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Originally Posted by BWillie
And yet the avg FG percentage is higher than the 1990s and almost 2% higher than the 2000s....while shooting exponentially more 3s.
Thats how ****in good these guys are now.
Almost any team now if they were transported to play the 97 Bulls would absolutely destroy them because of math, skill and better roster construction.
This idea that the NBA sucks is quite simply old man propaganda that has been spouted for 20 years. And now people believe it. If you wanna see guys throw up bricks...watch the 90s NBA.
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You're arguing with the wrong person, sport.
I've defended the NBA on this board for years. And have said, ad nauseum, that the 'they don't play defense' crowd is just reeruned. They play incredible defense -- shooters are just unbelievably good.
But it's a static product.
The Lakers and Hornets should NOT be firing up 100 3 pointers a game. Those are two fairly average 3-point shooting teams that do other things significantly better than shoot 3s.
Doesn't matter -- gonna chuck 'em anyway. And it's not exciting to watch at all. It's incredibly repetitive.
You like it because your team is good at it. But if you were to step back (or if OKC still sucked) you'd be sitting here bitching up a blue streak about the direction the game has gone.
In a vacuum, this is a terrible long-term trend for the league. You're taking the size and athleticism, the court vision and the speed, out of the game. Now it's just guys shooting 3s off weave actions on the perimeter. It's a high screen and shoot sort of offense. There's just not enough variety to it.