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Message: [QUOTE="nelsonmuntz, post: 4510982, member: 833"] Let's look back to the old 3 point line to do apples to apples comparison. 1990-1991 - 36.2% from 3, 13.8 3 point attempts/game 2016-2017 - 35.2% from 3, 21.1 3 point attempts a game Only 1 percentage point doesn't seem like a huge deal, right? Basically, a player would have to shoot about 33.3% (((.352*21.1)-(.362*13.8))/7.3) on those incremental 7.3 shots to get to 35.2%, not great, not terrible. Better PPP than an out of control drive to the basket, but probably not as good as a post up. I mentioned I was going to circle back to 3 point shooting being consistent over the years. I would have to dig deeper into the stats, but I think most basketball experts would argue that 3 point shooting is much better now than it was 30 years ago. In the intervening 25 years from 1990-1991, virtually every aspect of basketball development, from coaching to training to conditioning has improved, and the coaching at the youth and high school level, especially for the top 1000+ players in each class, is way ahead of where it was in 1990. What if today's shooters could hit 38% on their first 14 shots. That would mean the teams were shooting under 30% on the extra shots. For you to be right: 1) Players can not have improved their 3 point shooting at all in 30 years, and 2) All 3 point shots have exactly the same probability of success. Are you jumping on that train? [/QUOTE]