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Message: [QUOTE="champs99and04, post: 5199481, member: 488"] There was some brutal, brutal basketball played in the 90s and early 00s. One of my earliest basketball memories was watching the Celtics and Pistons play to a 66-64 final in game three of the 2002 eastern semi-finals (there's actually a youtube clip out there somewhere of an entire six minute stretch without a FG in the third quarter). It was really the worst of both worlds in that you had a generation of self-centered stars raised on sneaker money and and1 tapes that had abandoned the offensive structure of previous eras before they'd developed the skills to evolve past it. It was just a very ugly, unenlightened brand of basketball that - while I'm still somewhat nostalgic for it - I definitely wouldn't recommend it as a blueprint moving forward. That said, there's a happy medium and I think we're at least ten years past that point. I find the modern game every bit as unwatchable as those slugfests of 20-30 years ago and sometimes worse. At least then, the best players usually won. Now it's about whose role players are hitting their threes on a given day and which analytics department has best assembled their desired skillsets and brainwashed their players. (There's a misconception that Steve Kerr, Stephen Curry, and the Warriors are responsible for this shift when I think it was really Daryl Morey and James Harden - that's where all the iso, five out stuff grew its wings) [/QUOTE]