In Reply to: I think the whole "physical play" thing is a canard posted by ClockBlocker on January 13, 2026 at 17:35:44
Bill Russell.
I played in the sixties and seventies. Basketball then was less physical than it is now, but there was still a lot of contact.
I coached in the eighties and nineties and it was a lot more physical than it is now and a lot of contact.
Today, basketball is less physical then it used to be, but there's still a lot of hard contact out there. Sometimes they call it, sometimes they don't. Watch all the grabbing, shoving, and pushing that goes on any time someone drives or under the basket when players are trying to get the rebound. Players need to be strong or metaphorically and literally they'll get pushed right off the floor.