https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTyVvpAE4Eg

I hated this POS but gotdamn he had no fear.

Barkley, Jordan, Bird, Pippen, Mahorn, he fucked all of them up

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Laimbeer was a piece of shit. But he was our piece of shit. I wouldn't have had it any other way. It's hard for me to watch hoop now watching niggas just moonwalking into the lane at will and not being able to do shit about it. The Bad Boys were and are my basketball nirvana. The remix Pistons from '04 hold a special place too but the OG Bad Boys....man.

What gets lost in all the talk about being dirty is that the Celtics were every bit as dirty as the Pistons and I respected the hell out of them too. On top of that the Pistons were a great TEAM. They really get shitted on historically from that era and left out of discussions but they went to 3 straight Finals and won two. So there's that. And they played every good team in that era and they beat them.

It's hard for me to
>watch hoop now watching niggas just moonwalking into the lane
>at will and not being able to do shit about it.

Don’t get beat. Protect the rim by blocking shots.

That dirty shit on prone players that are better than you is some BS. Glad it’s gone.

Like he said above the Celtics were also very physical and teams had to give it back to them. The Pistons sort of evolved from that and to some extent we saw the Knicks and Heat do the same things.

I think now there is no real accountability in the game for the cheap but not so flagrant stuff. You also can't do much as a defender. No hand-checking, tons of illegal screens, total benefit of the doubt to the offensive player and almost zero leeway to police the lane. The only physical play now is between bigs for position and even that is deteriorating because of the style of play today. I think there is a happy medium somewhere.

I think that’s my biggest gripe with the game right now.

And this is contact that the guy with the ball is SEEKING. Smh

Edit - I also see quite a play style difference between now and 15 years ago and prior that contributes to this. This is somewhat anecdotal, but back in the late 80s to 90s when I really started watching basketball, if a guy got the ball 8 feet from the hoop with a few feet of space, he was putting up a jumper (and making it 80% of the time). Nowadays, if a guy gets the ball 8 feet from the hoop with a few feet of space, he's taking a flying fuck at the rack and actively seeking a hard collision with any defender in the vicinity.

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he was a 4x All Star with basically a career double double over a very long period of time and a 51/33/84 shooting line as a center in the 80s

he wasnt a caveman out there to beat on dudes with skill. he would elbow you in the face and then go get his own 18/12/2

i do get what you are saying tho. the 80s had a much better class of enforcer.

easily the starting center for the all time dirtiest players team.

He could shoot it.

he was a stretch 5 before it was a thing

Yes, still.