Adam Silver says the NBA has heard the critiques and is looking into fixing the 3 point volumes

[Still Benefited]

He’s stressed because he knows you can’t fix a fundamental flaw in the game.



If you take 50 3s and make 35% of them, you score 52.5 points.

If you take 50 2s and make 50% of them, you score 50 points.

Spamming 3s is the best strategy offensively and defenses can’t do shyt about it because they also gotta guard the rim.


it ain’t pretty but it’s the game.

Well the game can go extinct,got off to a nice start watching the wnba this year. Dont force my hand Adam Silver#WeHaveOptions

 

[Diondon]

108 three attempts
117 - 108

 

[Still Benefited]

Exactly.

Put a cap on 10 per quarter until the last 5 minutes of the game.

Not bad,they need some way just to make sure Andre Drummond aint shooting 3s for no reason. I dont care if just like load management,they do 3 management. Make it where certain players get a cap based on their shooting percentage(decided by the coach). The coach can authorize a certain 1 or 2 players to have unlimited shots. The coach can up the limits the more consistent he sees a player getting. The rest of the team can get 5 a quarter maybe,while Steph for example is designated an unlimited shooter. But id prefer a max per game determined by the coach. Until the last 5 minutes like you say. Maybe even the whole 4th quarter in case a team is down by a lot.

 

[Bleed The Freak]

108 three attempts
117 - 108

The NBA must take extreme prejudice to get this fiasco under control.

There are 48 minutes in a basketball game and that's taking over two per minute!

 

[Bleed The Freak]

Not bad,they need some way just to make sure Andre Drummond aint shooting 3s for no reason. I dont care if just like load management,they do 3 management. Make it where certain players get a cap based on their shooting percentage(decided by the coach). The coach can authorize a certain 1 or 2 players to have unlimited shots. The coach can up the limits the more consistent he sees a player getting. The rest of the team can get 5 a quarter maybe,while Steph for example is designated an unlimited shooter. But id prefer a max per game determined by the coach. Until the last 5 minutes like you say. Maybe even the whole 4th quarter in case a team is down by a lot.

Yeah at this point they got to find a way to get this under control even if it requires extreme measures and players piss and moan about it.

This is absolutely indefensible to have this many shots chucked from that distance.

 

[Bleed The Freak]

And shame on Adam Silver for letting get into this point and not doing something about it before it reached this level.

This is not rocket science to watch that this game is absolutely ridiculously out of control. He was supposed to be on top of this when the Rockets implemented this bullshyt.

And where the fukk are the coaches watching nikkas brick shot after shot?!!!!

Say what you want David Stern would never allow this to happen for this long.

What's happened to the NBA is the same thing that happened to the Marvel studio brand. It turned off the hardcore fans who brought in the casuals and now nobody's watching it.

 

[holidayinn21]

Don't run now you bytch ass coward @holidayinn21. You wanna keep posting lies about me, then put up, Acccept the ban bet.

Man, shut up. I ain't accepting shyt

You ain't see me run and hide when the Warriors was winning. Meanwhile, you run and hide at the first sign of trouble. True frontrunning hoe shyt

 

[Still Benefited]

Yeah at this point they got to find a way to get this under control even if it requires extreme measures in the player is piss and moan about it.

This is absolutely indefensible to have this many shots chucked from that distance.

I just dont want the good and great 3 point shooters being penalized. I think if they give coaches the power to set limits,players can only blame the coach. And if coaches set their good and great shooters up for unlimited shots,we will all know who it is complaining. The bums who have no business shooting all those 3


It would also stop some of the great big men from shooting 3s. If you have a big and a guard who both shoot 3s about the same. It would make more sense to max out your guard and other 3 point shooter,since your big can get it in the paint effeciently. Force these coaches to actually coach since they wanna just look at analytics all day

 

[Bleed The Freak]

I just dont want the good and great 3 point shooters being penalized. I think if they give coaches the power to set limits,players can only blame the coach. And if coaches set their good and great shooters up for unlimited shots,we will all know who it is complaining. The bums who have no business shooting all those 3


It would also stop some of the great big men from shooting 3s. If you have a big and a guard who both shoot 3s about the same. It would make more sense to max out your guard and other 3 point shooter,since your big can get it in the paint effeciently. Force these coaches to actually coach since they wanna just look at analytics all day

That's the thing we don't mind if Sam Perkins or Bill Laimbeer shoots the occasional three-pointer or got hot because those guys can generally shoot.

But even those guys didn't just chuck with no conscience. It was in the flow of the game.

They have absolutely got to put a cap on the amount of threes that can be attempted per game I don't care who it pisses off.

Can you imagine if dudes like John Starks or Chuck Person or Antoine Walker played right now?!!!

They fired the absolutely living hell out of the basketball back THEN- they'd be hoisting 25 threes a game!!!

 

[Still Benefited]

That's the thing we don't mind if Sam Perkins or Bill Laimbeer shoots the occasional three-pointer or got hot because those guys can generally shoot.

But even those guys didn't just chuck with no conscience. It was in the flow of the game.

They have absolutely got to put a cap on the amount of threes that can be attempted per game I don't care who it pisses off.

Can you imagine if dudes like John Starks or Chuck Person or Antoine Walker played right now?!!!

They fired the absolutely living hell out of the basketball back THEN- they'd be hoisting 25 threes a game!!!

