NBA Legends On Why They Think NBA Players Are Soft

he needs a rest right now G the LA the hey guys this is Dominique Wilkins hey this is Sean ke this is Gary hey this is basol NBA fans what's up this is Vince Carter here hey what's up this is Matt bars if you're an old school NBA fan like I am make sure you check out the basketball time machine with my man Sean Davis hello good day guys how's it going welcome back to the basketball time machine my name is Shawn David let's talk some old school NBA basketball in today's episode I want to take a look at some new clips that I found of NBA legends and old school players talking about why they feel that today's NBA is soft pretty interesting topic but before we start with that let me ask you guys for a small favor if you're new to the show please subscribe to the channel and I would say without any more blah blah let's get right into it [Music] so how do we start I would say let's take a clip of different kind of Legends and players and Gilbert Arenas who is driving me crazy and who actually deserves the own video but that's a different story and at the end of the video I will give you my personal take on the whole situation so let's start the NBA is vastly different today than it was when you first came to the league and you had how would Pat Riley coaching style be received today with today's NBA player come on the what they would better take that [ __ ] cuz they probably feel like this [ __ ] making me feel like I'm 6 years old right but it's just to break you down to build you back up right you know what I mean coming we talked about this early I remember coming into the league coming out of Alabama rooll time I was 225 playing small forward running there against Mark Eaton Mark Eaton was one of those people we used to call the wall I went in try to dunk on him and Mark used to do that thing where he sticks his hip out I go to the ground and look at the ref it's like what was that wasn't a foul you got to get stronger young fella I had so many refs tell me you have to get stronger young fella I'm looking like a foul is a foul and but now if that goes out that's probably a a go over here to this old stupid monitor let me see if it's a flagrant one or a flagrant 2 and it's just it slows the game down it makes the game not enjoyable to watch for me as a fan because basketball is one of those Sports we love because of the continuous action this slow movement of going looking at these monitors and judging if it's a flagrant I say if it's no blood no foul right so let's go on and play and it's just to me when we played playoff files you can remember in the Celtics batt you know Kurt Ram was then they got decapitated and it was just a foul you know and it's just now I know it's they have to protect the players and I understand that but now it's just like if you push someone next thing know you're getting ejected from the game it's just a hard foul and it's just the game is a little bit softer than I like a lot of guys be too friendly now like they a they w't friendly they trying to rip each other head off if I'm going to step into a pickup game I came in to get better like if I want to just get a run I can do that anyway we called each other for a reason let's do this there's no Kyrie in practice when he go to practice he's not getting that competition so when he has it he has to take cuz you got thing Pride you playing with your starting five against I got [ __ ] in my ear 24/7 telling me get out the comfort zone get in transition as quick as possible get to the rim now let's take a look at two of the greatest big men of all time Patrick yck and Alonzo Morning both Georgetown hayers let's take a look there's not that many great centers and I I'd be that I'd be Michael Jordan in this era it's definitely changed uh the way that uh teams play the way everybody wants to spread the floor um you know most big guys now instead of posting up they want to get out there and shoot threes uh and you know you look at all the big guys embiid uh you know he's he's definitely one of them he spend the majority of the time his time at the three-point line where when I played you know we were mostly in the post you know we post up we may go out to 16 17 uh feet shoot our shots myself AE David but now Pingas those guys they're all three-point Shooters so does this worry you upset you and with the way the game is being called today then it it would have limited me on my aggressiveness towards my opponent because the game is called a lot closely now and it's just they've taken away the physicality of the game you know so I'm a little biased from that perspective you know so I'm I'm I rather lean more towards how the game was being played in the '90s I thought it was an exciting time you know I think people gravitated toward that type of play for him to say I'm not going to play game three but I could play game four if you could play game four you could play game three when your team needs you the most so you let that slide then when you go down 3 0 you can't come back and say my back is hurting I had a misstep the Optics of it just looks bad you can't hint of coming back and then all of a sudden be put back on the Shelf that was the whole point I was making because you as they need you all these older players were great but to me it's just it's it's the games evolved I think it's hard to compare these players too they were all great in their own way but like Oscar Robinson is one of the greatest ever correct yeah yeah he can't play today yeah you know what I'm saying these guys are more talented but they also soft never mind my bad well that's just y all right that's what it is that's just how the league is though I think you know what I'm saying that's just how the league is tring but anyway I would never take a night off I'm trying to hoop every day right you come from a Different Cloth I'm from Bell they don't produce your cloth no more they stop making that when you left you guys think the league is soft now it looks easier for me because there's things that they can't do anymore to someone like me when I'm trying to run through that lane and get positioned I'll get chucked [ __ ] hurt they can't do that anymore they got to let me run all the way through before if I decide to take off he can just uh hold on now he can't he got just let me go down L like we're like knock Gil off his path I knew who I could be more physical with and who it got to when the ball go up first possession boom boom hit all of it cuz I know you going to shy away from it ref going to let us play up to a certain point and it's so far in between and NBA now that guys that played that could have played in our era they look at him as dirty they look at him as too physical no that's the way they grew up playing the game that's the way every aspect of the game should be played now it's got to be soft because you got to make a move to do an EV you got to get fouls to get an advantage instead of just being an alpha like we play hard we just wanted to kill each other like yeah I'm going to beat you tonight you know I remember playing the Knicks in the finals I got a picture of me getting taken out of the air my foot is literally this far from kicking the rim but it was just a regular foul and we understood that you go to the free throw line you make your two free throws and then you win the NBA finals against the Knicks and seven that's what you do but but it's it's I understand they trying to protect the players like like I said but it's a totally different game it was I hate to say it I'm going say it it was a man's game back then across the country players areof suspend them suspend them they're soft they're soft be here easy I have I have allergies how in the hell do we come from these areas and come from The Gutter and make it out to success to take care our families and all of a sudden we got mental problems all of a sudden we blaming everything on on on on this mental health man we went through way worship when we was broke now I know that many of you guys watch my show for a couple of years now and I'm pretty sure you also know my personal opinion about the whole current NBA situation I was trying so hard to fall in love with the game again because I mean it's the game that I grew up with basketball is like some of like probably the most important thing next to my family in my life but but there are so many reasons why I dislike it and a big part of it is that the NBA is getting soft and don't get me wrong I'm not blind to what happened back in the days back in the days we also had referees who who would call fouls and technical fouls which were mindboggling but the ratio like today you have it so often like the whole physicality of the game if it's the post game people moving and shoving each other if it's the players shouting at each other fights and everything and the whole I mean it could literally do like a 20 minute video about just the physicality alone and to me I think the NBA even though the numbers have gone up the product itself is not as good as it used to be I would love to have players who literally destroy each other un Court I mean I don't even care if after the game if they go out to lunch I mean even Michael Jordan went out with Patrick ying and Charles Oakley so that stuff was also happening back in the days we all know that but on the court I want to see that you guys really want to win and do whatever it takes to win the basketball game and if you're not fighting and uh pushing and shoving and being hard on the other guy it's not the same thing anyway you guys let me know in the comments below how you think about it and hopefully you see you next time on the basketball time machine

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Length: 10min 25sec (625 seconds)

Published: Sun Oct 29 2023