The Prudential Halftime Report, May 25, 1987 - Larry Bird interview

[FlipTrojan]

Typical Isiah Thomas fake laugh at 1:00. Yeah, said he liked the position Pistons were in ... too bad he f*cked it up with that lame inbounds pass the next game.

[svd0000]

why the east has piston, bulls, hawks to stop larry bird but the west are just all crap teams.

[MrSlik25]

@svd0000 The west was tough in the 80's too man...Good Sonics, Blazers, & Rockets teams back then.

[ry3304]

@MrSlik25

west was absolute SHIT back then kid lols wtfuckkin hell are you talkin about dude lols

why do you think la were in 9 finals?

the west was godamm straight awful until the late 80's man, and even then it was still shitty....

[RAV52]

K.C. Jones... The next Lou Rawls!

[timjumper7]

guys today overdribble,there is no low post game,not a lot of good mid range jump shooters,bad shooting percentages,what is so great about todays basketball sshaxy,you must be like 20 years old,there was better ball movement then as well

[joenathanable]

dirtiest team ever detroit thug pistons.

aka wwf in the nba

[Jason29n]

@joenathanable You mean the best basketball team ever assembled non olympic of course. Isaih, Dumars, Dantly/aguirre, Rodman, Budda, Salley, Vinnie, Laimbeer are you kidding me!!??

[lb33isu]

Bizarre story on Schmuck; its context doesn't seem relevant and surprisingly, I do no remember it. On Bird, he was absolutely brilliant the next night in g. 5 at Boston Garden: Besiders the famed steal and pass to DJ to win the close game, he had 36 points marked by a number of very difficult shots against the 87 Pistons' relentless, athletic defense. In g. 7, which the Celtics won to take the series, Bird had 39/9/9 against Rodman and several others on him. One of the game's best ever.

[texaspete33]

schmuck looks like a terrible player.

[MrKorton]

Schmuck is better than Jordan!

[stell29]

The good old days of the NBA when scoring under 110 was a low scoring game. Nothing better than Lakers-Celtics full throttle basketball from the mid 80s

[sshaxy]

@stell29 just tells u how much defense has increased now adays.... in other words.. kobe is the best ever cause he plays with insane defense

[AdreasTheGreat]

@sshaxy BETTER DEF NOW?DEF IN80'S-90'S WAS MUCH MORE PHYSICAL THAN TODAY!HANCHECKING,PUSSING,NO DEF.3SEC.RULE,SMALLER COURT,LESS ROOM TO PENETRATE!THE FACT THAT SCORED ABOUT 8 MORE POINT IS BECAUSE PLAYER WERE MUCH BETTER SHOOTERS THAN TODAYS WHO ONLY KNOW HOW TO JUMP AND DUNK!IN 80'S FG% WAS 3%HIGHER AND THIS IS THE REASON FOR SCORING MORE POINTS!I DON'T SAY THAT BUT NBA COACHES(P.JACKSON.RILEY...)WHO SAID THAT NEW RULES MAKES MUCH EASIER PENETRATION AND SCORING!ALSO SAID MJ TODAY AVR 40P!

[sshaxy]

@AdreasTheGreat dude... turn off ur capslock button furst of all... second of all u cant compare the 80s to the todays game. the three point line was brought to the NBA in the 80s... they didnt shoot nearly as many threes... the game was about getting as downlow as u can... which brings up the field goal percentage like crazy. now the game is much more advanced.. people actually dribble the ball for more than 1 dribble now. If u knew how much shooting these guys do to get where they are now.

[AdreasTheGreat]

@sshaxy ΜΑΝ Ι WATCH B-BALL FOR 25 YEARS AND U ARE RIGHT THAT NOW SHOOT ABOUT 10 3P.MORE IN 80'S PLAYERS HAD SOMETHING THAT IS ALMOST FORBIDDEN TODAY,A GREAT MIDDLE RANGE SHOT(IF U'VE PLAY B-BALL U SHOULD KNOW IT'S THE MOST DIFFICULT SHOT)!U ARE ALSO RIGHT THAT THERE WAS MORE DOWNLOAD GAME BUT THE PENETRATION IN 80'S WAS MUCH MORE DIFFICULT THAN TODAY9(NEW RULES DESTROY PHYSICAL GAME)!CAUSE OF EASY PENETRATION MOST OF 3P.SHOTS ARE FREE FROM WIND-PLAYERS!DO U THING 3P% IS WORST THAN MID.RANGE%?

[joekiddlouischama]

@sshaxy Actually, the trend probably says more about how offense has declined due to less ball movement, less movement without the ball, less running and looking to score before the defense sets-up, less discipline and discernment, and worse fundamentals due to less experienced players.

The game during Kobe's era has been altered to cater to offensive players such as him: no more hand-checking or forearm-checking, the defensive three seconds rule, and the crackdown on hard fouls.

[joekiddlouischama]

@sshaxy Actually, the trend probably says more about how offense has declined due to less ball movement, less movement without the ball, less running and looking to score before the defense sets-up, less discipline and discernment, and worse fundamentals due to less experienced players.

The game during Kobe's era has been altered to cater to offensive players such as him: no more hand-checking or forearm-checking, the defensive three seconds rule, and the crackdown on hard fouls.

[Sandiegochargers85]

@stell29 or bulls celtics haha

[summerease]

Good singing

[larrybirdthebestever]

Bird is the man!!!!!!

[bellcapn]

What a great clip!! The opening music was from Crocodile Dundee, Jim Brown hasn't aged in 22 years, there was still a team in Seattle, KC Jones one of the classiest coaches evr singing and of course the late greats DJ and Chuck Daley.

[adater]

One night later, Bird stole the ball and sent crybaby Bill and Zeke back to Motown LOSERS.

[jjonah10]

just like in 2008,the lakers led by 24 then the celtics won,then vujacic started crying,then kobe and gasol held hands,jackson and mbenga kissed

[UnionKid15]

Laimbeer is an asshole, but, nice interview, Bird, rare, lol.!

[UnionKid15]

Laimbeer was a thug.!

[bobem12]

what's your problem schmuck!!!

[HungreyBoi05]

what sore loser isaiah thomas is

[nbomb12]

lambeer was such as ass

[jaboo82681]

I love the old school CBS theme music

[rjpsuh06]

This was when James Brown was a basketball guy, now he's a football guy. Also, JB is one of three announcers on CBS that were at CBS during the pre-Jim Nantz era.

[idster7]

@rjpsuh06 who were the other two?

[rjpsuh06]

The other two were Don Criqui, who was at CBS from 1967-79, then came back in 1998 after 19 years at NBC. Verne Lundquist was at CBS from 1982-95 and came back in 1998 after a few years with Turner. Both were at CBS before Jim Nantz came in 1985. James Brown was at CBS from 1984-94, then spent 12 years at Fox, then came back to CBS. All three of those guys worked at CBS, left CBS and came back to CBS. If you want to include analysts, Bill Raftery has been at CBS since 1983.

[rjpsuh06]

I forgot to mention Lesley Visser, who as early as 1982 was doing features for CBS Sports. She does a few features for CBS Sports today.