both the greats of the past and the current cats even those without chips. They still got their jokes off too. Shaq and his Rings culture schtick ruined shyt.

Now you got the younger millennials through the youth today like all older hatin' nikkaz. They see shyt look what @NYC Rebel posted and bust out laughing. If respect was given by the older heads to the younger heads they'd understand and respect the differences between eras and return the respect to the older heads. Now these younger nikkaz like "fukk the 90s" etc.

And don't get started on the older heads pocket watchin hatin'.