All right, welcome on to the and home portion of my home and home with Ben Taylor

We have a ton to talk about Ben's Thinking Basketball YouTube channel in my opinion the best YouTube channel out there doing videos

We got to hit on his video on the new rules. We got to hit on his video on the Chicago Bulls

And of course we have to discuss the greatest peak series as well

So we should have plenty to get in here over the next hour. How you doing sir?

I'm doing great. I think we can fit this right in and like what 10 or 15 minutes. It doesn't sound like a lot to discuss

Yeah, particularly the top 75 series. I think that's it's uh, it's like content. Yeah, it's a topic that's easily

Reducible, shall we say of course? Okay, so let's get started here the you are someone who has focused so much on

Changes in style changes in play over the course of the history of the NBA and largely the trend has been since

2004 the combination of the new rules more spate new rules in terms of hand checking allowing more freedom of movement rules allowing zone defense

Both of those rules leading to it making more sense to play shooters

You can hide a little bit better on defense

But also will stretch the floor went with more zone concepts allowed and just overall an understanding that spread floor

Attacking the basket from the perimeter just works better than posting up every single possession with two big men on the floor

So that is led to a pretty much uninterrupted rise in offense through the 2021 season

But now it seems finally the pendulum has begun to swing back. Mm-hmm. Finally. Yeah, I think the only thing I'd add to that is that

Sometimes people don't realize offensive rating offensive efficiency across the league

kind of peaked in the 80s for a while and

For most of these seasons we found a balance between like 107 points per 100 and up to like 109

And we were in there for many many seasons of course the what I call the dead ball era that this overly physical defensive grinding era of

The late 90s and early 2000s took us down a little bit and along with a slower pace

I think kind of caused the NBA to change the rules that they did or the the points of emphasis

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