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Message: [QUOTE="Knicks411, post: 3484212, member: 767"] Another thought on historical player comps... Not only is the game different with all the 3's now. But teams now concentrate more of their offense in their best player than basically ever before. To pick a random year, 1988, since I was talking about the 88 Lakers before. Here is the top 5 in usage 1) Nique-35.2% 2) Jordan- 34.1% 3) Aguirre- 31.06 4) Bird- 30.2% 5) Malone-29.7 Top 5 this year 1) Giannis- 37.5% 2) Luka- 36.8% 3) Harden- 36.3% 4) Young- 34.9% 5) Russ- 34.4% There were 15 players this year with a usage rate over 30% this season. In the entire 1980s, there were 30 total. (So basically 2 per season). That isn't to say guys back then couldn't carry the level of offense guys do now, I'm sure the elite guys could. It just makes the comparisons even harder. I also think its another reason offense is up now. More shots for the better players=more points [/QUOTE]