What former players get completely WRONG about today's NBA

[1987_Lakers]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp4but75EjY

[Norcaliblunt]

The difference is the personalities.

Back in the day the NBA had characters.

Barkley
Magic
Rodman
Oakley
Lambeer
Isiah
Bird
Dr J
Shaq
Iverson

These guys are entertaining just as humans.

Somewhere along the line the players personalities became boring and generic as ****.

[Meticode]

Wemby sabotages himself shooting so many threes. He is nearly an elite freethrow shooter, but because he's taking over half his shots from three he takes away the aspect of shooting more freethrows for easy points because he's not hunting for fouls in the paint more often. He needs to learn when the three isn't going down he needs to go inside more often.

[Street Hunger]

The players make so much money now that only the truly best of the best in terms of competitiveness will keep improving after they've gotten their first couple of contracts

[3ba11]

What today's fan and guys like the videomaker get wrong is that they point to tiny things in previous eras while ignoring far bigger and overriding things like the massive spacing that today's robot and numbers game (aka "moneyball") has provided....... or the mandated open paint of defensive 3 seconds, or the hands-off and no-contact defensive rules..

These things override any minor issues with illegal defense... The double-teaming rules were necessary back then because there was no spacing, so the double-team was already just a foot or 2 away... And of course defenders didn't have to hug their man at the 3-point line when they didn't have the ball - that's a massive misconception - again, the issues with illegal defense were regarding double-teaming post players as cutters are passing by - but again, this is mitigated by the lack of spacing, which is what necessitates the rules in the first place.. It would be unfair to have no spacing and no rules to reign in the defensive ease that they already get with the lack of spacing.

[BarberSchool]

Wemby sabotages himself shooting so many threes. He is nearly an elite freethrow shooter, but because he's taking over half his shots from three he takes away the aspect of shooting more freethrows for easy points because he's not hunting for fouls in the paint more often. He needs to learn when the three isn't going down he needs to go inside more often.

While that’s part true, son is built like two skinny kids inside Manute bol’s tuxedo. If he spends any significant amount of time, fishing for contact in the paint, son is gonna be a bag of cumulative injuries, quick fast.

He already moves like a lanky puppet made of popsicle sticks, those joints can’t withstand being clobbered by the heavier PF & C on a nightly basis. He ain’t a Derrick Coleman who can hit threes and bang in the paint. He’s an 8’14” Shai Gilgeous-Alexander/Reggie-Miller/Durant/Taysean Prince/Porzingis hybrid.

[Lebron23]

https://youtu.be/fp4but75EjY?si=YtNDf2HTFVPEohJR no more isolation offense that wasted the shot clock. The American NBA players learned from it after losing in the Olympics. Isolation offense won't work against teams who had better ball movement and 3 points shooting.

[Phoenix]

The difference is the personalities.

Back in the day the NBA had characters.

Barkley
Magic
Rodman
Oakley
Lambeer
Isiah
Bird
Dr J
Shaq
Iverson

These guys are entertaining just as humans.

Somewhere along the line the players personalities became boring and generic as ****.

I think David Stern implementing rules to clean up the game in the 2000's had the side effect of neutering the players. I mean, you can't even stare at a guy too long after a poster withing getting a T nowadays.