Bigger.Faster.Stronger

[90sgoat]

World Records in Athletics

100m dash: Usain Bolt - 2009
200m dash: Usain Bolt - 2009
400m dash: Michael Johnson - 1999

High Jump: Javier Sotomayor - 1993
Long Jump: Mike Powell - 1991
Tripple Jump: Jonathan Edwards - 1995

Shot Put: Randy Barnes - 1990
Discus Throw: Jurgen Schult - 1986
Hammer Throw: Yuriu Sedykh - 1986
Javelin Throw: Jan Zelezny - 1996

[GIF REACTION]

Randy Barnes

What an alpha name

[LAZERUSS]

World Records in Athletics

100m dash: Usain Bolt - 2009
200m dash: Usain Bolt - 2009
400m dash: Michael Johnson - 1999

High Jump: Javier Sotomayor - 1993
Long Jump: Mike Powell - 1991
Tripple Jump: Jonathan Edwards - 1995

Shot Put: Randy Barnes - 1990
Discus Throw: Jurgen Schult - 1986
Hammer Throw: Yuriu Sedykh - 1986
Javelin Throw: Jan Zelezny - 1996

Obviously athletes have become worse since 2009.

[90sgoat]

Average Height NBA by year

1986 - 6'7.6''
1996 - 6'7.3''
2006 - 6'6.3''

[90sgoat]

Obviously athletes have become worse since 2009.

Usain Bolt is a freak, MJ, Wilt like ahtlete. Take him out and Michael Johnson also has the 200m dash record set in the 90s.

[LAZERUSS]

Usain Bolt is a freak, MJ, Wilt like ahtlete. Take him out and Michael Johnson als has the 200m dash record set in the 90s.

I agree 100%.
Bolt may very well be a once-in-a-generation, or even lifetime, athlete.

[ShawkFactory]

What's your point?

[sundizz]

Average Height NBA by year

1986 - 6'7.6''
1996 - 6'7.3''
2006 - 6'6.3''

Yes, because we know all 6'7 people all created equal. There is a 6'9 guy that I play with nowadays that can shoot, dribble, pass, and is mobile. In the 60's he would of easily been a NBA player, but now he's at best a college player or low professional player.

[feyki]

Average Height NBA by year

1986 - 6'7.6''
1996 - 6'7.3''
2006 - 6'6.3''

1951 - 6-4
1955 - 6-5
1963 - 6-6
1981 - 6-7

[Showtime80']

Let's also add to the fact de decay in fundamentals and the SUBTLE increase in athleticism nowadays in the NBA is really nothing to brag about when comparing it to past generations.

Where advances in modern science have excelled is in EXTENDENDING careers on average rather than creating these superhuman specimens people seem to think are roaming around. Let's also take into account the modern equipment today's athletes also benefit from not to mention cough cough "STEROIDS"

[90sgoat]

What's your point?

I am always told that players today are bigger.faster.stronger as it is some law of nature, but it is really weird that all the jumping records in athletics are from the 90s, are they also not bigger.faster.stronger?

[ShawkFactory]

I am always told that players today are bigger.faster.stronger as it is some law of nature, but it is really weird that all the jumping records in athletics are from the 90s, are they also not bigger.faster.stronger?

Basketball players aren't inherently bigger, stronger, and faster.

The talent pool is larger however, thus leading to a higher quantity of big, fast, and strong players.

[90sgoat]

Let's also add to the fact de decay in fundamentals and the SUBTLE increase in athleticism nowadays in the NBA is really nothing to brag about when comparing it to past generations.

Where advances in modern science have excelled is in EXTENDENDING careers on average rather than creating these superhuman specimens people seem to think are roaming around. Let's also take into account the modern equipment today's athletes also benefit from not to mention cough cough "STEROIDS"

Absolutely. Longevity is a massive breakthrough, but one that is led by HGH and various semi-legal means, blood doping etc. The average weight of the players has increased somewhat and that's the steroids, but the steroids also contribute to a lot more ligament tear injuries.

[90sgoat]

Basketball players aren't inherently bigger, stronger, and faster.

The talent pool is larger however, thus leading to a higher quantity of big, fast, and strong players.

Why do you keep saying this?

Prove to me they are bigger stronger faster.

[LAZERUSS]

Basketball players aren't inherently bigger, stronger, and faster.

The talent pool is larger however, thus leading to a higher quantity of big, fast, and strong players.

That explains a 6-9 1/2 Cousins, with a 27" vertical, can put up 24-13 seasons in 34 mpg.

Or that a 6-3 Rubio can't hit a shot to save his life.

Or that a 6-8 Kevin Love, who can barely dunk, can runaway with the rpg title at 15 rpg in 35 mpg.

Thank gawd for these modern marvels.