Good points @goatprairie Teams like GSW and the Rockets are taking advantage of the existing rules through sheer talent (and being healthy).
The league is ever evolving, there is always a better mouse trap than the one you have.
Although I don't understand a lot of it, I'm well aware analytics has taken over bb like it has a lot of other sports. Nothing wrong with that...it's simply trying to find the most efficient way to use talent.
But you get on some bb boards and some of the people know all the jargon about "wins above replacement" "PER" and a lot of other analytics jargon. I confess to being too old (or too stodgy) to get too involved in that.
What I find interesting is the time lag between when the shot was instituted and when teams began using it effectively.
Why wasn't there one team, shortly after the shot was legalized, that figured out shooting a lot of threes was a great strategy? Looking at the numbers of threes taken, teams like the Lakers, the greatest team of the eighties, rarely used the shot in winning multiple titles.
Even after ten years of legalization many teams only used the shot occasionally.
Now it seems with teams like Houston it's mostly threes and layups. Can't blame them....if that allows them the best chance to win, it's what they should do.