Players who were "great" in the 90s, but now you'd say otherwise

[jadillac]

In the mid 90s, you couldn't tell a young me that Dennis Scott wasn't a "great" shooter and a 3pt specialist. He had a goat nickname of 3-D and wore #3. I remember an "Inside Stuff" segment where he looked at the camera and said "2 for you, 3 for D"


But looking at the 3pt stats now, breh is like 80th all-time in makes and just a few spots ahead of......Ron Artest.

Yeah, yeah, "the game has changed", but 80th....Ron Artest? Even dudes like Dale Ellis are still in top 25.

 

[fifth column]

In the mid 90s, you couldn't tell a young me that Dennis Scott wasn't a "great" shooter and a 3pt specialist. He had a goat nickname of 3-D and wore #3. I remember an "Inside Stuff" segment where he looked at the camera and said "2 for you, 3 for D"


But looking at the 3pt stats now, breh is like 80th all-time in makes and just a few spots ahead of......Ron Artest.

Yeah, yeah, "the game has changed", but 80th....Ron Artest? Even dudes like Dale Ellis are still in top 25.

Why stop at basketball, how about cars, phones, refrigerators

 

[jadillac]

Why stop at basketball, how about cars, phones, refrigerators

Pretty sure Hakeem, MJ, Gary Payton etc are great in any era.

 

[fifth column]

Pretty sure Hakeem, MJ, Gary Payton etc are great in any era.

They are classics. Point is 3-D was a great 3pt shooter in his era

 

[AlbertPullhoez]

OP gave me a reason to post this classic

 

[CHICAGO]

In the mid 90s, you couldn't tell a young me that Dennis Scott wasn't a "great" shooter and a 3pt specialist. He had a goat nickname of 3-D and wore #3. I remember an "Inside Stuff" segment where he looked at the camera and said "2 for you, 3 for D"


But looking at the 3pt stats now, breh is like 80th all-time in makes and just a few spots ahead of......Ron Artest.

Yeah, yeah, "the game has changed", but 80th....Ron Artest? Even dudes like Dale Ellis are still in top 25.

ALL TIME IN MAKES
IS A LONGEVITY ACCOMPLISHMENT.
DUDE WAS RETIRED AFTER 10 SEASONS.

KIDD & BRON ARE TOP 12
ALL TIME AND ARENT THE SHOOTERS
D3 WAS.

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[Canada Goose]

I'm NOT gonna say hes not great but.... in the late 90s it seemed like Latrell Sprewell was the best player on the Knicks, today? Nobody brings him up. People still talk about other Knicks greats from the 90s but nobody ever brings up Sprewell.

 

[mson]

I'm NOT gonna say hes not great but.... in the late 90s it seemed like Latrell Sprewell was the best player on the Knicks, today? Nobody brings him up. People still talk about other Knicks greats from the 90s but nobody ever brings up Sprewell.

That happened ever since he said that shyt about feeding his kids.

 

[Jplaya2023]

3d would be an animal playing now

 

[CarltonJunior]

Robert Pack. The series against the Sonics made me think breh was a superstar and he barely cracked over 15 PPG scoring most of his career.

 

[H. Selassie]

As a kid, you couldn’t tell me Allan Houston in his prime wasn’t only a step behind Kobe or just as good as say….Ray Allen.

 

[ikbm]

rasheed wallace made 4 all star games....but he only averaged 20ppg once....and it was 20 ppg right on the nose
career average was 14. wasnt an elite rebounder either. let rasheed tell it he was that nikka tho
a lot of the notoriety came from arguing with the refs.
shouldve been WAY better than what he ultimately was

 

[CHICAGO]

rasheed wallace made 4 all star games....but he only averaged 20ppg once....and it was 20 ppg right on the nose
career average was 14. wasnt an elite rebounder either. let rasheed tell it he was that nikka tho
a lot of the notoriety came from arguing with the refs.
shouldve been WAY better than what he ultimately was

NAH RASHEED WAS
THAT nikka, HE JUST PLAYED
ON BALANCED TEAMS.

IF HE WAS ON A BAD TEAM
GETTING FORCE FED THE BALL
LIKE SOME OTHER PLAYERS
DURING THAT ERA HE
WOULD HAVE PUT UP SOME BIG NUMBERS.

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[ikbm]

NAH RASHEED WAS
THAT nikka, HE JUST PLAYED
ON BALANCED TEAMS.

IF HE WAS ON A BAD TEAM
GETTING FORCE FED THE BALL
LIKE SOME OTHER PLAYERS
DURING THAT ERA HE
WOULD HAVE PUT UP SOME BIG NUMBERS.

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man please, chris webber was on balanced teams and showed his ass his whole career.
he was wasted potential and lacked consistency.
he had all nba talent yet never made it there
and I was wrong. he never actually averaged 20ppg and only cleared 8 boards twice.

 

[Bboystyle]

Im still trying to figure out how Daryl Strawberry was so popular as was his trading cards

nikka played good when he wanted to which wasnt very often