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Anyone recall a few months back when there was all that hand wringing over teams scoring too many points? All the backlash over too many baskets being made? All the YouTube videos from NBA driven sites about how the game was now unrecognizable? There were all those complaints about no defense being played which led to folks pining for the days of the 2000s when San Antonio and Detroit would enter the 4th quarter of games in the NBA Finals without having yet reached 60 points on the scoreboard. Well, as expected that scoring fell back to Earth and we stopped getting scores of 153 to 151. Things largely went back to normal. Even better the scoring has not dipped to the 2000s level in the process which from my perspective makes the games more exciting.

But where are all the follow-ups in the media in which people owned up over how wrong they were? It’s as if people only want to speak about the NBA when they have something negative to say.

mmmmh I think you missed something.

Your argument is that the NBA changed the way they officiate offense/defense leading to a reduction in scoring after fans expressed their displeasure and that's proof the fans were...wrong?

Straight buffoonery

Lunartic wrote:Your argument is that the NBA changed the way they officiate offense/defense leading to a reduction in scoring after fans expressed their displeasure and that's proof the fans were...wrong?

Straight buffoonery

What an interesting response. No, my point is that the NBA did nothing to adjust to all the scoring. It certainly didn’t have the refs officiate the game in any different manner to appease the chorus of detractors. After all Silver and Co are smart enough to know that offense is not a bad thing. Instead the defenses of teams settled down and finally caught up to all that early uptick in points and teams like the Pacers who were setting records early on could not keep up their pace. The change was organic. Yet the media which spent so much energy faulting the NBA for high scores never changed that narrative even when the numbers went more back to normal.

KennerLeaguer wrote:

Lunartic wrote:Your argument is that the NBA changed the way they officiate offense/defense leading to a reduction in scoring after fans expressed their displeasure and that's proof the fans were...wrong?

Straight buffoonery

What an interesting response. No, my point is that the NBA did nothing to adjust to all the scoring. It certainly didn’t have the refs officiate the game in any different manner to appease the chorus of detractors. After all Silver and Co are smart enough to know that offense is not a bad thing. Instead the defenses of teams settled down and finally caught up to all that early uptick in points and teams like the Pacers who were setting records early on could not keep up their pace. The change was organic. Yet the media which spent so much energy faulting the NBA for high scores never changed that narrative even when the numbers went more back to normal.

Again. I THINK you missed something. Around after the All Star break. You might wanna look into it.

The change was not organic at all lol, whenever the NBA institutes some reffing changes it’s always basically obvious overnight that someone put the call in

KennerLeaguer wrote:

Lunartic wrote:Your argument is that the NBA changed the way they officiate offense/defense leading to a reduction in scoring after fans expressed their displeasure and that's proof the fans were...wrong?

Straight buffoonery

What an interesting response. No, my point is that the NBA did nothing to adjust to all the scoring. It certainly didn’t have the refs officiate the game in any different manner to appease the chorus of detractors. After all Silver and Co are smart enough to know that offense is not a bad thing. Instead the defenses of teams settled down and finally caught up to all that early uptick in points and teams like the Pacers who were setting records early on could not keep up their pace. The change was organic. Yet the media which spent so much energy faulting the NBA for high scores never changed that narrative even when the numbers went more back to normal.

https://clutchpoints.com/nba-news-adam-silver-admission-officiating

The NBA made a clear and obvious decision to reduce offensive player's leeway when foulbaiting + has called less minimal contact a foul.

You realize scoring dropped ?

If it was simply about defenses catching up to offenses, why didn't we see that same drop last season? Or the season prior? Surely, multiple years is enough time to catchup?

Want a '90s, early '00s throwback?

Good defensive. physical teams like the TWolves, Magic, Knicks usually don't allow 100 pnts or more per game.