Kevin Durant "It's Way Easier To Score In Today's NBA"

[mastermind]

There is nowhere near the effort on d and rarely is a bulky 7fter clogging the paint.

17 people really dapped a post saying this. Imagine missing a Brad Lohaus-type.

 

[SAINT]

So where's all that talent on the defensive end?? If players today make 90s and early 2000s players look like plumbers, these new era super soldiers should be just as good on defense and preventing these high scoring games as they are at dishing em out no?

this is a bad take. good individual offense will always beat good individual defense. They ALSO talked about this in the interview.

 

[mastermind]

Defenses are literally spread thin and in disarray today.

What?

You all really should watch a full basketball game from the 80s, 90s and aughts.

 

[IIVI]

So was it easier to play defense back then or no?

Yes, easier to play defense back then which made it harder to score as the goto player. That's what KD is saying.

Defense is harder to play today which means overall offense is easier. Defense and offense are inversely proportional.

That's what's getting a little lost here.

The offensive capabilities of a team have grown because of the shooting 1-5.

Defense is more difficult today and because of that which makes it easier for players who can create shots for themselves because it's spread so thin, like for a KD, Kobe, MJ, etc.

The threat of the other 3-4 players being able to shoot is a dreamland for a player who knows whoever is checking them cannot stay in front of them. If they get beat and the defense collapses to help that means wide open 3's.

 

[SAINT]

Yes, easier to play defense back then which made it harder to score as the goto player. That's what KD is saying.

Defense is harder to play today which means overall offense is easier. Defense and offense are inversely proportional.

That's what's getting a little lost here.

The offensive capabilities of a team have grown because of the shooting.

Defense is more difficult today and because of that which makes it easier for players who can create shots for themselves because it's spread so thin, like for a KD, Kobe, MJ, etc.

then we’re on the same page

 

[DatNkkaCutty]

 

[Collateral]

Tracey Murray and Tony Delk can score 50 in the ‘90s but Blake Griffin can’t.

Blake would never survive an era where Otis Thorpe, Tyrone Hill, and Dale Davis were all-stars.

And all of them old nikkas would of been put on a poster by Blake. Like Blake wasn’t 6-10 250lbs himself. Like he didn’t have handle and a spot up 3pt game in his prime. Offensively, he could of hung with any of them. Defensively, if you allowed a modern player to play by the defensive rules of the 80’s & 90’s, I think a lot of y’all would come up surprised.

 

[viktordoomsecretwars]

1990 MVP VOTING

1 Magic Johnson 30 LAL
2 Charles Barkley 26 PHI
3 Michael Jordan 26 CHI
4 Karl Malone 26 UTA
5 Patrick Ewing 27 NYK
6 David Robinson 24 SAS
7 Hakeem Olajuwon 27 HOU
8 Tom Chambers 30 PHO
9 John Stockton 27 UTA
12 Clyde Drexler 27 POR
13T Joe Dumars 26 DET
10T Buck Williams 29 POR
13T Isiah Thomas 28 DET
10T Larry Bird 33 BOS

1988 MVP VOTING

1 Michael Jordan 24 CHI
2 Larry Bird 31 BOS
3 Magic Johnson 28 LAL
4 Charles Barkley PHI
5 Clyde Drexler 25 POR
6 Dominique Wilkins 28 ATL
7 Hakeem Olajuwon 25 HOU
8 Karl Malone 24 UTA
9 Fat Lever 27 DEN
10 John Stockton 25 UTA
11 Alex English 34 DEN
12 Isiah Thomas 26 DET

2003 MVP VOTING

1 Tim Duncan 26 SAS
2 Kevin Garnett 26 MIN
3 Kobe Bryant 24 LAL
4 Tracy McGrady 23 ORL
5 Shaquille O'Neal 30 LAL
6 Allen Iverson 27 PHI
7 Dirk Nowitzki 24 DAL
8 Ben Wallace 28 DET
9 Jason Kidd 29 NJN
10 Chris Webber 29 SAC

2021 MVP VOTING

1 Nikola Jokić 25 DEN
2 Joel Embiid 26 PHI
3 Stephen Curry 32 GSW
4 Giannis Antetokounmpo 26 MIL
5 Chris Paul 35 PHO
6 Luka Dončić 21 DAL
7 Damian Lillard 30 POR
8 Julius Randle 26 NYK
9 Derrick Rose 32 TOT
10 Rudy Gobert 28 UTA
11 Russell Westbrook 32 WAS
12 Ben Simmons 24 PHI


Is there more talent or is it just far easier to score thereby making some of these guys who would have been average a few years ago look like star players?

Also, look at 2021. Funny how "washed" Westbrook was 11th in MVP voting just 1 year ago.

 

[#1 pick]

It’s wild how the Lakers let Lopez walk. He’s exactly what they need.

Its been a bad org for awhile

 

[mastermind]

Is there more talent or is it just far easier to score thereby making some of these guys who would have been average a few years ago look like star players?

There are more than 12 players in the NBA, bredrin.

 

[NormanConnors]

"It was so hard to score 30 back then" referring to his first few years in the league. Says the game required more tough shots in order to score due to lack of offensive schemes and steady rim protection. Says today's offenses are more exotic and players can easily be schemed into getting 30.

Lots of system players out there , quite a few are coli favorites

 

[Mars]

2021 MVP VOTING

1 Nikola Jokić 25 DEN
2 Joel Embiid 26 PHI
3 Stephen Curry 32 GSW
4 Giannis Antetokounmpo 26 MIL
5 Chris Paul 35 PHO
6 Luka Dončić 21 DAL
7 Damian Lillard 30 POR
8 Julius Randle 26 NYK
9 Derrick Rose 32 TOT
10 Rudy Gobert 28 UTA
11 Russell Westbrook 32 WAS
12 Ben Simmons 24 PHI


Is there more talent or is it just far easier to score thereby making some of these guys who would have been average a few years ago look like star players?

Also, look at 2021. Funny how "washed" Westbrook was 11th in MVP voting just 1 year ago.

You could make another list of great players from 2021 who weren't on the MVP list that are still active.

Lebron
Harden
Durant
Davis
Kyrie
George
Kawhi
Tatum
Booker
Thompson (injured)

Great young talent:
Young
Zion
Morant
Ball

And I'm sure there are many more that I missed.

 

[FunkDoc1112]

This thread is another entry in "The Coli doesn't actually click links"

This place is barbershop status

 

[NormanConnors]

I like how mofos try to make it sound special but its basically what Lebron's ran his whole career. Give the best player the ball at the top and get out the way so they basically go 1-1 until rim protection late rotation, gets foul or get bucket. They over simplified the game thats why it pretty boring these days.

Cats been doing that before Lebron

 

[FunkDoc1112]

It truly is amazing how nxggas will manipulate anything they can to convince themselves of their own lies.

These fakkits came plunging in with their SEE KD IS SAYING THE GAME IS SOFT bullshyt not even realizing he's actually praising today's game and saying the ease is a result of better offensive sets and talent.

Like when sccit tried that shyt with the Luka quote when Luka said it was because of the bigger court and the 3 second rule that was actually more restrictive towards defense in the era they cling to