Remember when Wilt and Russell and Alcindor and Walton ruled the paint? Remember the classic clashes of big bodies as the behemoths jockeyed for position? Ah, the good old days. Big men ruled the game back then. Now they are an asterisk, unless they have added to their repertoire a 3-point shot. What that says is that inside players are irrelevant these days. You shoot 3s, or you run some sort of offense that allows your players to get loose for layups. Everything else is passe. Thus big men, because they are big, are not on the screen. They are only relevant if they can shoot the 3. Otherwise they are (at best) role players.
Will big men ever be relevant again? Not without a rule change.
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