Draymond Green and Kyle Kuzma argue that comparing the 1990s Bulls to the Warriors is pointless. Different rules, spacing, and athleticism make the eras incomparable, like comparing AOL to high-speed internet. They criticize media for pushing clickbait comparisons instead of just celebrating greatness in each era.
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What's up everybody? It's Draymond Green. Make sure you subscribe to the Volumes YouTube channel below so you don't miss any more of this great content going forward. I recently put out a tweet.
Uh-huh.
And it was, number one, how do you feel about comparing eras? This era—
It's oblivious.
To that era.
It doesn't make no sense.
I think it's ridiculous.
It makes no sense because Like you cannot compare to '60s. And granted, I did see what Jerry West said and I love Jerry West. He's an OG and he's a savage for what he said. Cause that's, that's some real shit. You know what I mean? Listen, you got it.
You got it. Ain't nobody saying nothing back to Logo. You definitely don't.
No, no, sir. But it's certain things you can't prepare. Like, and I'm not trying to disrespect nobody, but like, The point guards of today are unbelievably talented. They're way more elite than any point guard in the history of any, like, you know what I'm saying? From an athletic standpoint, man, granted, you know, Magic Johnson. Yes, he's coming in this era and he's whooping ass straight up.
Any era.
Any era, he's whooping ass. Isaiah Thomas, he's whooping ass. You know what I mean? Allen Iverson, he's whooping it. It's all relative. So, You're just, you're just thieving the joy outta a lot of things when you just compare and you wanna like do that. Like it doesn't make no sense. Like, like I saw your tweet, you talked about the game was from the free throw line and in, right?
Absolutely.
Y'all just gonna pack the paint, right? And you're just gonna be on a string defensively, right? But what are they gonna do? Like, granted, they're gonna have a game plan and a scheme too, but Y'all have seen that, y'all understand and know how to play that. They in the '90s, that would never see playing a 4-point line defense.
Absolutely.
They've never seen that before. You guys have seen it. So that's already the advantage in my eyes, at least.
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Right.
And the first part being, I don't understand why people compare Ayers, but when they do, I had a question. Do they take into account the difference in styles? Because there's no way they can be taking into account the difference of styles, because I am sitting here watching, and I was literally sitting— I watched the entire game 5 of the 1998 Finals, Chicago Bulls versus Utah Jazz. And I'm sitting here watching the game and I'm like, man, Rodman is incredible. Like MJ is amazing. Pip incredible. Karl Malone insane. John Stockton, John Stockton, although they had his ass bottled up something crazy. Oh, for sure. Him and Hornacek had no chance. They had no chance. But, and I'm appreciating all of their greatness, right? But I'm watching it and I couldn't help but say, I just don't understand how you can compare us to this team.
Right.
Not that Michael Jordan isn't great or the greatest player, or however you want to slice it. It's not taking anything away from that.
Right.
Not one bit. But just the style of basketball alone, I mean, there's a guy catching it at the free throw line, a guy cutting to the corner, and the guy flashing to the post.
Right.
There's no spacing. And so I'm watching that and I'm like, the point that I was making was, you see what I'm saying? We'll beat this team by 20 and we'll beat them by 40. The actual point that I was making is, And that's why it's dumb to compare eras.
It's dumb. And then it's also play styles and it's officiating. Well, are we gonna play with hand checks or are we gonna play freedom of movement?
Facts.
Right? There's certain teams that can get away with certain things. Like I believe if the Showtime Lakers, they would fucking dominate this era. 'Cause they were, man, I was watching Magic in the '80s, just highlights like earlier in the summer. People don't realize, yo, he was fast as shit.
He was.
No, no, he was fast as hell. Like he was getting the rebound, psh. Up the court in 3 dribbles. And that's the NBA now, right?
Absolutely.
Right or wrong? Kill. But certain teams might've been a little different.
Great.
You have great players, whatever. Jordan be in this era, he's averaging crazy numbers too, regardless, even crazier numbers.
For sure.
Right? Now it might be a different type of, if Jordan played in this era, it might be like, yo, ain't nobody touching him. You know, from a, a point standpoint, a championship standpoint, but you can't compare it. It's just too tough.
That's my whole sentiment. I hope people one day understand that. Do you remember AOL?
Are you old enough to remember AOL? Yeah, You Got Mail. Yeah, of course. Dial-up.
Can you compare AOL to high-speed internet today?
Of today? No chance.
Was AOL great when we used it?
Amazing.
Okay. The internet great?
Amazing.
But just because the internet great doesn't mean AOL wasn't great when it was being used, right?
You can't compare AIM Messenger to DMs, bro.
Why in the fuck can't we do that with basketball? Like, you do not have to minimize Michael Jordan's greatness for LeBron James to be great. You don't have to minimize LeBron James' greatness for Steph Curry greatness. And it pisses me off that people do that with basketball. They don't do that when it comes to a founder of this company and a founder of that company. They don't do that. They only do it when it comes to sports. And you know who do it when it comes to sports? These lousy-ass clickbaiters.
The worst.
That's saying stuff for clickbait. Making terrible comparisons so they got something to talk about tomorrow. I'm sick of it. And it's crazy because the only thing they talked about today was the comparison I made. And you actually missed the entire point. They start comparing immediately when I said it. And I knew they would, which is why I framed the statement the way I did. A question? A crazy-ass statement like y'all do, and then the message. And they missed the question and the message and just saw the crazy-ass statement. So my brother, I want to thank you for coming on to the show.
Man.
That right there is the new media. Y'all hate it, but you better love it. Don't get stuck on the wrong side because I'm telling you, a lot of these guys are getting caught on the wrong side of it. And you can come over now before we close the door.
