NBA and NCAA fastbreaks

93Devil · Jun 9, 2009

Stoney said:

If you're talking about teams from the 90s like the Riley Knicks and Heat, yeah I definately think the officiating helps explain their success. In the 90s the physicality got out of hand, refs let guys beat the hell out of each other underneath, and handcheck the hell out of each other on the perimeter, and Riley always assembled a roster and played a system that took complete advantage of that.

But they cracked down hard on that stuff several years ago to try to open the game up. The officiating today is a lot tighter and more fast break friendly than it was in the 90s. It helps explain why open court specialists like Nash became more valuable in recent years, and why you don't see as many enforcers like Oakley and Mahorn as you did a decade ago. Yet, despite those changes, you still don't see teams that run the break like the 80s Lakers and the D'Antoni style teams still seem to get beat down by the Popovich style teams in the playoffs.
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That's what I was thinking as well. I do think teams sending fewer players to the offensive glass has a lot to do with fewer fastbreak opportunities.

I would still like to see the three-point shot taken away. I have a feeling the safety blanket of that shot takes away teams always pushing for that transition layup.

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