I see that a person can win 8 medals from swimming, but only one from basketball? Why not a 3-point contest or a skills contest for basketball? Gymnastics and running has multiple competitions too. How lame does it sound if Michael Phelps got 8 gold medals for U.S., but 12 NBA players will only get one medal count for U.S.?
so, you're saying that a 3pt shooting contest gold medal should equal the Men's Basketball Team Championship gold medal?
Not for the purposes of offering more medals, but a 2-on-2 or 3-on-3 outdoor half-court contest would be fun to watch and complement it the way beach vollyeball does to regular volleyball. I don't think it would attract many NBA players due to injury risk but it would be fun to watch The Professor and Escalade go for gold. And obviously they would have to use american MC's for the courtside commentary.
I have thought about this too, but there is nothing that can really regulate the quality of 1 gold medal, and if they did, everyone not from the USA would be pissed.
Depends how you look at it. Check out some of the existing competitions and tell me all of them equal the Men's Basketball Team gold medal.
The comparison I'm using is a Team sport (BBall, Hockey, Soccer, Water Polo, Volleyball, etc) spawning individual golds within that sport which are otherwise never a serious competition anywhere else. You'd basically be inventing a new individual sport. I mean, if you have Free Throws as a gold medal sport, I doubt a dream teamer would represent the USA. Calvin Murphy would probably enter.
Well, to play off of swimming and track, you could have: * free-style shooting. Similar to high jump, or pole vault, you would get three chances to clear some height you set (distance of your shot). * hook-shot shooting. Same thing, but you must do hook shots. * jump-shooting. Same thing, but you must take jump shots. What would be the absolute best sport in the history of sports: Olympic Medley Team Basketball It's like regular Olympic basketball, but... 1st Quarter: Only Jump shots 2nd Quarter: Only 3-pointers 3rd Quarter: Only Hook shots (would you not watch this?!) 4th Quarter: Only Dunks
If you do that then do you have homerun contest and pitching contest for baseball? What about handball and water polo? Don't forget soccer. Hell lets just give everyone that participates a medal.
haha...Olympic Medley Basketball. I'd so watch that. Overtimes would be Free-style (every type of shot counts), but Free Throws count 4 pts...let the flopping begin!
I love it -- actually ONLY free throws would count in overtime. Flop-o-rama! It would be as bad as the penalty kicks in futbol. By the way, can you really imagine the fourth quarter with only dunks. Each defense would just zone up around the lane and people would come flying in, over and over, trying to dunk. It would be the ugliest event in the Olypics, which is saying something. You could also build your team for the different specialties. So Hakim Warrick would be on the team for the fourth quarter.
But, what do you do about simultaneous flops. Does a tie go to the offense? Or whoever hits the ground first, or whichever side has the most simultaneous floppers wins. And if you don't think this can be a big issue, then you've never see a jump ball during under-16, Euroleague try-outs. Also, I could see the defenses just standing still to avoid any contact, somewhat like Nitwitz's defense against USA. Maybe you could combat that by adding a "no contest" technical fouls. Something like uncontested layups/dunks are technical fouls.
The closest equivalent to a 100m, 200m, etc. would be to play basketball for 10 min, 20 min, etc. Ten minute games would favor more upsets and the best players could play the entire game. Full games (40 min is Olympic length, correct?) would favor depth. You have to admit 10 minute games would be pretty fun. Teams would be playing hardcore defense out the gate and every make or miss means much more.
I disagree. The closest equivalence would be to scale the court, physically. A 100 m dash would be a half-sized court with 8' rims. A 'distance' basketball event would have 100 m court length and 30' rims. I would definitely watch that!
These are great questions, and I'm completely confident that the IOC could deal with them competently. I would say the stalemate approach (10 players standing still in overtime, with even the jump ball just falling to earth between two statue-like players) would result in 10 technical fouls. Each team would shoot five free throws, and it would, in effect, become the classic futbol penalty kicks situation.
