Phil Jackson in a “Bleacher Report” article said pretty much what Mr. Research and I have been saying all year: the NBA game has changed, and not for the good.

“I watch LeBron James, for example,” (Jackson) said. “He might [travel] every other time he catches the basketball if he’s off the ball. He catches the ball, moves both his feet. You see it happen all the time. There’s no structure, there’s no discipline … And it goes all the way through the game. To the point where now guys don’t screen—they push guys off with their hands.”

Maybe this will get some traction now that Jackson has said it.  Also, enforcing the palming and traveling rules would be a step in the right direction.

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