#242: Will the offensive explosion ever stop?
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Thinking Basketball
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🗓️ 21 December 2023
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Offensive rating around the league is up AGAIN! Multiple teams would be “the best offense in NBA history” by efficiency right now – why? What's changed? What's driving this? Will it stop? We discuss three major factors driving the offensive explosion, whether it “should” be changed, and how defenses can be helped going forward. With @codyhoudek. Support at www.patreon.com/thinkingbasketball
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| 0:17.4 | Speaking basketball podcast, my name is Ben. Welcome back and today's show feels like deja vu to me, because I think we've done this topic in 2023. I think we did this topic in 2022. It is becoming an annual tradition, but we have to talk about the offensive |
| 0:29.1 | rating explosion. Offences in the NBA are on fire they're on another level |
| 0:35.8 | we're setting records left and right we'll talk about a few today I just Cody this is the most efficient month in NBA history. And I've said that before. |
| 0:50.0 | I've said that before. Usually you say it at the end of the season, which is what's so alarming right now. |
| 0:55.5 | We actually had this earlier in the year in the Pacers video, the Pacers Hawks game that was |
| 1:01.0 | like 176 to 175, whatever heck the final score of that game was they |
| 1:06.6 | scored 300 they scored 309 points so it wasn't 176 175 but it was a lot of |
| 1:11.8 | points and I talked about at the beginning of each season a |
| 1:16.0 | trend where the November offensive rating is getting higher and higher and higher |
| 1:19.9 | that's a big deal because offenses take some time to catch up to defenses every season and now we're in December and we've already set the record for the most efficient month. |
| 1:31.0 | We are on pace for the most efficient month in the history of the entire league, |
| 1:36.0 | probably the history of the entire sport, because it's ridiculous. |
| 1:39.3 | And I think we have to talk about it. |
| 1:42.6 | What is the current record for the highest offensive rating |
| 1:47.9 | in a single month? |
| 1:48.6 | Do you have that on hand? |
| 1:49.8 | Because I know we mentioned this a lot. |
| 1:51.6 | Like I think last season season like pretty much every |
| 1:53.8 | podcast episode at some point we were like oh up and the offensive rating for this |
| 1:57.3 | month is now at blah blah blah it's at this so like you know I apologize if you've |
| 2:01.1 | heard the story before but everyone the story is continuing, right? |
| 2:04.4 | The fellowship just ended. We're in two towers range right now. So, Ben, what is the current record? |
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