Nonsense. 1. You certainly can touch them. 2. The NBA rile is stupid and is mostly meant to increase the entertainment value for casual fans. 3. Double team and recover and rotate.
Brand new state of the art offense? No man this how they used to play basketball. Guards backed themselves into the post all the time. Mark Jackson anyone?
That’s illegal in the NBA so absolutely useless. Can’t backdown your man for 5 seconds straight into the paint that’s a turnover. This only works at the amateur level.
All well and good but for my money i find todays game boring. Yes they are better shooters but the defensive felexibility you talk about is a joke as all the 0layers 1-5 are looking for 3's so the d is essentially the same. Todays guards could never have guarded wilt Kareem , Akeem or Shaq. They wouldve been crushed. The imprtance of rebounding and crashing yhe boards was never addressed either. Something that added immensly to the game of the 80s and 90s. Ir barely exists. And lastly palmingand traveling is so ridiculous now you cant consider the games to be the same.
Not sure what took these guys so long to see why this was done so much in the 90s, because it’s effective and probably not enough big guys in college to defend it well
New? This is as old as the dribble. This is what guard play used to look like before the NBA implemented the 5 second back down/back to the basket rule and then legislated out contact. When perimeter defenders were allowed to actually defend and challenge offensive players for space on the floor, being able to function and see the floor out of a back down dribble was mandatory. Go watch Magic, Mark Jackson, Rod Strickland, Chuck...
It’s even worse when you’ve got a dude that’s all bones. Nothing like a dude 5 inches taller than you throwing his boney ass into your rib cage all while grabbing Jersey and genitals and taking crap the whole time.
Booty ball… seriously? But a box out is a box out. You hit the opponent in the hip/waist/thighs with YOUR hip, waist, or thighs. Is that booty ball too could? Backing someone down. If they give you the space that’s the defenders fault. Just accept poor defense in that aspect