LockoutSeason wrote:ChiTownHero1992 wrote:I'll be the first to admit i haven't watched an NBA minute since early November because i got so bored an disinterested in the product. Even before that I was maybe watching 1/4 - 1/2 a game a week. I'm just done with what i see in the NBA, i'll continue to watch NCAAB and NCAAW, its atleast slightly less whinning and chucking.
College basketball shoots more 3s than NBA.
Kentucky has the #1 offense and 42% of their shots are 3s. The #2 offense (Samford) shoots even more 3s.
52% of Illinois’ shots are 3.
53% of Louisville’s shots are 3s
Caitlin Clark shoots 9 threes per game and she just won athlete of the year.
Same with Euroleague, around 40% of their shots are 3s.
So how exactly do any of these leagues have “less chucking”. NBA players also make their shots at a way, way higher rate.
It proves that all the complaints about 3-pointers have always been fake. I think a lot of older fans want to hate today’s NBA but couldn’t find a legitimate reason so they had to settle on “too many 3s”.
College basketball shoots too many 3's also.
The problem is there is no variety in American basketball. In college the 3pt shot was an equalizer for the lesser talented teams/smaller colleges vs the universities that had all of the All-American/McDonalds team players:
- UNLV Running Rebels Larry Johnson/Stacy Augmon/Greg Anthony played a press defense that created their run and gun offense
- UCLA the UCLA full court 2-2-1 press under John Wooden
- Princeton ran the Princeton motion offense that would backcut you to death
- North Carolina four corner offense (this was boring but it helped the lesser talented teams)
- Arkansas 40 minutes of hell press defense
- Loyola Marymount under Paul Westhead ran a full court press, 10 seconds or less offense
Notice that a lot of those teams used defense to create offense. The problem with today's offense is not that they just shoot too many 3's, it seems like the defense lets them shoot too many 3's. No one pressures the ball coming up, we should just make it a 15 second shot clock.
There is too much offense and not enough defense and without the perception of any defense being played all that "skill" seems like it has not resistance. Its like playing a videogame on easy mode, there is no challenge and becomes boring.
Force offenses to work for more than 40-50 three-point shots a game and it might become interesting again. Lets seem some of this otherworldly athleticism around the paint and the rim, not 30ft away.....
I'm so tired of the typical......
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