John Amaechi: evaluation

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…Are there parts of the game or rules or practices that you would change? I definitely couldn’t have been a coach because I never had any leanings when it came to that either way. It always felt to me like at the beginning of the year when officials explain the new rule changes, I was like, “I don’t know what problem you’re trying to solve, but okay.” That tended to be my approach. And so even now, I look at the game and I respect it for its evolution. I know that there are some and they are better players than I who talk about how the games changed and it’s no good anymore because people just shoot threes and whatever else. But I do remember similar critique of the grind days when people would just mash the crap out of each other and the scores would be in the 70s. So, I do feel like the league simply tries to respond to what people want, and then people change their mind about what they want. Some people say in the last few years, there’ve been too many injuries for whatever reason, Tyrese Haliburton, Jayson Tatum, and these are injuries that really have mattered for championship titles. Is that just random noise or there’s something in the structure of how people are playing that has actually led to more injuries?…

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