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Originally Posted by Pioneer10
No it wasn't
Basketball-reference doesn't have pace back into the 60's but just look at the FGA in the 60's vs 80's which is a crude approximation of pace and look at the numbers. The Lakers of the 80's which were a fast break team averaged around 800+ less FGA attempt thens Laker teams in the 60's. This is a widely agreed upon fact in the basketball statistical community
Bird was also a very good team defender while being a below average man on man: he wasn't nearly as bad on D when you combine the two as your making it out to be
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pace is really a stupid stat. that would also mean kobes 35 ppg season would be like a 40+ ppg season and that hes a better scorer then MJ.
Man to man is what matters. marcus camby is a good help defender but is he stopping gasol and odom from ****ing the nugz up?