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Lebron James (Los Angeles Lakers)

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Bucklion said:
Well I watched in the 80s and I would say the level of physicality isn't even close. But whatever, if people want to believe that new is always greater, whom am I to stop them.
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Yep. Agree 100%. Just watch the '80s and early-90s clips of the Pistons vs Lakers. Holy shit. Dudes were throwing fucking near-football blocks on screens and not getting called.
 
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jlb1705 said:
My parents also told me when they walked to school it was uphill both ways.

Retired athletes in pretty much every sport say it was more physical when they played. Has anybody ever heard a retired athlete say, "It's way more physical now than when I played. We were all pussies back then."
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Football seems much more physical now (or at least a few years ago before all the concussion stuff) than when I played. Good enough? I think we were seeing more concussion issues because players keep getting bigger, stronger, and faster.
 
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Well, I wasn't old enough to watch much basketball in the '80s so I guess I missed out on the vicious bloodsport that the NBA used to be. I don't know why that's part of the argument though since Jordan didn't win shit in that decade. I watched plenty of '90s basketball and it wasn't all that different from the way the game is played today.
 
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jlb1705 said:
My parents also told me when they walked to school it was uphill both ways.

Retired athletes in pretty much every sport say it was more physical when they played. Has anybody ever heard a retired athlete say, "It's way more physical now than when I played. We were all pussies back then."
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Exactly. Years ago (I think it was early 90s), I heard Wilt Chamberlain interviewed. He said that back in his playing days, Michael Jordan would have driven into the lane and he would have been knocked on his butt so hard that he never would have come back in for a second attempt.

Wilt was also sure that he and the all-stars of his day would have smoked a team of Jordan, Shaq, Drexler, and so on.
 
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