The NBA Has A Massive Problem..

The NBA has a huge

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and it's their fault because of the way the NBA officiates. It's getting quite difficult to even watch these games and it's disgusting to watch. Thank you. Players receive meaningless expulsions. Defenses can't do anything against the offense. There are constants. delays in games due to foul fouls, wondering why the league is losing money, that's why people make a lot of money to come watch these athletes play and try to take over the game in a November game against the Pistons. Giannis received a second technical foul and was ejected after staring at Isaiah Stewart and would leave for the game.

Trey Young was ejected after clapping and disagreeing for a technical foul called against Trey Young and the next night, Joic was ejected after a single technical foul because he literally said one word. the refs, oh my god, they're not kicking him out of the game, they really are, but why is the NBA trying to implement this type of officiating and dilute their own product? I don't enjoy what the NBA as a whole is becoming. The NBA used to be a league full of tough, tough guys and now it's trying to be a ballet with the ball which is outrageous.

This is completely nonsense. A shame for the referees. Shame on the league for allowing this. So what exactly is going on with the modern NBA? and how did we get to a point where a 50 point game is just another day at the office in the 2010 NBA season only one player scored 50 points in a game in 2011 there were two 50 point games and the next year there were only three, but in January 2024, in the space of a week, four players scored 60, including a 70-point explosion from Embiid 70 and a 73 annihilation from Luka. These are not the fault of the players.

The league is too soft. The rules favor the offensive mentality. Players and teams, are NBA players much better than before or is the NBA intentionally softening the game to boost modern scoring in 2017, when Kevin Durant joined the Warriors, the dubs had three of the best shooters in NBA history and no one was too surprised that they had the best offense in the NBA, but not only did their 115.6 offensive rating lead the league, it was also the best offensive rating in NBA history in 20124, that offensive rating would be 18 below the league average, the first reason for the absurd jump. in offensive efficiency is the most obvious The higher volume of three-pointers and faster pace;

However, when we look at NBA history, the current pace of play is only average, the 2024 season ranks only 21st in terms of pace with 99 possessions per game. Because the NBA of the '70s and '80s played at a crazy pace that peaked in 1974 at 108 possessions per game, in the '60s teams played even harder and routinely averaged 120 possessions per game, but those are actually unofficial numbers because the league began to measure the pace. However, in 1973, when we look at the average points scored, the 2024 season ranks sixth in NBA history with 115 points on average, while teams in 1962 averaged 119 points per game.

In 1962, Wilt averaged 50 points while four other players averaged over 30. and five players averaging over 30, well, it hasn't been repeated since, in terms of pace and scoring the modern NBA has only caught up. The 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, and these modern high-scoring games only seem absurd when you compare them to the painfully slow basketball of the 1990s and 2000s, the basketball we saw in the Jordan and Kobe era was tougher tactically, more simpler and more inclined to emphasize individual skills through isolation as the ultimate offensive weapon, aka Herob Ball. It was also a period of expansion teams that diluted the quality of the league as the NBA had not yet filled the talent pool with international players and even when the first European players arrived they found

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s because they did not quite fit the archetypes of players created by NBA teams and if you look at the 2004 NBA Finals between the Pistons and the Lakers, this type of basketball looked more like a wrestling match than a basketball game.

In those days, every team played two traditional big men and those heavyweights struggled like hell to establish a deep post position. When players wanted to cut to the basket, their opponent often held them without even receiving a foul because the infamous hand control rule was not yet in effect. The Pistons averaged 90 points per game in those finals, while the Lakers barely eclipsed 80 in In the 2005 finals between Detroit and San Antonio, the offense was even worse, with neither team averaging more than 86 points, the audience and Profits had been in constant decline since Jordan retired and that was when the league decided to adapt the rules to increase scoring, but the 2001 season brought the biggest changes, the first and most important change was the introduction of 3-second defensive to prohibit big men from camping in the paint and discourage guards from attacking the basket.

