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Kblaze8855
12-01-2024, 08:28 PM
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We are all well aware of the reason. Bigs Without much skill are expected to do nothing but dunk the ball now.

You hear players talk they refer to a “dunker” Position which is usually one of these garbage(relatively speaking) bigs who catch lobs or occasionally a wing placed in a similar position on the baseline to duck in when someone doubles off them.

Rest assured there were bums in previous decades who could’ve dunked everything if asked to do nothing else. But most of them played when it was generally understood you give the big man the ball when traditionally deemed appropriate. A mismatch or maybe just at the start of the game to keep him involved. My question is….


Should people who weren’t good one on one have always been disregarded and only allowed to dunk or try putbacks?

Desagana Diop shot 43% over 600 games. I promise you he could dunk.


Is there any reason he should ever have touched the ball to do anything else?

are you a believer in the philosophy of occasionally giving your good effort most there for defense big the ball out of respect and to keep him engaged? Or in retrospect should they have told most of those seven footers they better play hard even if they get no touches or they can sit on the bench?

iamgine
12-01-2024, 09:48 PM
I've heard that most NBA players don't even like basketball that much. But certainly they like being good on the court and pleasing their teammates. So if you're a big who don't like basketball that much and has limited offensive skill, then there's no problem with just giving you the easy touches. It makes your job easier, teammates, coaches, analytics happy. Everybody benefits.

Kblaze8855
12-01-2024, 10:31 PM
Even the assholes who were just in the league because they were big would get called post touches back in the day. I’ve just been pulling up random old games just to see what would jump out. I pulled up the 97 Hawks and the very first play was run for Mutombo down in the post. Blaylock came open for three so the ball swing that way. The next play was Laettner in the post who who Hubie Brown clowned for taking a fadeaway with a 5 inch height advantage. Then they went down and Luc Longley got a post touch for missed jump hook, and Jordan hadn’t even touched the ball so far. Then they run down and as if because the Bulls got their big a touch they had to reciprocate and they ran a play to get Mutombo the ball down low. He kicked it out for three, but the play was run for him.

now, if they play that way the whole game, obviously Mutombo and Luc wouldn’t average so few shots. But it was the default starting offense much of the time.

You just get the big some often useless touches. Remember how Big Z would often get the first shot with Lebron? And maybe the second. The hen he’d be damn near frozen out.

It was like a necessary evil they just had to get through. You pull up any game over 25 years old and some center is getting a touch nobody wants him to get today.

People marvel at how old school coaches didn’t do the math on threes but letting bigs have the ball for better or worse was even more prevalent than a lack of 3 pointers. Even before the 3 existed the center got the ball even if he shot 42%.

Just by default.

A lot of the ones today don’t really seem to resent it though. Rudy Gobert is one of the few. You can tell he wants to get the ball now and then but he keeps it under wraps for the most part.

A lot seem to embrace it though. Kid on the Mavs who didn’t miss a shot for like two series for example. He wasn’t about to try to create anything. Perfectly content to catch lobs. At least on the outside.

Duffy Pratt
12-02-2024, 12:07 AM
One of the 10 shoots over 75% from the line. Another two are just over 70%. The majority are in the 50s and low 60s.

RRR3
12-02-2024, 12:11 AM
No guys like Diop should never have been allowed to shoot anything besides right at the rim.