Rod Strickland beating Michael Jordan one on one at different times .

[TheMan]

you are such an idiot

He is either is an outright troll who always posts shit knowing they are straight up lies or he is a delusional hater whom the GOAT has on skates 24/7. Any unbiased NBA expert/fan knows MJ is one of the best wing defenders ever, like it's not even up for debate, this Jabronie32 trying to argue that the Bulls hid MJ on defense is such a breathtakingly bad take it has to be trolling, right? He can't be THAT stupid, can he?

[HoopsNY]

This was against a guy who never made the all-star game in an era with 18/3/8 and 20 on .415/3/9 = All-NBA 1st team guard standards.
Now imagine if he regularly faced guards with 31/4/6 = not good enough for an all-star game standards.

Compare the average PPG and pace of play from years like 1997 and 1998 and compare them to 2020 and 2021 where Beal put up 31 PPG. The league instituted minor rule changes to restrict bs baiting and flopping that guards would do. Beal went from averaging 8 FTA a game to 5 FTA. His PPG dropped from nearly 31 PPG to 23 PPG. His FG% dropped from 49% to 45%.

Now drop the pace and PPG. Make the league average 95 PPG as opposed to 110 PPG. Drop the pace, introduce hand-checking, and eliminate freedom of movement rules. What's Beal putting up now? He'd be putting up 14-15 PPG on 42% in the 90s all the way up to about 2005.

[TheMan]

This was against a guy who never made the all-star game in an era with 18/3/8 and 20 on .415/3/9 = All-NBA 1st team guard standards.
Now imagine if he regularly faced guards with 31/4/6 = not good enough for an all-star game standards.

PGs are putting up better numbers because of two things, the game has evolved to the point where modern PGs are offensive threats, they look to score and not just facilitate which was their primary goal back then and two, defenses has been defanged, it's a whole lot easier to score when defenders can't impede your way to the lane and can't lay a hand on you. Throw these modern PGs back to the 90s, mid 2000s and most would be SGs and their offensive output would take a hit.

Context, Goatits.

[TheMan]

Compare the average PPG and pace of play from years like 1997 and 1998 and compare them to 2020 and 2021 where Beal put up 31 PPG. The league instituted minor rule changes to restrict bs baiting and flopping that guards would do. Beal went from averaging 8 FTA a game to 5 FTA. His PPG dropped from nearly 31 PPG to 23 PPG. His FG% dropped from 49% to 45%.

Now drop the pace and PPG. Make the league average 95 PPG as opposed to 110 PPG. Drop the pace, introduce hand-checking, and eliminate freedom of movement rules. What's Beal putting up now? He'd be putting up 14-15 PPG on 42% in the 90s all the way up to about 2005.