In 2002 season Zone defense was officially allowed and a 38 year old Jordan was in MVP talks that same season averaging 23 ppg in the dead ball era. 👍

The real ones know this is a reupload

"That's illegal sync fix"

I was a minute into the previous video and I realised you just dropped this one. I thought it was a part 2 until I read these comments😂😂

Thank you for this! The first one was driving me nuts trying to mentally sync. lol

Thought this was an After dark for a sec 💔

Thank you for fixing this, I felt like I had just taken LSD or something lol.

"It's sucking my will to live!"

I remember that zone defence was considered the best option to cover your week defenders,  if you were not good enough to guard your player, you had the team to compensate with zone

Such a pleasure watching this old school clips... Real Basketball💯

Thanks for the reupload MC!!  Ill watch when I get home😂

Another thing:

I played in some leagues that allowed zones and some that didn't.

How we played defense was practically the same.

The main difference was that Instead of zoning up a space and standing there when our assignment vacated the location, we just had to yell "switch" whenever we wanted to zone up after our assignment left our "zone".

We even had an opposing coach lose his mind one time when one of our players was sagging off his man under the basket.

The ref essentially told the coach that there wasn't a defensive 3-seconds rule, and since our player was still moving with his assignment or yelling "switch", it was technically man-defense.

The refs let it go every time.

I'll started watch this but wanted to tell you that I graduated from college today. I'm feeling like jordan when he won his first championship right now it feels good.

I was trying to sync up the video in my head all video this morning lol. Was still a great listen while I was jump roping though 😂

I already watched the original video a couple hours ago (I'm a constant lurker) but man! I love your reactions and actual breakdowns. I may not be an old head like you but I do watch some mid 90s to early 2000s NBA games in the off-season just for the vibes. I do want to say that it's quite disappointing that most people don't even watch basketball anymore and simply go by narratives. Yes, I also watched playoff games in my free time with some friends like the Haliban Pacers vs Knicks in the 2024-2025 season and I have to say that yes, illegal defense in the 90s did limit some freedom of movement but really, the difference is quite overblown by the general media. In the modern game, defenses still mostly go man-to-man with the defender being atleast an arm or two's length away (would be really stupid to just leave a guy wide open) and from the eye test alone, it doesn't really look THAT much different as opposed to the late 90s games except with maybe more picks and switches aswell as a bit more movement but otherwise, I stand with my statement.

And yes, as pointed out by Uncut with Jordan against those Knicks, the guys who just keep saying "well, Jordan is going to go one-on-one the entire game" are entirely disingenuous. The illegal defense rule wasn't called THAT much in real games actually and teams such as those gritty Pat Riley Knicks got away with quite a bit of them. I even remember some commentators calling pointing out refs not calling the whistle. Not to mention, teams like the first threepeat Chicago Bulls abused full court presses and traps and it was ESSENTIAL to their defense even though it mostly revolved around constant switching and double teams. Just as the "why do the 60s dribblers look so weird" video pointed out, these are NBA level athletes, they're not stupid, they know how to play by the rules. There's also the convenient thing known as "Illegal offense" being glossed over wherein you can't actually clear out three or more players away from one side of the court aswell as the fact that you can't send them that far either (beyond the top of the key). That means that while there is illegal defense, whenever the guy doing the ISO actually drives into the paint, the bigs have time to recover and collapse on the guy driving.  

Anyway, once again, nice video!

18:00  " thankfully MJ had both tricks up his bag"" 😂😂😂
 Followed by "what was I talking about again 😂😂
these are TRMCisms that I love so much!

Bro… you’re old like me. We don’t argue about sports with children

Wanted to watch this but couldn't cause if audio so I'll watch this now

Thank you so much, I hated having to give up on the first one. It was driving me crazy and was getting had to follow.

My biggest thing is they try to erase Kobe. I just watched that Klutchtard say something like: Because you have Kobe over LeBron, your opinion doesn't matter. It's sh*t like that which really pisses me off. Kobe has 5 and LeBron knows it. Everyone feared Kobe getting CP3. No one fears LeBron teaming up. Even on reddit there is a rule in the Lakers sub for NO POSTS COMPARING LEBRON TO KOBE. LeStans got tired of losing so they had to make a rule. Klutch needs to go.