NBA legend Matt Barnes encourages young players to improve their basketball intelligence
2025-09-11 07:47
NBA legend Matt Barnes recently talked about the current trend of the game in an interview and believed that young players are very talented and skilled, but there is still a lot of room for improvement in basketball wisdom.
Matt Barnes, 45, said that changes in the game of basketball are inevitable and should be accepted calmly. Matt Barnes said, "I'm not an old-fashioned person who hates the way basketball is played today. The game has become more offensive-oriented today, and I think that's what has brought basketball to where it is today."
"That's why basketball is a global sport and why so many European talents have flocked to the league. So I'm not dissatisfied. In this year's playoffs, I really like the physical confrontations that the referees allowed within the limits, and I hope this style can continue in the new season."
Matt Barnes also said, "These young players are really talented and have good skills. There is no problem comparing them to any era. But I think some of them lack a little basketball wisdom, because the individual training nowadays is basically dribbling and dribbling, and then continuing to dribble and shoot three-pointers, as if everyone has to be able to shoot three-pointers."
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