It's been a long time since Karl Malone retired from the NBA after making a final one-year stint with the Los Angeles Lakers after 18 illustrious seasons with the Utah Jazz.

The NBA has changed since his retirement in 2005, morphing to a more outside-in European style that is molded into a more dynamic, athletic, yet less fundamental game, seldom resembling Malone's heyday.

Malone admits he hasn't followed as others do after his retirement.

I watch it sometimes, sometimes I don’t watch it,” said Malone, according to Aaron Morton of The Deseret News. “(The) game is in a good place, but I think they force things too much… Tell me when they run a play. Who’s coaching? Tell me five coaches in the NBA… When is someone going to lift some weights around this place?”

The Mailman is also not very happy with the AAU product, which has produced a new brand of basketball which is slowly starting to show in the NBA world.

“I am so tired of AUU,” said Malone unequivocally. “It’s a money pit. It doesn't help the NBA. You can get a lot more finding a coach and having your child 1-on-1 instruction instead of that ball-hogging. What it’s telling you now is just, ‘Go dunk.’”

The game looks vastly different after The Mailman was delivering bucket after bucket off the pick-and-roll, a true maestro of the now nearly-non-existent mid-range shot, let alone the post, which he made his meal ticket during his 19-year NBA career.