jpengland wrote:It does make me laugh that people are yearning for.the days of Josh Smith throwing up deep 2s and Jerry Stackhouse isolating and throwing up off balance mid rangers.
Basketball got smarter and more talented.
I vividly remember a Lakers game from around 25 years ago where we posted up Sean Rooks -- possibly one of the least talented players to ever get 10-plus years in the league -- on 3 or 4 possessions in a row thinking, what in the living fck are we doing?
I'm not going to sit here and say that I knew all along that the 3-point line was grossly underused; I definitely didn't. But I knew wasting possessions posting up jobbers -- which you used to see aaaaaaaaaaall the time -- was stupid-ass basketball.