<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Spring training has been wiped off his calendar. Tucson is off the itinerary. Jerry Colangelo is on to bigger things, like rescuing the NBA. This is not a stretch. By the time Colangelo slips into his comfy role as honorary Suns' chairman, he will have presided over the 2008 Olympic team in Beijing, one that could restore the glory to USA Basketball. He may win an NBA championship ring, thus completing his own daily double. Even if there is no jewelry or medallion forthcoming, he will be remembered as the man who helped get the league out of its wicked scoring doldrums. "The NBA is back," the Suns' Amar? Stoudemire said. With fan apathy and an ugly brawl dominating recent headlines, such a claim is hard to fathom. But it might be true. Currently, seven NBA teams are averaging more than 100 points a game. The Suns have set a blistering pace and could be the first to average more than 110 points since 1994-95. By contrast, only two teams (Sacramento, Dallas) averaged more than 100 points per game last season, and for Colangelo, this is a moment to relish. "A few years ago, I was lamenting to (NBA Commissioner) David Stern about how our game looked," Colangelo said. "I was not a happy camper. It had become a half-court, isolation game, and the coaches were trying to control every play. We had to take it away from them." Stern agreed, appointing Colangelo to handpick and chair a committee. They would rewrite the rules book before the 2001-02 season, allowing zone defenses into the NBA. Teams suddenly had eight seconds, not 10, to bring the ball across the half-court line. Shaquille O'Neal said the ideas stunk, and across the NBA, Colangelo was getting his share of criticism.</div> Source
coangelo Yea we all thank coangelo ... but the problem was never adressed just covered up. If the NBA set an age limit players would develop more in college leading to a more funamentally sound game and shooting% would go up as would scoring.
