Kevin Durant: Defense wasn't better in the 80s/90s, they just got away with flagrant fouls

[Ganso Bomb]

 

[inndaskKy]

Yup, plus they were worse at shooting

 

[HabitualChiller]

Lotta Colinikkas gonna come in here bashing KD while providing zero legitimate counters to his argument

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

There are components of the game in terms of physical contact you simply can’t do
Anymore

That’s like saying football is the same sport as it was and that damn sure ain’t true

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

Oh boy

 

[fifth column]

Game was played that way back then so can’t just apply today’s game to that situation

 

[Swiggy]

They did in 04, and the Association needed Lebron to fly, so they moved in the fences

 

[Apprentice]

He’s speaking facts as he generally does

But I will say for sure there are more ridiculous calls now, rip through, jump backs on floaters, jumping into a planted defender, harden’s neck snap on floater etc.

Unacceptable

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

Game was played that way back then so can’t just apply today’s game to that situation

Right. There was a time you couldn’t dunk. He might as well say they weren’t aggressive at the rim. The way that assists were counted in the 50/60s was not a thing in the 80s. Rules change. The game evolves.

 

[Dwight Howard]

The game wasn't soft and allowed contact, alot of that contact would be flagrant today but that's just an indictment on today's weak ass rules

 

[get these nets]

Lotta Colinikkas gonna come in here bashing KD while providing zero legitimate counters to his argument

KD has said openly that it is easier to score the latter half of his career than the earlier half. Rulebook and enforcement of it gives advantage to perimeter plays now.

What KD calls flagrant fouls was just the physical nature of earlier eras. "They weren't defending, they were fouling" sounds funny. Michael Jordan would laugh at this.

 

[Godless Socialist CEO]

He's not lying, you were just allowed to physically beat the dogshyt out of people. You can't even really do that shyt on most playgrounds anymore without fight starting.

 

[IslandG]

Statement doesn’t make sense as the criteria for what’s a flagrant foul was different then that what it is now. So when KD says that it’s a ‘flagrant foul’, he’s referring to the modern (soft?) understanding of the foul. It wouldn't have been a ‘flagrant foul’ by the old standard. KD doesn’t realize this but in an ironic way he’s just confirming the belief that the modern nba is softer.

 

[Jplaya2023]

This wasnt even a foul. Bill had to man the fukk up



Kd would be getting Chiefs 2 piece & biscuit

 

[Juggalo Fred]

The Soft Servant wouldn't have lasted in that era if he was born 20 years earlier