Well with 70s rules, there's no three point shot, so SO much of what makes today's game what it is is completely eliminated. Steph bombing from 25 feet only counts as 2 points, taking away the modern players' greatest advantage.
I do think today's players are more athletic and are better shooters, but I don't know that they're more skilled in dribbling, once you require them to play by 70s rules. So they do probably win a 21 game series, but I don't know that they'd win all the rest of the games.
But that's a really interesting premise and he might not be wrong.
Today's players are so much stronger and better conditioned. I think that the theory about losing the first couple and sweeping the rest is pretty accurate.
Watching basketball in the 1970s was like watching the G league now. Sure, it was more physical, but the defense was not nearly as quick. It was dribble up, take half the shot clock maybe, launch, repeat.
Bob McAdoo has 934 field goals in 1976. 37 guys has over 500, 24 over 600.
Last year, 11 over 600, 1 over 700, 22 over 500.
And it wasn't better shooting. 13 guys shot over 50% from the field that year. 13. Last year, 40 did.
Today's players would lock down teams from the 1970s.