Even prior to the 2011 lockout dip, …

Even prior to the 2011 lockout dip, defenses were catching up, in large part because of the way Tom Thibodeau-inspired “strong side overload” defenses were able to effectively shrink the floor before Golden State and Steph Curry definitively proved “jump-shooting teams” could win at a high level — and as has been noted in this space many, many times before, describing those Warriors as somehow more reliant on jump-shooting than previous top-level teams is largely ahistorical — fully energizing the pace-and-space era in which we find ourselves.