Are NBA players "soft" now in today's game?

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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.

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