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Message: [QUOTE="OrangeDW, post: 3837813, member: 2458"] Agreed. And yeah, I liked the balance of the early 00s. That one Heat-Spurs final might be the best basketball I’ve ever watched. I think the 90s had a lot of very balanced basketball players. You had guards like Penny, Payton, Pippen, Steve Smith, Drexler, obviously Jordan, who could do everything from shoot to post up, handle, pass, etc. You had big forwards with guard skills like Webber, Coleman, Detlef, etc. And I’ve said this before but I think a lot of the good, but not great guards like Van Exel, Price(actually he was pretty great), Abdul-Rauf would be like 20-25 ppg type guys in today’s game. There was too much dumping it into the post to the Elden Campbell’s and Hot Rod Williams’s of the league, and that paint was more crowded because of it. But mainly the physicality that was allowed for a few years was pretty crazy. [/QUOTE]