Modern basketball is very different from the basketball of the 2000s, 90s, 80s, etc. With the death of the traditional big man, advent of spacing, positionless small ball, fast pace, it seems like certain types of players are being driven out of the NBA. Ben Wallace could not survive this league.
So is it still possible for someone to maintain a long career in the league without developing a reliable 3 point shot? And what would they have to specialize in to justify their value?
Not that it means Ben wouldn’t survive, but I don’t think you realize the extent to which Ben was bad offensively.
Part of it could mitigated because of the spread pnr offense, but he was much worse then Rudy offensively