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Originally Posted by Axilla
and inside-out basketball wins... its a common thread in sports. you establish yourself near the rim and it opens up the rest of the court.
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Nope. There's very little evidence to suggest that the location a team scores has anything to do with how well they do it or how good they are as a team.
The top four teams in the league as far as points in the paint are, in order, Memphis, Clippers, Sacramento and Toronto. And those just aren't bad teams, they're bad offenses (well, Memphis isn't bad, but still below average).
This idea that where you score matters is completely false. What matters is HOW WELL, and HOW EFFICIENTLY you score. Now, it just so happens that over the course of the history of the NBA, many of its best scorers have in fact been post scorers. But that's a correlation, not a causation.
How well you score matters. Where you score doesn't.