Sorry. This is inane.
You do understand that scoring has actually been down in the NBA for the vast majority of the 2000s compared to the Jordan era? Right?
Points per 100 possessions:
1985: 107.9
1986: 107.2
1987: 108.3
1988: 108.0
1989: 107.8
1990: 108.1
1991: 107.9
1992: 108.2
1993: 108.0
1994: 106.3
1995: 108.3
1996: 107.6
1997: 106.7
1998: 105.0
1999: 102.2
Post 2000:
2000: 104.1
2001: 103.0
2002: 104.5
2003: 103.6
2004: 102.9
2005: 106.1
2006: 106.2
2007: 106.5
2008: 107.5
2009: 108.3
2010: 106.8
Only in post 2010 has scoring gone back up towards the 1985-1995 levels.
If defence was so much better and more physical and hand-checking slowed everyone down, why was Pace so much higher from 1980-1993? Not one season since has matched the pace of the league back then. Add to that scoring was at over 100 ppg every single season from 1980-1995. From 2000-2013 scoring was below 100 ppg in 12 of 14 seasons. Only with that advent of dominant 3 point shooting, pace freaks like GSW, Houston, etc, has scoring and pace started climbing back to Jordan era levels.
SO tell me, how is Jordan going to score 15-20ppg more in a lower scoring, lower pace era? Because the Kobe era into the first 10 years of Lebron era are the lowest scoring and lowest pace era of the NBA.
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No it isn't. You are saying he would jump 15-20 ppg. And score around 50ppg each season. ACmilan said 60
If it's so much easier to score now (all evidence says otherwise), all the star players of the 80s and 90s would score far more too.
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But this simply isn't true.
The season Zizinho is talking about where Jordan scored 37.1 ppg, NBA teams averaged 30.5 free throws per game. They scored 109.9 ppg. The pace was at 100.8.
In 2015-16. NBA teams averaged 23.4 free throws per game. They scored 102.7 ppg. Pace was 95.8.