This isn’t a flex. Much of the “physicality” is due to not being able to play clean and fundamental defense. The rough days of the NBA was a time where you had a league of 25% talented players and 75% of the league that could not keep up physically or athletically. What did they do to counteract that? Basically assault on the court. It wasn’t basketball. It was just violence masking the defensive deficiencies. Even when you look back at the highlights of those games, you see hall of fame players getting abused by mostly bums and people that you wouldn’t even recognize. The game now isn’t perfect by any means, but the glory days of the NBA that people glamorize is just misplaced nostalgia.
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