Revolucija u asistencijama se dogodila sredinom 80-ih, a to je sve opisao Bird kada je izdao knjigu:
Bird je govorio o tome u svojoj knjizi objavljenoj 1989:
"Assists are a questionable stat anyway. I believe it's generally easier to get one on the West Coast. It's just the way they interpret it. To me, an assist should be given when a player gets the ball and scores - period. He can make a fake, but he can't put the ball on the floor. You also can't pump it three or four times and then put it in. There's a limit to what should be allowed to be called an assist.
You hear the Celtics complaining at home that they are stingy with assists at the Boston Garden. I think they're closer to being on the money at the Boston Garden than anywhere else. It's all subjective. You can get them on three-pointers or on in-bounds passes now. It doesn't mean what it did when Bob Cousy and Oscar Robertson were playing, that's for sure. You've got to be playing with good people - guys who can score - to get a lot of assists. Magic has had Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, James Worthy and Byron Scott. I've got Robert Parish and Kevin McHale. A lot of players would like to be passing the ball to those people.
And while we're on the subject, there are triple-doubles and there are triple-doubles. When I see Magic have a game with fifteen points, thirteen rebounds and seventeen assists - that's a triple-double."
[uredio Bojdo - 20. siječnja 2021. u 00:09]
Nikola Jokić je slasni kosarkaski koktel sazdan od najboljih igračkih osobina Pau Gasola i Krešimira Ćosića. Jednom riječju-ČUDO! Bojdo 2018.
