Back in the 1980’s and even into the 1990’s, the old-timers of the NBA played a different style of basketball – almost a different game in ways – than one that is played today. Specifically, the league allowed much more contact on the defensive end than they do now. If you were left to deal with a player who is faster than you, you could use your hands or forearms to push them away from the basket. Actually, those were tactics