Its called evolutuon boss. Look at any Olympic event that measures strength, speed, jumping ability. All numbers are better now.
The fastest man in the world in the 1960s is over .4 of a slower than Usain Bolt. Carl lewis over .2 of a second slower than Bolt. Its called evolutuon. They wouldnt be competitive now
Fans for some reason dont feel that apllies in sports. They think players get slower and less athletic while the opposite is true. Training and nutrition have improved dramatically since even the 80s and 90s.
Fans are so loyal to their era. It's crazy
Because sports aren't 100 yd dashes, you mental retard.
First of all, this whole debate is probably beyond the scope of your mind to really even grasp, other than what you just said or at least alluded to, that typically things tend to advance and evolve in some positive direction with time, which I'm guessing is simplistic enough that even someone like yourself can confidently wrap your noggin around it.
But in a sport like basketball there's no way to quantify that, it's not that sort of thing. The players aren't any bigger, faster or stronger than they were in the previous generation - Jordan's era - and outside of noticeably advanced long range shooting, after even a fairly cursory consideration I would say it's highly debatable how anything has changed at all, or at least dramatically improved.
Do players eat better, sleep better, lift weights better? Maybe, but everyone back in the 90s was totally built and jacked, and full professionals who took their careers seriously. So that's a wash. Do they work harder, are they more motivated and driven today? Who the F knows, but I might be inclined to say no, they're lazier now, and more self-absorbed, and flightier, in other words typical millennials. Do they have better individual ball skills? Maybe, it's possible. But players were PLENTY skillful in the 90s, and I might think they had more game then than they do today. I don't watch hoops nearly as much anymore, but I was kind of thinking that current players' skills are declining in certain areas, like post skills. It's more playground-style ball today, more AAU summer league-esque, and the evolution into that style may not have been driven by improved quality, or the force of new talent irrepressibly taking the sport to a higher plane. And if anything that trend actually represents a decline in the level and excellence of the play. Are they coached better, and now players are so well-coached that they are on another level than your Birds and Magics and Barkleys as far as that sort of intangible, tactical superiority? Maybe, but I highly doubt that for some reason.
What you see or think you see are small differences in their physical mannerisms, and somehow they seem a little stiffer or more awkward back in the day, but that's quite possibly cosmetic, and misleading They're not actually any less physically capable, in terms of physics. So while I'm naturally inclined to agree that they are better today for some general, overall, undefinable reason you can't pinpoint but that inexorably comes with the passage of time, yet I can't convince myself of anything specific. Maybe the game itself has evolved in a way, in a completely organic unplanned way that would somehow distinctly favor today's players over Jordan's era, but I'd have to see to it believe it.
And of course it's a supremely stupid and futile argument as is there no way to test it. This is not one of those times when the eye test is going to settle it.[/QUOTE]