NBA centers have drastically altered their offensive approach over the last decade and a half. This is no secret.
Players such as a Greg Monroe, had he played in the late 1990s, probably would have been a perennial NBA All-Star. In 2019, there’s no spot for him on an NBA rotation and he’s signing one-year deals in the EuroLeague. Bigs today shoot threes, they rarely play with their back to the basket and they fade off of pick-and-rolls.
Twenty-one-year-old Jarrett Allen acts somewhat as an anomaly in how you would describe a modern center. But guess what?