the NBA did that to themselves.
Styles make fights, but a good three point shooting team is a cheat code, same way Golden State was a cheat code, so having more of them has leveled the playing field to a point where we haven't seen a repeat champ in a long time (and I still think we have teams that pride themselves on different identities. Look at the team that beat Denver last year: they prided themselves on defense and length. Orlando can't shoot for shyt but their defense is what makes them unique. The issue with teams that model themselves that way is that Americans inherently hate defense, so while it can fun to watch if you're into it, too many people think defense is the enemy of fun.)
To that point around different identities.
A lot of the criticism around today's game and how everyone plays the same, is no different to past areas. The NBA has always been a copycat league, so it's weird to me now how the complaints are centered around the product being boring because everyone plays the same. That's always been a thing. The league has always followed trends that its set for itself. I think a lot of cats mistake the oversaturation of having access to all these games and equate it to players/teams playing the same more than they once did.
Furthermore, Gen Z only really know this positionless era, where all players can handle the ball, shoot, playmake etc, so if the game were to return to a more traditional world where PGs only distributed, 2s/wings only scored, and bigs stayed in the paint, they too would be fair in critcizing the game for every team playing the same.
It seems lost on a lot of folks that because all positions have the freedom of doing what they want on the floor now, it brings a different type of versatility that once upon time didn't exist. No longer are players handicapped by traditional roles that set by the positions they play.
He got sonned by LeBron multiple playoffs. Then his team won the chip when they traded him
Ain't much to celebrate
So, essentially, you're saying that it's about who wins, right? Nobody fukks with DeRozan because he's a loser?
My point exactly.
If JG and Ivey started taking more middies nobody is gonna give a fukk about them if they continue to lose. Changing their shot diet isn't going to make them more watchable, which is the mistake that folks make who're criticizing them taking 3s. If you're a bad player and you lose, it literally doesn't matter what shots you take, because it's not going to get eyeballs on you.
The poster before said teams are missing more 3s per game than they attempted compared to 10 years ago. If you think that’s something that people want to see idk what to tell you. the hornets and bulls combined for 75 missed 3s a couple of nights ago, that record isn’t going to stand the test of time, it’s probably going to be broken multiple times this year.
My g, those are the bad teams.
They're not the good teams. It's not even the league-average.
Nobody wants to see bad teams, period. Who the fukk wants to watch the Hornets without Melo? It stands to reason a team like Charlotte is going to struggle to generate quality shots without their best player/playmaker. Did anyone really want to watch the '97 Grizzlies besides diehard fans? Did anyone really want to watch a team that rarely every scored over 90 points, and couldn't generate consistent offense to save their lives?
Why do you pretend like bad teams haven't missed high volume of shots before today's era? You had scorelines during the 90s where teams went 70-50, were they not missing a substantial amount of shots, relatively?
Hmmmm who would be dumb enough to be duped by a white supremacy website then come spread their lies to black people.....I wonder who that could be
