Hield is a tremendous player, no question about that. But his game illustrates what is wrong today with the game of basketball. Several times during the Oklahoma-Texas A&M game they flashed on the screen a schematic of Hield's shots. He had taken a lot of them. A bunch of them were 3-pointers and a bunch of them were right under the basket. ABSOLUTELY NONE OF THEM were anywhere else. I don't fault Hield; he is just a master of doing what the high muck-a-mucks of basketball have dictated is to be done today. However, it does illustrate how the game has disintegrated. The mid-range game has all but disappeared. We have devolved into nothing but 3-pointers (bad shots which get rewarded) or layups/dunks.
Buddy Hield did not create the problem, but he is the poster child for the problem that has been created.
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