Additionally, zone defense became legal and the time to cross half court was reduced. from 10 to 8 seconds in 2004, manual control became illegal, but even with those changes, as we said at the beginning of the video, 50-point games were still a rarity and not the norm, while fighting without the ball was not as frequent as before. it was before manual review and referees started calling fouls if players started acting too much like MMA was still a pretty physical game and the playoffs were often a bar fight down 20 you're down 27 points fight ball fight tonight It was a ball fight man, tonight was a ball fight you've ever been in a ball fight and stayed away for over a decade after the hand check rule and the first NBA Finals where both teams averaging over 100 points was in 2017, which was the first time it happened since the 2000 Finals, but in 2015, when the Warriors won the title, the entire NBA realized the power of spacing and three-point shooting. points, so very next season the Rockets, driven by the analytics of James Harden and Daryl Mor, took it to the extreme.

At another level and quite a bit, the NBA went through the greatest offensive revolution since the introduction of the shot clock in 1954 because until 2015 the NBA was a fairly rigid league in terms of its positions, there were always players who stepped out of their roles but it was more or less known what the task of each player was throughout the 60s and until the 2000s the players were molded into certain roles specializing them as much as possible the point guards were game directors who distributed the ball on the wings they used to be the best The team's shooters and the centers were masters of the post game and now, 15 or 20 years later, you have guys shooting threes.

Historically, top positions were defined primarily by heights, but in today's basketball a player's skill set is not at all related to his size or the position he plays. I think you have to recruit guys that have size but also have great length and athleticism. Modern NBA players are more versatile than ever, with most teams playing with five players who can dribble, pass and shoot. There is no longer a team without a small ball. and there is no longer a defense without at least two or even three rotations based on aggressive switches as more and more teams play position, without basketball.

Of course, before there were great players like Pal Gasol, Carlos Boozer or Dirk, but they were a minority. and nowadays they are literally everywhere and because everyone can shoot, there is more space on the field than ever, plus ball handling has reached such a high level that most teams have perfected pick and roll with greats like joic or Giannis and almost all the players. In the rotation you have the green light to dribble or shoot basketball in the 80s, it was harder to shut up. Let It Go. The 80s can't compete with the 90s. The 2000s and now, and if we wanted to look at some greats from the 90s who don't shoot, like Dennis.

Rodman would still be a great defender today, but because his offense was virtually nonexistent in the modern NBA, he would be nearly unplayable. This versatility and increase in skill set has made it very difficult for defenses to adapt because the number of variables has increased. increased 10 times and it is much more difficult to stop the opponent and while the main reason for the current offensive optics is definitely the pace, spatial volume, three-point shooting and skill set of current players, the NBA also agreed with those changes. by making it even easier for the offense, while it has never been more difficult to be a defender in 2017, after Zaza Pulia deliberately put his feet in front of Kawhi Leonard and injured his ankle, the NBA reacted by introducing the Zaza rule of that a defensive player can't place his feet in the shooters landing area now on the surface, this was the right thing to do to prevent injuries, but it actually just made it harder for defenders to stay close to their man, plus , players like James Harden Trey are young and very talented, others began to look for fouls, well, he was a pioneer in this and a true master who encouraged players to raise their hands only to tangle them and commit fouls and from.

That Harden started doing this has gone from bad to worse, it's almost comical how sometimes a defender stands still with his hands in the air while the offensive player runs at him exaggerating the contact as if they had been hit with Thor's hammer only for the referees to call a foul on the poor defender. Joel Embiid is shooting 12 free throws a day. night and the defense is barely allowed to touch his 300-pound body as he punches across the lane. Shaq, on the other hand, was literally beaten and beaten night after night and only once in his career did he shoot more than 12 free throws and he's a guy. that they deliberately fouled him without the ball because he couldn't even shoot free throws.

