Exactly. This is what the NBA was. Today it is a bunch of fumbling, overgrown,overpaid kids with weak basketball rules who are walking, double hopping off pivot foots, double-stepbacking (wtf is that!) and who've turned the euro-step into a straight carry. It's a joke and its embarassing. Silver man has screwed the nba royally.
The only reason they chuck 3s is because of the extra step that's allowed for step back 3s. If they can't do that, they won't always be guaranteed that same separation
The players today are more athletic but also more fragile. The game is played differently because of the emphasis of the 3 point line which wasn’t originally a part of basketball and wasn’t statistically analyzed until recently. When teams focused more on getting a higher percentage shot and getting to the rim this is what peak basketball looks like. The nature of the game develops an entirely different mindset as well as refined fundamentals. You also protect the players by constricting the floor and not allowing open lanes to the basket. In turn, you make contact dunks and putbacks more frequent and impressive. I truly feel like the NBA could fix the game of basketball by removing the 3 point line and return basketball to a chess match of plays rather than 4 or 5 outs and the team that wins is the teams with good shooting nights from 3 point line. Those strategies and offenses would remain as options, but I think the game largely would somewhat revert to its original intended product… because if you keep missing 25 foot shots when they’re only worth 2 and we could have ran ANY number of actual plays to get closer to the rim… you’re a jerk.
@@kevinwheesysouthward9295if they're so athletic why can't they play 80 games a season anymore? And why is Paul George on his podcast complaining that playing defence as well as doing offense is tiring? They might MIGHT be a bit stronger, but their stamina is trash.
@@merc4644 Nailed it big time. Talking that ish about more athletic and skilled, I've yet to see any of today's players that have the skill set of an MJ, Kobie, Magic, or a Duncan, that's what you called skill with ball movement.
@johnwings6584 Did they have Sean Elliot and a healthy Elliot.People forget Elliot was a beast too at 3 and he gave Pippen problems before he got injuries
I LOVED the way The Admiral would dunk. Especially with two hands. People think buzzer beaters are at the end of the quarters, half, or game. MJ consistently throughout his career had a great sense of the clock. Almost every possession was suspenseful, yet he would pull it off (AMazingly), and knew time management. 🐐
@@GregZentTrumpetManbecause Jordan, Pippen, Rodman, Harper and Kukoc were that good! Harper was called the poor man's Jordan before his knee injury and he was still a great 2 way player in Chicago but his defense got noticed then. Remember he went to LA to help Phil teach Kobe how to win. Harp knew MJs moves too.
@@josephmwangi7225 its crazy how yall want to talk about prime, but no one mention that word ever when jordan enter the league, David robinson is only 3 years younger than MJ, and he had 10 years in the league. knock it off
@@DennisBrown-gq7ll here come the laexcuses. leonard wasnt in the nba in 07 when the spurs swept cleveland. parker is 3 years older than lebron, manu is 7 years older and timmy is 9 years older than lebron. no lebron fans ever call the 2014 spurs old. joe dumars is the same age as MJ, isiah is 2 years older than MJ. magic johnson is 3 years older than MJ but they all were OLD when MJ beat them. Can you see how ridiculous that sounds? please stop the foolishness
At that time every team wanted to beat bulls. A win over MJ's team would be a bragging right... Also considering that players all had competitive minds in 80/90 and they didn't treat regular games as a warm up practice for playoff
You watched these live games back in the day and you never realized how good the basketball really was, as compared to today. I definitely took it for granted and always believed the competition, play and style would continually remain in the future.
I totally agree, we definitely took it for granted. It's like teams in a whole had better shot selection and the open shots they took 9 out of 10 times went in!
@@jermainejones936 Exactly. Shot selection was so much better (they weren’t chucking up 40 3s a game), defense was not optional and play calling was more vital.
1. This SA team finished 56-26 on the season, so this wasn’t a slouch team 2. Tim Duncan came in as a rookie, but a grown 22 yr old. Both he & The Admiral avg. 21+ ppg & 10+ rbg this season. Duncan was one of the few NBA Rookies in NBA History to make an all star team. 3. Seeing a 35 yr old MJ block Timmy D brought back memories. He & Pip are arguably the best defensive wing duo in NBA history 4. MJ just had so many fundamentals. Seeing his foot work to get anywhere he wanted, and even at an older age, the ability to power through contact, hang in the air, or have body control to score is amazing. It’s exactly y Kobe picked his brain to refine his game. 5. This is basketball. Guys 1-8 playing fundamentals, tough defense, getting guys open shots w/in the offense. 6. David Robinson was a real beast. Dude was in phenomenal shape, & was a C before his time. Both he & Ewing. Straight dogs in the post, but had a sweet 15-18 J from the outside.
@@Alexander-po4vi 1. Duncan turned 22 that season in April, so if u wanna be “technical” he was 21 yrs old & 328 days. Does that change the argument? 2. Robinson played 73 games & Duncan played 82. The core of Avery, Duncan, & Robinson played 70+ games together as starters. Did they have injury issues w/ the other role players? Yes; but guess what? So did Chicago, particularly Scottie Pippen. So who’s more valuable, Pippen or Del Negro? So not sure what was the point of bringing that up. Pippen, Longley, Kerr, Wennington all missed significant time that season. That doesn’t take away from anything my OP said.
Im still trying to figure out where these plumbers were that jordan played against. I dont remember any. That spurs team would win 65 games in todays nba.
