{"id":177765,"date":"2021-02-13T22:04:03","date_gmt":"2021-02-13T19:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/a-frankenstein-monster-is-destroying-the-nba\/"},"modified":"2021-02-13T22:04:03","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T19:04:03","slug":"a-frankenstein-monster-is-destroying-the-nba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-frankenstein-monster-is-destroying-the-nba\/","title":{"rendered":"#A Frankenstein monster is destroying the NBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2efada1dfbd\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2efada1dfbd\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-frankenstein-monster-is-destroying-the-nba\/#Kaepernick_Root_are_two_sides_of_the_radical_coin\" >Kaepernick, Root are two sides of the radical coin<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-frankenstein-monster-is-destroying-the-nba\/#Different_route_to_a_rout\" >Different route to a rout<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#A Frankenstein monster is destroying the NBA<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Envision the NBA greats from the past and near-past, those who made us basketball fans. Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Bob Cousy, Walt Frazier, Willis Reed, John Havlicek, Elgin Baylor, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bill Russell, Larry Bird, John Stockton, Bill Walton, Oscar Robertson, Jerry West.<\/p>\n<p>See them in action? Leading a fast break, making a crucial block or a steal, scoring a huge basket, making a fabulous pass, rebounding their misses, playing chest-to-chest defense, doing whatever it takes to make their teams winners, champions.<\/p>\n<p>How many of these historic masterpieces in your cherished throw-back action memories include the vision of a 3-point shot, any NBA great choosing as his first option to throw up a 3-point bomb? I\u2019ll guess none, as in zero.<\/p>\n<p>But like most added artificial wrinkles and novelties in sports and Kardashian chronicles, the 3-point shot has far surpassed its intent. It\u2019s now the Frankenstein monster, turned on its creators and feeders to destroy them.<\/p>\n<p>By the time this NBA season ends, the average number of 3s taken per <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> will be close to 80, nearly half the field goal attempts per game. Twenty years ago ,the average total taken per game was 13.7; in the 1990s, about five per game were standard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone has fallen in love with the 3-ball,\u201d Frazier lamented three seasons ago on an MSG Network Knicks game. Only now it\u2019s worse.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Warriors at Mavericks, the teams combined to take 93 3-pointers. Advertised as a professional basketball game, it took all the planning and strategic genius of feeding a pen of hens. It wasn\u2019t a game, it was real-life satire, a goof, with many more to come.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday, the Rockets lost to the Heat in a game starring 92 3-pointers \u2014 including 50 of 83 field goal attempts by Houston.<\/p>\n<p>Locally, 7-foot Knicks center Mitchell Robinson openly complained that he wasn\u2019t being allowed the opportunity to take 3-point shots. He leads the team with 3.5 offensive rebounds per game, but wants to show off his stuff far from the basket.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" alt=\"The 3-point shot is ruining the NBA.\" class=\"wp-image-17317366 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/The-3-point-shot-is-ruining-the-NBA..jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/The-3-point-shot-is-ruining-the-NBA..jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/The-3-point-shot-is-ruining-the-NBA..jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/The-3-point-shot-is-ruining-the-NBA..jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/The-3-point-shot-is-ruining-the-NBA..jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2000 2000w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>The 3-point shot is ruining the NBA.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Knicks had already wasted a first-round draft pick on 7-foot-3 Kristaps Porzingis, who considered himself a shooting guard with a killer 3. Last season, with the Mavericks, in 57 games, he attempted 403 3s, and, at 7-3, averaged a paltry 1.8 offensive rebounds, roughly as he did with the Knicks.<\/p>\n<p>The Knicks had a very eager, willing and effective offensive and defensive rebounder in Enes Kanter, who revealed that then new and now former Knicks coach David Fizdale wanted him to abandon what he did best on offense to take more 3-point shots.<\/p>\n<p>Again, this is not \u2014 nothing even close \u2014 to what the NBA intended. In my estimation, it\u2019s killing the game, making it predictably redundant, unimaginative and starved for the kind of play and players that made the NBA great \u2014 back when all field goals were worth 2 points, back when there was a good reason to use one\u2019s signature sneakers to run a fast break.