KI4MVP
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Here's a guy talking about it for 10 mins.
I don't know if you are old enough to remember the games, but anyone who is knows hand checking is a real thing.
View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1iMZ1lUz9rI
can I get those 10 minutes of my life back? There is so much wrong with what he says it's ridiculous. And the guy in the video isn't old enough to live through that era, I am. I've been watching basketball long enough to watch Wilt play. He doesn't understand the defensive 3 second rule at all. The rule change there made it easier to pack the lane, he describes it as making it harder to pack the lane.
Most of the videos playing behind him don't even show hand checking or shows a guy barely touching the player. Ignore what the guy is saying and look at the videos he's using to support his case. In 10 minutes of talking he has about 30 seconds of actual video that show some isolated instance. I'm certain you can find comparable video of players being physical with LeBron, including similar hand checking. The fact is defenses today are the best they've ever been as the game has evolved.
And I already showed videos of the teams who were actually good at defending Jordan and there is literally no hand checking in any of the videos of the top defensive teams playing their best defense on Jordan. It's never been more than a crutch for bad defense.