Adam Silver might as well ask Steffie Curry for a date - no touching Curry and don't touch Hardin or any guard while you're at it. Let them take their 3s without a hand on em. Make sure the draft avoids the Oakleys, the Rick Mahorns and the enforcers. Please. The NBA is becoming way too soft. The game is bein played from 22 feet plus out and hands off when they drive. Who needs a Patrick Ewing unless he's a stretch 5 and the great centers and defense is gone. No more games in the 80s and 90s points ... now it's 132 in the finals. Hand checking and Norm Van Lier Scottie Pippin Jerry Sloan and so many more that came in with a lunch pale. The draft is about PGs and SGs and if it's a big it's about whether they can shoot deep not whether they control the paint. Bring back the game Adam or Steffie gotta show up in curlers.

Paris907 wrote:https://sports.clickon.co/2017/01/18/the-nba-going-soft-has-hurt-the-game-of-basketball/

Adam Silver might as well ask Steffie Curry for a date - no touching Curry and don't touch Hardin or any guard while you're at it. Let them take their 3s without a hand on em. Make sure the draft avoids the Oakleys, the Rick Mahorns and the enforcers. Please. The NBA is becoming way too soft. The game is bein played from 22 feet plus out and hands off when they drive. Who needs a Patrick Ewing unless he's a stretch 5 and the great centers and defense is gone. No more games in the 80s and 90s points ... now it's 132 in the finals. Hand checking and Norm Van Lier Scottie Pippin Jerry Sloan and so many more that came in with a lunch pale. The draft is about PGs and SGs and if it's a big it's about whether they can shoot deep not whether they control the paint. Bring back the game Adam or Steffie gotta show up in curlers.

I thought Phil was trying to do this?

anrst wrote:the way guys drive through the open lane now is an embarrassment to the game. And its boring to watch.

Yea silver needs to bring physical basketball back... I think he's afraid if he brings back hand checking and forearm checking guys like curry and harden will just be role players... I wanna see real defense early 90's late 80's defense.... there is zero defense in today's NBA

I remember when the Knicks, Bulls, Pacers, Heat, Magic, Hornets, Spurs, Jazz, Sonics, Rockets and Suns were all SOLID teams.

It's ridiculous and boring when the best player in the world is on the wrong side of a lop-sides Finals affair.

Bonn1997 wrote:

fitzfarm wrote:

anrst wrote:the way guys drive through the open lane now is an embarrassment to the game. And its boring to watch.

Yea silver needs to bring physical basketball back... I think he's afraid if he brings back hand checking and forearm checking guys like curry and harden will just be role players... I wanna see real defense early 90's late 80's defense.... there is zero defense in today's NBA

How is that going to make the league more profitable? That's what Silver was elected to do.

One other thing to add is the extreme inconsistency w the way the game is reffed at the perimeter versus down low

If they're going to have quick whistles on guards they should do same on post play (or vice versa)

One way to beat speed is with length. At present NBA is biased against length

Bonn1997 wrote:The league has the best businessmen in the world weighing all the issues you guys are talking about. If you look at revenues, it looks like they've made the right decisions.

it is less than half nfl revenues despite 5x the games and more playoffs

it's about half of mlb

Yes it's going up year over year but it's third place at the moment. And if you like the product and the direction it's headed good for you

I think (could be wrong) a lot of basketball fans think the league has changed in a fundamental way. Even when I was on the outside looking in at the Lakers/Celts/Bulls dominating it felt very different than the more recent Heat, Cavs, Warriors (who I admired a lot more prior to Durant [who I actually greatly admire outside the dumb decision to jump on a bandwagon ala Lebron and the Heat])

Chandler wrote:I agree that the NBA as a product has big issues

One other thing to add is the extreme inconsistency w the way the game is reffed at the perimeter versus down low

If they're going to have quick whistles on guards they should do same on post play (or vice versa)

Inconsistency with the refs is something I'm dying to find out about, especially as a Knicks fan. By the way, nobody complained about non-calls on a nightly basis as much as Mike Crispino did on ESPN Radio this past season, and now he's gone.

Interesting.

Anyone who thinks players today wouldn't be able to survive in the 90s are crazy. Despite handchecking being allowed, the would get to the free throw line even more because they would use the hand-checking to their advantage. Players then probably wouldn't be able to Keep up anyway. Hand-checking would be rendered obsolete.