Reply to thread

Message: [QUOTE="Knicks411, post: 1734583, member: 767"] I'll cop to not remembering the timeline on this: i assumed MJ was driving the decision making process but that was a complete guess. Point taken, but Hakeem might have been a better athlete anyway; dude was nimble as all hell. I agree on the comment about players from the 90's to today; I think they are likely better athletes, but I don't think it's a massive difference. (Look at Tim Duncan for instance, if there was a huge difference from say 1998 (when he was a rookie) to today, then he wouldn't be able to even play in the league right now. That's obviously not the case. Skill level? Might be difficult to tease out raw skill level from what the rules allowed; but I'm favoring evolution and saying skill level is probably a little higher than it was 20 years ago, but not massively so. [/QUOTE]