Today's NBA SUCKS

[Padgoi]

Before you all start hating, the title was meant to get attention. What I am trying to say is that doesn't the talent level in the NBA today suck? I mean, aren't the players of yesteryear better than the players of today? Why are so many kids rushing to the NBA and skipping high school? Isn't it putting a damper on their skills? Just wanted to get everyone else's opinion.

[xxxFATBALLZxxx]

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It's a lot more atheletic than it was and I believe most of these guys never had to work on jumpers, fundamentals, and over all knowledge of the game they just slashed to the cup, rose up on everyone and yammed it home.

[Graphik]

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I like todays NBA, the west right now is the dominate power and the East is far behind but it provides great matchups nowadays compared to the 90's when you could expext the same teams in the playoffs every year. The NBA was horse**** 2 years ago but now its shaping up. And in a few more years all the teams should have balance.

[ShaKobe]

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I wish they would have balance, but the L is pretty watered down. With another team coming next year, we're gonna have 30 teams. The talent is gonna get diluted even more.

[dunkem]

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Yeah, the NBA is full of kids with far more athleticism but way less work ethic than players before. Nowdays, if you have "potential", making a team and getting paid big $$$ is easy.

I think the main reason why is that we have too many teams. Back in the 80's and 90's (when teams averaged 110 points/game not the measley 90 of today), there were only 23 or so teams. You had to work your *** off and perform to make or stay on the team. Nowdays, there are so many teams out there that the losers are actually competing on ending up with the worst record so they can get so unproven kid named Lebron.

What's worse is that we're adding yet another team in Carolina.. The more teams, the more mediocrity.... more 80 pt games with 40% shooting from the field. Even the guys who "think" they're good by scoring 28 pts a game are kidding themselves with their shooting in the low 40's. You take 35 shots, of course you're gonna score. Ah well... such is life.. it's all about the benjamins..

[xxxFATBALLZxxx]

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I wish they would have balance, but the L is pretty watered down. With another team coming next year, we're gonna have 30 teams. The talent is gonna get diluted even more.

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Good Call

[**DONOTDELETE**]

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Yeah I agree from a shooting and all around stand point it doesn't compare to even the mid or early 80's we had Dr. J, Charles Barkley, MJ, Bird, Parrish, Isiah Thomas, and many others. We still have our share of studs like AI, Kobe, T-Mac, Shaq, Vince Carter and others but too many kids are coming out early like Leon Smith and pissing their lives away by not being smart. I hope these kids will use their heads more and I wish the best of luck like James but it's hard not to let your fame go to your head and he's well on his way to be annoying, talented as hell, but he's already getting on my nerves.

[Padgoi]

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And the funny thing is that every player you just mentioned shoots under 45% from the field. There is a big comparison nowadays with Jordan and Kobe but the fact is that Jordan led his team to 6 titles without a dominating center, he won 10 scoring titles, like 5 MVP awards, AND he shot 50.5% FOR HIS CAREER from the field. Kobe doesn't shoot higher than 45% EVER. So instead of comparing individual numbers, let's try comparing shot percentage. It is just a fact that yesteryear's NBA was a lot more talented than today's and they knew the game better back then. Fundamentals were a key element in yesteryear's game. Everyone wants to be like Jordan used to be and dunk over everyone else. But they are forgetting that once Jordan could no longer do that, he developed into a deadly perimeter player. The NBA players should understand that first.