What they’ve all had in common is that they were dominant in the paint with their back to the basket. When I think of the great big men in the history of the game, I think of Kareem’s sky hook, Hakeem’s dream shake, and Shaq being an enormous physical monster. Having a center who can’t shoot and/or can’t guard out on the 3-point line is a liability in the league today, driving the traditional center into near extinction. The league now all but requires you to have a big guy who can function out on the perimeter on both ends. The biggest casualty in this 3-point revolution has been the traditional big man, as the days of throwing the ball down to the post and letting your center go to work with his back to the basket are in the rearview mirror. It hasn’t been a seamless transition for everyone. If the results didn’t back it up then teams would stop, but this method of shooting an enormous number of 3-pointers is creating some of the most efficient offenses that the league has ever seen. It’s no coincidence that, per Basketball-Reference, the last four seasons have resulted in the most 3-pointers attempted (breaking the record each year), the highest effective field goal percentages, and the highest offensive ratings in the league’s history. Obviously, people have known forever that 3 is more than 2, but until advanced analytics became popular in front offices across the league, we didn’t know how much more efficient it would be to shoot this many 3-pointers. So why the change? The simple answer is math. That’s an increase of 12 3-point attempts per game over a six-year sample.įor comparison, it took about 20 years for the league to increase the amount of three point attempts by that kind of margin prior to this relative explosion in attempts over the last handful of years. We’re now coming off the 2018-19 season where there was an average of 32 3-pointers every game. According to Basketball-Reference, the 2012-13 season saw 20.0 3- pointers attempted per game, a record at that time. Then, in the past five or six years, the number of 3-point attempts exploded. However, when the line was moved back to its normal distance, the year over year increase in 3-point attempts went back to the general mean.
Three-point attempts have been steadily increasing since the 3-point line was introduced in 1979 with the exception of the three seasons (1995-1997) when the 3-point line was made shorter and the amount of 3-point attempts increased at an abnormal rate.
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NBA Live 19 launches September 7 for Xbox One and PlayStation 4. Without giving away too much, he did mention that this year’s The One will feature a brand new story as well as a new presentation for your player’s journey. Santos promised much more to come from The One as the build up to the game’s launch continues. Santos wants players to think about it being a brand new ability path that comes with what he calls “key decisions” that allow even more freedom while building up your player. The playstyles will be accompanied by ICON Abilities that players can choose and modify as they move forward within the mode. With so many different types of players making their way to the NBA today, NBA Live 19 is opening up the progression to allow a number of new hybrid playstyles. One of the main ways the mode will expand is in the form of player progression. But I think for ‘19 it’s really about taking that foundation and expanding on it.” “We set a foundation for how we want our modes to play and how our player experiences will play in our game versus other games out there and how we can be different.
“For NBA LIVE 19, we really want to build on that,” NBA LIVE Creative Director Ryan Santos said regarding how a player moves up in their career via EA Sports. Become the king of The Streets and The League in NBA Live 19’s The One The original installment had players start on the Pro-Am circuit as they worked their way up to making it to the top of The Streets and The League before hanging up the sneakers.
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