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[QUOTE="nelsonmuntz, post: 4510852, member: 833"]
I will make the NBA comparisons a separate post.

It wasn't until 2019 that the NBA returned to the PPG averages it had in the early and mid 80's, and era when the top teams had frontcourts like Bird/McHale/Parish and Olajuwon/Sampson, and a team basically couldn't finish above .500 unless it had a quality center.  4 of the 5 were first ballot Hall-of-Famers.  Bird played with a point guard (DJ) that couldn't shoot and a 2 guard (Ainge) that couldn't create his own shot, and those Celtics teams were unstoppable.

Dr. J's entire game was attacking the hoop even though Moses Malone was never more than 5 feet from the basket, and both were all-stars and first ballot Hall-of-Famers.  There typically was a borderline all-star like Caldwell Jones or Bobby Jones playing inside too on those 76ers teams.  Those offenses were better than anything we have seen until the last 3-4 years.  Dr. J had a better backcourt than Bird did, at least offensively.  All that inside action gave an OK player like Andrew Toney a lot of wide open looks.  He shot 49.2% or higher for 5 straight seasons despite taking almost exclusively jump shots.

You think those teams couldn't light up defenses today the way games are officiated now?
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