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[QUOTE="AlaskaSU, post: 2211995, member: 230"]
One sport in no different from another in terms of how human athletes improve over time.  Would Jesse Owens era Olympic Athletes beat Usain Bolt's Olympic track athletes?  Basketball is no different from track.  It could argued that there are a few individual exceptions, but to assume that an old era championship team composed of 5 starters and 10 players could beat a current championship team is a stretch.  Wilt was a coordinated 7' and he dominated.  7' is no longer a big deal.  Interestingly, the same does not hold true for horses.  Their times do not improve over successive generations.  This seems to indicate that genetics are more important than methods.  The horse breeding gene pool is far smaller than the billions of men on the planet that play basketball.

As to the argument that old generation athletes would be better if they trained in modern conditions, probably true, but no one is considering this in their comparisons.  Improvement is a matter of both improved methods and genetics.
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