falcolombardi wrote:sometimes i have wondered if aesthetic preference may influence what we consider optimal offensive basketball even if subtly
most people in the world prefer to watch a motion offense than a heliocentric one and that may (or may not) have some effect
i like helio offenses (depensing on how much much i like watching the Helio player in question) so i worry i may have the opposite issue and be biased towards "defending" heliocentrism as so many of my favorite players fit thst mold (paul, lebron, westbrook) and i sometimes feel get a unfair handicap because of it when people evaluate their impact
is like when i argue for a player i like more vs a player i like less, i have the worry in the back of my mind of how much my bias is influencing what i look at
so is possible that a majority or at least a big plurality of people want "motion ball" to be proven superior over "helio ball" because is more enjoyable, because is more about teamwork over individual ?
cause that is how i remember a lot of the hype and build up to warriors vs rockets in 2018
it seemed almost a war of ideologies: a duel of styles more than teams
the ultimate (kinda) helio/star/iso/foulhunt team of rockets vs the ultimate (kinda) motion/team work/ "joyball" warriors (2016 was a better example)
lots of emotional investment as so many people were worried rockets ball would become the way of the future after how they took the league by storm in comparable fashion to curry and warriors 2 years earlier (honestly rockets vs warriors may be one of the most important series in basketball history or at least it felt like it at the time)
then somethingh similar happened in 2020 (again with rockets lmao) with rockets microball vs lakers Bully ball (at least in hype, the actual series was a murder) as people worried the succes of the rockets would kill traditional centers and interior play for good, the amount of legitimate dread people had over the possibility of 2020 rockets succeding was somethingh i had never seen
so basically after all this tangent i went on, how do we account for our aesthetical biases clouding what we consider óptimal basketball theorically ?
Of course this stuff is largely based on personal preference. The Warriors get off to a hot start and suddenly we're transported back to 2016 having arguments on the merits of LeBron as offensive anchor and opining for everyone star to run around in circles all game like Steph. Its ridiculous.
did they not watch Golden State last season. Or did that not count????