“Last year, Johnson hit one three-pointer. This year, he hit two. He doubled his three-point production!”
You can see the inflection point after Steph’s MVP year and the increase prioritization of shooting aka players has to run more on defense.
Compare to the older era offensive set where it’s much more static. It makes sense that the players has to run more.
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It’s that extra 1/3 mile that gets ya.
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that big level change in a single year makes me think there was a measurement change and the actual diff in distance traveled per game has changed relatively little
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I think it’s probably more the intensity of defense required to guard the floor at this point
also, guy run faster and jump higher and cut harder and that puts strain on soft tissue
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I think that the year-round highly sophisticated training that’s now starting when these kids are really young has to be a factor in some of these injuries. Additionally, I read a study a couple years ago that I couldn’t find in a quick search about how players who specialize in a single sport and don’t properly cross train. Their bodies tend to have certain limitations that you wouldn’t expect of elite athletes. It was an article written about multi-sport athletes compared to single sport athletes who specialize from a young age. My son played three travel sports for a long time and still played two all the way through high School in addition to high school sports and it probably limited his exposure and potential a little instead of focusing on one of his primary sports, but he liked them too much to specialize and wanted to stay keep playing to sports as long as possible. In the end he had a blast and wasn’t going pro in either sport anyway.
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Boo birds out in Cleveland.
Trade package involving Allen and Hunter for LeBron’s final season?
This Cavs team is baffling
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Mobley is insanely overrated to me
Losing 4-1 in the 2nd round is unacceptable.
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I like Mitchell think he’s a very good player not sure if you can win a title if he’s your best player.
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Cavs are frauds. Not going to be able to take them serious next year or in the future until they show they can win games in the playoffs
I would say the Pistons have a path to win that division but Cavs seem solid to win 50+ games
Yeah Cavs will definitely win a lot of regular season games again next year
This draft class proved that Cade is the real #1 prospect
I don’t have a lot of confidence I’m right to say this but it really feels like Atkinson has no idea how to get his guys to play hard and his minutes distribution was nuts.
Maybe the Pacers are just actually very good but that doesn’t seem very plausible.
Also suspect the physicality being allowed is really dragging the best teams back to the middle.
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I think the Pacers are very good. Hali-Siakam-Turner is an underrated Big Three. And all their role players are good.
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Pacers closed the year 41-18
I think they’re just good
This core has played a lot of games together and they’ve never been especially good. They had the same SRS as the Pistons this year. There’s nothing wrong with them but if we’re trying to decide if the Pacers are secretly a Finals winning team that only just decided to show it or the Cavs did a doo doo on themselves, I pick the latter.
Jargony (guy is an economist, can you tell) but cool idea
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