Episode 3-2: The Price is Right

[Randolphkeys]

Mark Price shot 48.6% from 3PT over the course of 80 games in the 1987-1988 Season.

48.6%.

He shot better than 40% five times and in his career, he peaked at 5.3 3PT Attempts a game.

For the balance of his career with the Cavs he only averaged 3.3 3PTA per game.

Why or how Wilkens never put two and two together who knows.

But, in today's NBA Mark Price would be averaging 8-9 3PTA a game and averaging around 23-24 PPG along with 8-9 APG.

The NBA was still an old boys league in the 1980s and early 1990s. It's hard to imagine today as the players have so much say on what goes on, but free agency still had incredible limitations throughout that period.

I bring up player rights because the message flowed from the top down: Run the plays, don't question what the old white guys with power want to do.

We scoff at Price only maxing out at 5.3 three point attempts but in Larry Bird's career he only clipped 3 attempts per game twice. This is the guy who hoops historians will call a top five shooter until the end of time, but the Celtics were going to tell him how to play his game.

 

[Sebastian]

The NBA was still an old boys league in the 1980s and early 1990s. It's hard to imagine today as the players have so much say on what goes on, but free agency still had incredible limitations throughout that period.

I bring up player rights because the message flowed from the top down: Run the plays, don't question what the old white guys with power want to do.

We scoff at Price only maxing out at 5.3 three point attempts but in Larry Bird's career he only clipped 3 attempts per game twice. This is the guy who hoops historians will call a top five shooter until the end of time, but the Celtics were going to tell him how to play his game.

One notes the message sent by Harper's departure.

A title contending team hobbled itself because of the perceived unsavoriness of Harper's associates.

 

[AustinCarr]

The NBA was still an old boys league in the 1980s and early 1990s. It's hard to imagine today as the players have so much say on what goes on, but free agency still had incredible limitations throughout that period.

I bring up player rights because the message flowed from the top down: Run the plays, don't question what the old white guys with power want to do.

We scoff at Price only maxing out at 5.3 three point attempts but in Larry Bird's career he only clipped 3 attempts per game twice. This is the guy who hoops historians will call a top five shooter until the end of time, but the Celtics were going to tell him how to play his game.

I am also sure that the perception of the 3-point movement offense was that it wasn't a winning plan. Too much variance as compared to scoring in the paint. And the teams that were really breaking ground in the area, such as the Nuggets, were not exactly successful.

I mean, you didnt have guys practicing 22-foot shots much in to 70's, when Bird and those guys were growing up. There was no 3-point line. It took 20 years a generation for the rules to be established and for people to grow up with them before you really saw it fully gel.

 

[The Oi]

Fuckin boomers man!!

 

[AustinCarr]

Fuckin boomers man!!

Me reading my own post about 3 pointers: