The NBA Is Dying
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Why do y'all keep posting that stat about the most missed 3s as if it means anything?
The league is attempting more 3s than ever before, so naturally, if there's a game where jumpshots aren't falling, there's going to be a lot missed 3-pt shots. All it really means is two bad teams missed shots. No different to any other era where teams miss shots. Y'all only have a problem with it because they're missed 3s, but y'all wouldn't bat an eyelid if they were missed 2s instead.
Here's a stat from a game in 1999 -
The Jazz vs. the Supersonics missed a combined 90 shots and had a combined 40 turnovers, where the scoreline ended as 71-56. What makes it even worse is the average pace was considerably slower during that season than it is this season.
The league is attempting more 3s than ever before, so naturally, if there's a game where jumpshots aren't falling, there's going to be a lot missed 3-pt shots. All it really means is two bad teams missed shots. No different to any other era where teams miss shots. Y'all only have a problem with it because they're missed 3s, but y'all wouldn't bat an eyelid if they were missed 2s instead.
Here's a stat from a game in 1999 -
The Jazz vs. the Supersonics missed a combined 90 shots and had a combined 40 turnovers, where the scoreline ended as 71-56. What makes it even worse is the average pace was considerably slower during that season than it is this season.
Whips-n-Chains
Chi
murksiderock
Superstar
What happened to the game I loved
I don't support the staple of your post, but I will say that players 20 years ago were more swaggy, had way more personality on the aggregate, than guys do today...
This is a fact, and thank God I'm old enough to have this recollection!
This is low key racist
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murksiderock
Superstar
The NBA thrives when it has dynasties, and truly, once in a generation, larger than life celebrities, guys whose CELEBRITY is bigger than simply being basketball players...
You can trace this all the way back to Wilt. And you can trace the dynasties carrying the success of The League, back to Russell's Celtics of the same era...
We no longer have a dynasty going. And currently we don't have that larger than life personality who is young and elite...
NBA will swing back around when that guy takes over, and/or, when the next dynastic team hits. The NBA has always been "boring" and unwatchable without these ingredients...
You can trace this all the way back to Wilt. And you can trace the dynasties carrying the success of The League, back to Russell's Celtics of the same era...
We no longer have a dynasty going. And currently we don't have that larger than life personality who is young and elite...
NBA will swing back around when that guy takes over, and/or, when the next dynastic team hits. The NBA has always been "boring" and unwatchable without these ingredients...
MegaTronBomb!
Power is in my hair nikka
I'm just saying that unlike the NFL, the NBA definitely makes you put in far more effort to watch it's product.
ReturnOfJudah
Veteran
Let’s forms of media during those elite dynasties.
More TV/Movie streaming, social media, podcasts, audio books platforms.
Aesthetically its a bad product with too many 3’s, flopping, same style offense, horrible game flow(timeouts + fouls).
Get rid of the corner 3
Bring back hand checking
Getting rid of the defensive 3 second rule
Implementing the FIBA rim/goaltending rules
Pretty much implementing rule changes to force teams to be more creative and less predictable
yeah I agree
Dynasties/Super teams create heroes/villains, storylines, and most importantly STARS. Parity works in the NFL/MLB because its a team driven sports. The players matter to a certain extent...but the team as a collective and their fandom are what really drive everything.
The NBA is almost entirely star driven. Parity is great until you end up with a Thunder vs Cavs final that nobody watches because there are no true stars involved that will draw casuals. But this is what the NBA wanted....the new CBA pretty much pushed it in this direction.
came in here to post this....disgusting
They replaced the Midrange with the 3. That’s the only difference.
Rather see 3 pointers than boring ass midrange shots.
AlbertPullhoez
The Takeover
Why did I read/hear this in his voice
murksiderock
Superstar
I agree with all your points, except.....the Warrior dynasty and LeBron's heyday (LeBron being the larger than life superstar I mentioned in the vein of Wilt), these weren't that long ago, and we had most of these different forms of media.
Casuals stay in an uproar about the lack of superstars in the contest. You think they wanna see people off the street?
I remember they had a contest for that on NBA-TV during all-star weekend. They should've let the winner of that and the d-lesgue contest enter the NBA contest. They let bul from Georgetown do it a couple years ago cuz hes white.
The Cup has put up some good quality competitive games, that otherwise wouldn't have existed without this format. They'd just be the same ole regular season games where competition comes and goes like it's always been.NBA Cup Weekend
