Nalod wrote:Revisionist thinking bout "the good old days".......When Knicks and heat would battle to a 73-69 score. No thank you.
When a big man can take the post and make it work, then you will have dominance.
Centers today are no longer fat (Sweetney, Duckworth, Tractor Traylor, Oliver Miller, Eddy)and that era is gone.
Where are the big guys? I don't know. Shaq ate them all up!
Where are the skills? DJordan can't shoot free throws, Dwight never improved, Javale Mcgee is lazy, And others get hurt.
3 point line was there in the hand check era, and was there in the Bad Boy era, knicks, and Bulls era.
Zone defense forces the game out to the parimeter as well.
those games were exciting like going into battle you didnt know if charlie ward was going to start punching browns knees or if JVG was going to be swinging on oaks legs . the nba has stripped itself of physical play as well as physical rivalry between teams there is no rivalry like the knicks heat of the 90's.
the nba should at least consider bringing back the hand check to stop all the chucking from downtown. less zone defense too . like bring back illegal defense.
has the nba speeded up yes, its time to slow it down just alittle by being able to guard the 3 with diginty let defense's be allowed to force teams away from the 3 point shot
