have watched a ton of wolves and knew about the 3s but didn’t realize he only had 9 dunks. that’s one less than jake laravia and one more than mikal bridges.

old friend thjr just became the first player this season to pull off a 20+ minute tony snell, beating previous clubhouse leader and old friend cam reddish.

The fact that Anthony Edwards is on pace for a career low in dunks (by far) because he realized he can get the efficiency back by chucking 3s strikes me as a bearish aesthetic indicator

Can you blame him? If Jordan could have spent half his used possessions tossing up threes he’d probably have had LeBron’s longevity and the GOAT debate would be no debate at all.

But if you could, ess, what would you change?

Idk but I’d like to bring back the importance of post play and the midrange shot for a greater diversity of players. Idk what rule change gets you to that, though. It also seemed like fewer players got hurt before the “run n gun” offenses really took hold, but I don’t know if that’s true statistically.

There is no doubt that the game is less compelling to b-ball purists, but the product seems more popular than ever so I don’t imagine things changing much.

Every number I’ve seen indicates the opposite–the NBA has somewhat quietly entered a viewership crisis, obscured by the fact that it was still able to gin up a massive bidding war for the most recent broadcast rights package.

Finals viewership is basically at an all-time low since it’s been tracked, and that’s despite the NBA somewhat dubiously introducing an “out-of-home” viewership metric in 2020.

I have no idea how much this has to do with the fact that every team plays the same way now, but regardless the NBA shouldn’t feel like it has much to lose by rocking the boat.

Personally, I definitely feel like I grew up watching much more stylistic diversity, such that I would turn on basically any NBA game involving a reasonably good team or two. Now…I can give or take all but the most compelling games.

All this to say, I’m for basically any experimentation meant to reintroduce some stylistic diversity. Ptmilo’s airball penalty? Sign me up. Allotting every team a fixed amount of 3PA, with every FGA after that’s been hit only counting for 2? Could be interesting.