You look at today, it's a different situation. You have a game that has been transformed into a game where almost every shot is either an outside shot - a three-point shot - or a dunk.

I'd like to think that the nature of the two teams - Boston being a championship team over the years and the Lakers, same thing - was a lot bigger than Larry Bird or Magic Johnson.

But after that you don't see a lot of real good fundamental play. You see a showboat-type basketball which is almost parallel to street basketball.

The thing about it is almost everyone could pass that way, but we were kept from doing it by our coaches.

This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.

When you play guard, you're not going to block a lot of shots. Inside, you're going to block shots.

Basketball is basketball.