Who's Better - Today's Stars or Yesteryear's Stars?

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Are Today's Players As Good As The 80s/90s?

  1. Yes

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  2. No

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  3. Some are

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    BBert Weasels Ripped My Flesh

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    Theus was also a good player. One of those guys who used to kill us.
     
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    I don't feel like anyone is hating on me. I feel like you're hating on basketball players. Whether they're generation x or millenials. They aren't less talented than baby boomers etc.
     
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    Maybe we're arguing because I think talent is something you're born with, and you don't? But if you think talent is something were born with, then you're just being hateful by saying that people now are born with less talent than people in the past.
     
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    In fact, the usual hate on millenials is that we're somehow not as hard of workers as previous generations. Which is pretty much the opposite of what talent is.
     
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    I saw that, but... it kinda... not the worst... but... next time match sure you're attacking the post, the the person making the post. I kinda read that as, "you're an idiot if you don't agree me."
     
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    Your over the top. I dontg actually ignore people as in using the ignore function. I don't need to. I'm fully capable of reading your posts and not commenting if I want. But you were not being rational. Just like this post here. You didn't read my whole post but assume you think I know what I said and that i'm wrong...

    That is worthy of ignoring. And so I shall continue to ignore you. I've tried teaching you a lesson and failed. In part because of how I try, but I also have come to understand some people don't learn until they learn to listen...something I have not seen from you yet.

    Carry on...
     
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    Exactly.
     
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    PtldPlatypus Let's go Baby Blazers! Staff Member Global Moderator Moderator

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    If someone read his post as calling people idiots for disagreeing with him, then that makes them an idiot... :devilwink:
     
    PtldPlatypus, Jun 10, 2016
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    With how the game has been changed in officiating...
    I have a very hard time believing that todays stars are better than previous decades.
    I have a very hard time believing that Curry is better than Stockton.. On par with him I can more believe...
    Especially when you take the 88-96 stretch Stockton had... Where he not only led the league in assists. He lead the league in steals 2 years during that stretch also.
    Curry might be a better shooter & put up more points on a nightly biases... But as far as talent goes. John Stockton compares quite well with Stephen Curry.
    Which is a complement in itself to be on the level of John Stockton.

    There are generational players for every decade.. Wilt to LBJ.
    These players match up very well with each other.. And shouldn't be part of the discussion.

    Damn and I'm a millennial.. Shame on me for saying these things. I'm supposed to orgasm when Curry makes 3s.
     
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    Hate Hate Hate. Why does ones differing opinion make them a Hater. I'm am dumbfounded and confused by this analogy....

    I think Jordan is better than LBJ. Does that mean I hate him? Jesus no. And I don't care for it when people make me out to be a hater when
    I'm not...
     
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    I answered the first paragraph. Are you not entertained?
     
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    Do you think it was the short shorts that made the NBA better in the 80s?

    Make the NBA great again! Shorten the shorts!

    And make Mexico pay for it!!!
     
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    Not true at all. You are smart enough to know there are play on words and things can be manipulated. HE worded that way on purpose, so it wasn't a personal attack. But it was every inch of a personal attack and he knows it. Why is it a personal attack? Because he is saying HIS Logic and HIS opinion is fact and if you disagree you are an idiot.

    Well everyone is going to disagree because opinions are opinions, not facts. So in essence he said everyone is an idiot. I know your smart enough to see how he played that out.
     
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    You asked me one question and I answered it. You don't like my answer?
     
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    Or your posts. But it doesn't make me a hater and it doesn't mean I hate you... Hope you come to understand that one day...
     
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    No, I'm saying that logic tells us; that there has not been a genetic mutation causing people all over the world to be born less talented basketball players.
     
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    You still have no response to my answer of your question?
     
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    You're supposed to see the devilwink and understand the sarcasm.

    However, I didn't read his post that way at all. I read it as not relating to agreeing with his opinion, but relating to the method of arriving at an opinion. He has no problem with people disagreeing with him, if they don't intentionally disregard logic in the process.
     
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    Doesn't Mexico already make the NBA's shorts?
     
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    When did I ever argue that they're better today? They're just as good. That's all I'm saying.
     
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