Is That Just a Rebound?

The New York Nets won the ABA title in 1974 and 1976. Julius Irving averaged 29 points a game in his final season in New York in 1976. When he comes to Philadelphia in 1977, he averages 22 points a game. There's a huge drop in those raw box stats. And the team results become kind of, I don't want to say they're totally underwhelming,. But in 1978, they make the conference finals. In 1979 is a struggle. They win 47 games. So there's this sort of question that was lingering about what happened.