NBA 2020-2021: The Dubs Empire Strikes Back

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lol yeah right that would be awesome. Dame pg, Beal sg Tatum sf, ballin.
 
Sterling

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that's part of it, but ball movement and spacing is 100x better so bringing back hand checking won't turn the game back into 90s hoops. Playing off the ball is actually a thing now.
 
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Had to check when that video was made. Thought it was some black comedy joking about a dead guy returning from retirement.
 
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Deathwing said:
Had to check when that video was made. Thought it was some black comedy joking about a dead guy returning from retirement.
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i didn't even watch it, but you know it was a video that thinks bringing back the handcheck will lead to 80-75 games again.
 
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Nah. He just goes into how once they enforced no hand checking how perimeter players took over the league.
 
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Brahma said:
Nah. He just goes into how once they enforced no hand checking how perimeter players took over the league.
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That's fair, that was certainly a part of it. But even since then the league has evolved quite a lot in terms of spacing and off the ball play.
 
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Sterling said:
i didn't even watch it, but you know it was a video that thinks bringing back the handcheck will lead to 80-75 games again.
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So...you don't watch the video but you know exactly what the argument is? What an informed opinion. As someone who watched it, of course hand checking and changing the foul rules will change the game some but it is a different game today and the NBA wanted it (an argument he was actually making). They want the perimeter game to continue to be the focus.

It would be an interesting experiment to see how much the increased pressure would lower the 3 point percentage and if guys like the Greek Freak could dominate even more with guaranteed points over the theoretically lowered 3 point numbers.
 
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zzeris said:
So...you don't watch the video but you know exactly what the argument is? What an informed opinion. As someone who watched it, of course hand checking and changing the foul rules will change the game some but it is a different game today and the NBA wanted it (an argument he was actually making). They want the perimeter game to continue to be the focus.

It would be an interesting experiment to see how much the increased pressure would lower the 3 point percentage and if guys like the Greek Freak could dominate even more with guaranteed points over the theoretically lowered 3 point numbers.
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Yeah, I mean it's the 6427th video on hand checking so there's a reasonable chance that it's making similar arguments to the other 6426. I don't think shooting percentage would change that much, although you'd probably get a few less attempts and there'd be slightly less possessions per game with there being even more need for ball movement.
 
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Yeah, I mean it's the 6427th video on hand checking so there's a reasonable chance that it's making similar arguments to the other 6426. I don't think shooting percentage would change that much, although you'd probably get a few less attempts and there'd be slightly less possessions per game with there being even more need for ball movement.
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Not a great freeze frame there - that's a foul in any era. Anthony doing a ball check with the right hand and grabbing Jordan's arm with his left.
 
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Yeah people want to make it seem like in the 90s every play was a wrestling match and they never talk about the free baskets that happened all the time because you dragged the big out of the paint. Or the fact that most plays had a bunch of people basically standing around because it was all ISO. You can dislike the aesthetics of the modern NBA, but everyone is much more involved now.
 
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I'm glad cp3 will finally get his ring, but damn, Giannis needs some help. No chance he ever wins anything of consequence with Middleton as his #2
 
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Not glad CPwhiner will finally get his ring, hoping the Bucks can at least win the next game to make it interesting...
 
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Not glad CPwhiner will finally get his ring, hoping the Bucks can at least win the next game to make it interesting...
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I'm hoping he finally gets it. Then, when he enthuses to Bigger Whiner, LBJ can say, "You know, dude, if I had any support at all in the playoffs...."
 
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