Victor Wembanyama defends modern nba defense
Go watch regular season footage from the 90s & see how much everyone is just standing around on defense. Part of this is due to pre-2002 illegal defense rules & part of it because offenses were less fluid. But if your man just stood in the corner in 1995, you would just go stand in the corner with him.
In the modern NBA, almost everyone can hit an open 3 & good scorers are constantly in motion off-ball. Plus, everyone is hunting for advantageous match-ups via screens, so you’ve got to be able to guard everybody.
As I said in another comment, I’ve been watching the NBA for 45 years.
Modern teams would wipe the floor with 90s teams.
People watch highlights of Jordan’s Bulls in the finals and think that’s how every game was. Watch a random Tuesday night game between the Cavs and the Bullets. That shit looks downright old-timey.
No u haven’t 😭
I became an NBA fan because of watching Dr. J
are you implying the random person who doesn’t know you is wrong about your own life?
Yeah I don’t know why I waste my time replying to someone who ends comments with that stupid emoji.
I don’t think I’ve ever read an intelligent comment punctuated with it.
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90s defenses would be lost today
I’ve been watching the NBA for 45 years.
Teams from today would absolutely destroy teams from the 90s. Offense and defense.
It’s exactly the same as if you took the 90’s team and played them against the 1960’s NBA. The Cincinnati Royals would struggle to score 20 points.
I just made a similar point on another post and I’ve been watching for 30+ years.
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NBA fans will never be pleased. They wanted defense and now they’re saying it’s not the “right style” of defense
NBA fans wanted people to stop shot chucking 3’s and go back to the midrange
Now they say it’s boring and cheer for people like Luka who literally do the opposite of everything “NBA fans” supposedly want.
Here to note that I’m not knocking Luka’s game but rather the insane hypocrisy of those people. Luka plays an great game and nobody appreciates it
There are definitely a ton of people that appreciate Lukas game, what are you talking about? He’s one of the most popular players in the game.
this sub has tons of Luka haters, mostly Thunder fans but still a lot of people
Yeah nothing I said in my post says nobody hates him, the idea that “nobody appreciates it” is fucking stupid to suggest.
I mean I hate Luka but I don’t hate his game. I do think he’s a bitch though
Luka plays an great game and nobody appreciates it
If only Luka ever got talked about, or had a nonstop stream of posts around here demanding he be the MVP, or was constantly covered by the media, everywhere. Poor Luka the forgotten one whose game nobody appreciates.
Got a dude averaging peak MJ numbers with the efficiency of Curry while there’s also a 7’6 alien moving like he’s 6’5. Don’t even get me started on the 7 ft center passing like Magic and averaging a near 30 pt triple double lol. The talent is just insane and defense is fucking HARD.
My Smart TV has a channel that shows classic NBA games and it’s really funny watching games from 20+ years ago. Just a bunch of dudes taking up all the space inside the 3 point line. No movement. Maybe 1 dude that can shoot a 3.
Now, the game has morphed into this dynamic style where offenses stretch defenses to their limits and everyone moves, all the time.
Mind you, this minmaxing also means there’s less variety of styles. Teams are more or less going for the same things.
Your last point is probably why so many people can find the NBA boring now. Probably because a lot of people don’t really see teams having their own identity in terms of how they play the game when they’re all doing the same thing.
I think its more because the average fan has less of an idea of whats going on in a game. Back then the best player could just iso while the entire team stood around, but now theres so many switches, screens and off ball movement that it becomes harder for fans to understand whats going on
Yeah there’s still unique styles but unless you’re watching basketball breakdowns for hours you’re not really going to notice what’s going on. Even after watching YouTube channels that breakdown tape it’s hard to keep up with a single teams evolving game plan.
If there was no defense, or you weren’t allowed to play defense, every team would have roughly the same defense. Instead we see a huge difference from team to team.
Glad that Wemby and the Thunder are bringing more attention to defense in the modern NBA.
It’s so much harder to be an elite defender in today’s game because of the rules than in the 90s.
Guys like Wemby, Kawhi, Gobert and Draymond would body people defensively if they were teleported into the past.
Defense isn’t the problem. It’s the ref. Soft touches, foul. Bit rough housing foul. To me, it feels like there are more calls now compared to old nba and back then, smiling can get you ejected
I defend Vicor’s defence of the modern day defence
Yea all basketball played prior to 2023 was primitive and garbage. That’s why the goat debate is so silly, LeBron was the best of his time, MJ was the best of his time, Kareem was the best of his time, none of them hold a candle to the talents of wemby, maxime raymoud, risacher, alex sarr, scoot Henderson, etc.
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