Bird = Wiltjer
*73's head implodes with enough force to suck in his entire neighborhood*
Bird = Wiltjer
Cool thing about being a parent right now and pushing the UK basketball agenda is that we are the it program. If you can't sell this to a 3-10 year old then you are doing something wrong.
We were always good, never really cool. Not anymore.
Larry Bird would be better now. He would tear this league to shreds.
What do you do if your kid doesnt like sports? I've got a nephew in Tuscaloosa who is 11... terrible athlete. Smart kid though, likes building **** and drawing. But i've got little to talk to him about. His dad never played sports either, and I assume thats what the problem is.
Can't imagine not having to take my kid to practices, tossing the ball in the back yard, etc...
James Worthy managed to fashion a HOF career out of running unmolested down the wing and taking passes from Magic Johnson on the break. Kudos to him.
Probably accurate, as would a lot of the elite players from the 80's/early 90's. Remember when guys would cross mid court and then just assaulted? Now they cant touch a guy on the perimeter. Hell, as good as Curry is- even he would have had more trouble 20 years ago when guys guarding him can hand check or drive their forearm into your lower back.
What do you do if your kid doesnt like sports? I've got a nephew in Tuscaloosa who is 11... terrible athlete. Smart kid though, likes building **** and drawing. But i've got little to talk to him about. His dad never played sports either, and I assume thats what the problem is.
Can't imagine not having to take my kid to practices, tossing the ball in the back yard, etc...
The 80's actually resembled the current league moreso than the 90's and early 00's, prior to rule changes. That was the point, to get back to that free flowing form of basketball.Probably accurate, as would a lot of the elite players from the 80's/early 90's. Remember when guys would cross mid court and then just assaulted? Now they cant touch a guy on the perimeter. Hell, as good as Curry is- even he would have had more trouble 20 years ago when guys guarding him can hand check or drive their forearm into your lower back.
THANK YOU.Everyone took the wrong lessons from the Pistons and made things worse. Those guys could actually run some offense, unlike numerous **** teams that followed.
Thank you. Clark and others couldn't have been more wrong, about the 80's anyway. There wasn't much defense being played seeing how teams averaged about 110ppg for the 80's.The 80's actually resembled the current league moreso than the 90's and early 00's, prior to rule changes. That was the point, to get back to that free flowing form of basketball.
The Bad Boy Pistons ushered in a style of thug ball which was eventually copied by a good portion of the league, hand and hip checking, restricting movement, etc. That lead to styles of iso ball offense which was a disease...an over-the-hill Barkley backing down Vin Baker in the post for 20 seconds while everyone else stood and watched.
The league figured it out, if only college could. Basketball should be a game of skill, it should reward someone like Steph and a system like the Warriors.
The 90s, as a whole, produced the most unwatchable NBA basketball you could ever imagine. The college game was a much better product.
Dammit, dayball is currently on TV and I can't even keep up with the scores because I'm getting ready for 2 trials in the next 3 weeks. This sucks. Everything sucks. So hard.
I've seen a couple of studies indicating that people's overall happiness peaks at roughly age 25, and then plummets and bottoms out over the next few decades before slowly rising to a where it was before, at age 65. Then it continues to rise to unprecedented levels. In other words, your best times are in college and retirement. The intervening 40 years -- filled with responsibilities, work, commitments & deadlines -- is unmitigated drudgery.
Ugh. Wish I was homeless.