Why 2010-2015 Was One Of The WORST 5 Year Stretches In NBA History

So one random night I was sitting around going through Basketball Reference and looking at certain players and what they've accomplished as of late and being a story, and I started running into this constant theme of lack of statistical excellence from a lot of players that play within of this In the five-

year

period between

2010

and

2015

, the lack of excellence was so alarming that I did more research on it and immediately came away from my research thinking that between

2010

and

2015

could be one of the

worst

five-

year

periods in the NBA

history

, but definitely the

worst

. A five year stretch in recent Indian

history

because this will be one of those videos, a video that is largely based on my opinion and I know I will have to convince a lot of people who believe otherwise before I express my opinions.

There are two things I have to do, the first is to think about today's sponsors on Swagbucks, for those who don't know, Swagbucks is a service that allows its users to earn gift cards and PayPal monthly by doing things on the Internet that already do things like taking surveys, watching videos, playing games and shopping online, see the process is pretty simple, all you have to do is go to Swagbucks, take some surveys, watch videos, buy things online that you were already going to buy and , through that, you will be able to earn redeemable points and after redeeming them, you can earn Starbucks Walmart Target gift cards or again you can simply convert the redeemable points into money through PayPal and to make things even better for you, the Loot dollars will get you $5.00 free and all.

What you have to do is click the link in their description and register for the service and then from there you are off to the races to earn and redeem as many points as you can. Now the second thing I need to do is present the facts now, when I looked at some of the best teams in the NBA, there were a healthy amount of 60 and 51 teams in a league, however currently, over a period of years there really weren't that many. 48 out of 45: 1 teams as might have been expected. however, there were a lot of teams that are bottoming out and what made me dig a little deeper were some of the ridiculous records that I started to see on some of the NBA bodies over the years and once I started to dig deeper I quickly began to recognize that some of these teams were performing so poorly that you can easily compare them to expansion teams in their first five years in the NBA, so that's exactly what I decided to do since the NBA ABA merger, there have been eight expansion teams.

How do those eight expansion teams stretch? Since we are referring to 25 years. I decided to look at his first five years in the NBA. Now keep in mind that when you are an expansion team you are at a huge disadvantage within your first four or five years. in the NBA largely due to the fact that the players you receive from other organizations are players they were willing to give up for a reason which then leaves these organizations desperately dependent on upcoming draft classes and if there are No There are promising prospects that are entering the draft well, chances are these expansion schemes will be bad for the next few seasons, so when you look at some of these winning percentages of these expansion teams, it makes sense, but what doesn't .

What makes sense is that when I show you the winning percentages of the eight worst teams in the five-year period we are referring to between 2010 and 2015, the winning percentages are so close to each other that it is embarrassing to think that the organizations that have been established in the NBA for several years went through a five-year period that is comparable to an expansion team, it just shouldn't happen to begin with, especially considering this is only a third of the NBA now, if that wasn't enough, it actually gets worse. I was looking at some of the numbers that certain players were putting up over the years and, frankly, there really weren't that many impressive statistical feats, for example, when we looked at the players that allowed the NBA to score further.

Over the course of these five years, none of them except Kevin Durant left the NBA while he was averaging 30 points per game, actually for this entire five-year period. Kevin Durant in 2014 is the only player who averaged 30 points or more, but he returns to the scoring champions. In any span of years, if we were to take away Kevin Durant in 2014 and look at the other for scoring champions, all of these points per game that eventually led the NBA in scoring are not that impressive at all and in fact, KB and 20 11 and 20 12. Carmelo Anthony 2013 and Russell Westbrook and 2015 are literally some of the worst scoring champions in NBA history on screen.

These are the lowest point-per-game averages needed to lead the NBA in scoring for their corresponding seasons. Now there are probably two things you'll probably notice right away. Recognize that the first thing is that our four candidates are listed on this chart with 2013 Carmelo Anthony, 2015 Russell Westbrook in 2012, and 2011 Kevin Durant, so all four actually made the cut in the final 18. The second one you probably recognize is that there are many. of players who participated in the '50s who are on this list, meaning some of these players actually played before the shot clock was invented, putting them at one of the slowest pace errors in the NBA history, so to put this listen into context, five of the 18 players who made this list played before the shot clock era, two of which were recorded by George Mikan in 1950 and in 1951, we're putting numbers that were on par with Carmelo Anthony and Kevin Durant, so it's really not that impressive at all. and if we were to eliminate the players who participated before the shot clock was invented, we are now talking about the worst third-team scoring champions in NBA history and four of them participated within their five-year window, But the thing do not ends there.

I talked about this in my last video when I was talking about the evolution of position sense, if you haven't checked it out, make sure you do. However, I will expand the criteria not only to sensors but also to power words if you look at this. In a five-year period and I include all the players who averaged 20 points and 10 rebounds, there are only 17 players, two of which I'm going to put together in both Blake Griffin and David Utley, who averaged nine point five rebounds or more, so I'm going to round up to give them 20 points and ten rebounds, but again, only 17 players to put into context how unimpressive that is.

