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List of Jazzmen in the last 30 years to average more points than Bojan

NAOS said:
Yeah, he should be the 3-time defending DPOY right now, headed for his fourth straight.
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Lots of hype on Anthony Davis. Votes may be more thoughtless this year.
 
Someone should make a thread called List of Jazzmen in the last 30 years to get paid more than 30 million a year.

It would be a short read, but would read.
 
magic said:
Players score more points on average nowadays than in the past because of the new rules and all.

Mike Conley was supposed to be our other reliable scoring option outside of Mitchell. Still nice to have two scorers on the team though.
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This is recency bias and not at all accurate. Harden is an anomaly in his own right but generally players are not scoring any more than in previous years. Go look at the averages from the 80's where multiple players would score 30+ for the season. We haven't had that in a while.
 
LogGrad98 said:
This is recency bias and not at all accurate. Harden is an anomaly in his own right but generally players are not scoring any more than in previous years. Go look at the averages from the 80's where multiple players would score 30+ for the season. We haven't had that in a while.
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Data is insufficient to support your analysis. Good analysis would be to compare the number of players per team averaging 20+ in the league per year.
 
Truth said:
Data is insufficient to support your analysis. Good analysis would be to compare the number of players per team averaging 20+ in the league per year.
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Anecdotally, in the '80s, ticket holders got free fries(?) if the Jazz held their opponent to less than 100 points.
 
LogGrad98 said:
This is recency bias and not at all accurate. Harden is an anomaly in his own right but generally players are not scoring any more than in previous years. Go look at the averages from the 80's where multiple players would score 30+ for the season. We haven't had that in a while.
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Truth said:
Data is insufficient to support your analysis. Good analysis would be to compare the number of players per team averaging 20+ in the league per year.
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If you look at this season's or last season's points per 48 minutes they are way higher than older years. They are even higher than the 1986-87 season when Michael Jordan had his career high in average ppg. So the statistics do back it up.
https://stats.nba.com/leaders/?Season=2019-20&SeasonType=Regular Season&PerMode=Per48

If you only went by the unadjusted ppg metric, then yes it would appear players are scoring about the same. But top scorers played more minutes per game back then, so you have to account for that.

Also, it's been a very clear trend of the NBA to promote higher scoring to try and boost ratings. That's why the rules changed so that the shot clock resets to 14 instead of the full 24 after hitting the rim, why you can barely touch players without getting a foul called, and why you have seen final box scores creep up over the last few years.
 
Truth said:
Data is insufficient to support your analysis. Good analysis would be to compare the number of players per team averaging 20+ in the league per year.
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You do that. Let us know how it goes.
 
LogGrad98 said:
This is recency bias and not at all accurate. Harden is an anomaly in his own right but generally players are not scoring any more than in previous years. Go look at the averages from the 80's where multiple players would score 30+ for the season. We haven't had that in a while.
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LogGrad, the point is, players ARE scoring more than they used to. Your Harden reference demonstrates nothing. Your recency bias argument is badly flawed. It appears that there were two brief periods when scoring was unusually high , the mid 80s and now, assuming that your facts are correct. You can't use a 5 year period and say that is the norm, and reject a 25 year period as not relevant due to "recency bias."
 
Bojan is a way bigger signing than Boozer or Okur IMO. The dude is straight gold and even better than the "money man" himself
 
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