NBA’s Defensive Effort Standards Trolled by Kenyon Martin

In recent years, basketball has undergone significant development. The way the games are played now differs greatly from how they were played in the 1990s and 2000s. Many people overlook the fact that defenses have also had to adapt, even if we see a lot of quick-fire threes on offense. This has been a minor point of contention in the greater discussion of the stylistic distinctions between the league’s various periods and how some fans believe that players nowadays are less skilled on defense. Kenyon Martin praised today’s NBA players for their defensive efforts. In an interview with Gilbert Arenas on “Gil’s Arena,” he explained how his team used to defend. Two seasons before the NBA permitted clubs to use zone defenses, Martin entered the league in 2000. Zone defenses were prohibited prior to that because the NBA felt they made scoring more difficult; even His Airness Michael Jordan openly admitted this. Defensive tactics, such as a slew of double or triple teams on an opponent’s best player, were a little easier to implement because players were only allowed to play man-to-man. Kenyon Martin’s complaints about NBA defense Martin’s main complaint is that modern defenses don’t play deny defense, whether...