By Aris Barkas/ barkas@Eurohoops.net
Pace and space, shoot the three, run in transition. Basketball has been changing and guards seem more dominant than ever in the game. Or maybe not?
Before you realize it, every stereotype can change, and this might be the case early in the 2018-19 Turkish Airlines EuroLeague season. If guards dictated the game and piled up the stats for the past few seasons, even if the current sample is small, big men are finally taking their revenge.
Only three guards are among the top 12 players in performance index rating (PIR) through six rounds, with Alexey Shved being on the top. The bigs are back with a bang, as you can see in our first graph, courtesy of Statathlon which provided the analysis for this project.