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Message: [QUOTE="Knicks411, post: 5080469, member: 767"] Yeah I dont know how much of that is just the way the game is played now its easier to put up offensive stats (minus the second half of this season when the league decided to let more contact go) or what but it does seem to warp things. Just for some context, in the 2015 season that I was discussing, the league averaged 105.6 points per 100 possessions. It was 115.3 this year! The effective FG% was 49.6% in 2015, its 54.7% now! That can't all be because the players are better now (though I do think some of it surely is) But I do agree that guys from the prior generation will be forgotten/thought of less. As time goes on players from the past are more and more remembered by their stats more than anything, and if this pattern holds, the stats from the last 4-5 years are just going to look so much better than even the stats from the middle of the teens, let alone going further back. [/QUOTE]