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    You know Dave meant Jordan, WA.

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    The game being played in the NBA today is not basketball. Call it whatever you want but not basketball.




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    Very true. Same with NCAA Mens' b-ball. Watch the NCAA Women once in a while - they play it like it should be played.
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    Quote Originally Posted by CenTexDave View Post
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    Very true. Same with NCAA Mens' b-ball. Watch the NCAA Women once in a while - they play it like it should be played.
    I've got to disagree with that, football and basketball are more appealing to the eye then one you guys were looking at in the 70s and 80s. Better athletes, faster, and smarter. Women's basketball is inferior to the men's game in the same regard that men's college basketball is inferior to the NBA.

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    Faster - most likely. Smarter - oh hell no!!!!!!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by CenTexDave View Post
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    Faster - most likely. Smarter - oh hell no!!!!!!!
    Players are more efficient thus smarter, are all the players smarter no but you have a lot more young players in the league and AAU has dumbed it down a bunch. Think of it this way most of the players now could adjust their game to play in the 80s and 90s most players couldn't play now.

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    Probably true. A different era. I'm sure Jim Brown wouldn't dominate these days like he did 55 years ago either.
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    The NBA is the closest thing you can find to back yard basketball. Few fundamentals, less effort, no defense (a little for the playoffs), all about scoring, selfish play, no total effort.....Good college games are always more interesting to me than the NBA, for many reasons...Women's college basketball now is much like men's basketball used to be. More fundamentals, designed offenses, and emphasis on defense and rebounding....The NBA is the very least brand of basketball that I would ever watch....onetime, you think that players like Jerry West, Oscar Robertson, Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Walton, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird,Dave Stockton, Karl Malone and countless others couldn't play today? Really?
    As far as the NFL is concerned, give me the old days when Butkus, Staubach, Sayers, Stallworth, Bradshaw, Stabler, Mean Joe Green, Starr, and Tarkenton played...the old Oakland Raiders, NY Giants, Redskins, Bears, Vikings, Steelers, Cowboys, and Dolphins. To me, that was when football was really the way football should be played.
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    Quote Originally Posted by sickofpc View Post
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    The NBA is the closest thing you can find to back yard basketball. Few fundamentals, less effort, no defense (a little for the playoffs), all about scoring, selfish play, no total effort.....Good college games are always more interesting to me than the NBA, for many reasons...Women's college basketball now is much like men's basketball used to be. More fundamentals, designed offenses, and emphasis on defense and rebounding....The NBA is the very least brand of basketball that I would ever watch....onetime, you think that players like Jerry West, Oscar Robertson, Bill Russell, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird,Dave Stockton, Karl Malone and countless others couldn't play today? Really?
    Unfair, you listed top 50 players of all time there and yes they would be able to adjust but 90 percent of the league wouldn't make it. I don't think Russel would fit today, the game has passed him by, he's 6'7 and weighed 215 in his prime and played center. That would be Kobe Bryant believe it or not. The NBA isn't competitive because the money is guaranteed, very high for average players and the season is way to long. Just because someone makes crisp bounce passes doesn't mean I want to watch lesser athletes doing it.

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    onetime, ...lesser athletes? You mean like Thomas, West, Stockton, Johnson, Malone, Chamberlain, Jordan and many, many other players from then?...The NBA has been watered down, because of so many teams and so many games. It is all about scoring. That is why you have the selfish, prima donna players like Bryant and Anthony, among others.
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