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Bucklion said:
Can't disagree with that.
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Cool. So, can you really say someone like Art Donovan--who I think was a bad ass mo fo--could compete on even a collegiate level today? I really don't think so (maybe at LB?) I've known NBA players from the 60's--role player types. Maybe the game was rougher but these guys wouldn't last on a typical inner city playground in a pick up game. Just don't have the size and speed (or the shot).
 
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ExpatAkronite said:
Cool. So, can you really say someone like Art Donovan--who I think was a bad ass mo fo--could compete on even a collegiate level today? I really don't think so (maybe at LB?) I've known NBA players from the 60's--role player types. Maybe the game was rougher but these guys wouldn't last on a typical inner city playground in a pick up game. Just don't have the size and speed (or the shot).
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Those kind of comparisons can't be made in a vacuum. If Art Donovan tried to play today, he would have the same diet, facilities, and training regimens that people have now. Could he thrive in that environment? Hell yes he could. Now, if you just hop in a time machine, pick up Art from 1958, and drop him on the field today? Who knows. Unlikely he would be a dominant HOFer, I guess. But then Larry Bird wasn't overly tall, fast, or athletic, and he did OK not that long ago.
 
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The toughest decade in NBA history is 1988-1998.
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There is a person in each pic I'd put on a team in a game with unlimited fouls and I'd bet my life my team wins.
 
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"The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for
authority, they show disrespect to their elders.... They no longer
rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents,
chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their
legs, and are tyrants over their teachers."

"The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have
no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all
restraint. They talk as if they alone knew everything and what passes
for wisdom with us is foolishness with them. As for girls, they are
forward, immodest and unwomanly in speech, behaviour and dress."

Quotes from over 2000 years ago.. nothing changes lol
 
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BuckeyeSoldier said:
"The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for
authority, they show disrespect to their elders.... They no longer
rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents,
chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their
legs, and are tyrants over their teachers."

"The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have
no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all
restraint. They talk as if they alone knew everything and what passes
for wisdom with us is foolishness with them. As for girls, they are
forward, immodest and unwomanly in speech, behaviour and dress."

Quotes from over 2000 years ago.. nothing changes lol
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I call bullshit...no one says "unwomanly" anymore...
 
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BuckeyeSoldier said:
"The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for
authority, they show disrespect to their elders.... They no longer
rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents,
chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their
legs, and are tyrants over their teachers."

"The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have
no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all
restraint. They talk as if they alone knew everything and what passes
for wisdom with us is foolishness with them. As for girls, they are
forward, immodest and unwomanly in speech, behaviour and dress."

Quotes from over 2000 years ago.. nothing changes lol
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Awesome. I know I'm getting a bit off topic, but this reminds me of one of my favorite quotes, originating from the 1830s.

“Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden
 
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