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HistoryPhotos is for photographs (or, if it can be found, film) of the past, recent or distant! Give us a little snapshot of history!

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Women's basketball team, Smith College, USA, 1902 (media.piefed.social)

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[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

My one grandmother played HS and/or college basketball maybe two decades later, and left a game summary amongst her things. IIRC the total score was something like 19-17, with her scoring maybe 4pts.

As a former streetballer and still an NBA watcher, it's funny that I know so little about what it was that opened scoring up so much, besides the obvious introduction of the shot clock in 1954. Offhand I'd guess that someone or some people introduced a load of science and technique to the jump shot, but I'm not sure...

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm sure the balls, court surface, backboards, rims, and nets got progressively better over the years. Also the attire, rules, nutrition, number of people growing up playing, and the ability to play and practice as a full time job would have had something to do with it.

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

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.