The Rise, Fall and Rise Again of Big Men: How the past Ten Years Could Inform The Future of The NBA
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The Rise, Fall and Rise Again of Big Men: How the past Ten Years Could Inform The Future of The NBA
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We take a step back to analyze the last ten years of who (and what) drove winning NBA basketball and more importantly, how it has evolved over time– using the “Big” archetype as a proxy to tell this larger story. We start with the rise of “pace and space” basketball, coinciding with the demise of a specific “Big” archetype. Then, we discuss the skill sets, player archetypes and strategies that emerged from the ashes of Roy Hibbert and Al Jefferson. However, when first-shot halfcourt efficiently gets more or less solved, what becomes the driving differentiator becomes the floor/possession game; which in many ways is a strength of this previously antiquated traditional big man archetype…
Finally, we look at how these past-player and strategic trends could inform the future of NBA basketball.