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rme DuraicCage Bookeeping♦Is AcceleratedA considerable amount of basketball bookkeeping was prompted yesterday by the rapidly increasing scores that are being turned in by NBA teams this winter/4 • • Scores that just seem to be shooting off into space.A look at tbe last 40-team totals In games played in the loop showed that only five of the 40 scores turned In were under 100 points . ♦ • thirty-fire of these team scoring totals had exceeded the magic 100 mark, a figure that was believed unattainable only a few short years ago.This brought up the natural question, Well, how many shots are they taking now compared to a few years back. •. or 5s it just better marksmanship that's making the higher point totals?’*With the Nats’ publicity office supplying the figures, we figured out that If you go to an NBA game now, you should witness a total of 212.8 shots taken by the players that night. This is 72.3 more shots than were peppering the nets in 1953-54, the season prior to the 24-second rule.That year the teams were firing a total of 140.5 shots per contest, whereas a year later, with the 24-second clock staring the players in the face, the cagershad accelerated their potting to 1G8.7 shots per tilt..All of which proves that there’s about as much shootin* goin’ on in the NBA as in one of those Western TV thrillers.i(
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Syracuse Herald Journal
Syracuse, New York, US
Fri, Dec 27, 1957
Page 16
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