In today's NBA, the run-and-gun offense of the undefeated Golden State Warriors is taking over the league.
Sure, not everyone can be as successful as the Warriors, but for years now, teams have been abandoning the traditional post-up game of the past, per Fred Katz of FoxSports.com:
...small ball continues to become more and more prominent in the NBA as the 23-0 Warriors plow through the league with it. Simultaneously, the bell continues to toll for the passing of the prototypical big man. Post play is dead; long live 3s.
Is that a matter of scheme and best practices, though? Or is it simply a product of the players who make up the industry?
Per Katz, NBA Hall of Fame center Hakeem Olajuwon doesn't think the post game is completely gone: "People who are saying the post game is dead don’t know anything about basketball."
Olajuwon, who is 10th on the all-time NBA scoring list, went on to say a 6'7" player guarding him is going to cause him to get a layup nearly every time. But there aren't many Olajuwon types playing the game today.
As Katz wrote, today's game is more about den ...
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