#185: Are we seeing the best scoring seasons in NBA history?

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🗓️ 15 March 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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More players than ever are averaging 30-points per game. Where do the current scoring seasons rank historically? And how do we compare scoring across different periods with all the changes we've seen to offenses lately? We compare Embiid, Giannis, Jokic, Durant to Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, James Harden, a scoring model and more. With @codyhoudek. Support at www.patreon.com/thinkingbasketball

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0:00.0	thinking basketball podcast my name is filled with just juicier and juicier games. I am absolutely loving everything that's
0:27.8	going on. Close, close contests. Who knows what's going on in the West?
0:32.0	140 to 130 sometimes you turn on another
0:36.4	game and it's 4 4 after six minutes Cody how are you doing man I didn't
0:42.1	watch the the second half of the Kings Bucks game yesterday.
0:46.4	For the first half I was mostly waiting in the spreadsheets, like this is like the most bathing
0:51.2	I've done in a spreadsheet for a while, so it's one of those where I peek up once in a while to be like wow that's a bonus dude is really really cruising and I went to bed being like all right kings of the eventual champs but lo and behold I wake up and the bucks pulled it out Ben
1:03.7	bucks pulled it out oh yeah that that game was a dog fight the intensity of some of
1:08.6	these games in March that had that had a fever pitch I'm not going to say playoff intensity they were talking about during
1:16.0	the game, how it felt like a playoff game.
1:18.2	That felt like a conference finals game.
1:20.4	I mean there was literally a fight at the end of the game because it was physical and intense and
1:26.6	the pace was there and just shot making and of course everything going on with that King's offense and the Bucks defense.
1:33.4	I mean we've recently done a lot of content on the King's offense and the Bucks defense
1:39.1	both on podcast and YouTube but the thing that we were batting around before recording today
1:48.2	is just how crazy the scoring is in the league and I think you noted this there's a ton of
1:55.6	individual scoring seasons right now that kind of are are I'm struggling for words at the beginning of a podcast this cannot be a good sign a lot of good
2:08.4	scoring seasons now more than before this this season last season because I like
2:15.2	looking at things from a historical lens right we're always going back we're looking at
2:18.7	past seasons we're looking at some of the best players of all time and I try and situate how players fit into it when we look at it
2:25.2	through the scoring context we see now Ben because if you sort if you look at
2:28.8	every like the leaders by points per 75 possessions of all time then every season I think this goes back
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