Doolittle-Poor shooting haunts Rubio, Rondo

[Hemingway]

There are just less really good pass first point guards right now. Its a chicken and the egg thing. The league changed to want more scoring from the point guard or there are more scoring point guards now so the league changed. These things go back and forth. a few years from now we will be reading articles about the return of big men post play and pass first point guards. Its just a really really small sample size.

I tend to think it has more to do with the talent available. The league has moved away from the post-up big, but if Hakeem Olajuwon, David Robinson, Patrick Ewing, and Shaquille O'Neal were all in their primes, I'd bet those teams would still play a lot of post-up ball. Those types of players just aren't out there in the numbers they were in the 80's and 90's.

That combined with changes in the illegal defense rules made spacing and speed more of a priority. Thus, smaller guys are getting more scoring opportunities.

Thats what I meant too.