I'm not confusing the two, I said that the rule change has had a massive impact on the way defense is played now and made it much more effective as a result (Hey - there's DeAndre Jordan playing illegal defense as I type this) You're the idiot who conflated that into playing a full-on zone defense in an attempt to bolster a dead duck of an argument. Your duck is still dead.
Yes it's had an impact of making the game more perimeter oriented...you see how we go back to a full cycle back to our initial argument
Which had the impact of making defenses harder to score against than they were 20 years ago, substantially so. You should have stopped right there.
O Sure - that the mediocre defensive teams that gave up tons of fast break points were actually good by contemporary standards would not be one of them.
Sure, whatever makes you sleep better at night. If you prefer to spoon a plastic blow up doll at night, im not going to stop you
Ha nice one kiddo. See you in middle school. That's the funny thing about all of this - I grew up watching basketball in the early 80's and a long time ago when I was kid, somebody gave me a used copy of Zandar Hollander's "Greatest basketball players ever" type book circa late 60's, with forward by Joe Lapchick that I read about 473 times - with profiles of the greatest players ever, including Joe Fulks, Max Zasoflasky, Jim Pollard, Vern Mikkelson, Paul Arzin, Bill Sharman, Ed McCauley etc. Also had a couple of the 80's versions - those things were great. Hell even as recently as a few years ago I would have parroted the "WILT WAS A GOD AMONG MEN, NO WAY PLAYERS TODAY HAHAHAHAHR" line - baed almost entirely on that book (which was chock full of stats) - but there's a lot more data now that lead me to a way differnt conclusoin.
Good for you If your life is so miserable that you had to read a book 473 times, it shows to me that your a bit slow in comprehension and that you need to go outside and explore the world a bit more.
