You must be talking about the travels where they slide the pivot foot or lift it before they dribble. NBA has been allowing that since like the 70s, minimum early 80s
While I love these post battles I can already see the: "Back when real men played real basketball!!" comments come in. Yes, it's fantastic to see Shaq go to work early on but the rest of the team just stands and watches. This era of basketball was very iso heavy and while that certainly has its merits, there's also little variance between how teams play (try to post up your best scorer and the rest clears out). I'm not hating, I love this era, but just as today's game, there are also negatives.
your right every era has its negative part but I'd rather watch this then to watch non-shooters who shoot 3's players who have mismatches but don't use it to their advantage only to settle for a step back 3 or watching a player iso while others standing at the 3 point watching
You're right, but the champions of the 80s/90s were not just "post-up and watch" teams. The Bulls, the Lakers, the Celtics, the Pistons all had a real teamwork going. You could survive with that style of play but you weren't going really far in the playoffs.
@@thomasdepitout7739yup. Bulls and Lakers especially made teams pay w fast breaks. Lengthy quick players running down fast. It was the modern NBA in the making wo all the wack flopping
I remember this game very well. Please make a long video like this of all the Van Exel clips too 😊
What a great clip, NBA on TNT had good announcers and was very cool. 400 pounds of dunking and shoving versus the dream shake.
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Now it's 400 pounds 😆
@mongoslade277 lol yeah but it was prob a solid 330 then. Shaq started getting fat the day he left the Magic 😄
As usually great job/post by MDBBall. Shaq continuing to get away with the travels, offensive fouls,etc.
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😂 everyone travels now more than ever so what’s your point?
You must be talking about the travels where they slide the pivot foot or lift it before they dribble. NBA has been allowing that since like the 70s, minimum early 80s
Can't believe this is almost 30 years ago
Hard to believe Kobe was largely an inconsequential bench player here
Rockets only loss in the first 16 games of the 96-97 season.
While I love these post battles I can already see the: "Back when real men played real basketball!!" comments come in. Yes, it's fantastic to see Shaq go to work early on but the rest of the team just stands and watches. This era of basketball was very iso heavy and while that certainly has its merits, there's also little variance between how teams play (try to post up your best scorer and the rest clears out). I'm not hating, I love this era, but just as today's game, there are also negatives.
your right every era has its negative part but I'd rather watch this then to watch non-shooters who shoot 3's players who have mismatches but don't use it to their advantage only to settle for a step back 3 or watching a player iso while others standing at the 3 point watching
@@GHOST91141 Watch the Nuggets, they still do plenty of post ups. Or the Cavs with their 2 big lineup that have great synergy between them.
You're right, but the champions of the 80s/90s were not just "post-up and watch" teams. The Bulls, the Lakers, the Celtics, the Pistons all had a real teamwork going. You could survive with that style of play but you weren't going really far in the playoffs.
@@thomasdepitout7739yup. Bulls and Lakers especially made teams pay w fast breaks. Lengthy quick players running down fast. It was the modern NBA in the making wo all the wack flopping
good choice ty
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Barkley is wearing jordans lol
So is everyone else nowadays
Who would you want on your team Hakeem? Or Shaq?