After 32 games, scoring is at 45.69 points per game. If scoring continues at this pace, we will have the lowest points per game average since 1985. The East Division struggled that season as well and that is the one obvious similarity between 2014 and 1985.

IIRC, we had increases in roster size in both '98 and '06 when scoring decreased significantly and we just had another roster size increase this year.