when the Rockets were winning championship the 3 point line was much closer to the basket then it is now. MAYBE the players percentage will go back up when the 3 point line is closer. What do you guys think.
i think the offenses would run better if the 3pt line was completely removed. mid-range jumper is completely gone from the nba. also, i don't think percentages went up when the line was closer. i think players just heaved up more crap shots from there.
I like the 3 point shot. If anything, they could move it back some. But they would then need to widen the court as well. Which is not such a bad idea either.
The 3-pt line was moved closer in the 1994-95 season, the year the Rockets won their 2nd championship. Prior to that year, few teams were lethal behind the line as a whole. There were specialist on some teams, but as a whole team, the Rockets had the best collection of 3-Pt shooters. If my memory serves me right, it was Houston, Phoenix, and Portland that were the best 3-Pt shooting teams. The moved in line (intended to increase scoring) was the 2nd worst thing that happened to NBA offenses. Pat Riley's Knicks were the worst. The NBA should have just banned the Knicks from the 90's with their hand checking tackling stupid ass style basketball if they wanted the offenses to be better. Anyhow, if you look at the stats, everyone began shooting the closer 3 ball. Players like Antonio McDyess and Chris Webber were shooting it from the closer line all the time. And scoring still didn't increase. After 1 or 2 years (i can't remember), they moved the line back. What happened though was that because the 3 pt line (formerly a specialty) is now a main stream skill (or lack thereof), because even though the overall % or 3-Pters made went down when the line was moved back to the original distance, the number of 3-pters taken was still way high like when it was moved in. I remember Barkley stated that he'd stop shooting 3's when the line was moved back. I don't think he was able to resist the temptation. Soooooo, In my opinion, I think they should move the 3 pt line a foot futher out. Maybe then, basketball could get back to the way it was played in the 80's and early 90's (without the fighting) when hoops was at its best.
First, I wouldn't mind seeing the 3 point line moved in a foot. There needs to be a way to negate a dominating center who can essentially dislodge the defender and dunk the ball. Second, the reason for low scoring has nothing to do with 3 point line. It has nothing to do with the theory of better shooting in the early 90's. There are still plenty of great shooters in the NBA. The real difference between today and the 80's and early 90's is that defenders are so much better. It's the rare occasion these days that a offender has an open look at the basket, unless your name is Shaq.
How bout this.... 1) Widen the court about 3-4 feet each side 2) Move the 3 point line to a uniform 20 ft 3) Make a NEW 4 point line 24 ft away I bet scoring will go up (I know Fg% will drop but who cares, its all about points here )
Teams would score more if they passed to try to score rather than dribble. There is 3X more dribbling these days than from the 80's. Defense has improved because a defender just sits with his hands on the offensive guy while he tries to dribble his way to the basket. In the 80's with the ball being passed around from player to player, the defender couldn't just sit there with his hands on the offensive player.
ooh... make a 10pt shot, add an extra basket, 10 feet higher and that can be a 50pt shot!! oh! add trampolines... Rock & Jock Slamball NBA Competition!
reminds me of those old shaq commercials, where hes an old man telling basketball stories to his grand kids ...."and i was dominating blah blah blah....that is until they put in the moving backboard"
No!!! I say the players learn how to shoot and stay in their shooting ranges. Colleges should moved their 3point line back though.
If I have to choose between a zone defense and the previous defensive rules, I will take the zone defense. Illegal defense was called almost at random and the offenses became stagnant. If they invented some new rule, like no double teaming at all and could enforce it fairly. I would be willing to try it.
This is a two edged sword. If you call too many fouls, you stop the action. If you do not call enough, you end up with the Knicks grab and hold basketball that most of us hate. A radical idea I had was to make the punishment for fouls tougher and effective immediately. If you commit a foul, you have to leave the game until the next dead ball. I like the topic. Sorry to post back to back.
Maybe they should make the courts larger. The defense these days are very sofisicated than they were in the 70s and 80s. With larger courts, defending players are harder, more room to shoot/dribble and less collision with players which results in less fouls. Just like baseball change their games by lowering the pitching mounds to make pitcher have less advantage whihc resulted in more runs.
Is the three really the problem? Or is the problem really the three? Is a lack of passing the failure? Or is the failure a lack of passing? Are the fouls slowing the game? Or are the games slowing the fouls?
