Yeah it really is the recency bias thing. And the idea that "if you put that guy on the floor today he couldn't keep up with the pace and the athletes today" ignoring the fact that these guys were top-level athletes when these dudes still smoked like chimneys and drank on game days and ****. With modern medicine and training they would be even more dominant. Hell, Gilmore was one of the few who had a legit sky-hook, with the left hand no less, and could hit jumpers out to 18 feet. Yeah no 3 pt shot but who is to say he couldn't develop one, like Lopez did over his career. And in his freaking rookie year he averaged 23 pts 20 boards and 5 blocks. So cut those in half and he is automatically rookie of the year even today. We sadly devalue the guys from the past because we want to believe we live in the more dominant age, but we have been making that same argument for decades. It just doesn't hold water.
