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Banis Major retweeted
This is more evidence that the NBA is not an 82-game sport anymore.
The old slower style was a good pace for 82 games. Slow, methodical, slowly probing the defense and figuring out ways to win.
The NBA is way more physical, fast and demanding now. It's smarter, faster, more chaotic.
It's more in the 36-40 game schedule range, like soccer. A physically demanding 2-hour slugfest, once or twice a week.
Banis Major retweeted
I need one lottery team to sacrifice a season for science: slow the pace, ditch the 3s, play the star 40+ minutes, feed post-ups, live in the midrange, and play the “right way.”
Let them get blown out by 40 until the middy fetishists finally understand why basketball evolved.
Luka has 7 of the Top 25 highest usage rate seasons EVER
He also has 3 in the Top 10
He had a 38% usage rate with LEBRON JAMES on his team last year
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a bigger ball hog in all my years
Difference between him and most of the others is they were FORCED into doing it
Whereas Luka seems to be aiming to play this way
How are you the primary ballhandler and basically calling your own number five possessions in a row?
How are you launching 10 shots in 1st quarters?
How come the ‘LeStackedTeam truthers’ never list any of LeBron’s teams on their All-Time lists?
"I guess [LeBron James] got six or seven championships then. Oh, he doesn't. ... I ain't got nothing but respect for LeBron, but don't sit up there and tell me he got four Hall of Fame careers. If he gonna stack his team like that, he should have more than four championships."
—Charles Barkley
(via @ESPNNBA)
Most important years are 26-35 tbh
- Often the early to mid stages of your career, esp for pivoting or advancing
- Common age range for (first) marriages
- Most active stage in terms of an unadulterated social life
Most ppl either set themselves back tremendously or excel
There’s also the MLB idea where guys are never actually expected to play all 82
But then we’d have to listen to people bitch about “load management”
Pace is too fast
My constant suggestion is resetting the shot clock to 24 for offensive rebs again
Widening the court would never happen & removing the corner 3 is a long shot too
Allowing 100% zone defense is another idea, but that might encourage teams to take even more 3s
If you screw up 26-35 (especially the backhalf of that period), it’s damn near impossible to recover
Lots of dudes spend that time getting put on child support, blowing money on females & not utilizing time or money wisely
Luka ruined LeBron
Bron was averaging 25/8/7 before he got there & sacrificed so Donkey could take his stepback jumpers with 18 on the clock, plus maintain his 40% usage
The level of movement was nowhere near the same
Past players ran almost entirely in straight lines up & down the court
Today's players:
- Split their steps
- Decel
- Move diagonally
- Lunging to closeout to shooters & get longer boards
- Backpedaling to defend lobs
- Etc
Banis Major retweeted
The difference between MJ and LeBron fans is that LeBron fans acknowledge MJ's greatness while MJ fans are constantly saying braindead things about how LeBron isn't even top 10.
Banis Major retweeted
Giannis doesn't adjust his game for anyone. He could have had the best PnR combination in the league with Dame, if he had been willing to set real screens and be the short roll monster he should be, but he refused.
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Not only the cuck storyline
But she's going the Kerry Washington route too
