When comparing efficiency of modern era to previous eras is it overlooked that hunting switches for favorable matchups only became league-wide popular in 2010's Here's Kobe in 2008 playoffs scoring nearly all of his 39 points against BowenDuncan both of whom were 1st Team All-Defense that year

Kobe Bryant relentlessly attacks Tim Duncan as he puts up 39 points to clinch the Western Conference Finals in 2008 The announces are in awe that Kobe was abusing Duncan all series

How ball handling has gotten 'better' over the years

Kobe Bryant MVP season highlights 07-08

In the 90s Drazen Petrovic cooked perennial DPOY candidate Hakeem Olajuwan 3 decades later Chris Paul cooks perennial DPOY candidate Rudy Gobert with the same move

Tony Allen doubles down on his comments on LeBron's defense When they played OKC you think LeBron is starting out the game on KD No he's gonna stick Sefolosha So you got 41min of sticking Sefolosha the last 2min you get a chase down block and get the win now you just 1st team all defense

Ben Taylor of Thinking Basketball questions why the NBA has stopped calling offensive fouls when players charge into someone or use their off-arm showing clips from just a decade ago where those moves were illegal and the players didn't even argue the calls when they happened