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Message: [QUOTE="MikeSU02, post: 2379504, member: 60"] "I got hurt on company time, so I’ll rehab on company time." - Shaq. Jordan also had the two years off to play baseball so he should have had more energy. Regarding the effort by players, on the defensive side of the ball, it's night and day from what it used to be, both in complexity and effort. If you watch those old NBA classic games, featuring some of the best teams of the 80s and early 90s, especially the Boston/LA teams of the 80s, the defensive intensity just isn't there until the end of the game or if someone got pissed off. Part of that was lifestyle, travel, nutrition, medical advances, etc, where they just couldn't go that hard every night, but if you dropped the GSW into that era, they wouldn't know what the was happening on offense and GSW's defense would shut them down. [/QUOTE]