The NBA has changed.
The days of slow-footed big men standing alone in the paint are gone.
Illegal defense rules have changed what kind of players are valuable in the NBA.
The days of big men being the focal point of offenses have passed.
Now, guards are the focal point of today’s successful NBA offenses and 3-pointers are the focus of the most successful NBA offenses.
The pick and roll dominates NBA offenses now.
To that effect so does pick and roll defense.
This is where Nikola Vucevic comes in, and perhaps gets left behind.