Back to basics rule

[konkmv]

I feel that the game is losing its creativity... the inside game is gone...3pointers 3pointers and 3 pointers again will dominate this league... i would not mind to erase the 3 point line... i liked shaq and russel more than stephen curry... 

[Monkhouse]

I feel that the game is losing its creativity... the inside game is gone...3pointers 3pointers and 3 pointers again will dominate this league... i would not mind to erase the 3 point line... i liked shaq and russel more than stephen curry...

Well things change.

That's just how it is. I liked Shaq too, but watching Steph Curry is also really entertaining.

[littleteapot]

I think the way defense gets played nowadays it would be pretty stale without the threat of deep shooting. I just wish they changed the rules/enforcement of perimeter defense - if you try to guard Curry or Harden tight, he's just going to jump into you and take 3 free throws.

[Evantime34]

I feel that the game is losing its creativity... the inside game is gone...3pointers 3pointers and 3 pointers again will dominate this league... i would not mind to erase the 3 point line... i liked shaq and russel more than stephen curry...

GET OFF MY LAWN!

[More Banners]

I think the way defense gets played nowadays it would be pretty stale without the threat of deep shooting. I just wish they changed the rules/enforcement of perimeter defense - if you try to guard Curry or Harden tight, he's just going to jump into you and take 3 free throws.

Agree.

Doesn't seem right that the offense initiates contact, and a (possibly motionless) defender is called for the foul.

Not crazy about backing a defender to the post isn't an offensive foul of you wind up and throw a shoulder.  The wind up is just too deliberate.

The off-ball stuff is just wild, but at least it goes both ways.

[DarkAzcura]

I enjoy watching offensive and defensive sets with lots of off ball movement personally. I prefer this era of basketball because of it honestly. I don't miss the days of iso's and throw it down to the big man and watch him work every single time basketball of the 90s and early 00s. Dreadful basketball, imo. It's predictable and boring.

There are things I do dislike about modern basketball, though, like offensive foul calls. Refs have become way too trigger happy about calling everything a charge nowadays. Too often have I seen a player set up way too late the last few years only to still get a charge called on the offensive player. When the offensive player is in the air, the defensive player can't set up for a charge after that, but it's been happening so much the last 4-6 years. It's driving me nuts, and it's really dangerous too.

[PhoSita]

I've never really felt that shrinking the floor is conducive to making teams more creative and fun to watch.

Have you had a lot of fun watching the Nets lately?

I do think there's a bit of a market inefficiency with guys who can give you reliable mid-range shooting getting passed over in favor of spot up three point shooters.  Guys like Brandon Bass, for example.

I think there's a place in a functional offense for smart mid-range shooting, as well as for the post-up.  You just can't base your offense around guys who use up 10-20 possessions a game isolating in the middle of the floor, or posting and reposting a million times on the low block.   That's not a bad thing.

[littleteapot]

The tough thing about the prevalence of 3s is that it feels like more often than not if both teams take like 20 threes the team that wins will be the one who hit 8 of them instead of 5, which isn't very satisfying to me.

[PhoSita]

The tough thing about the prevalence of 3s is that it feels like more often than not if both teams take like 20 threes the team that wins will be the one who hit 8 of them instead of 5, which isn't very satisfying to me.

Taking more threes means more misses, that's pretty much inevitable.

I think the best teams still go inside out, or at least outside in, which is to say they support the perimeter with interior scoring, and visa versa.  You've got to be able to leverage the space created by having shooting on the floor to get high efficiency shots in the paint.  Otherwise, as you point out, you're a slave to the greater variance of perimeter shooting.

[Big333223]

I love the way the game is now. The value of the 3 point line means more players have to be skilled at basketball and less guys can get away with just being big.

[Hemingway]

i have a different idea for a rule change. Ok so the hack a shaq is no fun to watch but it is within the rules. How about a rule where a team can opt not to take the shots and take the ball instead?

[kozlodoev]

I feel that the game is losing its creativity... the inside game is gone...3pointers 3pointers and 3 pointers again will dominate this league... i would not mind to erase the 3 point line... i liked shaq and russel more than stephen curry...

How does erasing the three-point line help with the emergence of once-in-a-generation talents such as Shaq and Russel?!