The Olympics were great, because you had to make the team, and then go to the games. Now, I don't know, these guys today don't want to do anything like that.
The thing about it is almost everyone could pass that way, but we were kept from doing it by our coaches.
They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.
This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.
We're all Americans trying to compete. Magic was competing for his team and Larry for his team.
When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do. Then you pretty much can figure out what he is going to do against you - whether he carries his hands low or high, whether he is bumping or pushing, those type of things.
When you play guard, you're not going to block a lot of shots. Inside, you're going to block shots.
You don't cut anywhere, don't pick down anywhere, don't double screen, no weak side picking. All these things that should happen in a game of basketball don't happen anymore.
You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os.
You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today.
