NBA Myths Busted: Players Are Wayyyy Bigger Than They Used To Be

[Cladyclad]

I'm prepared, don't think I haven't thought this through for years... Ja Morant vs

How about

Not only where these guys just as good vertically as little spindly 88lb Ja Morant, they were also much more built on top of it with body like grown ass men... Built Ford fukkin tough, more durable, thicker in the legs as well and generally just more explosive.

Players were built back then to fight through aggressive defenses and weren't just skinny little plyometrically based athletes trained in skill jumping which is essentially what Lavine, Ja, etc do, which is jump up in a straight line and do more tricks on the way up due to practice. Not built to sustain their frames, and extremely lean in order to also keep a frame built to shoot the basketball from 3. Steve Francis is a better athlete than Ja Morant (the most athletic PG in today's NBA).

Let’s do a versuz on athletic freaks

1990-2005
Vs
2006-2022

 

[Peruvian Connect]

That’s why these two nikkas got flabby and fat quick asl in this league? At a certain point with GSW, Baron was just fat breh . Those not good examples

Thats an outright lie

 

[A Tribe Called Quest ™]

Thats an outright lie

When he dunked over AK47, and showed everyone him shirtless that was pure flab, that was not no muscle. nikka was built like Busta Rhymes, like he used to work out and stopped and now it’s pure flab

 

[Shadow King]

Players from PG to SF are bigger now on average. Small ball has turned PFs to extra SFs and centers to extra PFs bringing the league average back to 6'6".

 

[The God Poster]

I'm prepared, don't think I haven't thought this through for years... Ja Morant vs

How about

Not only where these guys just as good vertically as little spindly 88lb Ja Morant, they were also much more built on top of it with body like grown ass men... Built Ford fukkin tough, more durable, thicker in the legs as well and generally just more explosive.

Players were built back then to fight through aggressive defenses and weren't just skinny little plyometrically based athletes trained in skill jumping which is essentially what Lavine, Ja, etc do, which is jump up in a straight line and do more tricks on the way up due to practice. Not built to sustain their frames, and extremely lean in order to also keep a frame built to shoot the basketball from 3. Steve Francis is a better athlete than Ja Morant (the most athletic PG in today's NBA).

edit: and also the only position that might be more athletic today is the center position due to the post game being eliminated and them essentially playing like rebounding wings, which also goes against you saying especially not the PG position

You can’t tell me this ain’t @Swagnificent alias

 

[Shadow King]

I'm prepared, don't think I haven't thought this through for years... Ja Morant vs

How about

Not only where these guys just as good vertically as little spindly 88lb Ja Morant, they were also much more built on top of it with body like grown ass men... Built Ford fukkin tough, more durable, thicker in the legs as well and generally just more explosive.

Players were built back then to fight through aggressive defenses and weren't just skinny little plyometrically based athletes trained in skill jumping which is essentially what Lavine, Ja, etc do, which is jump up in a straight line and do more tricks on the way up due to practice. Not built to sustain their frames, and extremely lean in order to also keep a frame built to shoot the basketball from 3. Steve Francis is a better athlete than Ja Morant (the most athletic PG in today's NBA).

edit: and also the only position that might be more athletic today is the center position due to the post game being eliminated and them essentially playing like rebounding wings, which also goes against you saying especially not the PG position

These niqqas weren't that durable though

The rest is some "back in my day" nonsense

 

[Shadow King]

You can’t tell me this ain’t @Swagnificent alias

If so I just wanted time with a response

 

[Shadow King]

They didn't play in the "take a rest, no 4 games in 5 nights, elongated all star break and off-season" era and they also had to do all that while playing against actually regular season defense instead of this cone drill competition we see nowadays for 82 games

And still routinely missed games

 

[Swagnificent]

That’s why these two nikkas got flabby and fat quick asl in this league? At a certain point with GSW, Baron was just fat breh . Those not good examples

B. Diddy was a freak athlete before the injuries. And like dude said built like a man. He would've been better than Russell Westbrook and Lillard if he played in this era.

 

[A Tribe Called Quest ™]

B. Diddy was a freak athlete before the injuries. And like dude said built like a man. He would've been better than Russell Westbrook and Lillard if he played in this era.

Westbrook is built like a mf lol at that being your example, yea B Diddy was a freak athlete but he was flabby

 

[Swagnificent]

You can’t tell me this ain’t @Swagnificent alias

Great minds think alike I guess.

 

[Swagnificent]

Westbrook is built like a mf lol at that being your example, yea B Diddy was a freak athlete but he was flabby

B. Diddy was not always fat. He was lean and mean his first couple of years. You obviously don't remember cause you were too young. He started having knee issues early on and that led to his weight gain.

He's up there with T-Mac and Antonio McDyess on the greatest what ifs of the early 2000s. All 3 were freakish athletes with elite skill level before injuries stunted them.

 

[Swagnificent]

This has been debunked a million times over.. I've even said a million times, the league isn't even more athletic than it used to be, NBA athleticism peaked in the early 00s.. today's players, especially the stars are better pick n roll distributors and shooters but when it came to the full spectrum of athleticism, early 00s players take the cake over today's stars

Cosign.

The NBA peaked in terms of talent in 2001-2003. The 90s built up to that zenith. Then we started the slow decline that bottomed out in 2020.

 

[ISO]

Nikka name is AirTupac

 

[Rekkapryde]

dem 3 pointer attempts per game is a lil ridiculous