Is Modern Basketball Losing Its Edge? A Nostalgic Look Back

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00:00Listen, I'm going to say this to you.

00:07Basketball and people hate hearing this old man on the porch, get off of my lawn, all

00:12the other nonsense.

00:13Screw everybody.

00:14Screw everybody.

00:15When I tell you that basketball was so much better a decade ago, two decades ago, it wasn't

00:23even funny.

00:24I don't know what this is, but all they do is chuck threes.

00:29That's what it is.

00:30It's a league that chucks threes.

00:32That's all they do.

00:33There is no rivalries.

00:36There's no wars.

00:38There's no battles.

00:39There's no violence.

00:40There used to be.

00:41I mean, absolutely.

00:43I remember watching Larry Bird and the Pistons punch each other in the face.

00:50There were violent games where guys were swinging haymakers at the other team.

00:55Violence.

00:56Not get kicked out, by the way, and not get kicked out of the game.

01:00And the Pistons, same thing.

01:03That was better basketball than basketball today.

01:06They say the players, that today the game is so advanced and everything else is a lot

01:10of bullshack.

01:12These players today are not better than those players.

01:15They're not.

01:16Anthony Edwards Scott leads the league in three-point attempts.

01:21None of us really want to see him doing that.

01:25We want to see him dunk in people's faces, which he can do, as well as anybody.

01:31And it's more impressive because he's not bigger than some of the guys on which he's

01:35dunking.

01:36That is compelling.

01:38And yes, we are a couple of old guys talking about hoops the way it used to be.

01:42And I would also raise my hand and say there were problems with hoops in the 90s, too,

01:48right?

01:49They became a little too much of a fistfight.

01:51It was fun and compelling at times, but it also bogged down.

01:56We had scoring in the 70s at times.

01:57You want guys to fill it.

01:59And the 80s was a lot like that.

02:01Ball kept moving around.

02:02Now, there are things about the game now that are advanced in the way that they weren't

02:06back then.

02:07And we saw this with baseball.

02:09Baseball had to go through some doldrums of people not talking about the sport every day

02:15for the commissioner to have to try some things.

02:18And frankly, baseball is in a better place now than it was even three or four years ago.

02:24It's a pitch clock at the top of the list.

02:26The NBA will have to address some of these issues, whether it's players sitting out or

02:33moving the line back.

02:35There are a bunch of different ideas that they should try at different levels of basketball.

02:39The G League is a perfect place to work this stuff out.

02:43Just try some rule changes and see if it makes the games more compelling on an individual

02:47basis.

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