Month: April 2023

The Celtics played against basketable nets at home. From the beginning, they fell one side. After playing the first Green Army, they led by up to 30 points, and finally won 43 points with 139-96. This is a typical game played by the new trend of basketball. The scene is not very good. In the face of the three-point rain of the opponent, basketable Nets did not make special adjustments. It has always been the level of normal defense, therefore, the first section is blocked. Starting from the first three-point goal of Jay Brown at 10 minutes 14 seconds, the Celtics showed the outstanding ability of the forward group in projection. Then brown, Tatum and Horford scored another seven points, the first eight shots were fully invested, among which Tatum entered four alone. On the contrary, basketable nets not only couldn’t resist three points, but also his tossing was only 12 Middle 2, resulting in the first section 16-46, which was the highest score of the Green Army in a single section this year, and +43 was also the biggest score difference for the Green Army to win the ball. Basketable nets there will be a disparity score every once in a while: they once won the Warriors with +42 grand victories, +30, +36 wins Spurs, and also defeated the king with-32. The Celtics didn’t have so many disparity scores, but they also won the Hornets by +35 and lost thunder by-33. It was common to win the opponent by more than 20 points. The one-sided game is not good-looking, but this is the norm under the new trend of basketball. Recently, fans often ask such questions: Now NBA is not as good-looking as before, why is scoring so easy? Why is the score so high? Don’t they defend? These questions were raised very well, but our self-media did not summarize and refine them, so everyone saw the clouds in the fog. In fact, although the score of the current basketball is high, it is not easy to score. The current basketball is also defensive, but it is more difficult to defend. Like everything in the world, basketball is constantly evolving. To sum up, compared with before, the new trend of basketball has several big changes: faster rhythm, stronger running and jumping, more three points, more ups and downs. The improvement of rhythm and running and jumping is due to the better physical condition, higher growth and stronger athletic ability of contemporary athletes. NBA has a concept of “standard person”, which actually refers to the average height of all players. I remember that in the 90’s of the last century, the “standard person” was Penny Hadavi, whose height was 201, and now it is 203, indicating that the overall height has increased. The increase of sports ability accelerates the pace of attack and defense conversion, and makes the highest batch of centers eliminated, because they can’t keep up with such a fast speed and can’t complete more attack and defense rounds. We can compare the rhythm of the 20 seasons James experienced before and after: in the 2003-04 season, the highest number of rounds per 48 minutes was the Nuggets, 93.3 times, the lowest was the Blazers, 86.2 times; in the 2022-23 season, the fastest pace was Warriors, with 102.5 rounds per 48 minutes, and the slowest was the Cavaliers 95.5. In other words, 20 years later, the slowest team today is faster than the fastest team 20 years ago. On the Internet and forums, there are not a few people who hold the view that basketball is not good-looking now, saying that they like the muscle banging in those days. In fact, in my opinion, 20 years ago, the center came to play the current NBA, and he would be replaced by the coach within two rounds. One was that he ran too slowly, and the other was that he could not run. The Celtics opened 8 of the basketable nets three points, which directly determined the disparity result of the game. It can be seen how much influence the three-point ball has on the game. Although NBA introduced ABA’s three-point rule in 1979-80 season (FIBA’s three points began in 1984), its decisive influence on the game began with the warrior dynasty. In the first season of implementing the three-point rule, the average number of shots per team was only 2.8 three points per game, and 10 years later, it rose to 6.6. James first entered the NBA for 14.9 times in the 2003-04 season. After 10 years, James won two consecutive championships in the Heat team. At that time, the league shot 20 times in three points on average. But in another 10 years, by this year, the average number of three-point shots has risen to 34.2, and last season was the highest 35.2 in history. Obviously, the rise of the three-point shot is the acceleration state, but it will definitely be stopped at a certain proportion. This year is less than last year, indicating that it has reached the critical point. The warriors who made the most three-point shots accounted for 48% of the total shots, nearly half, and the league’s average three-point shots accounted