Real Life Real Faith Men of Faith March 2016 | Page 9

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The great Boston Celtic teams with Bill Russell VS the great
Chicago Bull teams with Michael Jordan, and its game seven
with two minutes to go, and the game is tied. You pick the
winner.
We look to each other as experts often using our legends and
their words. We compare our trains of thoughts of hard work
and dedication and talent, and wonder is the new breed of
athlete actually better, or just better trained, but maybe with
lesser skill? Could it be that we are just looking at physical
specimens of wonder? f we reach back and think, physical
specimens have been around from day one. When we look at
Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight-boxing champion, he
was bigger, faster, and stronger and skilled. One has to wonder,
if trained today, what might have been if matched against
Muhammad Ali, George Forman, and a Mike Tyson. The after
mentioned fighters they fought 15 and 12 rounds fights, and
Jack Johnson fought 45 rounds, yet many discount him as only
being great for his time. The original horse jockeys - black men,
they were small, strong and with quick reactions.Could they ride
much bigger horses of today?
There is no way to truly know what and who is better now or
back in the day. The real discussion is, us, as we are the viewers
and the readers debating often with lack of complete
knowledge. Simply, the conversation has been around for
decades, and for decades to come.

The barber shop, and the
conversation; Oscar Robinson,
the original creator of the triple
double, could he dominate today
as he did before against the
Lebron’s of now?
All we have is a narrow scope or what we think is the major
points that we argue as to why we are right, and someone else,
has lost their mind, as we joke. Folks who have lived through
eras have seen a lot and, often the only augment they have is
they don’t want to hand over the trophy.
Is today’s athletes better trained, and has more tools of the
trade of workouts, nutrition’s and coaching?
The things that can’t compare:
We see the greatness of a Steph Curry and we try to compare
other great shooters from other times, and actually, it’s very
hard to compare in a one VS one for reasons many never think
about. Systems, in which a player thrives in, might not be best
suited for that same player in another system.