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Originally Posted by iggymcfly
In 2003/2004, the year before the hand-checking rule was lifted, NBA teams shot 34.7% from 3 on 1224 attempts. The year after it was lifted, NBA teams shot 35.6% from 3 on 1292 attempts. Wow, what a HUGE difference. Obviously makes perfect sense that this is responsible for Jordan shooting 3.5% worse from 3 than the worst perimeter player on the 2012 team.
You should try actually playing basketball sometime, it's nice. If you get the chance, play against someone who hand checks on the perimeter and compare to someone who plays off of you, then get back to me.
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Originally Posted by iggymcfly
BTW, the other thing you said is stupid too. I'm just saying that the number of elite players goes up evenly with the population. If there are 2 players better than Magic Johnson born in a generation over a population of 200 million, there are likely to be 3 born in a generation over a population of 300 million. Obviously, you're not as likely to find a backup as an all-star since 67% of the NBA are backups and only ~6% are all-stars.
Oh, well that's not what your (very wrong) post said at all. Here, I'll help you out:
Consider what happens when you dilute the player pool by 30.4%. If you increase the general population by 30.4% the largest increase in available NBA talent is going to be at the crappy bench warmer end. Think about what a normal distribution looks like and what part of the distribution we are selecting NBA talent from.
When increasing roster spots you are diluting the talent uniformly. When you increase population size the number of players decreases exponentially as you look for players with increasing talent.
Make sense?