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15 Feb, 4 tweets, 2 min read
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.
Reminder that Jason Williams was considered "out of control" at times, and people would talk about his turnovers.

98-99: 36mpg - 2.9 TOPG
99-00: 34mpg - 3.7 TOPG
00-01: 29mpg - 2.1 TOPG
Career: 29mpg - 2.1 TOPG

Here are some guys who are averaging over 3 or 4 TOPG this season

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Dee4Three | Holding Court 🏀 Profile picture
15 Feb
1970s ABA

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.

@PeterVecsey1
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

The league went from 1967 to 1976. Image
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14 Feb
This is how people are talking about the evolution of athletes today.

I just can't.

People are sending me these tweets. You guys are cracking me up.

@melendez1818 @forcebaseline
"Or ya know, you could just look at Zion"
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"
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Dee4Three | Holding Court 🏀 Profile picture
14 Feb
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?)
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Dee4Three | Holding Court 🏀 Profile picture
13 Feb
Haha, you made this so easy.

You have no idea what you are talking about.

And everybody in the NBA today is ripped and jacked? Boy, I have some news for you.
"Ripped and jacked"
"Ripped and jacked"
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Dee4Three | Holding Court 🏀 Profile picture
13 Feb
People, you need to STOP using player weight from basketball reference and other online sources that pull from it to say players are BIGGER today.

Tomas Satoransky
Height: 6'7"
Weight: 210lbs

Kevin Willis
Height: 7'0"
Weight: 220lbs

These wild inaccuracies are constant.

#NBA ImageImage
Proof.

This is the information that makes up the graphs the media and kids use to tell you players weigh more today. ImageImage
That is where THIS data comes from that shows the average weight of players throughout basketball history.

Your EYES tell you that players in the 90s were bigger than today, and that is exactly what the data would say if it was accurate.

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13 Feb
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.
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