"JJ Reddikk, if you had played in the 80's I would have locked your ass up." - Michael "Coop A Loop" Cooper

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Different games. Locking JJ Reddikk up means spending all game chasing him around screens and executing pass offs and switches with teammates. Coop played in a much more iso heavy era where you stare at a guys waist and move your feet. JJ ain't out here getting buckets off wing iso's lol
 
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Verbal Kint said:
Different games. Locking JJ Reddikk up means spending all game chasing him around screens and executing pass offs and switches with teammates. Coop played in a much more iso heavy era where you stare at a guys waist and move your feet. JJ ain't out here getting buckets off wing iso's lol
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Coop was locking Larry Bird down who was running around screens. Yall act like screens werent invited in the 1980s.
 
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That still doesn’t explain why he averaged his highest ppg at age 34. He had been 7 years and 3 different teams removed from Orlando by then.

Hornacek wasn’t getting buckets in the 80s lol. He averaged 20ppg once in his career playing with an up tempo Phoenix Suns team, and that was in the 90s. Also, Hornacek was a much better defender than JJ.
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Sam Cassell averaged his highest PPG at age 34. What’s your point?

And Hornacek averaged 17.6 PPG in the ‘89-‘90 season.

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2legit said:
Coop was locking Larry Bird down who was running around screens. Yall act like screens werent invited in the 1980s.
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Different game. The ability to shoot from even your bigs on the floor forced modern defenses to invent different kinds of switching schemes - 80s/90s/2000s era teams wouldn't be able to defend them with some of the terrible players they allowed on the floor. You also don't have the same kinds of screening action because of illegal defense rules. There was no point running some of the complex off ball screens you see now because you didn't need to. Just put some non-shooting dope on the 3point line and even a dummy like Shaq would know where the double is coming from because the defense can't pre-rotate or hedge.

A guy like JJ Redikk in his prime would survive the 80s and do pretty well.
 
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Of course Coop wouldn't be guarding J.J. Reddikk if they played together, but his overall point, that Reddikk wouldn't be able to get a shot off against him, is true. I don't think he's out here thinking matchups; he's just trying to say that Reddikk would find out just how soft NBA defense in the '80s was if he was unlucky enough to play in that era.
 
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Some of these guys probably can't imagine basketball prior to the Harper rule. Where refs yell at you to play on while you're picking yourself from the ground.
 
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Cladyclad said:
JJ is a 20ppg scorer in the 80s
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Nah. He is constantly getting handchecked while opposing defenders daring him to drive to the basket so a goon/enforcer can wallop him to educate him about driving the lane on them.

Almost different sport. A time when your typical NBA fan was also a hockey fan.
 
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