Dividing up the history of basketball into before and after the 3-pointer

[hermanotarjeta]

The three point shot has always been the less injury-risk, lazier way to score. As soon as contracts got bigger and competition declined to reduce injury to mega contract players, the nba got softer and catered towards career preservation versus win at all costs.

It perfectly correlates with the ascension of millennials into the college and nba ranks. And now, you have a glorified WNBA regular season product that dominates play.

It represents the millennialization of America’s attitudes towards work and life. Any player born in 1981 on essentially shares this attitude - self-entitled and no respect for anyone who built the nba to where it is today.

[jcardstore]

Originally Posted by hermanotarjeta

The three point shot has always been the less injury-risk, lazier way to score. As soon as contracts got bigger and competition declined to reduce injury to mega contract players, the nba got softer and catered towards career preservation versus win at all costs.

It perfectly correlates with the ascension of millennials into the college and nba ranks. And now, you have a glorified WNBA regular season product that dominates play.

It represents the millennialization of America’s attitudes towards work and life. Any player born in 1981 on essentially shares this attitude - self-entitled and no respect for anyone who built the nba to where it is today.

you old heads are insufferable lol

[GOATcards]

Originally Posted by hermanotarjeta

The three point shot has always been the less injury-risk, lazier way to score. As soon as contracts got bigger and competition declined to reduce injury to mega contract players, the nba got softer and catered towards career preservation versus win at all costs.

It perfectly correlates with the ascension of millennials into the college and nba ranks. And now, you have a glorified WNBA regular season product that dominates play.

It represents the millennialization of America’s attitudes towards work and life. Any player born in 1981 on essentially shares this attitude - self-entitled and no respect for anyone who built the nba to where it is today.

Quite the contrary, the 3 has spread out defenses and created more versatile players.

Regarding the merits or drawbacks of the 3, you know only one side of the case, and surely you know what Mill (On Liberty) had to say about that epistemic vice

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[asujbl]

This entire thread should be TLDR

[mrseanc1]

Corollary: % of game FGA from post ups

[jplarson]

Originally Posted by hermanotarjeta

The three point shot has always been the less injury-risk, lazier way to score. As soon as contracts got bigger and competition declined to reduce injury to mega contract players, the nba got softer and catered towards career preservation versus win at all costs.

Your basketball takes are just as rational as the baseball ones.

I enjoy the consistency.

Never change.

[GOATcards]

Originally Posted by hermanotarjeta

The three point shot has always been the less injury-risk, lazier way to score.

Originally Posted by jplarson

Your basketball takes are just as rational as the baseball ones.

I enjoy the consistency.

Never change.

i like how hermano knows only one side of the is-LeBron-GOAT debate, and it all basically comes down to how Bron is an entitled millennial

can we have a taste of your baseball takes pretty please hermano? jplarson highlights the "lazier way to score" part, so let's apply that to baseball. Did Babe Ruth popularize the lazy approach to scoring?

[hermanotarjeta]

Originally Posted by GOATcards

i like how hermano knows only one side of the is-LeBron-GOAT debate, and it all basically comes down to how Bron is an entitled millennial

can we have a taste of your baseball takes pretty please hermano? jplarson highlights the "lazier way to score" part, so let's apply that to baseball. Did Babe Ruth popularize the lazy approach to scoring?

Baseball millennials need to fight their way through three levels of minors to get to the show. They earn it.

NBA millennials place no priority on education and some even skip college altogether- the most entitled of the entitled.

[jplarson]

Originally Posted by hermanotarjeta

NBA millennials place no priority on education and some even skip college altogether- the most entitled of the entitled.

What's amazing is that there aren't any more new NBA millennials. All the new ones are Gen-Z aka Zoomers, a whole NEW generation to hate on call entitled. Can't even lazily blame one generation anymore.

I wonder if you think Moses Malone was entitled.

Back to the OP, I see it this way:

Start-1954 - Introduction of the shot clock
1955-1979 - Introduction of the 3-point line (feel free to group this one and the one above together since it's super long time ago and barely anyone remembers)
1980-2003 - The Rise and Reign of Michael Jordan and the end of hand-checking on defense.
2004-2009 - Medieval Times
2010-Current - 3 Pointers Are Good And Fun No Matter How Young The Player Is.

[imbluestreak23]

Kareem was the GOAT pre 3 pointer.

MJ the GOAT after

[Tallboy]

Originally Posted by jplarson

Back to the OP, I see it this way:

Start-1954 - Introduction of the shot clock
1955-1979 - Introduction of the 3-point line (feel free to group this one and the one above together since it's super long time ago and barely anyone remembers)
1980-2003 - The Rise and Reign of Michael Jordan and the end of hand-checking on defense.
2004-2009 - Medieval Times
2010-Current - 3 Pointers Are Good And Fun No Matter How Young The Player Is.

Just ftr, the 3-point shot did not exist from 1955-1979 in the NBA.

3-point timeline:

1945 - the idea emerges and is experimented with in college basketball
1961 - officially used in competition in the rival league the ABL, which lasts a season and a half.
1963 - independent minor league EPBA adds 3 (would eventually become CBA, which the NBA then kills with the NBDL, now known as the G-League).
1967-76 - used by the next rival league, the ABA, until it is merged into the NBA.
1979 - NBA adds the 3
1980 - college conferences start start adding the 3
1984 - FIBA adds the 3