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Kaepernick_Root_are_two_sides_of_the_radical_coin\"><\/span>Kaepernick, Root are two sides of the radical coin<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right:<\/p>\n<p>Last week, radicalized cop-killer Joanne Chesimard, now known as Assata Shakur after escaping to safe and welcomed shelter in Cuba, made the local <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>, as race-based extremists demanded her fringe-lunatic, Black Liberation Army doctrines be incorporated into NYC public school\u2019s standards.<\/p>\n<p>And that brings us, oddly enough, to Colin Kaepernick, known throughout the United States for his on-field, pig-socks demonstrations against police brutality, then for selling out to communist China mud-cheap labor-reliant Nike.<\/p>\n<p>Like Kaepernick, I deplore cops who act outside our laws, but while he\u2019s known for his anti-cop brutality grandstanding, how many know that he supports an organization named in honor of a cop-killer?<\/p>\n<p>Kaepernick has donated tens of thousands of dollars to Assata\u2019s Daughters, an extremist black females\u2019 organization named in honor of Chesimard\/Shakur\u2019s achievements \u2014 especially the 1973 roadside shooting murder of N.J. State Trooper Werner Foerster, a military vet and father of two young children.<\/p>\n<p>But such facts are left unreported by those who would choose to ignore them.<\/p>\n<p>On the topic of political ignorance, Wayne Root, widely identified as an \u201carch conservative TV and radio host\u201d \u2014 he has <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>eared per invite on Fox News and MSNBC to discuss his positions \u2014 last week was suspended from <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> as an incendiary nut.<\/p>\n<p>But Root, as a career scamdicapper, one who for over 20 years has promised suckers sports winners in exchange for their dough and as a shameless boiler room operator, should\u2019ve long ago been banned from all responsible, vigilant media.<\/p>\n<p>He still pulls laughs from Vegas sports books for billing himself \u201cThe King of Vegas Sports Handicappers\u201d and recently proudly announced that he\u2019s teaming with Pete Rose to share their gambling touts and other expertise.<\/p>\n<p>He has also misrepresented himself as a former N.Y. Daily News columnist \u2014 baloney, he had a weekly three-paragraph pick box, loaded with losers \u2014 and a fellow who \u201cKnows the Winners of Horseraces Before They\u2019re Run.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Take your pick: Kaepernick from the far left, Root from the far right.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Different_route_to_a_rout\"><\/span>Different route to a rout<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Note to Connecticut women\u2019s Coach Geno \u201cThe Stomper\u201d Auriemma: If you\u2019re going to blow a team out \u2014 if it\u2019s such a mismatch you can\u2019t help it \u2014 there are humane ways to do it. Last week, 11-3 Southern Utah defeated 1-10 San Diego Christian, 109-50. The only Southern Utah man to play more than 20 minutes was a senior off the bench. Twelve Southern Utah players were in for double-digit minutes.<\/p>\n<p>I blew it, the NFL blew it, CBS blew it, the Chiefs blew it. This Super Bowl was pregame-scripted and played without a mention of former star Chiefs running back Joe Delaney, who in 1983 died at 24 trying to save two kids from drowning. Surely, many watching had forgotten him or never knew of him.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-nypost-small-post\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"231\" height=\"342\" alt=\"Joe Delaney in 1981.\" class=\"wp-image-17317398 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/Joe-Delaney-in-1981..jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/Joe-Delaney-in-1981..jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/Joe-Delaney-in-1981..jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/Joe-Delaney-in-1981..jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=231 231w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/Joe-Delaney-in-1981..jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=462 462w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 231px\"\/><figcaption>Joe Delaney in 1981.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Best shot of the week was provided by Islanders\u2019 TV director, Joel Mandelbaum. Thursday, after the Isles\u2019 Jean-Gabriel Pageau scored at home, the artificial sound of cheers was switched on. At that point, the truck cut to a shot of about 200 frozen-faced cardboard Islanders fans.<\/p>\n<p>CBS and its websites have joined the mad rush to sell sports gambling, with CBS\u2019s expert touts the latest \u201cbest\u201d in the business. Perhaps that\u2019s why a message recently flashed from CBS Sports that though \u201cWest Virginia is a 2-point favorite [at home] vs. Kansas, it hasn\u2019t beaten KU since [all the way back in] 2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now we <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a> a year forward: NBC\u2019s golf coverage Super Bowl Sunday reminded viewers that next year\u2019s will be on NBC. \u201cGood thinking,\u201d writes reader David Distefano. \u201cA year from now we may not be able to figure out what channel the Super Bowl is on.\u201d\n            <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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