Kblaze8855
04-13-2024, 10:28 AM
do you even factor it in or do you go straight to bottom line? I feel there’s a pretty big misconception, which is obviously exacerbated by this era against that era trolling battles. NBA players could always shoot. Even the NBA players who can’t shoot can shoot. In a league where coaches getting mad at you for taking a three you’re going to take fewer. Here was someone no more than five of you have ever seen play discussing it
https://youtu.be/DEAJOF2CdQ0?si=a9di3l1iBwo_p_ED
But even people who could make them consistently and had the trust of their teammates as Hodges clearly can/does
https://youtu.be/a-gIlMu3fvE?si=6qXIUHrO0G8RIxu0
https://i.ibb.co/85vxcRQ/IMG-8381.gif
(Mike knew that shit was going in)
Didn’t have it encouraged. Even forward thinking experimental guys like Don Nelson and Paul Westhead were looked at like mad scientist when a guy who could shoot would take four and make 2-3.
if you were ever around in the casual pregames of that era when you could go down damn near to the floor, you see all kinds of players who probably didn’t take a three in their entire career, making them just ****ing around. George Gervin make like 100 s in 10 years but before games and missing around, he was wet. You could watch the old timers games from the 80s where they bring out 50-year-olds from the 60s and they would be making modern threes. Funny looking. But they would make some.
The skill level of NBA players is poorly grasped even now when all we do is talk about them being the most skilled ever. Some of those those old guys had “kung fu”
https://youtu.be/Z7H1zFVxaVw?si=od7YprWoe0kfE4hr
The literal translation I was happy to learn from the underrated Marco Polo on Netflix. I thought it might be a creation for the sake of that scene, but no. The phrase kung fu does literally mean great skill from putting a lot of time in.
But those coaches just weren’t convinced. And I somewhat understand. There’s no disadvantage when nobody does it. It’s only a disadvantage of everyone does it and you don’t. They were trying to win the same way. Everybody else was trying. Which is the same thing people do now.
You play the ball everyone else plays for the most part.
I do wish I could go back with like five hours of footage and explain where basketball was going to some of those really old guys and see who would buy in and risk their jobs leaning on some of those shooters they kept on the bench because “A jump shooting team can’t win”.
https://youtu.be/DEAJOF2CdQ0?si=a9di3l1iBwo_p_ED
But even people who could make them consistently and had the trust of their teammates as Hodges clearly can/does
https://youtu.be/a-gIlMu3fvE?si=6qXIUHrO0G8RIxu0
https://i.ibb.co/85vxcRQ/IMG-8381.gif
(Mike knew that shit was going in)
Didn’t have it encouraged. Even forward thinking experimental guys like Don Nelson and Paul Westhead were looked at like mad scientist when a guy who could shoot would take four and make 2-3.
if you were ever around in the casual pregames of that era when you could go down damn near to the floor, you see all kinds of players who probably didn’t take a three in their entire career, making them just ****ing around. George Gervin make like 100 s in 10 years but before games and missing around, he was wet. You could watch the old timers games from the 80s where they bring out 50-year-olds from the 60s and they would be making modern threes. Funny looking. But they would make some.
The skill level of NBA players is poorly grasped even now when all we do is talk about them being the most skilled ever. Some of those those old guys had “kung fu”
https://youtu.be/Z7H1zFVxaVw?si=od7YprWoe0kfE4hr
The literal translation I was happy to learn from the underrated Marco Polo on Netflix. I thought it might be a creation for the sake of that scene, but no. The phrase kung fu does literally mean great skill from putting a lot of time in.
But those coaches just weren’t convinced. And I somewhat understand. There’s no disadvantage when nobody does it. It’s only a disadvantage of everyone does it and you don’t. They were trying to win the same way. Everybody else was trying. Which is the same thing people do now.
You play the ball everyone else plays for the most part.
I do wish I could go back with like five hours of footage and explain where basketball was going to some of those really old guys and see who would buy in and risk their jobs leaning on some of those shooters they kept on the bench because “A jump shooting team can’t win”.