New NBA trends?

Question

Now in the NBA, it's all about flashy dunks. Athleticism is more favored than accurate shooting. I mean, look at this year's draft. Many of the players are athletes like Rose or Alexander (yes, a white man can jump, but he has to be made in China first. rofl XD), rather than shooters. Seriously, this year's demand is athletic point guards, which is just messed up. That goes too far in the focus of athleticism instead of shooting. I'm fine with athletic sf or even sg, if and only if the sg can shoot too, but an athletic pg just changes anything. I admit, that's a lethal asset to a team, but what ever happened to great shooting? And does anyone else think this trend is making the NBA more superficial?

Answer 1

those PGs are young. you can TEACH them. btw DJ augustin isnt that athletic and hes a good shooter

Answer 2

well the DUNK-A-THON that is the NBA, not so coincidentally happened when the ability of NBA players to do well in FIBA/Olympic type of games (where good shooting and CLEAN play are rewarded) dropped off PRECIPITOUSLY...if the traveling rules and offensive fouls that were ROUTINELY enforced pre-1986, TODAY by NBA officials a LARGE percentage of the WALKING and SHOVING that is tolerated now would limit MANY of the circus acts that Dave and the Association love to promote...

for a while in the early Nineties I'd watch any NBA game and my running commentary would be something like   ---> "walk" "foul" "charge" "over-the-back" "walk" " ANOTHER walk" until I decided that the NBA going forward was NOT going to be about fundamentals and the established rules BUT about marketing and packaging the "superstars" with light and selective enforcement of the rules...

end of day -  it's all about BUTTS in SEATS....

Answer 3

Its completely true, but there are reasons. You can teach players to shoot, you cant teach athleticism(well you can, but at that age you cant improve that much). If you look at the great players to come through the NBA in the modern era, you can see picking athletes works out(Kobe, MJ, Tmac, KG, Lebron, etc. All people who were poor jump shooters when entering the NBA), but for every success there are way more failures. Teams get scared to take shooters, for fear they do not have the ability to get there shots in the NBA, for example JJ Reddick

Answer 4

so how does that bother you??? they aren't gonna come to your house and kill you!!!

CHILL!!

Answer 5

Well athleticism can't be taught at ALL, tho shooting can improve, athleticsim can't at much so its more rare. Tho Joe Alexander says that he LEARNED athleticism lol. He's white as an azn too and I'm azn. (don't mind the sources)

Answer 6

You are correct.

Well, what happened to great shooting is everyone looked at guys like LeBron James, or Vince Carter, and see that they dominate on pure athleticism, not shooting.

I mean, would you want LeBron James in his prime on your team or would you want Ray Allen? THey are both unbelievably good players, but most people are going to go with LeBron, simply because he takes over games with athleticism.

So now General Managers are trying to usher in that Small Forward type of athletic dominance into the Point Guard position, hoping to see some results such as the ones with the aforementioned players.

I don't believe it makes the NBA more superficial though. The League is just evolving. It is evolving into something great. That is what i believe. I would also like to add the fact that every NBA player you see CAN SHOOT. You can't get by without it.

Answer 7

I don't think that it's a trend. There are many types of shooting gaurds out there. 1) The Steve Kerr,  types. Guys who do absolutely nothing else other than shoot well. 2) Guys like Bruce Bowen, Radja Bell, and James Posey who plays hard nosed defense but hardly have any offense.

3) Guys like Ray Allen, Michael Redd, and Gilbert Arenas who plays great offense but can't spell the word defense. 4) Then there's the MJ clones who are the proto-typical type. Every team seeks this type. These guards are athletic; they can shoot, drive, pass, and can create shots for themselves and others (T-Mac, Kobe, D-Wade, Vince Carter. Guys just coming out of college tend to be a little more limited in skills because they're young. Therefore they rely on their athletism more than skills.