Imagine this scenario

[warriorfan]

[3ball]

note Ewing

Completely standard for Ewing - he was a habitual paint-camper:







So was Larry Nance and Brad Daughtery







So was the entire Piston team







Night-and-day superior paint defense than today's spacing and defensive 3.
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[sekachu]

Lebron has been sent back in time

Lebron dribbles to ball down to the half court, it's 1996 and the NBA's Illegal Defense rules still exist. Lebron signals his guys to clear out as he moves to the right wing ready to operate 1 on 1 with his defender. He proceeds to backdown his man defender for 15 straight seconds before a left-handed hook-shot from 5 feet from the basket for an easy basket

The next possession he does the exact same thing, except this time the defense opts to double team. Lebron being the cerebral basketball mind that he is locates the open man and hits him for a wide open jumper

The 3rd possession he does exactly the same thing, except the defense tries to sag off in a help defense fashion. The defense is called for Illegal defense and the 24 shot clock is reset. If they do so again Lebron's team will get free throws.

Illegal defense era in a nutshell. Man to man or double

I don't get it. If you have seen MJ played, you should know he would be still unstoppable whether playing under the illegal defense or without the illegal defense when he has a better post up, midrange jumpshot, off ball movement catch and shoot and better quickness than lebron.

[3ball]

Ain't got spacing ain't got no chance

^^^^^ This was the OP from another thread you made titled: "It's all about spacing".

http://www.insidehoops.com/forum/sho...d.php?t=372525

So you are fully aware (like everyone else) that spacing is the most important thing - that's why i roll my eyes when you guys talk about partial zones played outside the paint, when they have a smidgen of importance compared to spacing.

It's like evaluating whether you want to accept a new job, and focusing on the wallpaper in your office (shading) rather than the salary or duties (spacing, physicality).

[Im Still Ballin]

Sweet Mary mother of Jesus

I weakside CHECKED don

Somebody call an ambo'

[DonDadda59]

Sweet Mary mother of Jesus

I weakside CHECKED don

Somebody call an ambo'

You were gang raped in your own thread for like the 100th time in a week.

Looking like Bron vs that advanced Diaw isolation defense











^That's the kind of defense this guys sees in the FINALS... but can't do a damn thing against it. Imagine that.

[3ball]

The four other guys would all be 25 feet from the basket.

You mean like this:





In previous eras, teams had ZERO players behind the 3-point line because teams didn't shoot 3-pointers - in 1985, teams averaged two attempts per game, compared to 22 per game today.

So the setup above is characteristic of TODAY'S game, not previous eras - you never saw the above setup in previous eras.

Coaches were actually quite dumb in previous eras - not only did they not space the floor, but their approach of positioning offensive players inside the 3-point line and closer to the rim activated the legal paint-camping provision stipulated in Rule 2b of the Illegal Defense Guidelines - this rule allowed defenders to paint-camp with no time restriction if their man was in the paint already, or within 3 feet of either side.