JesseEwiak
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Handchecking was only allowed prior to the 90s because players were (relative to players of today) slow, unathletic and had no concept of playing defense with their feet.
Curry of today would have shredded the slow, lumbering Craig Ehlo's of the day even worse than MJ.
Yup. Actually go back and watch a game from the vaunted 80's and 90's. Teams played hard defense...for the last six minutes of the half or game. Simmons has talked about this multiple times. It's nostalgia for a game that actually never existed.