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Old 12-20-2024, 01:52 PM   #279
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Analytics nerds took control of basically every NBA organization in the quest for efficiency. Same thing happened in baseball over the course of several decades after Moneyball and it ruined the viewing experience (too many strikeouts/over shifting/massive reliever usage/far longer games, etc.).

MLB has begun the process of taking it back from them and the NBA now needs to do the same.
I do think it's funny that the 'analytics nerds' finally figured out what we knew 25 years ago playing video games.

I coulda told you after a season on NBA Live for my Super Nintendo that firing 3 pointers was the way to put up 130+ points. It's simple math.

The only thing that surprises me is that it took this long for the NBA decisionmakers to figure it out. Maybe it was just a shortage of shooters? And now, a generation later, all of us kids that learned to bomb away have kids we taught to shoot?
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