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Hi Bevan , no I am not surprised as Bird was a team player and interested in winning the The government cannot stop me from being silly & whimsical shirt Apart from…,I will love this game and was very versatile and could and did tailor his game depending on what was needed on any particular night. Perhaps if Bird was determined to lead the league in a specific stat, I feel that he had the skill to accomplish this, but it would most likely have been to the detriment of the team and not good for team unity and morale. To get an idea of how influential Bird was on a team and the other 4 players on his team, in his rookie year he was the biggest reason Boston went from a 29 win team before Bird to a 61 win team with Bird. And in the first 9 years in games that Bird played, the Celtics record was 534 wins and 177 losses of the 711 games played for a win % of 75.1% and I believe this is the highest win % for a 9 year stint for any player in NBA history. Magic’s win % for this same 9 year period was 74.3% and Bird played in the much stronger Eastern conference.



The biggest one is that players are shooting 3 pointers at a record pace (currently the The government cannot stop me from being silly & whimsical shirt Apart from…,I will love this league average percentage of shots that are 3 pointers is .336, last year was the previous record at .316). 3 pointers tend to be the kind of shot where there are less fouls made. Coaches hate giving 3 free throws, and generally 3 point shooters have a high FT% so they are more likely to make the FT’s – you’re better off just letting them shoot it with a slightly worse contest rather than playing hard D and risking a foul. The second reason is that there is a decreasing emphasis on the mid-range game, which is where most players who were particularly strong at getting to the FT line would start to generate their FT attempts. Notable exceptions to this are Jimmy Butler and DeMar DeRozan who are both strong mid-range players. If you watch them play, their propensity to take mid-range shots forces their defender to overplay them, and you will often see them draw fouls as they burst to the rim after generating space. Watch some old footage of Kobe in his prime, he used to draw heaps of fouls by beating his defender in the mid-range area, and then either attacking the basket and getting fouled by a help defender, or by faking the defender into fouling his shot attempt.


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