That's every man's story here in Canada and the United States. "My parents threw out all my comics, baseball and hockey cards and toys! They'd be worth $$$'s today!"
Of course. Nostalgia sets in for the items of our childhood. We seek them out now to somehow keep a bridge to our early years. But all those things - comics, cards, etc. - were regarded as simply junk at the time. They were accordingly mauled and then pitched out. So incredible demand today combined with very limited supply has resulted in unbelievably high prices.
This generation does not stand out at all and not even stand high, but you're just hyping it for some reason. They are great guys, dedicated fighters and so on and they won respect and hearts of the fans, but from any possible angle looking it's the worst generation of three major ones - 90's, 00's, 10's. Not a single guy among top 5 scorers, not a single guy among top 5 FTs made, only one guy (5th) among top 5 2FGM, only one guy (5th) among 3pts FGM. I understand it's your favorite generation, but try to have at least minimum objectivity. You literally naming 6th, 7th and so on in scored points. Then most games played also guys from other generations (Einikis, Jasikevicius, Stombergas, while Rooney and Sabas simply couldn't play for the NT early on). You got confused.I hope you wrong and our new generation will remain loyal to the NT. Jokubaitis should start his NT career as 20,7yo, so more or less when Kalnietis and Jasikevicius started. A. Marciulionis and Velicka don't seem to avoid NT either. Their numbers won't be surpassed even when some of these new comers will be ending their careers most likely. First, both Šaras and Kalnietis were the only high level PGs on their generation. Kalnietis was actually almost the only guy who could put the ball on the flour in entire team...Second, no-one in new generation will play 34min as Kalnietis did many times for the NT. Our rotation should be broader and incomparably more quality.
Didn't get your second argument about your beloved generation
Then if playing a lot with crappy rotation means that your numbers are not as worthy, so we should undervalue Kalnietis' numbers as well because he played tons and had no substitutes and complete freedom. Then, if only in 90s such travesty is possible that 5 players would score most points (the level according to you was incomparable..) then how to the hell Ginobily and few other guys was dominating 00s, how 3,5 players of Slovenia won Eurobasket (the one "where even bench players are more athletic and stronger than most 90s startera"), how 7 Argentinians grabbed silver in 2019? And if Doncic will come to Kaunas and will drop 30/12/10, it will be not fair to give him credit? You gotta stop it, bruh.And to be honest, it's about time you let go this completely pathetic argument. FOA, do you think that any player from 00s or 10s thrown to Rooney's or Sabonis' shoes would be dropping same numbers? Good luck with that (I guess 90s NBA was crap as well, cause Rooney was dropping 20ppg on them as well)
) Probably not, as all of the older NBA fans remember those days and the laid-back attitude of all players. No need to remind how our own Sabonis torn his achilles either, being a party animal himself and not finding the stairs when being intoxidated. Those were the days of amateur basketball and there's no need to paint different nostalgic picture nowfirst and foremost, Rooney was never dropping 20 ppg in the NBA, not even in an uptempo Warriors side of the early 90's (the best he managed was 18.9 in the early defense-less 90's)
second of all, modern players are all WAY more professional towards their approach to the game as compared to their lazy cigar smoking peers of the 90's (do I need to show those clips of Jordan smoking cigars and gambling non-stop after winning NBA titles?
No no no, it must have been some alien probably who torn that damn achilles...or maybe a soviet spy, because it definitely didn't happen on the basketball courtoh yeah, how could I have forgotten - Sabonis is a saint in lithuanian fans eyes and he could not have possibly screwed up his career by partying too much in the middle 80's
I don't argue about Marciulionis and Sabonis numbers.I argue about Kurtinaitis and Karnisovas numbers and time in history were 4 players only scoring our team was winning 1/4 and semifinal games .
7 players got minutes, 4 players plays like 35 min ( usually Sabonis 40 ,Marciulionis 38) and 4 players scores all teams points that what boxscore says about our 1992-1996 NT close playoof games .
When we look video Garastas plays alot zone defence to save energy of players and giving lots of half open treepointers that 90s players was hitting on bad %.
Game was totally different, today such not moving defence would be murdered in djordjevic 95 style hitting multiple 3s by best players.If coach wants to play more seriuos defence teams need to use more than 6 players.
Historically Karnisovas,Kleiza,Siskauskas is in same bracket ,but first one has way bigger average because played in 90s with 4 players scoring and lots of qualification games in 90s.
Kurtinaitis in that period was 32-36 old when scored all those points and he is top 5 scorer in ltu basketball history yeah right
If you can play tons of minutes, it's good, it's great. Not everyone can do it and that's why they can be just a role players. You undervalue Kurtinaitis points just because he was old? That's ridiculous. So Argentina won silver 2019 only in their dreams? That didn't happen? Cause you know they were lead by a grandpa and it wasn't 90's, so that never happened, right? There's 7 players in 2019 WC who played at least 33 minutes, 22 players who played more than 30 minutes. Your idea that 90's was a walk in the park and thus players could play so much is false. Even in today's FIBA game players as Mils, Ingles, Satoransky, Schroder, Delly and so on play 30min and other key players are close to that. The difference isn't that big. It's funny that when a guy is good, and he actually earns his minutes and huge role because he is good, you come and undervalue this achievement. You mixed up the achievement and brilliance with weakness. But it was not just minutes played ,but in points scored.every team has 1-2 leaders that plays 30+min,back in 90s our Nt have 4 players who played 35min
1995 semifinal boxscore from 90pts 88 pts was scored by 4 players
What are you talking about, man? That's by far individually superior generation we ever had. Stop undervaluing it, that's the best 4 players punch we ever had and probably will ever have. It's still the same ball game, there studs and there's scrub and things are basically the same, just players have better shoes and drinking less, that's all. Human genes didn't change you know second of all, modern players are all WAY more professional towards their approach to the game as compared to their lazy cigar smoking peers of the 90's (do I need to show those clips of Jordan smoking cigars and gambling non-stop after winning NBA titles?