Lebronze fanatics have invented excuses and excuses when all his arguments fail 😅 they started with LeBron more points than jordan then they jumped to the pippen excuse then the plumbers 😅 they even don't realize that the 2011 mavericks were those plumbers and still beat leflop
Unfortunately Robinson was YEARS ahead of his time. In today’s game he would kill. I know there are l centers that achieved more and are considered better. But to me Robinson is one of GOAT centers to ever play
I don’t think most people will ever fully understand how dangerous the Twin Towers matchup was for the Bulls. The fact that they won this game is truly a testament to how great a team the Bulls were.
I swear, I honestly believe Scottie was the originator of the pull-up 3. He took like 5 a game, and he was the only one doing it with any consistency on a fast break. I always thought it was a bad shot, but that was in the 90s
@@RetroKid cool story, bro. I watched the 70s, 80s, and 90s live as they happened. Did I say he shot a lot of threes, genius? Nope. But when he did shoot threes he shot a lot of them in transition. You’d know this if you truly knew anything about basketball. And like I said, Stockton was using the pull up three BEFORE Pippen was in the league. You do know there was basketball before the 90’s, right? What are you going to say next, that Shaq invented the dunk because you saw it in the 90s?
Would have been great. I think Chicago would have won because Pippen was on great shape and Jordan and the rest would've gotten good rest with the shortened season
That was such an impressive Spurs team and the Bulls made it look easy. I remember every missed shot by the Bulls, the Spurs would get overanxious to score. Bulls played it cool and played superb defense with an even alternating offense
Two very tall and talented players that they had to find a way to win their. Today's teams going against that type of team will lose more than they win. This is what Michael Jordan had to face to win championships. They all were very good and could win easily in today's Era of basketball 🏀.
i was at that game. a year later all the people cheering for the bulls in the video got on the spurs bandwagon and acted like they had always been spurs fans when we won in 99.
2007 Spurs strategy was simple as is in 2014 clog the lane and dare LBJ to shoot mid range or beyond the arc. LBJ dont have any post moves and doesnt have the mental toughness to shoot consistently from the distance. He cant drive or bully his way inside since Timmy and spurs frontline are waiting for him. Kwame was right about LBJ dont have it in him to get to his spot.
I love that they actually call travelling and charging. The players stick to the rules and the refs do stick to their job. And no ticky tack foul call or bitching and crying or flopping in a men's game either.
If the bulls stay one more last year in 1999 then I believe this what will happen to the spurs. But it will be a challenge because the bulls just won a ring against the jazz
@@RoyPage1970 That's the point. How could this not be a finals game with the sort of intensity they were playing with? Compare this to the lackluster effort today's game shows.
@@Rambo20244 oh ya no doubt. Shit these dudes were not playing around in the 90s. The big men in this era especially weren't effin around. Robinson is a monster here. Young TD here is not as physically matured yet but a 1st team all NBA competitor trying his best to challenge the GOAT n a mean Bulls cast that was pure dominance. Young Shaq got a taste as well. Some great talent today , maybe more talent per team. But back then Players didn't join each other, they wanted to defeat each other. No friends, just some mean dudes back then. - Dream, Ewing/Oak, , Mailman. Forgetting names but Portland, Seattle, Pho had some mean dudes. Not to mention the tail end of Showtime, Boston, Phila w Chuck n Moses, n Rodman/Lambeer n the bad boys.
Spurs&bulls played twice that season. TD was a rookie. How arrogant to think he would outplay MJ. Only Morons think that way. In the 2nd game they played that season, the 2 Legends went at it and the Admiral, 34 at the time, scored 35 pts and got 4 blocks. They played and did what was expected of them, so MJ didn't school anybody. But hey, when MJ went to the Wizards in 2001 and was considered "old" he got Crushed by the Spurs. Right? is it fair to say that TD and DR crushed Him? Is it fair to say TD schooled him? let's not be childish.
Who's beating this squad right here? Nobody. Warriors (Curry era), Lakers (Shaq and Kobe era Kobe Gasol era), Spurs (Parker, Duncan, Manu, Leonard era)., Heat (LBJ, Wade Bosh era), Cavs (Kyrie and LBJ era), The Celtics, NOBODY!!!
@@jayscribe7547 Duncan hates no one. Lol. Duncan has no opinion on anyone. He was there to win n go home. But let's say he did, isn't that like cold or unfazed/fearlsss, mamba mentality type sh**??
@@jayscribe7547 yes I had to rewatch. That admittedly is a dumb thing to say, but we all say n do dumb sh** at 22 yrs old. 😆. Imo, based on his character he demonstrated the following 19 seasons, he was referring to MJ's game, not MJ himself. He later states he preferred Magic Johnson's game. Also, just to demonstrate his humbleness from recently; he did a cut, sit, start between LBJ, MJ, KOBE. Answered: "Start All 3, Cut Me". Got a good laugh.
What team comes close to playing with that Spurs team in the last decade of NBA basketball? They couldn't even win the West yet at that point either. Then, to even be compared to the Bulls is laughable. They were so skilled and lethal. They beat so many awesome teams and hall of famers, it's unreal.
The era where the refs do not dictate who will win the game and cuddle divas/crybabies and provide divas entitlement and obvious special treatment. And if you hurt the feelings of an entitled diva, you won't get thrown out or else the crybaby will cry the whole night.
