NBA teams are scoring nearly two fewer points per 100 possessions this season compared to last season, which has come in the face of criticisms of the game play where there's a belief that the league has overindexed on offense.
"I feel like all of the talk this season has been about how teams have solved offense and that's the problem with the NBA," said Jared Dubin on RealGM Radio. Dubin has previously wrote about the trend at Substack. "And it's all just everybody takes and makes too many threes. And we have to figure out ways to make defense better. Defenses are better this season.
"Scoring is down almost two points per 100 possessions. That's the first time in a while where it's down, at least down a significant amount. That's a pretty big difference year over year to go up or down two points per 100 possessions. Generally, offenses do get a little bit better over the course of a season, but going up two full points per 100 possessions to get where they were last season shows the type of improvement year over year we have seen in some seasons.
"We have also seen some of the best defenses in recent memory."
Dubin added that the Oklahoma City Thunder is one of the best in NBA history compared to league average.
