Says I show him only 4 or 5 guys (even though I have shown him FAR MORE), followed by using Zion and Dort and dying on that hill.
You guys are killing me here.
"Or ya know, you can just look at Zion"
"No SGs looked like Dort before"
6'6" Jim Jackson (Dort is 6'3") would like a word.
You guys see some muscle on a guard and lose your minds. Do research and THINK. We have had BIGGER guards with better basketball bodies than Dort in the past.
So many big, muscular shooting guards 3+ inches taller than Dort (6'6" and over) from the past with better overall basketball bodies.
Dort in this NBA is 6'3" playing G/F (played SF his rookie year). Guys like Xavier McDaniel, Orlando Woolridge, and players WAY BIGGER and more athletic overall played that position.
So how is Dort proof of anything? He is a great athlete... but something we haven't seen before?
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People would look at the NBA in the early 70s entirely different if it had the ABA talent. People would consider it a much stronger stretch for the league.
63 of the 84 ABA players entered the NBA at merger (1976). 10 were all-stars in the 1st season.
And with that ABA talent in the NBA, you could have seen results altered. Including champions, all-stars, stats, accolades in general, etc
It also would have made the NBA more exciting in general, as the ABA was fast paced, fun, and had a style that the NBA overall was missing.
Here is some of the talent that was in the ABA at some point during its run.
Julius Erving
Rick Barry
Artis Gilmore
George Gervin
Connie Hawkins
George McGinnis
Moses Malone
Spencer Haywood
Maurice Lucas
David Thompson
John Williamson
Etc etc
I can't even begin to tell you how exciting it was to watch the Jason Williams Kings.
"The first impression one gets from watching the Kings play basketball is the right impression: the razzle-dazzle bunch enjoys the game and eachother and it shows" - David Dupree
I put that team against any team today (Same with the Bibby, Webber, Stojakovic Kings) and they win in a 7 game series
Era, depth, competition matters
No team today plays with close to the same exciting style, you kids today just don't get it. You missed out on some great hoop.
When you see Garnett sell out and say that he questions if players from 20+ years ago could play in todays game, and you remember that you played for the late 90s/early 00s Kings.
Listen, if 6'3" SG Lu Dort is the hill you are going to die on trying to prove evolution of the game, you lost the debate before it even started.
Not only did the NBA have overall bigger SGs than Dort in the past (Like 6'6" Jim Jackson below), but guys who were FAR more skilled.
Nobody said that Dort isn't rugged, or that he isn't a great athlete.
But don't be ridiculous. Dort is not proof of anything.
And if you think Dort is an evolved athlete for the NBA, you don't know the history of the game.
So stop it with the BS.
Clyde Drexler was a 6'7" SG that was far more versatile, a better overall athlete (better footwork, higher leaper, better body control/coordination, etc), and was FAR MORE skilled as a player (do I even need to say that?)
Want to know why we are still in awe of Michael Jordan?
👇Because since he retired nobody has matched what he could do on a basketball court. Double team? Triple team? didn't matter.
I've never seen better from an athleticism, skill, control and determination standpoint.
Go ahead... double him... triple him... it doesn't matter.
His movement was so smooth..... nobody has moved liked him since.
I watched Jordan live throughout the 90s, and I watched him with the Wizards.
All of these years later and I still get the same feeling watching his games and highlights. I see him do stuff that we never see today, in a style that is unmatched.