I feel like Jokic, Giannas, and Luka have destroyed stats for me. Getting 36/16/9 is something I don’t even bat and eye at, I just go oh, they had a good game. NOT EVEN A GREAT GAME. Just a good game lmao. I remember a time that wasn’t too long ago, I’m talking like 2015 where 25/6/6 was a pretty insane stat that people were like damn. I really feel like stats stopped becoming so shocking when Harden and Russ were just getting 30 point triple doubles every night and Russ legit averaged a triple double for like 3 seasons or whatever. Before that nobody had averaged a triple double since Oscar Robertson in 1961!

Does anyone else feel this way? I don’t even know what is good anymore honestly or when I should be impressed.

  • 2020IsANightmareBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I’m not numb to them, per se.

    But, I’ve been pointing these things for years.

    “LeBron struggled tonight. Only had 24/12/10 as the Cavs/Lakers lost.”

    And I am SCREAMING that the statline would be a CAREER HEADLINE for 99% of the players to ever live!!!

  • just_so_irrelevantBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Product of modern NBA giving offense massive advantages over defense. Not even on some boomer shit but it really can’t be understated just how large of an effect the lack of calls on carrying, traveling, and moving screens. And don’t even get me started on how soft defensive foul calls are these days.

    The NBA wants to prioritize offense because that’s what casuals like to see but when everyone in the NBA is an offensive beast putting up 25-30+ every game it just all regresses to the mean.

    • mercfan3BEnglish
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      10 months ago

      It’s also different offenses - and a different pace.

  • emperornelBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    The past few years Westbrook and to a certain extent Harden/Jokic/Giannis making stats look easy.

  • iamsosmrt84BEnglish
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    10 months ago

    It reminds me of when I was a kid watching MJ, I undervalued the hell out of all the other top stars of his era who had “pedestrian” scoring averages of like 25 ppg. It wasn’t until I looked back that I gained a strong appreciation of his contemporaries.

    I think it’s harder today because news is constant and information is bombarding us all the time, we fans take for granted some of the legit special performances happening in the game. Plus, amazing stops feeling amazing if it happens too often.

  • cyb3ryungBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    not really. still impressive to me. but im older, grew up in an era where a lot of guys werent getting triple doubles and if they were, it wasnt big numbers