for 38% of the total shots, close to 40%. I think in the next quite a long time, NBA’s three-point shot will only go back and forth in this section, and it is impossible to be higher. The three-point ball combines various factors such as personal skills, team cooperation and on-the-spot luck, which is full of considerable uncertainty and actually adds suspense to the game. At the same time, the three-point ball maximizes the space function of the basketball court, which perfectly reflects the three contradictions of basketball I have summarized-strong side and weak side, inside line and outside line, and height speed. Therefore, in my opinion, basketball is more complicated and better-looking than in the past. In the past 20 years, the trend of NBA has changed so dramatically that it is almost like two different sports before and after. Especially in recent years, the blowout of the three-point ball has made the average score soar and increased by more than 20 points in the past 20 years. But is it easier for players to score now than in the past? Personally, I think that the current rules and trends provide players with the opportunity to create high scores, but the improvement of individual scores is not proportional to the increase of the average score of the league. I listed the 20 seasons James experienced below. You can see that the number of three-point goals has doubled, and the average score has increased by 20.8 points. However, if you look at the star who scored the first, no matter the average score, or the average number of players reaching 30 + in the season has not changed significantly. In the first 16 seasons, only one player scored an average of 30 + in 15 seasons, not even. So far this year, there are 7 players with an average of 30 +, but the highest enbide has only 33.6 points, because the season has not been finished, and in the end, there may be 4 players with an average of 30 +. This feature has been in existence for the past dozens of seasons. It only shows that the result of individual scoring is not directly related to the increase of the total score. The increase of three-point shots, it is not directly related to the average score of individuals. The reason is that defense and attack are a pair of contradictory relationships. Once individual scores increase sharply, the opponent can use defense or even attack to resolve them. The rules also allow various joint defense, and the defense methods are richer than before, therefore, it is not easy to keep a high score for a long time. For example, Owen had only 26 points yesterday, and his personal performance of more than 30 consecutive games was interrupted, which was actually the longest record for Owen and basketable nets young pioneer team history. So, where did the more than 20 points increase in the past 20 years go? The answer is distributed to more people. Contemporary basketball can no longer rely on one person to fight the world, because the pace of the game is too fast, too many rounds, and personal playing time is decreasing. Take the 2000-01 season as an example. The rhythm of that year was 91.3 rounds every 48 minutes. Finley and Iverson ranked the top two with an average appearance of 42 minutes. Finley also played 82 games and Iverson 71 games. In that year, 13 people played more than 40 minutes on average, 6 of whom played more than 80 games, and 35 people played more than 37.7 minutes. Why is the 37.7-minute number mentioned? Because this is the appearance time of siacam this year, ranking first. Without comparison, there would be no harm. In such a comparison, we finally know that contemporary basketball is not so easy to play. Contemporary basketball needs more comprehensive technology and basic projection ability; Contemporary basketball needs more physical fitness and running and jumping ability; Contemporary basketball needs relieve a garrison ability of each position, as well as the ability to deal with unlimited relieve a garrison; Contemporary basketball also takes more risks of injury, because confrontation mostly occurs in high-speed running and jumping. In such a situation, too tall and heavy players are eliminated, too short players are easy to be targeted, so the height of the inside line is decreasing, the height of the outside line is increasing, and the position is blurred, the lineup is forward. In the Raptors, they even offered a five-forward lineup. Today, the Green Army won basketable nets with 43, which was exactly the match played by two modern teams with full strikers. The reason for the big difference was that Durant and Warren lost two high strikers in basketable nets. 20 years of change is too big, this change is irreversible. Comparing before and after, experiencing the meaning of “haohaotang soup, Shunzhi Chang” will sigh more about James’s difficulty. A player can adapt to such drastic changes in style and still stand on the top of the trend. It’s amazing! Su Qun column