Re: Are Players Averaging Less PPG Nowadays?
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2013 8:05 pm
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HelloBrooklyn wrote:bledredwine wrote:There's currently a lack of stars.
You can name the top 20 now and they don't compare to the top 20 of the 90s
The other thing is there are stars sitting out with injuries and then many current rising stars like Irving, Lillard, Demarcus, Monroe/Drummond, Curry, etc who will have 20 pt seasons.
Lol what lack of stars?? Don't give in to that bs man. There are plenty of talent in the league.
The reason for the drop because teams are playing with more efficiency. Coaching is also becoming more of a euro style- meaning they play in a system where they will only certain amount of time. There are less hero ball nowadays
bledredwine wrote:HelloBrooklyn wrote:bledredwine wrote:There's currently a lack of stars.
You can name the top 20 now and they don't compare to the top 20 of the 90s
The other thing is there are stars sitting out with injuries and then many current rising stars like Irving, Lillard, Demarcus, Monroe/Drummond, Curry, etc who will have 20 pt seasons.
Lol what lack of stars?? Don't give in to that bs man. There are plenty of talent in the league.
The reason for the drop because teams are playing with more efficiency. Coaching is also becoming more of a euro style- meaning they play in a system where they will only certain amount of time. There are less hero ball nowadays
When 34 year old Kobe leads the league in scoring, Duncan is still considered one of the league's best and Paul averaging 16 and 10 is considered a top 5 player, you can't tell me there's no shortage in stars.
Go ahead and list the top 20 players in the league, and compare them to the following list:
1. Michael Jordan
2. Shaquille O'Neal
3. Hakeem Olajuwon
4. David Robinson
5. Karl Malone
6. Charles Barkley
7. John Stockton
8. Patrick Ewing
9. Scottie Pippen
10. Grant Hill (prime)
11. Shawn Kemp
12. Alonzo Morning
13. Penny Hardaway
14. Mitch Richmond
15. Chris Mullin
17. Reggie Miller
18. Gary Payton
19. Clyde Drexler
20. Dikembi Mutumbo
Rajon Rondo and Andrew Bynum are considered top 15 players now. Blake Griffin, Paul Pierce would be in your list.....
Not only do you have the better top two players out of this list, but the next four players are far better than anyone else you could say is 3rd in the league now.
These guys were in the league at the same damned time!
Tim Hardaway was like the 25th best player in the league man. Jason Kidd wasn't even considered near the top in his prime. It's just not the same now. There's a bunch of up and coming stars, but not many stars.... Dirk's not the same guy, Rose/Love are out, Gordon among others are struggling with injuries, Oden didn't last.
But yes, go ahead, list the top 20, and we'll compare side by side. I don't even care if you list currently injured players; but those guys were all playing like iron men at the time.
mj234eva wrote:Several other factors have already been mentioned.
I'll say this also is a factor: kids only playing one year in college, before that, all those guys that came directly out of HS. Multiple lottery picks been drafted on "potential" or the "projects", that never fully pan out.
PetroNet wrote:less good players
bledredwine wrote:HelloBrooklyn wrote:bledredwine wrote:There's currently a lack of stars.
You can name the top 20 now and they don't compare to the top 20 of the 90s
The other thing is there are stars sitting out with injuries and then many current rising stars like Irving, Lillard, Demarcus, Monroe/Drummond, Curry, etc who will have 20 pt seasons.
Lol what lack of stars?? Don't give in to that bs man. There are plenty of talent in the league.
The reason for the drop because teams are playing with more efficiency. Coaching is also becoming more of a euro style- meaning they play in a system where they will only certain amount of time. There are less hero ball nowadays
When 34 year old Kobe leads the league in scoring, Duncan is still considered one of the league's best and Paul averaging 16 and 10 is considered a top 5 player, you can't tell me there's no shortage in stars.
Go ahead and list the top 20 players in the league, and compare them to the following list:
1. Michael Jordan
2. Shaquille O'Neal
3. Hakeem Olajuwon
4. David Robinson
5. Karl Malone
6. Charles Barkley
7. John Stockton
8. Patrick Ewing
9. Scottie Pippen
10. Grant Hill (prime)
11. Shawn Kemp
12. Alonzo Morning
13. Penny Hardaway
14. Mitch Richmond
15. Chris Mullin
17. Reggie Miller
18. Gary Payton
19. Clyde Drexler
20. Dikembi Mutumbo
Are you seriously going to tell me that we have 7 scorers in the league that are dominant along the lines of Michael Jordan, Shaq, Hakeem, D. Robinson, P. Ewing, Karl Malone, Charles Barkley? Hell, Mullin was a better scorer than everyone but maybe 4 scorers today.
Rajon Rondo and Andrew Bynum are considered top 15 players now. Blake Griffin, Paul Pierce would be in your list.....
Not only do you have the better top two players out of this list, but the next four players are far better than anyone else you could say is 3rd in the league now.
These guys were in the league at the same damned time!
Tim Hardaway was like the 25th best player in the league man. Jason Kidd wasn't even considered near the top in his prime. It's just not the same now. There's a bunch of up and coming stars, but not many stars.... Dirk's not the same guy, Rose/Love are out, Gordon among others are struggling with injuries, Oden didn't last.
But yes, go ahead, list the top 20, and we'll compare side by side. I don't even care if you list currently injured players; but those guys were all playing like iron men at the time.
tms386 wrote:
Nice job assembling players from the early 80's all the way to the mid 90's. If you want to use that great of a time period, "today's" top 20 would look just asgood.
VC-INJURY wrote:Check out the top 10 year-by-year leaders for scoring average and you will see that in the past few seasons particularly in the 6-10 range, guys are making the top 10 averaging less points than those in previous years.
http://www.basketball-reference.com/lea ... op_10.html
Why do you think this is?
Doctor MJ wrote:VC-INJURY wrote:Check out the top 10 year-by-year leaders for scoring average and you will see that in the past few seasons particularly in the 6-10 range, guys are making the top 10 averaging less points than those in previous years.
http://www.basketball-reference.com/lea ... op_10.html
Why do you think this is?
Looking at the data I think you overstate the difference. I think it just totally varies depending on the players available and the decisions teams make. The decrease in pace is also a factor.
That said, team strategies do change. Teams used to be far more prone to try to ride their big man to 20+ points per game. Some of what people lament as "the death of the center" is really "the realization that most centers shouldn't shoot that much".
A specific point here is the trend of 3-point shooting and the gradual realization that does NOT mean stars should shoot a lot of 3's but that a fundamental goal of the offense should be to get open 3's for your role players. Role player scoring is now more important than ever, and we should expect that that means star scoring is now LESS important.
TheKingOfVa360 wrote:tms386 wrote:
Nice job assembling players from the early 80's all the way to the mid 90's. If you want to use that great of a time period, "today's" top 20 would look just asgood.
He actually didn't do what you're accusing him of but I'm sure you never seen most of those players play. You can easily say that list is for the 94-95 season or 95-96 season it it would be accurate
DavidSterned wrote:It's definitely noticeable this year. Look at the single game season high for points right now, it's only 45. Crazy to think that nobody has even come all that close to scoring 50+ yet this year.