Film Sessions: Eric Snow and Tyrese Maxey Discuss Evolution of Basketball

If you play today, yeah, how many threes would you shoot a game? [Music] If I played today, I would shoot more threes because one, like I said, I didn’t practice three. I did not practice shooting threes at all. Why three point? because because it wasn’t it was so hard to score. Mhm. That when you were open, you had to get to the best shot that you had. The best shot that we had and the best shot that people wanted you to take was a 15 to 17 footer because it was a better statistical shot. I sort of easier to make shot. That would have been the worst shot in the world when we played. Wow. It’s a good shot. They would have I’m just No, I’m saying how the coaches were and I’m just And of course I play and I’m not just play because I played for Larry Brown. I’m talking about across the league they would lost their mind. No, they wouldn’t. Not if you made it. No, I mean Larry Brown even if you make it. Oh, that’s fool’s gold. We can win playing like this. Yeah. All of that. I think I think what people forget in like today’s day and age like the end of the day basketball is about like getting stops and scoring baskets. Man, it’s awesome feeling. It’s awesome feeling to shoot that shot, right? Like just to be able to shoot that shot and not and not have to look over the bench and and and they look at you crazy like I got bullied into taking them shots, man. So So they they’re encouraging you to take those shots. That’s what I’m saying. They’re encouraging you. We were discouraged to take them. You feel like the players are more athletic than today’s game? I don’t think they’re more athletic. I don’t I don’t think they’re more I don’t think they’re more skilled. I think there’s more skilled players. More skilled players now? No. Oh, no. But I don’t think they’re more skilled than the skilled players. You don’t think? I just think that there’s more skilled players because back then you could have a guy that was six, seven, six, eight and he was just a brute just wasn’t really skilled but he could be very impactful. Facts. But this the guys that were really skilled I don’t think that the top talent are any more skilled than the top talent. That’s a good shot. Man, that got to be a good feeling to shoot that. It’s a good feeling. Work on it, man. Work on the end of the day. You work on that like what? What? Like that? Like boom. Step back. Pull back. Step back. Hard right hand drive. Scared for scared. I’m going to go right then that little head and shoot. Yeah, we work on that. Yeah, I would shoot that 15 ft out. 17 ft. 15 to 17. Maybe 19. I would shoot 19. 15 to 19 ft. I would shoot that. Understood. I ain’t mad at that. If I was playing 2000, I probably would have been shooting them too. You’d have been really You would have been really good in our time, but you would have just played differently. I would have played different. I think so, too. I really, but just as effective.

Two eras collide! Sixers guards Eric Snow and Tyrese Maxey sit down and discuss the evolution of basketball from the 2000s to today’s game.

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6 comments

  1. As a life long sixers fan I loved listening to both sides lol watching both guys play in my lifetime I know Eric upset he isn’t playing in this era he’d be ten times better than he was back then

  5. You could definitely argue that players may have been more impactful back then but obviously these players are more talented and skilled nowadays.

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