Regarding defense of Lou Williams --
https://twitter.com/JADubin5/status/1199...59493?s=20
Its Go time I feel like you haven't met RC's Det or Indiana teams.
After re-reading that, that is an overly harsh way of putting it, sorry, meant no disrespect.
No offense taken.
In all honesty, those two teams would fair VERY well in today's NBA. Defense and muscle ball translates very well through the ages, the defensive schemes change, but the players willing to put in the work don't. Also, Ben Wallace and Dale Davis/Scot Pollard/Jeff Foster were the starting C's on each team. Were those teams ahead of their time?
It's an arguable point, and of course, we'll never know. Aside from the fact that teams aren't built that way any more for a reason, there were some knuckleheads in those groups, and they might just decide to beat up on the fans again and serve lengthy suspensions. But I take your point, and agree that many of them were large specimens with a defensive bent, and might have been very useful to a team like the Mavs one at a time (thus not violating Cubes' one-knucklehead limit).
https://twitter.com/JADubin5/status/1199...59493?s=20
Its Go time I feel like you haven't met RC's Det or Indiana teams.
After re-reading that, that is an overly harsh way of putting it, sorry, meant no disrespect.
No offense taken.
(11-27-2019, 10:40 AM)mavsluvr Wrote: although the game has changed a lot since then
In all honesty, those two teams would fair VERY well in today's NBA. Defense and muscle ball translates very well through the ages, the defensive schemes change, but the players willing to put in the work don't. Also, Ben Wallace and Dale Davis/Scot Pollard/Jeff Foster were the starting C's on each team. Were those teams ahead of their time?
It's an arguable point, and of course, we'll never know. Aside from the fact that teams aren't built that way any more for a reason, there were some knuckleheads in those groups, and they might just decide to beat up on the fans again and serve lengthy suspensions. But I take your point, and agree that many of them were large specimens with a defensive bent, and might have been very useful to a team like the Mavs one at a time (thus not violating Cubes' one-knucklehead limit).