Enjoy the days when rookies did this...

[Showtime80']

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztCztkylol0

There was a time in the NBA when rookies weren't 3 to 4 wait and see raw projects the way they are now. Michael Jordan was a perfect example. Came out of the blocks as a top 5 talent in the league. Aside from the amazing talent check out the HUMBLENESS that he exuded. Contrast that with the d!ckhead tough guy primadonna attitude of Kobe, Iverson, LeBron and Westbrook to name a few and you see why the world gravitated naturally to Michael.

[Smoke117]

Pretty good level of Jordan **** sucking right here...8/10

[Milbuck]

1-9

[CuhGetsBucks]

Whats this dumb mf talking about? MJ was the OG prima donna :roll:

[Showtime80']

Check out Larry Bird's rookie highlights:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XFkg9r5_mk

Look at the turn around the Celtics had in 1980! Today's rookies are so fundamentally flawed, raw and lacking in basketball IQ that teams stay in perpetual sh!ttiness for years (Sixers anyone)

[Showtime80']

Here's another type of player young punks today WILL NEVER get to experience, a DOMINANT BACK TO BASKET CENTER dominating in his rookie year to the tune of:

21ppg 12rbs 3blks 1stl= 19 game turnaround for the Rockets

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSHwPJTgpPw

[ClipperRevival]

MJ just had a different level of impact on the world and the player's he faced that no one player ever had. Listen to what Kobe, KG, AI, Marbury, Ray Allen, Stackhouse, etc said about their first time facing MJ? It's like they viewed him more as a God than a player. He just had that level of impact. That's not sucking up, it's just reality.

From 1:20 to 6:50.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C85UgigVts

[Showtime80']

Great clip Revival!

That to me that is my favorite version of MJ, the 96-98 years. He basically came out of retirement, older, less athletic and DOMINATED a league full of the generation of players that would go on to rule the weak as! NBA in the 2000's (Shaq, Kobe, Garnett, Allen, Iverson, Duncan, Walker).

Listen to what Michael said in the middle of the video- "You might have a physical advantage, you might not. The MENTAL GAME IS WHERE YOU PICK EM' APART" There's a message for the current mental midget league. The 80' and early 90's was FULL of mental mastery of basketball.

As the NBA has become so dumbed down in the last 15 years can you imagine a 1992 MJ competing against todays low IQ knuckleheads like Westbrick, Cousins, Durant, Rose, Melo, Wiggins etc...

[Showtime80']

Another big man, David Robinson in 1990:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyGCGTfFay4

24ppg 12rbs 4blks 2stls

The Spurs turnaround was 35 games!!!!

[Smoke117]

Another big man, David Robinson in 1990:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyGCGTfFay4

24ppg 12rbs 4blks 2stls

The Spurs turnaround was 35 games!!!!

Greatest modern rookie...BY FAR. He was immediately a top 5 player in the league and the 2nd best defensive player in the world after Dream.

[Kawhi]

The God named Tim Duncan was 5th in the MVP voting his rookie year.

[!@#$%Vectors!@#]

Great clip Revival!

That to me that is my favorite version of MJ, the 96-98 years. He basically came out of retirement, older, less athletic and DOMINATED a league full of the generation of players that would go on to rule the weak as! NBA in the 2000's (Shaq, Kobe, Garnett, Allen, Iverson, Duncan, Walker).

Listen to what Michael said in the middle of the video- "You might have a physical advantage, you might not. The MENTAL GAME IS WHERE YOU PICK EM' APART" There's a message for the current mental midget league. The 80' and early 90's was FULL of mental mastery of basketball.

As the NBA has become so dumbed down in the last 15 years can you imagine a 1992 MJ competing against todays low IQ knuckleheads like Westbrick, Cousins, Durant, Rose, Melo, Wiggins etc...


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[Showtime80']

Bwahahahaha!

Here are two others from the Golden Age:

Magic Johnson:

18ppg 7assts 8rbs 2stls= 13 game turnaround for the Lakers and the title, Finals MVP for Magic!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=au7WJbus5BM

Isiah Thomas:

17ppg 8assts 2stls= 18 game turnaround for the Pistons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxF8LERU5CI

[Showtime80']

Now can somebody be a sweetheart and post the top rookies of this decade and their "impacts" on their respective teams in their first seasons:

John Wall
DeMarcous Cousins
Kyrie Irving
Steph Curry
Anthony Davis
Damian Lillard
Andrew Wiggins
Gianis Antetokounmpo
Joel Embiid
KAT
D'Angelo Russell
Jahlil Okafor

[BigKAT]

One and done Era.
One and done...


That's what you get. Raw prospects.

[Smoke117]

Now can somebody be a sweetheart and post the top rookies of this decade and their "impacts" on their respective teams in their first seasons:

John Wall
DeMarcous Cousins
Kyrie Irving
Steph Curry
Anthony Davis
Damian Lillard
Andrew Wiggins
Gianis Antetokounmpo
Joel Embiid
KAT
D'Angelo Russell
Jahlil Okafor

Players were more than one and done back then in college when Jordan and Robinson were coming up...they had time to build up their skill level that these guys coming into the NBA don't that are one and done don't. Besides, there is nothing wrong with taking a few years to develop...I don't see why you are making a big deal out of nothing.

[Showtime80']

Big deal my as!!!!!

You really think the overall quality of the league hasn't suffered when it basically has become a continuous developmental nursery?!? Remember now EVERY DAMN draft class brings in a new crop of raw athletes who don't know a damn thing about the cerebral and fundamental side of basketball.

[FireDavidKahn]

That's why KAT is such a joy to watch:bowdown: