The NBA is in a good place

Rainwater · Post #1 » by **Rainwater** » Sun May 5, 2024 2:07 am

In terms of talent the NBA is in a really good place. There are young guys (Paolo, Edwards, SGA, Chet, Wemby, Doncic, Hailburton, etc), guys in their prime (Joker, Giannis, Embiid, Brunson etc), and vet guys (LBJ, Durant, Curry, George, Kawhi, etc). It’s astonishing watching the playoffs and seeing how many of these young guys are trying to win now when it typically may take years and they haven’t even reached their prime years. And it’s even more astonishing how some of these young guys have taken out teams with stars in their prime and vet guys. The NBA really has a bright future.

LakerLegend · Post #2 » by **LakerLegend** » Sun May 5, 2024 2:08 am

The talent pool will probably grow exponentially in the coming decades as the basketball infrastructure in the rest of the world keeps improving.

SNPA · Post #3 » by **SNPA** » Sun May 5, 2024 2:31 am

The year 2085 a poster on RGM:

Wemby played against plumbers and accountants.

jkvonny · Post #4 » by **jkvonny** » Sun May 5, 2024 2:54 am

SNPA wrote:The year 2085 a poster on RGM:

Wemby played against plumbers and accountants.

Blasphemy!

Wemby played against TikTokers and PC hackers!

Clav · Post #5 » by **Clav** » Sun May 5, 2024 3:02 am

jkvonny wrote:
SNPA wrote:The year 2085 a poster on RGM:

Wemby played against plumbers and accountants.

Blasphemy!

Wemby played against TikTokers and PC hackers!

ahahhaha Zoomers are the new Plumbers

Clav · Post #6 » by **Clav** » Sun May 5, 2024 3:10 am

Rainwater wrote:In terms of talent the NBA is in a really good place. There are young guys (Paolo, Edwards, SGA, Chet, Wemby, Doncic, Hailburton, etc), guys in their prime (Joker, Giannis, Embiid, Brunson etc), and vet guys (LBJ, Durant, Curry, George, Kawhi, etc). It’s astonishing watching the playoffs and seeing how many of these young guys are trying to win now when it typically may take years and they haven’t even reached their prime years. And it’s even more astonishing how some of these young guys have taken out teams with stars in their prime and vet guys. The NBA really has a bright future.

Every generation has great players that overlap the older greats. We're at a critical point, every ten years or so the big names change because there's only so many years players can be at their peak.

When Wade, Garnett, Shaq, Pierce, and Duncan were getting older we had your second list of now veterans coming into their own. Now it's time for the same to happen to them. In 2035 we'll be seeing some of our now top players retiring or completely out of the league.

Pachinko_ · Post #7 » by **Pachinko_** » Sun May 5, 2024 3:16 am

It is in a very good place, in my opinion they just need to moderate the greed juuuuust a litte bit.
Reduce the RS games, everybody knows it will work out better for the health of the players and the quality and intensity of the average game. Ok maybe we don't KNOW it as such, but we suspect it, it's worth a try.

Everybody will get paid 10% less, it's not the end of the world.

baldur · Post #8 » by **baldur** » Sun May 5, 2024 3:17 am

No, western conference is in a good place. Boston is reaching the finals easily.

Post #9 » by **Capn'O** » Sun May 5, 2024 3:23 am

I like this new round of stars for the most part.

Rainwater · Post #10 » by **Rainwater** » Sun May 5, 2024 3:28 am

Clav wrote:
Rainwater wrote:In terms of talent the NBA is in a really good place. There are young guys (Paolo, Edwards, SGA, Chet, Wemby, Doncic, Hailburton, etc), guys in their prime (Joker, Giannis, Embiid, Brunson etc), and vet guys (LBJ, Durant, Curry, George, Kawhi, etc). It’s astonishing watching the playoffs and seeing how many of these young guys are trying to win now when it typically may take years and they haven’t even reached their prime years. And it’s even more astonishing how some of these young guys have taken out teams with stars in their prime and vet guys. The NBA really has a bright future.

Every generation has great players that overlap the older greats. We're at a critical point, every ten years or so the big names change because there's only so many years players can be at their peak.

When Wade, Garnett, Shaq, Pierce, and Duncan were getting older we had your second list of now veterans coming into their own. Now it's time for the same to happen to them. In 2035 we'll be seeing some of our now top players retiring or completely out of the league.

I agree with this to certain extent new player are always around. I may be wrong, but it didn't feel like this in 2014. There seems like an abundance of players right now.

Sealab2024 · Post #11 » by **Sealab2024** » Sun May 5, 2024 3:32 am

" I get what Phoenix did. They said we go all in, the time is now, push all our chips on the table.... These young boys ain't tryin' to hear that".

Carmelo Anthony

Rainwater · Post #12 » by **Rainwater** » Sun May 5, 2024 7:54 am

Sealab2024 wrote:" I get what Phoenix did. They said we go all in, the time is now, push all our chips on the table.... These young boys ain't tryin' to hear that".

Carmelo Anthony

Pretty much what is going on right now

Dominator83 · Post #13 » by **Dominator83** » Sun May 5, 2024 8:32 am

Pachinko_ wrote:It is in a very good place, in my opinion they just need to moderate the greed juuuuust a litte bit.
Reduce the RS games, everybody knows it will work out better for the health of the players and the quality and intensity of the average game. Ok maybe we don't KNOW it as such, but we suspect it, it's worth a try.

Everybody will get paid 10% less, it's not the end of the world.

72 game season is perfect. Everybody plays 3 games against their own conference opponents, and the usual 2 against the opposite. Divisions haven't mattered in forever we can stop pretending

Post #14 » by **zimpy27** » Sun May 5, 2024 8:38 am

Dominator83 wrote:
Pachinko_ wrote:It is in a very good place, in my opinion they just need to moderate the greed juuuuust a litte bit.
Reduce the RS games, everybody knows it will work out better for the health of the players and the quality and intensity of the average game. Ok maybe we don't KNOW it as such, but we suspect it, it's worth a try.

Everybody will get paid 10% less, it's not the end of the world.

72 game season is perfect. Everybody plays 3 games against their own conference opponents, and the usual 2 against the opposite. Divisions haven't mattered in forever we can stop pretending

When they add 2 more teams this would need 77 games. Plus 5 more for IST gets it to 82.

BelgradeNugget · Post #15 » by **BelgradeNugget** » Sun May 5, 2024 8:38 am

NBA is in a good place, not only because of talented players, but because of likable teams that emarge from the superstar-team up era. You have home-grown, young, tough teams that play the game the way it used to be played. OKC, Minnesota, Denver, Orlando. They don't give up. Then you have Knicks and Dallas, not home grown, but tough, with players that like to play with each other, play for each other. Boston is prety much home-grown with patience too (don't like number of 3s they are taking, but it works for them, so who am I to say).

All superstar-team up teams failed, all The Processes failed with their soft stars, refs help ect.

But if you looked at it better, the team that was the best in the past era was home-grown, tough team with players that like to play with each other and for each other GSW.

So GMs of the league this is the way to bildt teams the right way.

Ito · Post #16 » by **Ito** » Sun May 5, 2024 11:22 am

You know people might be overrating this statement, even if it’s true.. there’s more overall talent but there was prolly a bigger gap between stars and role players back then.. than the stars now and the “role players” .. its more a it’s in a good place kuz it’s definitely not in a bad place type thing