Aesthetics will be fatigued, so in the 2022-23 season, when the MVP Jokic won the MVP list, many opinions believe that the chance of Jokic finally being elected this season's MVP is almost zero! In the same way, fans will also have beauty fatigue, so after the new millennium, a 10-year round, dunks, three-pointers are gradually tired, and now the league has a new trick?
slam dunk
Dunk, strength, bounce, coordination, perfect unity, giving people a visual feeling of blood rushing. In order to innovate, the dunk kings are full of creativity: big center Howard was crowned the highest dunk king, and Little Potato Nate Robinson came to a "Kryptonian leap superman" to recreate the flashpoint and become the shortest dunk king of the new millennium; Javir McGee is historic below his head, dunks two baskets with ease, and Gerard Green leaps directly over the two-meter-wide table in Las Vegas!
However, 10 years later, Aaron Gordon's "sit-down" scored only 9 points, announcing that this project can only attract fans through such a "gimmick"! The dunk is still beautiful, but the fans are already a little aesthetically fatigued.
Three points
In the 1979-80 season, he made his debut at the three-point line; In the 2009-2010 season, the tall, not strong Curry almost single-handedly made the whole league start to set his sights on three-pointers!
Three-point single-game shooting record, three-point shot distance record, season three-point shooting record, almost all three-point shot-related records, and all related to Curry, "cousin" Lillard, Irving, Rose are all good three-point shot reading seconds, the league also set off a three-point fever, small-ball play, so that big centers also have to frequently walk out of the three-point line, to defend to shoot three-pointers!
However, the appearance of one person allows the players to see through the three-pointer!
Data explosion
James Harden, at his peak, two major abilities: three-point scoring + foul free throws, so he won the scoring king several times, and the league suddenly woke up: three-point shooting + free throws are the most efficient way to score:
The three-point arc is very long, the attacker and teammates have enough space to get rid of the defense, and scoring a three-point is equivalent to 1.5 two-point attacks, scoring is easier and more efficient; there must be an opponent's foul before the free throw, which is not a hard requirement for the shooting percentage of sports battles, as long as the shooting action is made when the court is violated, and then the defender pays for the foul, and the attacker stands at the free throw line without defending the attack!
At the same time, the increased three-point shot makes the game faster, the number of rounds is more, and the stop table free throws are more, which is equivalent to extending the game time, adding the two together, the score becomes higher, and the player data becomes higher!
This season, the league's 51ers are averaging 20+ per game, up from an all-time high of 31, and more than 20, isn't this blowout data announcing that the league is entering a data explosion?