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Message: [QUOTE="MilliniumPrince, post: 2733604, member: 747"] Not like today's game. It took great passing and hard picks (no one called moving picks/screens in the 80s or early 90s) to get a guy a wide open look. Take a look at the games this past weekend. The shooting was criminally horrible, but a lot of those looks were wide open. Now, athletes are much better today and I think the game is just as competitive now as it was then, but in different ways. Free Agency is also much different. GSW managed to get the three best shooters in the world on one team. They got two by drafting and KD as a free agent. The odds of that happening in any era have to be damn long. The strategy was lacking because this type of personnel didn't exist. There simply weren't as many long range shooters back then. Three point shooting was more of a specialty until Bird came along. But he couldn't create the wide open looks players get today. I don't believe he ever hit more than 100 3s in a season. Curry, Klay, and Durant hit 100 by New Year's. In fact, I think I read Curry hit 100 in 20 games. Bird was the best shooter of my youth and he was just under 38% from Three. Count the guys in the League now who shoot better than that. Lebron is not considered a strong shooter and he shoots 34% from the arc for his career. [/QUOTE]