By Johnny Askounis/ info@eurohoops.net
The latest reaction to Anthony Edwards talking about previous generations of NBA players went to Kevin Garnett and extended to slamming the current players in the league.
“If I am being honest, I do not think anybody in this generation could have played like 20 years ago,” mentioned 48-year-old Garnett during the latest episode of Ticket & The Truth alongside Paul Pierce.
“If I am being 100, and this is to Ant, this is to everybody in our league, Tatum, everybody, let me tell y’all something,” he continued, “Twenty years ago, you could not get to a triple step back. Do you hear what I am saying to you? You could not get to a triple step back. And then if you shot that, it had to go in. Do you know why? Because we had efficiency, back in the day and it was so hard. It was too physical, and guess what? The league had to come off of it for the flow of movement to be able to have scoring go up, which is why we like to sit here and watch kind of the rat race of the high-paced game right now.”
Edwards, 23, attracted numerous reactions from former players through his viral comment and comparing the current to previous generations. “He was the only one that really had skill,” he referred to Michael Jordan, “That is why when they saw Kobe, they were like, ‘Oh, my God.’ But now everybody has skill.”