In 2013, there were 0 players to finish a season with an average of 20 points and 10 rebounds and B, we can go through a NBA history and just look at one or two individual seasons and you can clearly see that for five years they have only had 17 players, it's ridiculously low and finally when I went back and looked at some of the players that were looking around at this. five year window, the roster wasn't all that impressive at all, in fact I'd say the roster was pretty depressing, don't get me wrong, players like Kobe and Dirk, they were still productive over the span of years, but we're all kind.

We know they really weren't the players of 2010, and when it comes to players like Curry Harden and Westbrook, they also had some productive years during this stretch, however, as we all know, their peak would more or less lie in their final five. years in 2010 instead of early 2010, but still, although this list is really not that impressive, even if we extended it to players like Kobe and Curry, you know, yeah, let's not forget that this is more or less my opinion, but I think most of us can agree that Joakim Noah Marc Gasol and Tim Duncan, 36, receiving All-NBA First Team honors is a little ridiculous and then you have their friend Gasol, who in his prime while he was on the Los Angeles Lakers being part of a team that was winning 55-60+ games and at his defensive best was only making it to the third team in the NBA, but somehow he makes it to a second team in the NBA in Chicago when He is a worse defensive player and offensively he was.

He is not the same player. I'm not sitting here trying to point fingers and claim that this period of years is pure garbage and no one should respect him because I honestly think a lot of things happened during his five-year window that he unfortunately left out. NBA and without talent for longer than probably many people expected and I could go through multiple reasons and theories as to why this happened, however, I really boiled it down to two reasons: There were a lot of injuries and no, I won't. go over everyone's name but just to name a few players like Michael Redd Gilbert Arenas Yao Ming Amar'e Stoudemire Dwight Howard Shaun Livingston Derrick Rose Andrew Bynum Brandon Roy Greg Oden Deron Williams and Eric Gordon all should have played better or should have just played better have been active for many years, but unfortunately their careers were cut short or significantly altered to the point that they were never the same players or had the same impact, and then you take into consideration other players like Kevin Love and Brook Lopez, who were active during those years, however, had two or three years that were cut short due to injuries and, oh yeah, let's not forget the fact that both Russell Westbrook and Kevin Durant in basically back-to-back seasons also suffered injuries and that really took to OKC from the scene, so that's all really unfortunate and I think a lot of people should really pay attention to what exactly was going on with the injuries instead of just trying to point fingers at the second and probably the most important reason. is that the philosophy of basketball was starting to be questioned as the teams that were not willing to change were left behind and unfortunately many of us as fans were also not willing to change our philosophy and therefore lowered the bar than he was a great player.

The NBA at the time did not have a philosophy and ideology that addressed spacing and versatility at the power forward and center position that we started to see with a Miami Heat when they moved Chris Bosh to the five spot and started running somehow. Ball's small lineup if you want to call it that and since LeBron is like six eight six nine over 250 pounds, but you get what I'm saying, the Miami Heat experimenting with Chris Bosh really gave them an advantage among some of their peers. Over the course of the years, especially when you look at the NBA Finals, but like I said before, every team wasn't willing to trade and a lot of teams couldn't even trade because of this, if you really go back and look at the players that were being drafted before this period of years and even during this five-year window it's pretty funny how so many teams were unwilling to accept the inevitable: having players like Greg Monroe, Enes Kanter, Derrick Favors and Michael Kidd-gilchrist being drafted. was some of the top five to eight pigs and their respective Drive classes and then even over the course of the years there were players who were poised to become very productive and successful players, however, because of how drastic this was Instead, players like Ron dope josh smith and rudy Gay became less impactful due to the inability to space the court and even from a fan's perspective due to the lack of talent there was in the NBA, regardless of whether it was just the network of the league or injuries, I honestly believe.

Our standards started to drop a bit, for example I like Joakim Noah, believe me, yes, but let's be honest with ourselves, he really wasn't that good, he did a couple of things here and there, great guy, but I mean just looking. Looking at some of his numbers, going back and watching him play isn't all that impressive. The same can be said for other great men like Roy Hibbert, Marc Gasol and Al Jefferson, or how about how many times people make excuses for why players like James Harden didn't have to play defense. Remember this is the period of years that James Harden didn't play defense and looking at it now, frankly, I don't even know how many great two-way players they were. in the NBA at the time, especially on the backcourt outside of LeBron, Chris Paul and maybe a year or two with Wade, that list is extremely short;

However, in today's NBA, if we're just talking about strictly perimeter players, you have individuals like Paul George Kawhi. Leonard and Yanis, who could give you 25+ points and at the same time be elite level defenders, and that's deep in my heart, although when I look back and see how poor the talent pool was due to injuries and the unwillingness to change, I'm honestly glad it happened. I think sometimes it takes many years of failed play for certain people to understand what's next for the NBA and for most NBA coaches, players and organizations, it took this five-year window for people to understand themotion. in a different direction and unfortunately a lot of injuries also happened that really left the NBA and the talent, but it's very sunny on the other side if I have to say because in my opinion the NBA is as bad as it is good.

Will it ever be like that though, please let me know what you think about this five year window I'm referring to, and if you think it was as bad as I'm trying to make it out to be, and finally, before I give a big shout out . For today's sponsors and swagbucks, be sure to click the link in the description and I'll see you all next time, peace.