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Basketball has evolved into a game of calculated decision-making

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Re: Basketball has evolved into a game of calculated decision-making

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Post by cma »

lapcat wrote: post #219
cma wrote: post #208

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can't it be that defense got better too? Free throw percentage is up since '95 so they aren't just less accurate in general at that distance.

If shooting and defense got better simultaneously, then all other things equal, overall shooting % should have stayed about the same, not gone down. Also, as hardwaregeek mentioned: "And in turn, the game has become less crowded and more spread out, leading to a higher percentage on dunks and layups."

> If shooting and defense got better simultaneously, then all other things equal, overall shooting % should have stayed about the same, not gone down.

Why? Getting better simultaneously doesn't imply getting better in a way to perfectly equal out.

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Post by quesera »

paulcole wrote: post #45
nabaraz wrote: post #7

I personally think the 3-point line needs to be uniform distance. It is 22 feet from the corner compared to ~24ish feet from the center.

My recommendation is to let the home team draw the 3-point line on their court like how baseball stadiums have different dimensions.

Hm, that's an interesting idea.

But why stop there? What about the foul line, key width, court size/half court line?

I feel like the rim height is sacred, but what about backboard size/shape?

Some of these dimensions are different in the international game.

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Post by walthamstow »

bdangubic wrote: post #258
walthamstow wrote: post #256

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Moving the goalposts there pal. You said playoffs don't exist outside the US. They do. UEFA Champions League is the finest competition in world football. It's a league-then-playoff system. Real Madrid ring any bells? The winner of the Championship playoff joins the best, richest league in the world. Bottom feeder, lmao.

Look at what I commented on mate… These are not playoff systems for a championship but for a promotion/relegation And again, UEFA CL is NOT (look that up if it is confusing) single country league. Once Chiefs start playing Montreal Destroyers and San Salvador Bulldogs in North America Football league than we can compare US sports leagues with UEFA CL. until then, try to find a country in which there are playoffs afte…

> single country league

This is the first time you've mentioned anything about a single country. Those goalposts just won't stay still will they mate. Must be the wind.

Re: Basketball has evolved into a game of calculated decision-making

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Post by bdangubic »

walthamstow wrote: post #263
bdangubic wrote: post #258

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Look at what I commented on mate… These are not playoff systems for a championship but for a promotion/relegation And again, UEFA CL is NOT (look that up if it is confusing) single country league. Once Chiefs start playing Montreal Destroyers and San Salvador Bulldogs in North America Football league than we can compare US sports leagues with UEFA CL. until then, try to find a country in which there are playoffs afte…

> single country league This is the first time you've mentioned anything about a single country. Those goalposts just won't stay still will they mate. Must be the wind.

you really ought to read this thread more carefully :)

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Post by xdavidliu »

pfisherman wrote: post #91

This article was written by someone who has very little knowledge or appreciation of the history of the game. The NBA has always been a league of specialists revolving around a few superstars with a couple of “glue guys” thrown into the mix.

some of the phrasing is also a giveaway:

> but guarded defense, caught rebounds and played the role of playmakers.

nobody who has watched basketball would say "guarded defense" or "caught rebounds". I saw "throw 3 pointers" elsewhere in this thread, which is similar, though I'm not sure if that's said by the article author.

Imagine if someone commented on the state of tech today and said that programmers "type code programs".

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Post by necovek »

dang wrote: post #143
necovek wrote: post #135

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I think that's unfortunate: the article still has that title, and knowing it wants to lead to such an absolute conclusion can tell a prospective reader if they are interested to be led down that path or not.

That approach to baity titles doesn't generalize, I'm afraid—neither to users nor to titles. In general, baity titles cause threads to fill up with responses to the provocation in the title, making for shallow and ultimately off-topic discussion. It's standard practice on HN to replace these with titles that are more accurate and neutral, but we always try to do this using representative language from the article its…

You are right that it does not generalize: but in this particular case, it was really reflective of the article which was shallow itself (IMO at least).

So I guess that the rule doesn't generalize either, but I can at least understand the reasoning behind it and accept that it might work better on average — thanks for the explanation!

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