I completely agree,as long as they dont put a cap on greatness


Guys have a right to go out there and try to be the all time 3 point leader. But if and only if they are cut from that quilt. Not everybody should have the right to throw it up like they are trying to pass Ray Allen and Reggie Miller. Go have a hard convo with your coach and ask why he maxed you out at 3 per game

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Man, shut up. I ain't accepting shyt

You ain't see me run and hide when the Warriors was winning. Meanwhile, you run and hide at the first sign of trouble. True frontrunning hoe shyt

Of course, you won't accept it because you know you're bullshytting.

I was still here posting after the Warriors lost in 2016 for a whole month, into free agency when KD got signed. I was posting up all in that KD to Warriors thread when all y'all were crying about him going to GS. Y'all just took a meme that malc created for laughs and ran with it. Just like you made up some bullshyt about me not posting last season when the Warriors were bad, despite the fact I stopped posting when the Nuggets won the championship the season before.

Yes, you ran and hid when the Warriors were winning. I quoted and tagged you and you were ghost. You didn't reply to any of my posts. Now you're pretending to get some win now when their window is closed.

That's worse than frontrunning, because you're not actually at the front, you're at the back thinking you've got some win after being wrong for a decade.

This is nearly two weeks after the Warriors lost in '16 -

@Gil Scott-Heroin how in the fukk are you still not tired of responding to this shyt

Now stop lying on my name and muddying up this shyt with your agenda.

 

[charknicks]

Difference is what you cited are not fundamental basketball plays. Their caps were created to make the game more fair and balanced between offense and defence as well as maintain the pacing of the game.
Dribbling, passing and shooting are THE fundamental basketball offensive plays.
And you don't put a cap on that period beyond what's mechanically inferred by the 24 sec/possession and 12mn/quarter limits.

Incorrect.
Any rules puts a cap on things one way or another. Its just a matter of if we are used to those rules or even like those rules (grew up with them, improve or make the game worse, etc). If you talking fundamentals, pulling up for a 3 pointer on a 3v1 fastbreak isnt fundamentals.

The NBA game is 48 minutes. The season is 82 games long. The fouls. Steps before traveling. All are caps.
Hell, the 3 point line wasnt always here. The game would be vastly differently if it wasnt there at all.

We all want more offense ( as in points), so then why do people hate the All Star game?

 

[AAKing23]

nikkas wanna see individuality, creativeness, artistry and head to head competitiveness.

The bricking hella shots shyt is an overrated talking point. Most of these brehs in the 2000s were shooting like 44-47%. If you're attempting 20 shots in a game the difference between 45% and 50% is literally 1 shot. The narrative that all the top guys back then were just bricking mid range shots all game is BS.

And the games were way more physical

Using higher FG percentage as an argument is a lazy stance, it's more nuanced than that

 

[The_Sheff]

I use to listen to several NBA centric podcast but got tired of those too because all they talked about was how such and such team isn’t taking enough 3s and the plays high lighted were just 3s and who went what from 3.

And yeah watching someone breakdown a defender off the dribble or on the post and missing is more entertaining than watching a volley of bricked 3s. Trying to use that as a gotcha is like claiming all sex is the same.

The dude Gil be missing KEY points in his arguments. He thinks all missed shots are the same. He can’t understand why the viewer would see a difference between a missed 3 and a missed contested 15 footer.

Working the ball down low or to a spot and missing from that spot is a hell of a lot better to watch than someone bricking wide open 3s. I’d much rather watch the Celtics work a play to get Paul Pierce a contested jumper at the elbow than to watch constant drive and kicks for bricked 3s. If one misses it can be seen as good defense played a role in contesting a shot the Celtics worked to create, when the other misses it’s just a brick.

Fans really don’t like to see missed open shots and that’s what this 3 point competition shyt is putting on display the entire game. In sports there are things the fans key on to determine if what they are watching is high quality and if certain players are good. In basketball one of those keys is missing wide open shots. NBA players are expected to make open shots on a consistent basis. You will not be able to sell to fans that when they see players missing 70% of shots that those were good shots and the product they are viewing isn’t shyt. It would be like watching a QB who consistently misses wide open receivers or a hitter who flirts with the Mendoza line. It’s not acceptable, no matter what a statistician will tell you.

 

[Bleed The Freak]

The dude Gil be missing KEY points in his arguments. He thinks all missed shots are the same. He can’t understand why the viewer would see a difference between a missed 3 and a missed contested 15 footer.

Working the ball down low or to a spot and missing from that spot is a hell of a lot better to watch than someone bricking wide open 3s. I’d much rather watch the Celtics work a play to get Paul Pierce a contested jumper at the elbow than to watch constant drive and kicks for bricked 3s. If one misses it can be seen as good defense played a role in contesting a shot the Celtics worked to create, when the other misses it’s just a brick.

Fans really don’t like to see missed open shots and that’s what this 3 point competition shyt is putting on display the entire game.

The bottom line is it doesn't take a lot of skill to take a dribble between your legs and take a step back three-pointer and shoot it 20 times.

Breaking your defender down or making a post move and a counter move to good defense is impressive.

And if folks don't believe me

Would you rather watch Kobe 06-10
Or Harden 12-16

Both lit up the league but which one was more nauseating? Which was more impressive?