How could someone stomach watching this game in its entirety?

[Peruvian Connect]

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

NBA fans did NOT watch this era minus MJ.

Jordan only missed 1 and 1/2 years though? So how does that equate an ERA?

 

[NYC Rebel]

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Jordan only missed 1 and 1/2 years though? So how does that equate an ERA?

Viewership dropped in BOTH 94 and 99 when he left.

NBA fans liked the NBA when MJ played, not when he was gone.

Those are the numbers

 

[NYC Rebel]

This thread is dumb and actually highlights the problems With todays game

just because you think players of today are more skilled doesnt make current games more interestin. The same with movies. special effects are much better today, doesn’t mean the movies are

the draw for sports is about the competition not high level shot making

Twice in a span of 3 weeks, the NBA saw an all time playoff low in scoring.

It wasnt competition….it was ineptness.

You in here have no clue what it was like to watch long in the tooth players get minutes. It was ugly, stiff, and slow. It was the old man Mark Jackson and Barkley slow ass backdown in the post to the point the NBA had to make a rule change because it was so god awful to watch basketball.

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

Twice in a span of 3 weeks, the NBA saw an all time playoff low in scoring.

It wasnt competition….it was ineptness.

You in here have no clue what it was like to watch long in the tooth players get minutes. It was ugly, stiff, and slow. It was the old man Mark Jackson and Barkley slow ass backdown in the post to the point the NBA had to make a rule change because it was so god awful to watch basketball.

Only once in the entire 1994 finals did the winning team score more than 91 points and neither team scored 100 all series. 3 times in the 1996 finals the winning team scored 92 or less. The final scores of games 5 and 6 were 89-78 and 87-75. In 1997 we had 1 team crack 100 points in the finals. Final margins of 84-82, 78-73, 90-88, and 90-86. Pace of 84.2 possessions per game. Only the cavaliers at 82.9 were slower

 

[ItWasWritten]

It’s easy to take what you’ve seen NOW and judge the game

The fans were into the game from start to finish….

Don’t have the ECF numbers but looks like
18 million people watched the 1994 NBA finals

Close this stupid ass thread

 

[NYC Rebel]

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It’s easy to take what you’ve seen NOW and judge the game

The fans were into the game from start to finish….

Don’t have the ECF numbers but looks like
18 million people watched the 1994 NBA finals

Close this stupid ass thread

It was a 40% drop off from the previous year.

And fukk you…I judged the game THEN…not just NOW and called it ass back THEN. shyt was trash compared to league years prior.

fukk outta here.

 

[Rekkapryde]

It was initiated by CarsonPalmer in 2006, reemphasized for Brady in 2009. Wasnt started for, or by Brady. The bodyweight rule was a result of Aaron Rodgers having his collarbone broke vs Minnesota in 2017. Once again, nothing to do with Brady. The fake sliding that Allen and Mahomes do and bait calls with? Nothing to do with Brady. Faking like you are going out of bounds and cutting it back because the defense is apprehensive to hit you near the sideline, has nothing to do with Brady.

def right about Palmer.

But let's not act like Tom got away with murder with the refs.


Now he done passed the torch to Mahomes

 

[Joe Sixpack]

I used to call it sludge ball

This era was horrific

 

[ItWasWritten]

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It was a 40% drop off from the previous year.

And fukk you…I judged the game THEN…not just NOW and called it ass back THEN. shyt was trash compared to league years prior.

fukk outta here.

The 04 Pistons held 11 opponents, yes 11 under 70 points

Why don’t you make a thread about that era ? Cuz it don’t fit your narrative

More people watched what you call trash more than do today , defense and opposition matters nikka

And if I recall OJ Simpson shyt was going down during the finals

Stand the fukk down

 

[MVike28]

Hilarious how many times the OP has re-rocked the same "the NBA was trash in the era MJ dominated" thread. I think we get it by now

Basically this lol

 

[NYC Rebel]

I used to call it sludge ball

This era was horrific

It was bad. Who the fukk wanted to watch Mike Fratello “eat up the clock” games?

 

[NYC Rebel]

Basically this lol

How does this make sense when I feel modern play is better?

 

[Joe Sixpack]

It was bad. Who the fukk wanted to watch Mike Fratello “eat up the clock” games?

Fratello started it. He started it with Cleveland then the Knicks did it then the whole league went to shyt

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

Fratello started it. He started it with Cleveland then the Knicks did it then the whole league went to shyt

Imagine a Shaq led lakers team being the fastest team in the league even as they shot nearly 34 free throws per game . Will Perdue started 30 of the 79 games he played mostly at small forward averaging 5 points per game and that team won 56 games. That spurs team had two 21 per game scorers and one 10 per game scorer, averaging less than 93 points and won that many games because offense was down so bad

 

[Jplaya2023]

Only once in the entire 1994 finals did the winning team score more than 91 points and neither team scored 100 all series. 3 times in the 1996 finals the winning team scored 92 or less. The final scores of games 5 and 6 were 89-78 and 87-75. In 1997 we had 1 team crack 100 points in the finals. Final margins of 84-82, 78-73, 90-88, and 90-86. Pace of 84.2 possessions per game. Only the cavaliers at 82.9 were slower

So defense wins championships