In the 1987-88 season Jordan averaged 35PPG while only attempting 0.6 3 pointers per game and only hitting 13% of them. These are the kind of numbers you could expect from a bigman (or Ben Simmons), not from a guard

Question is, how did he manage to score that many points pretty much only from 2 pointers, did teams not adjust to prevent him from driving like they do against Giannis? Young Jordan based on his numbers seemed to not be a threat from outside at all, how was so prolific while at the same time so one-dimensional? I must be missing something

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    1 year ago

    Lots of good answers here, but also remember the NBA game was fundamentally different back then with a lot fewer 3s shot overall.

    The league leader in 3s attempted per game that year was Michael Adams at 4.6 attempts. Last year that would have ranked ~80th in the league.

    3s just were not a big part of an NBA offense back then.