O'Neal career hit 1 three, Yao Ming 2, Duncan and Howard?

With the advent of the small-ball era, the league gradually set off a three-point frenzy, more and more traditional centers are no longer stuck in a single play inside, but more to the periphery to play the block, and even practiced a handful of solid three-point shooting ability. In today's NBA, if an inside big man does not have three-point shooting ability, the team's journey in the playoffs must not go far.

This phenomenon would have been a pipe dream in the league in the 1990s or early 2000s. In that era, despite being as strong as O'Neal, Yao Ming and other top centers in the league, they hit only a handful of 3-pointers in their careers. O'Neal's entire career, the three-point shot only 22 times, and only hit 1. Yao Ming, also a top draft pick, despite his peak dominance in the interior, his career three-pointer hit only a pitiful two. In that era, the traditional center's dependence on the interior was huge.

The arrival of the small-ball era has changed the league's technical and tactical play, from Nash's Suns played fast, fast conversion, small space running bombing play, the NBA can be said to have officially entered the small-ball era, the traditional center in the interior of the position of the precarious. As one of the few top superstars spanning two eras, the number of three-point shots made by Stonewall Duncan and Beast Howard can be said to epitomize the transition of the era.

Duncan had 168 three-point attempts in his entire career, hitting 30, while Howard had 63 three-point attempts, hitting six. In contrast, although the difference in the number of three-point attempts between the four is not that much, the number of shots is very different. This can precisely reflect the change of the times for the players to play habits change. From the original rely on physical strength, physical combat one-on-one one-on-one, to now rely on the blocking cooperation, inside and outside the running pull open shooting, the arrival of the small ball era not only changed the number of three-point shots, but more is to change the game's ornamental and excitement.

If the above four stars of the three-point number of comparisons do not have a strong persuasive power, then Lopez's change can be said to be the sky is turning. Someone made a statistic about it; Lopez hit just seven counts of three-pointers in the first half of his career, and in the 2018-2019 season, he upped that number to 187. The stats don't just reflect the players themselves, but the trends and tendencies of today's league.

The small-ball era caters to today's psychological need for fast-food consumption that's faster, easier and crazier. And the small ball era to the peak of the team, it is Curry, Thompson led by the Warriors, soon Durant embraced the group to join, the small ball era and updated iteration, into a superstar embraced the era. In order to fight against it, James went out of the Knights partner Wade and Bosh, Anthony threatened to come to the top Stoudemire and Porzingis. The traditional one man, one city has become a thing of the past, the previous only blood spurt of the court, turned into a skin scraping will be a foul foul of the bumper ceramic Den's special field.