worst nba product ever?

when did basketball fundamentals get so bad. guards can't create their own shots off the dribble and bigs have no more low post moves to just list 2 things. 

pg: supposedly deeper than ever but most players look to shoot first and just play like a poor man's version of ai. steve francis is seen as a franchise cancer but imo he would be a top 3 pg today. cp3 probably only one who would still be a "superstar" back in earlier decades. do like mcw though, could have j-kidd potential 

sg: long gone are the days of kobe/vc/tmac. 2 guards these days can barely dribble to the basket without tripping over themselves. now you see harden barreling into defenders and derozan with that ugly fadeaway long 2 as a go to move. yikes 

sf: lebron/durant are amazing and the only 2 players who could hack it and retain the same effective levels in the 80s/90s/even 2000s. melo would be decent as well. probably the only position where the modern day game is better at 

pf: prime elton brand would easily be the best pf today, and he was considered no better than 5th(duncan/kg/dirk/cwebb) in his prime. there is a reason dirk/kg/duncan are still effective at age 35 due to their solid fundamentals and also the fact the other players don't have much. the brow has potential though

c: shaq would wipe the league every year this decade. hell, even pat ewing probably would. hibbert is an all star center but is he even any better than rik smits? lol

they need to do something about the east too. the top seed in the east got swept by the 8th and 9th place teams in the west. coaches like randy wittman wouldn't last 20 games any other era but gets a 3 year 3 mil extension just for existing LOL

anyone else agree or don't agree? lol

i'd probably agree but i quit watching the nba years ago.  i've tried since then but can't make it more than a few minutes.

Most of the "stars" don't even know how to play when they get to the NBA.  The Lebrons and KG's and Dwight Howards don't come along very often.  

Teams want players that can jump out of the gym rather execute a proper bounce pass....  I blame Darius Miles.    Also, this era of hoops (college and pro) might be the worst we've ever had.... I would say definitely in college...  the NBA had a bad stretch post-Jordan around the time the Nets were winning the Eastern Conference.  

 Haven't watched a NBA game in over 5 years........guess I'm not missing much.

I agree mostly---but to be disagreeable:

Think shooting and fundamentals are way down.  But the players are way more athletic.  Bigger, faster, stronger, etc.  Sometimes when you rely on talent alone this is the product you get.  Hard to caompare eras I kinow.  But nostalgia may be a bad thing sometimes.  I used to think teams from 80s etc. would beat teams today---but probably just too much athleticism today. Or raw talent. 

Who is Dwight Howard?  The old one or the new one?

The NBA is the most boring & predictable league.  

'Predictable'

........and when you have a team of fundamentals like the Spurs, people call them boring..........

Its a terrible product they put on the floor these days. No fundamentals and no passion. They have become over paid and lazy. Just awful.

 

Of course I still bet on it.

they need to drop the east/west confs and seed based on record 1v16, 2v15 etc.