NBA: Should the NBA axe the corner three?
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Yeah there are reasons beyond just that he’s very Eastern European. Still the amount of people who claim to love basketball who have never watched him play is absurd. It’d be like people lying that they love baseball but refuse to watch Ohtani.
Doncic is quite different, he’s always smiling and making jokes on camera, ton of charisma, playing in LA. Probably handsome compared to Jokic. I do think he still takes a marketing hit by being so obviously foreign.
Half the top players being foreign is helping internationally but hurting domestically.
Rock N Jock style!
Harlem Globetrotters added a 4 point line and it has doomed the Washington Generals. They have not won since.
My lead pipe lock betting strategy is to continue to bet on the Generals. They are bound to turn it around sometime.
I would say interest is basketball, hockey, and baseball are SIGNIFICANTLY lower than the 90s.
I think this isn’t a basketball problem, it’s an all sports outside of football problem.
Something needs to change with the NBA. The product just isn't entertaining. I won't interject as to what they should change, but I think experimenting with changes would be beneficial
MLB experiments with changes using the minor league clubs. NBA can do the same with the G League or Summer league games
MLB experiments with changes using the minor league clubs. NBA can do the same with the G League or Summer league games
Don't entirely disagree but creating more space even if it's only a few feet would make offense significantly easier. Easiest personal example is I played a couple high school soccer games at Creighton's field that's a full 120x80 yards vs playing on HS football fields at 120x53 and it made defending insanely more difficult.
I would prefer a scenario where the 4 pointer was only available with under 5 left in the game…or if a team gets down by 20. I also think free throws should be eliminated or changed. It’s boring and needlessly extends the game. I’m not sure of the answer…maybe a free shot, maybe give the offense the ball out of bounds and a 15 second runoff if the defense fouls more than 3 times in the last 2 minutes. Somebody can come up with better ideas, but I think those are the areas I would focus on. Also change to a 55 or 60 game season….
Before there are any big rule changes to try to lessen offense, I'd prefer the NBA try to enforce the rules on the books that drastically benefit the offense with the way they're enforced right now.
Most people would probably first think of travelling and carrying, but my big one is moving screens. I think if they started calling fouls on moving screens it would help a lot in creating a more level playing field between the offense and defense, and give defenses a lot more options in how they want to defend pick and rolls and other actions.
For instance, I love Jokic and don't like the Lakers, but how is this not an offensive foul? (I guess maybe this one is more of a grab than a moving screen, but I'll put it into the same category.)
Most people would probably first think of travelling and carrying, but my big one is moving screens. I think if they started calling fouls on moving screens it would help a lot in creating a more level playing field between the offense and defense, and give defenses a lot more options in how they want to defend pick and rolls and other actions.
For instance, I love Jokic and don't like the Lakers, but how is this not an offensive foul? (I guess maybe this one is more of a grab than a moving screen, but I'll put it into the same category.)
Football and MMA can be confident that they've grown in the USA. Pro soccer can also be confident they've grown in the USA because it had nowhere to go but up. Women's soccer grew a lot internationally recently.
Basketball has grown internationally and WBB has grown domestically. Both college or NBA have nowhere near the prestige they had in the 90s or even up to mid 00s like you said. The top march madness stars of the 90s were household names far more than they are now and that was when NBA stars were obviously the biggest stars in the sports world simultaneously. The NBA was everything yet didn't completely outshine March college legends.
Baseball killed itself in a lot of ways but I also just think the slow grind nature of the sport had the clock ticking on it.
You might like the "Elam Ending." Basically the clock runs like normal until a predetermined point in the game like final TV timeout, start of overtime, etc. Then add X points to the winning team/tied score and that total becomes the 'winning score' for the game. It's used for OT in the G League, The Basketball Tournament and a few NBA All Star games.
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The problem is not the corner three, it's the court is to narrow with the size, speed, shooting abilities of the players these days. Space it out and now the area in between the 3 and the basket comes into play too as harder to cover the entire court
I agree, particularly in the NBA the court has gotten too small for the size and speed of the players. In the NBA it probably should be closer to 100'x60' vs the standard 94'x50'. If it were me I would also move the 3 point line back to 25' or so.
The piece from The Ringer isn't whining about teams making threes - just the opposite. Number of attempts is way up, but overall league shooting percentage is stagnant. It's arguing that if you take away the "easiest" 3 pointer, you'll get fewer games where teams run from arc to arc missing jumpers.
