You should try watching Michael Jordan play basketball sometime. If you liked basketball, and know anything about the sport, you'd know your error. :)
I could see Walter Payton and Jim Brown being better running backs than Barry Sanders. The only thing about Barry that I've said he was the best was pure runner. Barry couldn't pick up blitz too well, nor catch out of the backfield too well. But no question, when he had the ball in his hands he didn't fumble and there was always that chance he could take it 60 on you.
This just in, my five shut your five out. Gotta understand the game has changed and your old timers couldn't hang in today's game. Muwhahaa.
Originally Posted by: Zero2Cool
Hah! You wish.
Kareem would have Shaq for lunch, and while Rodman might shut either Hawkins or Baylor down, Malone wouldn't be able to stop either. Baylor would have matched him physically, and Hawkins would have glided around and soared over him. I'll give you Jordan as able to score on anyone. But he wasn't in the Big O's league -- Robertson once averaged a triple-double over an entire season, the only person to do so. Ever. And West v. Iverson...well, you'd be surprised at just how good West was.
Speed and power are nice. Today's players could out lift, out wrestle, out dunk and out sprint the oldsters. No doubt at all on that.
But you see, the oldsters wouldn't have to play in today's shoot-travel-shoot-travel-shoot, mug-'em-and-chuck-'em game. They'd enforce their will and make today's players play real basketball for sixty minutes.
And they'd destroy them.
Today's NBA players would be shown to be as big a group of pretenders as, say, the Vikings.
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
Romans 12:2 (NKJV)