Are NBA players "soft" now in today's game? Garnett on Tatum
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00:00Eric, let's begin with Kevin Garnett.
00:01He was doing his podcast with Paul Pierce,
00:05and he talked about players today.
00:08Today's NBA player.
00:09Yeah, today's NBA player and how they might have struggled a little bit
00:1220 years ago. Here was Kevin Garnett.
00:15If I'm being honest, bro, I don't think anybody in this generation
00:19could have played like 20 years ago.
00:22If I'm being 100, and this is to everybody in our league, Tatum, all y'all.
00:27Let me tell y'all something, bro.
00:2820 years ago, bro, you couldn't get to a triple step back.
00:31No. You hear what I'm saying to you?
00:33You couldn't get to a triple step back.
00:35And then if you shot that, it had to go in.
00:38You know why?
00:38Because we had we had efficiency back in the day, my dude.
00:42And it was so hard.
00:43It was too physical.
00:45And guess what?
00:46The league had to come off of it for the flow of movement
00:49to be able to have scoring go up, which is why we like to sit here
00:52and watch kind of the rat race of the high pace game. Right.
00:55But, bro, let's not talk about the game and ship.
00:57And let's not talk about the physicality of the game back then.
01:00Really? Because I only think half these kids in the league
01:03could have been on the NBA team 20 years ago.
01:06Straight up. The locker room was too.
01:08It was it was it was too grown.
01:10OK. Spot on, by the way, I think, KG.
01:14I mean, never mind.
01:16Nobody plays defense in the league anymore.
01:19And so, I mean, he does sound a little.
01:23We're old. Right.
01:24So all of these guys that we watched growing up are now turning into old man
01:29screaming at clouds, Kevin Garnett, Tom Brady. Right.
01:32The game was better when I played it. Right.
01:34But you probably you actually probably don't agree
01:38because you love the threes. Yeah. You live for the threes.
01:41I think what he's saying is more it's different than football,
01:44because there are guys that play football that I think could play 20 years ago.
01:48But basketball, because of the physicality, he's talking about more than anything.
01:53So that that definitely changed.
01:55What is the change in the game like?
01:58And when he's talking about the triple step back, yeah,
02:01maybe because it was so physical, you could hand check and guys
02:04didn't have that type of space.
02:06And when you went to the foul line, can you imagine like LeBron going to the lane
02:10or even like Tatum and getting an elbow by Kurt Rambis
02:13or one of those big centers or Pat Ewing clothesline?
02:16Yeah. So that that part I get.