If the style and culture of NBA ball continues to evolve as it has been in recent years, it won’t be too, too long before some team or other eclipses the 2.00 barrier in the saber-metric category of Points-per-Possession (PPP).
For the record, the pathetic Lakers surrendered a league-worst 1.131 PPP this past season while the stylish Dubs topped the good side of that ledger at a 1.157 rate.
I’ll acknowledge those figures look downright skimpy versus that lofty standard – the necessary increase in scoring would be in excess of 80 points per 100 possessions.
But I’ll also contend that certain wheels are already in motion that may prove to make that notion a little less outlandish than your “jerking” knee seems to think.