The historic game though was to bang-em down low.

I've gotta say as a former player of the 4 and 5 position, it irked me to be asked to clean up the boards for 1s and 2s that were jacking up from downtown when percentages showed if they'd pass it down low we were more likely to win. That and the european game may be what motivated the bigs to also develop an outside game: they finally gave up and wanted to have some fun themselves.