Basketball fans: why has 3-point shooting taken over? I’m guessing it’s not that the skill levels went up but that something made it a more valuable skill to cultivate? What?
I think that this is an example or early skill development impacting player capability over their whole career. So each new cohort has the skills that were thought to be premium 15 years ago.
Basketball ops became more incorporated with math/statisticians than basketball ops, strong math argument for 3s over long 2s. Accelerated by everyone trying to copycat the best 3pt shooter who will ever live and his team dominating the league. Will probably taper off a bit as th