Are triple doubles even special anymore?

[Da King]

when cacs are getting triple doubles, you know it's nothing special

 

[MrFettuccinnePockets]

Big man is extinct for the most part making boards easier to get.

The court is more spaced out now making assist easier. 3pt specialist being used more and more etc....

 

[ISO]

Big man is extinct for the most part making boards easier to get.

Yeah Embiid, Jokic, Towns, Cousins, AD, Gobert, Jordan, Whiteside, Drummond, Capela, Adams, etc. don’t exist

Boards aren’t “easier” to get. A player like Westbrook is the engine of the team, the team wants him nabbing boards or any looseball so he can push the break. A lot of his rebounds are uncontested, his bigs box out for him. It was the same shyt for Jason Kidd, Rajon Rondo and any other high rebounding PG.

 

[Adebisi_Said]

 

[FunkDoc1112]

The pace is faster in today's NBA that's why all the triple-double records are being set
The NBA was fast in the days of Oscar Robertson as well so you have to keep it in perspective

the NBA these days isn't even as fast as it was in the 80s and not even CLOSE to how fast it was in the 60s. 60's basketball was damn near 30 possessions faster.

 

[FunkDoc1112]

LeBron this year gonna have 20 triple doubles 10 years ago in his athletic prime he had less than 10 for a season. The game has changed the rules are laxed and players and teams have goosed their stats it makes it wack.

You put 09 lebron in the league today and he would easily avg 33-13-12 for a season playing those heavy minutes

The rules have not changed in the last 10 years.

I repeat. The rules haven't changed. They're the same now as they were in 2008. The game has just gotten better.

 

[FunkDoc1112]

I thought the Cavs played a huge role in pace slowing down too when they took a garbage roster to the playoffs by slowing the game to a crawl with the thought that with minimizing total possessions in a game it gives a less talented team a better chance of winning. In 94-95 they dropped to an 84.8 and managed to make the playoffs which lead to more teams following suit in the years that followed.

The Bad Boy Pistons were the blueprint and then the Knicks took it way over the top and their style spread throughout the league.. And then on top of that expansion made the rosters thinner so a slower pace was necessary, and then when the three-point line was shortened teams shifted more towards a half-court game in order to create more three-pointers. The league shortened the line to bring scoring back up but it wound up slowing the game even more

 

[Jplaya2023]

The rules have not changed in the last 10 years.

I repeat. The rules haven't changed. They're the same now as they were in 2008. The game has just gotten better.

Better??? You means teams purpisely boosting players stats

 

[Left.A1]

nikkas in here using terminology like “usage rate” when they clearly don’t even know what the fukk that metric means










Damn I love this place

 

[Here Comes the Pain]

Offense way more fast paced with players jacking up 3s,easier to get to the free throw line, etc

 

[KillerB88]

I believe they win 66% of the time when he steals rebounds. Then again these people chastise Russ for stifling other people's growth but ignore the fact that Steven Adams had a great year

Career highs across the board.

 

[KillerB88]

Yeah Embiid, Jokic, Towns, Cousins, AD, Gobert, Jordan, Whiteside, Drummond, Capela, Adams, etc. don’t exist

Boards aren’t “easier” to get. A player like Westbrook is the engine of the team, the team wants him nabbing boards or any looseball so he can push the break. A lot of his rebounds are uncontested, his bigs box out for him. It was the same shyt for Jason Kidd, Rajon Rondo and any other high rebounding PG.

I believe Russ is the No.1 guard in ORB. Are the other team's bigs boxing out for him as well?

 

[ISO]

I believe Russ is the No.1 guard in ORB. Are the other team's bigs boxing out for him as well?

He’s always been a strong rebounding guard. His rookie year he averaged 2.2 offensive rebounds per game a career high. His offensive rebound numbers are nothing crazy.

What you’ve been seeing since Durant left is a huge uptick in defensive rebounding from Westbrook. A PG averaging 8-9 defensive boards is not natural and it’s a product of Russell flying in and stealing rebounds from his bigs and his bigs flat out boxing out for him so he can catch it and push the break.

 

[FunkDoc1112]

Offense way more fast paced with players jacking up 3s,easier to get to the free throw line, etc

Except there are less fouls and free throws now than at any other point in NBA history

 

[010101]

Y’all gonna lose it in twenty years when Wilts record 100 point game gets broken.

i don't see that happening

nobody is getting a greenlight like that ever again

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