[AlexBrady]

Screen/pop maneuvers are more easily defensible than ever before. Certainly, forcing a shot-blocker to abandon the rim is beneficial but I was only referring to ball-in-hand implications.

Rim-running isn't a game changer. The very simple counter is to side-step and front them.

Again, defenses are designed to counter frontal assaults on the rim resulting from screen/rolls. This play can be rendered almost useless by good teams.

Truly great back to the basket scorers are virtually extinct now because most of the young bigs have become convinced that 'playing small' is the way to go. Hardly any great big men coaches anymore at the high school, AAU, and college levels.

A bogarting, dominating big man is still the rarest commodity in basketball and has the greatest impact on a game.