Where have all the gunners gone?

[jonathanlambert33]

Brent Barry e-mailed. He was wondering why these days so few NBA players average 20 or more points per game.

There's just nine in the whole league, at the moment, he pointed out. As recently as 2007-2008 there were 27.

Three times as many!

Remember, those are the most exciting players to watch. The human highlight reels, the putting-butts-in-seats guys, the players a million kids on a million blacktops dream of becoming.

And two-thirds of them have essentially gone missing. As if stolen.

Gone with them are a bundle of special memories, including almost all the 50-point nights.

If aliens had lured them to another planet to start a highly rated hoops league there, we'd have a massive story worthy of Hollywood.

But they have disappeared in some other way that's tougher to notice. Slipped out the back door. And ... crickets. Our scorers have gone, our scorers have gone and ... barely a whisper.


What is going on?

http://espn.go.com/b...he-gunners-gone

David Thorpe's theory is 100% right on.

 

[Rios15]

I would think one of the reasons would be a lot of superstars teaming up with eachtother nowadays.

 

[Pugz]

no. players nowadays like being able to do it all. theyd rather win a game and get 24/6/5; rather 37 on 31 shots and a close game they lost or hardly won

 

[dez]

They'll come back around, may take a few years but they'll be back.

Crazy I've never even realized it, but its the truth the true scorers are gone just like lowpost bigs, man I miss the early 2000's..