As teams threw up more three pointers, scoring went down. You can see the trend slowly emerging from 84-now.
Although, this year the scoring and shooting has been stellar.
Exactly, because the mid-range shot became pointless as you could get one more point for going 1-3 feet out further, which reduces FG pct.
But yes, the game has looked MUCH better this year. I think teams needed an adjustment period to zone D and the young talent had to develop a bit more.
Wade and Lebron are absolutely murdering the competition. Some beautiful ball is being played, even though there are still ugg-fests, but that's ALWAYS been there. People act like every game in basketball 15-20 years ago was an epic tilt for the ages.