Kirk Goldsberry

This year, 29 teams are doing that.

So everybody's doing that.

And my question to you, Bill, is are these teams suddenly playing more handsy defense or is the rules around contact allowances sort of evolving once again?

Well, I talked to a bunch of coaches about it.

And I think what you just said about the Indiana guards bears repeating.

Because I talked to one coach.

He's like, yeah, every year we all watch the finals.

It's the first time that all the team's coaches sort of watch basketball almost leisurely.

Everybody can watch the finals except for two teams.

And he said, yeah, like...

Everybody saw what Carlisle was doing.

And I think a lot of people did import that into their strategies this season.

So I think that's fair.

The other thing people were telling me is like the league sent around a bunch of points of emphases about, you know, the high five foul that you might have heard about shooting a three point shooter, certain rules around driving offensive players and everything.

And how they're going to be called.

And some people said, yeah, that's really what this is, too.

But they've tightened it up and in favor of the offense, in favor of three point shooters and in favor of driving players.

So I think that explains it.

It's both like a tactical adjustment league wide, but also the league with these new points of emphasis.

Yeah, and I'm thinking about in terms of San Antonio, the two new guards when we were doing our Ringer 100 rankings, they say, okay, where's Dylan Harper go?