I feel like Jokic, Giannas, and Luka have destroyed stats for me. Getting 36/16/9 is something I don’t even bat and eye at, I just go oh, they had a good game. NOT EVEN A GREAT GAME. Just a good game lmao. I remember a time that wasn’t too long ago, I’m talking like 2015 where 25/6/6 was a pretty insane stat that people were like damn. I really feel like stats stopped becoming so shocking when Harden and Russ were just getting 30 point triple doubles every night and Russ legit averaged a triple double for like 3 seasons or whatever. Before that nobody had averaged a triple double since Oscar Robertson in 1961!
Does anyone else feel this way? I don’t even know what is good anymore honestly or when I should be impressed.
Product of modern NBA giving offense massive advantages over defense. Not even on some boomer shit but it really can’t be understated just how large of an effect the lack of calls on carrying, traveling, and moving screens. And don’t even get me started on how soft defensive foul calls are these days.
The NBA wants to prioritize offense because that’s what casuals like to see but when everyone in the NBA is an offensive beast putting up 25-30+ every game it just all regresses to the mean.
Yeah average ppg in the 90s was close to 100, but now with offensive advantage and increased three point shooting, teams are blowing through that many points in three quarters
https://www.statmuse.com/nba/ask/most-points-through-3-quarters-in-a-game-by-a-team
It’s also different offenses - and a different pace.
Some championships not too long ago were basically based on them.