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Something I just looked up is that peach baskets were evidently gone at the college level by ~1906, in which time they transitioned to metal rims with nets. Funny, I thought they lasted longer, with the quaint tradition maintained of needing someone to climb a ladder and fetch the ball every time a basket was scored.
But yeah, I don't think there's any question that the things you mention happened, just as they've pretty much always been happening across all significant sports. So I had GPT focus on the 40's-50's era, and it's claiming that after the shot clock, the two biggest reasons were: 1) coaching started to favor faster inbounding and transitioning from defense to offense, leading to higher scoring; 2) fouls were called more aggressively on defenses, which formerly were evidently very physical with holding and hacking offensive players.