Is the NBA getting more and more progressive over the years, or is it getting more and more regressive?

There are a lot of fans say, now the game round conversion faster and faster, the average score is higher and higher, which is enough to prove that the physical quality of the players now and the level of technology than before has made great progress, to be honest, I really do not dare to agree with the fans can go online to check, in fact, the 80's NBA rounds and the average score is much higher than in the 90's and 00's, so is it to prove that the NBA's flourishing 90's and 00's than the 80's regression. So does that prove that the NBA's booming 90's and 00's were a step back from the 80's? Obviously it can't be interpreted that way, and I think the real underlying reason for the pace of play and scoring is the rule changes.

In the '90s, the Bulls dominated the league with their defense, so more and more teams put defense first, plus there were looser penalties for defensive plays in that era. So the balance of offensive balance to the defensive end of the scales constantly tilted to the early 00's, the Spurs, the Bucks, the Pistons, these defensive teams have also become a regular finals, but this offensive imbalance also affects the game's ornamental, ratings continue to go down.

So the league in 2004 introduced the rule of no handcheck, and in 2005 the full implementation of this rule, simply put, before the introduction of this rule, the defensive players can use the hand contact attack the whole body of the way to perceive the offensive player's movements, and to a certain extent to prevent the offensive player breakthrough, which will help the defensive players can carry out a more close to the body of the defense, not afraid to be attacked by the offensive player a step! The first thing you need to do is to get a good look at the game and see how it's going to play.

But after the introduction of this rule, you stick too close to people break through, if you are far away from each other directly on the shot, obviously the defense is much more difficult, so the full implementation of the rules of the 2005-2006 season, Kobe, Iverson, Pierce, Arians and other outside players are scored than the previous season appeared to be a substantial increase in the number of points, which proves that the rules of the impact of the big, in fact By this time, the game is more balanced offensively and defensively, the teams tactical style is also very diverse, there are playing triangle offense of the ball, playing the run and bombing, there are playing Princeton, there are also like the rocket Van Gundy to play traditional defense.

The star level also has four big guards, three big forwards, two big guards and the 03 golden generation, Iverson's change of direction, Kobe's back, Maddie's dry draw, Carter's dunk, Duncan's wipeout, the King of heaven's golden chicken, Ginobili's European step, Lei Allen's three points, the Shark's back and so on, each superstar has a iconic killer mace, the group of stars shine each with its own special features, and the game is also entering the The spectacle is relatively high for a period of time, but then the league is still bent on encouraging the offense, and in 2009 modified the rules of the walk, especially in 2014 after the new president Shaw came to power, first introduced the vertical jump defense rules, restricting the defense of the interior players, and then once again relaxed the rules of the walk.

The main thing is to also strengthen the infringement of the cylinder of the blowing penalty, it is the rule change led to more and more body hair whistle, the players are afraid to defend, we even see some players are very helpless backhanded defense, and it is also from the beginning of 2014, the league's average points and three-point field goal number is a year by year explosive growth. In short, the balance of offensive and defensive balance has continued to tilt toward the offensive end, and it's especially become more pronounced since 2016.

Obviously, this series of policies to encourage the offense once again led to an imbalance between offense and defense, and ratings have continued to hit new lows, so that the rules are not always a product of the times, and some of the rules are the effect of changing the times, for example, the legalization of the joint defense declared the end of the era of the center, and the league to change the rules are not always correct and conducive to the development of basketball, such as the 80s For example, in the 80s, the league introduced the anti-isolation singles rule to limit Jordan, which was canceled by the league after Jordan's first retirement.

Obviously, they realized that the rule is irrational, not suitable for the continuation of the rules, to this day, the rules of FIBA and the NBA still have a lot of differences, such as the three-point line than the NBA nearly half a meter, then we can find that the U.S. players to the international arena, their three-point number and hitting rate is not shortened because of the shortening of the three-point line to improve the real international arena. Very unintelligible precisely like Kobe, Durant, Anthony mastered a variety of traditional offensive skills of trainees, can back hit can one-on-one breakthrough, can be in the middle of the shot, can be three points.

This is precisely because many of the rules of FIBA are different from the NBA, blowing the scale of punishment has a difference, so the intensity of defense is relatively higher, and it is more necessary to test the ability of players to attack. So, the rules are the most critical factor affecting the way the game is played, and for the fans, no matter how the rules are changed, the game viewing is getting higher and higher is the progress we need, but according to the current development trend of the league, it won't be long before the league's teams will be like the first-ranked Utah Jazz this season, half of the team's shots are three-point shots.

Imagine if 50% of a game's shots are three-pointers, plus more than 20 free throws, but instead of inside singles, mid-range breakthroughs, dunks, layups, and other forms of scoring add up to a lot of words, then the game form is obviously too single, the game's confrontation will also be particularly low, and if this is the case, the game's ornamental and how it is possible to high it. The NBA as a business league, commercialization naturally more and more heavy, and even betting has been legalized, the player's income obviously also rose.

This era, star players and ordinary players income can be described as a world of difference, and can get the magnificent data seems to be able to get a big contract guarantee, so more and more players began to value the data, they will put more energy to stay on the offensive end, and the enthusiasm of the defense in the declining, more and more eye defense more and more as if they were walking on the ground, and let's take a look at the 90's Defense, although the league did not legalize the joint defense at that time, but in fact the teams in the defense of Jordan, O'Neal, Olajuwon, Miller and so on this kind of particularly insurmountable superstar, often also in the three-two and two-three joint defense, compared to the aggressiveness of their co-defense and complementary at that time, we know that we are now looking at the NBA gap is how big.

In fact, as fans, we want to see a battle between the sharpest spears as well as the strongest shields, but when one side loses its shield, maybe you won't see the other side using the sharpest spears either, because using a dagger is already enough. So to sum up, as a fan, I really do not feel that the NBA has been developing more and more progress in the past few years, which is like those commercialized more and more heavy tourist attractions, perhaps more four- and five-star hotels, KTVs, stores and bars are also more, but he was the most appealing primitive style, but therefore destroyed, and finally may the NBA basketball be able to return to the aesthetic of the competitive sports of the common sense and the nature of the game.