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Originally Posted by 72off
in that case yeah, but it's probably still exaggerated, at least a little. like, some other point guards for big scorers didn't rack up huge assist numbers. and it is a confirmed thing about how they loosened the rules about how assists are counted, from initially leading directly to a bucket. now it's basically just whoever passed the ball to a guy who scored, no matter if it happened 20 seconds earlier
i guess sort of what i'm asking is, has anyone ever watched those old jazz games back to see how they were counting assists?
because i know teams in various sports and leagues have run pretty fast and loose with that stuff
it's worse in hockey
since dfs hockey is huge for me and i watch a ton of the games anyway
i'll often notice a guy i had will do something absurd like dump the puck and go for a change, his linemate will win the puck in the corner, skate and do a button hook waiting for the fresh skaters to arrive, pass the puck to one of them, that guy makes a move, temporarily loses the puck to a poke check, recovers it and shoots and scores
the guy who dumped it in the corner and has been on the bench for the last 12 seconds between then and the goal and hadn't even passed the puck but dumped it gets an assist
there was absolutely no fluidity of the play, nobody in their right mind would view him as creating that goal, but the scorekeeper says "well player a touched it, then other team never got possession and player b got it and he passed it to player c who temporarily lost it but recovered so sure that's an unbroken chain so two assists"