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Mar 31, 2015
9:31:01am
some of these guys that played in the 80's or 90's are pretty dumb.
i'm not saying ALL guys that played in the 80's or 90's are dumb, but many of them are still stuck in their 80's/90's mentality. The game is very different now. GM's look at things like analytics -- guys like Chris Webber see analytics as a threat to their expertise (in reality it is a compliment to his expertise). These types think if you are a big man and don't have a great back to the basket game that you stink. Smart NBA teams don't want to feed the post like teams used to back in the day. It is a ball screen league. You don't have to have great post moves. If you can pass out of the post, stretch the floor a bit, and catch and finish in traffic that is a LOT better than an old fashioned back to the basket guy who doesn't roll to the basket, pass very well or stretch the floor. Yes, having a back to the basket game is a nice skill to have and can be very useful, but there is more than one way to score a basket as a big man, and more and more NBA teams want that basket scored in the highest efficiency which is rarely a simple post up.
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