This season, the top six teams in the NBA are averaging at least 28 threes attempted per game. The Mavericks are one of those teams, attempting But I think it would reward skill, and at the same time, it opens up the court for more drives, more mid-range game," Cuban said, per Sefko.
Guys with mid-range games would be rewarded. In the three seasons with the shorter 3-point line, that average fell to Nowadays, we hear all sorts of rumors about a 4-point line that would extend even further out. While this might be adopted anytime soon, it would certainly be fun to watch and could possibly create a whole new category of players who specialized in long-range shots. Your email address will not be published. Connect with us. As more and more teams veer in that direction, large groups of fans have expressed concern over waning stylistic diversity.
Some teams gunning from behind the arc is fun. Every team doing so could potentially get boring. A number of ideas for altering shot selection have made the rounds. In his book Sprawball , Kirk Goldsberry suggested shrinking the lane to encourage more post-ups. Others have suggested the opposite of the NBA's plan. Rather than adopting the corner's length around the entire arc, the league could remove the corner 3-pointer to prevent shooters from camping out there. Thorn himself even seemed open to the idea of a 4-point shot in a interview with ESPN's Henry Abbott, which would theoretically space the floor for other kinds of shots even further than modern shooting.
The NBA has grown far more sophisticated in the implementation of rule changes over the past two-and-a-half decades. Shortening the 3-point line was a relatively untested plan, but the modern game has a number of laboratories it uses to tinker with new ideas.
The G League has been a popular staging ground. As has summer league. When an idea is ready for the big boys, it usually first finds its way into an exhibition.
The lessons the league learned in the mid-'90s are one of the primary reasons these changes are so thoroughly vetted. As well as any rule change works in theory, its success in practice is never guaranteed and its ripple effects are almost never anticipated.
It only took a minor tweak to change the course of Kerr's career. If the NBA ever submits a direct response to the weight of Curry's, it will have been thoroughly vetted before being unleashed upon the league and its record book.
The fans loved it right away, but there were growing pains among the players. Michael Jordan is a perfect example of that.
He played college basketball at North Carolina without a 3-point line. In his rookie season with the Chicago Bulls, he was 9-for from 3-point range. He never shot better than 20 percent from long range until his fifth season in the NBA.
But by the time his remarkable tenure with the Bulls wrapped up, he was consistently shooting better than 35 percent from 3-point range. At one time, it was only 19 feet at its shortest point. In addition to the players continuing to improve, the utilization of the shot continues to evolve as well. They'd want you to challenge the defense and get the highest percentage shot," Elmore said.
I'm not sure the percentages work from that standpoint, but it's a trend. Though the distances differ between all levels of basketball, the 3-point line is universal. The NBA has a foot 3-point line in the corners and a foot, 9-inch line elsewhere. The WNBA and the international game plays with a foot, 6-inch line.
Whereas size was a crucial factor in matchups in the past, the 3-point line gave smaller teams a great equalizer. Shaquille O'Neal is 1-for from 3-point range in his career, that one a humorous bank shot buzzer-beater. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar played half his pro career with no 3-point line and half of his career with it.
He was 1-for from behind the arc in his career. More than anything, though, the 3-point line has made basketball a completely different experience for the fans--a more spread-out game with another level of energy that wasn't there before the s.
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