One thing I love about David Sterer is he was real so one day we went to his office and he said son if we call every foul you made the game will last 4 hours and I felt like you were right and he said Shaq , you're here complaining about fing. I have 2018 complaining about you In addition to phantom fouls, referees also began to be more and more lenient with traveling moving screens. and carrying the ball, especially in transition, this ultimately resulted in absurd moves like LeBron's legendary crab dribble or Harden's step-back three and it's not entirely the ref's fault that we're often confused about traveling in the NBA, It's also the fact that players have become so much better at using every step they are allowed, you can call a trip on almost every play and once the NBA has allowed a few extra steps it becomes difficult to even call the Travel meeting step was always present in the NBA, but now players take that meeting. step to the absolute extreme, they can time picking up the ball to make it look like they're taking three or four steps without even dribbling because they're taking a lot of steps without dribbling, but you never had to dribble with every step you took. they just needed to have an active dribble, meaning you hadn't picked up the ball yet, now, especially on back steps, they are taking several steps back before picking up the ball.

Another thing that referees don't routinely whistle is when a player moves their pivot foot, which must remain planted so as not to become a trip, but we often see players turning and lifting that pivot foot to a point where they gave seven or even eight steps while the referees remain silent, they didn't call it, oh my god. Hey hey, considering the many changes that were made primarily with the goal of opening up the offense, it's not surprising that the number of points is constantly increasing, the amount of offensive talent there is in the league right now is crazy, I don't think so. believe.

People really realize how much talent there is on offense. Steve Kerr once said that the players have never been more talented, but the defenses are not up to par, especially in transition, you are a good defensive team today if you give 110. Points per game don't make any sense, but what? How could defenders measure up when they have been deprived of every possible tool to do their job? I came to the NBA when people manually controlled when they could put their hands on you. They can guide you through the screens and where you can go and then I was in an era where they took your hands off you and you had to protect a guy like this, how do you protect a guy so super, super fast, super strong ?

And you already know everything. that's getting a ball screen, you can't touch it, however M travel calls endless gathering steps, falls and ticky tac fouls well, they're not the worst thingsof modern officiating Steve Cerr is going crazy oh he just hit the backboard and gets a technical he could get ejected what he does the absolute worst thing in today's NBA is how referees call technical fouls after the stupidest things they steal everything excitement of the game and it's disgusting to watch thank you we don't want to see players getting text messages for hanging on the rim a millisecond too long or staring at an opponent look at this it's amazing you used to be able to talk to the officials this is the raw emotion that raises the temperature in the arena, sparks rivalries and creates standout moments. for decades and that's what fans want, imagine if Alen Iverson walked over Teron L in 2024, he'd probably get kicked out for taunting.

I remember looking at all the coaches and we would all smile because we've never seen anyone do anything. Like this before and you'd probably never see someone do it again in the Athletics 2023 NBA Player Poll. 26% of players rated officiating as the biggest problem in the NBA and it's pretty hard to argue with them. You touch someone as a fault. for having bad breath, God forbid if you pass gas, it's understandable that the league has tried to clean up its act after the palace malice and the Nuggets' Nick brawl in 2006, and we understand certain players are complaining too much for the referees and they deserve to be ejected, especially when there is profanity involved, but just like they did with the offensive rules, the NBA went too far.

I have a problem with the way we are, we are legislating defense out of the game. If I were a fan, I wouldn't have wanted to watch the second half. of that game was disgusting, Commissioner Silver and the NBA should change the rules to allow more contact on defense and should really allow players more freedom to express themselves on the court without being penalized, maybe they could even abolish the defensive rule of the 3 seconds. and adopt more things from the FEA rule book, but generally speaking, the NBA is in a good place, there has never been more parody in the league and the players, well, they are more talented and more efficient than ever, however , right now it feels like something special. is lost like a great meal at a Michelin restaurant when the chef forgets to put salt and pepper on it, no bro, I'm not eating that shit, no, so to answer the question from the beginning, is it normal for gamers the NBA are scoring?

So far the answer is that the current NBA scoring is actually normal if we compare it to the 60's, 70's and 80's, it was actually the Jordan and Kobe era that was atypical, but again, the way it was running the league right now just doesn't feel normal and has become too soft. Thanks for watching Non-Stop and if you enjoyed this one, the next video might be even better.