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Message: [QUOTE="Lefty2one, post: 3141376, member: 1001"] It gradually gets worse over time. It's comical what offensive players get away with today. I remember back in the day people would kill Ewing for his 4-step post moves going from one block to the other. That seems like peanuts compared to today. [LIST] [*]Everyone can travel, and it's not even the extra step that's bad. It's when guys are around the rim and shuffle their feet or change their pivot foot four times. [*]Everyone can carry. AI's generation normalized this. [*]Players are rewarded for creating contact no matter the situation. You can be driving in a straight line to the hoop and jump two feet sideways into a defender, who's in perfect legal guarding position and entitled to their own space, yet the refs call a foul. [*]Push-offs are hardly ever called. Guys like Harden push off several times a game to create space and it's rarely called. [*]Illegal screens are a joke. It's not hyperbole to say 90% of screens in the NBA are moving. It's challenging enough to get around a legal screen set by a 6'11 250 lbs human being, now try doing it while they're moving! [/LIST] It's a minor miracle anyone can defend in today's NBA. If the game was called by the real rules of basketball, Harden would be a walking turnover. An offensive foul or a violation on nearly every possession. [/QUOTE]