[HN Gopher] How can NBA address 3-point boom? Ranking 12 potenti...
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How can NBA address 3-point boom? Ranking 12 potential solutions
Author : amichail
Score : 10 points
Date : 2024-12-28 20:28 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| amichail wrote:
| Why not make the points awarded for a shot equal to the speed at
| which the ball goes through the hoop?
| bobnamob wrote:
| Hacker: love it, rig up a rpi and a pair of light sensors,
| score on a sliding 0-5 scale
|
| Ball fan: Borderline impossible to officiate at non-
| professional level.
|
| Keeping the "casual" game relatively similar to the
| professional game is important for talent feed
| Kon-Peki wrote:
| That would incentivize more 3s and dunks. The article spends
| plenty of time describing why incentivizing dunks is a bad
| idea, and of course, the question is about how you get fewer 3s
| attempted.
|
| Here's my suggestion: reduce the rim diameter slightly. This is
| something that could easily be tested in the development
| leagues, especially if it were a removable insert.
| silisili wrote:
| A lot of these are almost nonsensical, but a few rational ones
| exist. Probably the most reasonable is just adding another 5 feet
| to the three point line all the way around(which yes, means
| widening the court).
|
| Drawing your own lines, or another 4 point line? I feel things
| like that would actually exacerbate the problem.
| bdangubic wrote:
| what do you think would be logistics of changing every arena to
| accomodate larger court - not just in the US but
| internationally? changing court size is out of the question for
| sure.
|
| to me the main problem is that 3-pt used to be reserved for
| only a couple of players on each team that could make them with
| high enough percentage that coaches would allow them (imagine
| bill laimbeir shooting 3's on MJ's Bulls...). Steph changed
| that - he made shooting cool and new generation of ballers grew
| up shooting (including 7-footers). NBA needs to make a change
| such that only handful of players on each team can make 3's
| again (like before) and for that moving the 3-pt to 27+ feet
| and eliminating corner 3's is the only sane-ish way forward
| silisili wrote:
| > what do you think would be logistics of changing every
| arena to accomodate larger court - not just in the US but
| internationally?
|
| I don't know about every court, especially internationally,
| but most courts are assembled on site and have plenty of room
| to work with. I pasted a link below of a typical court being
| assembled. Notice there is plenty of room all around when
| done, usually for bench, scorekeepers, random floor seating,
| etc. They could make it work if they wanted.
|
| Is it a rational ask? I don't know, one would have to collect
| data and feedback from all professional courts. But I don't
| think it's as big as having to redesign or reconstruct an
| entire building.
|
| https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7YULqWbKsDw
| bdangubic wrote:
| interesting! thanks for sharing
| HelloMcFly wrote:
| I don't feel like a suggestion that materially widens the court
| is actually a serious solution. There's too many gyms built,
| too many other leagues playing on the standard court size,
| widening the court fundamentally changes the game too much in
| ways that are too integrated with literal physical
| infrastructures across the globe and levels of play.
| GenerWork wrote:
| Fine, I'll bite: why is this an issue and why does it need to be
| addressed?
| polski-g wrote:
| Some people claim it makes the game more boring to watch and
| might drive down viewership.
| bdangubic wrote:
| it is not _some people claim_ though, viewership is down and
| getting worse so much so that NBA is doing crazy shit like
| in-season tournaments and silly pick up games shit for All
| Star ( https://www.nba.com/news/2025-nba-all-star-game-new-
| format )... the league and game itself are a shadow of their
| former self and main culprit lies in the fact that today's
| game is just chuckers chucking 3's
| 1659447091 wrote:
| > viewership is down and getting worse so much so that NBA
| is doing crazy shit
|
| That's surprising to see as the WNBA is steadily growing
| and had a large jump this year--supposedly due to Caitlin
| Clark Effect[0] (a generational player). But they had been
| growing viewership steadily before that. I don't really
| care for basketball in any form, too many points, but I
| would catch headlines on espn & other sports channels and
| the WNBA was taking up a lot of real estate in the top
| headlines this year and before that it was usually about
| another attendance or viewing record. Curious what they are
| doing different than the Men's game?
|
| [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caitlin_Clark_effect
| bdangubic wrote:
| WNBA has a bonafide star for the first time ever - a
| full-on household name! my daughter who isn't even a
| basketball fan made me get tickets when she played the
| Mystics. If she sticks with playing in Europe WNBA
| ratings next year will be comparable to synchronized
| swimming at the Olympics (I hope this doesn't happen and
| WNBA can build of this momentum).
| bdangubic wrote:
| - NBA has become unwatchable
|
| - not my opinion, the ratings are down through and through
|
| - Christmas used to be owned by NBA, this time only 12% of
| sports fans watched the game. NFL has two games on Netflix that
| killed all hopes of decent viewership
|
| - that analytics have caught up that 3-pt is not a little more
| than 2-pt, it is 50 (FIFTY) percent more
|
| - the entire game has now become chuck 3's for 48 minutes (I am
| more than casual NBA fan and I tried watching a local game few
| days ago, LaMelo Ball shot 10 3's... IN THE FIRST QUARTER)
|
| NBA needs to figure this shit out and faaaaaast as even someone
| like me who generally watches 50+ games per year before
| playoffs on TV and dozen or so in person is losing interest in
| the product
| HelloMcFly wrote:
| > NBA has become unwatchable... not my opinion, the ratings
| are down through and through
|
| First of all, this is _clearly_ an opinion. It isn 't
| debatable that the ratings are down, but since the ratings
| are down for all broadcast and cable TV broadly it isn't that
| damning of NBA specifically, and certainly isn't a strong
| supporting fact that NBA games themselves are "unwatchable".
|
| > Christmas used to be owned by NBA, this time only 12% of
| sports fans watched the game
|
| The NBA can't compete with the NFL on ratings, and it's a
| fool's errand to make that the standard. The NFL is _the_
| ratings juggernaut in America, nothing compares to it. The
| NBA 's viewership numbers for Christmas saw a substantial
| increase this year with the highest viewership since 2019.
|
| A big issue has been how hard it can be for many fans to
| watch their own team's home games due to regional sports
| networks and blackout rules for cable, or high expense for a
| standalone streaming network. Whether the new broadcast deal
| helps or hurts this remains to be seen - I think splitting
| the games up across so many services is going to have a
| continued negative effect even if it's very lucrative for the
| league.
|
| That said, I can't argue with your lived experience. I do
| think the idea that every time plays the same way is out-and-
| out preposterous, but I think the bigger issue is a) an
| overall soft whistle has made it hard to play defense esp on
| three-point shooting and b) refs are inconsistent at best,
| arbitrary at median, and petty at worst.
| xhkkffbf wrote:
| I think the poster was saying, "This isn't just my own,
| lone opinion. Many others seem to feel the same way."
|
| And that becomes a problem for the business, despite your
| own stat about the Christmas numbers.
| bdangubic wrote:
| _ratings are down for all broadcast and cable TV broadly it
| isn 't that damning of NBA specifically, and certainly
| isn't a strong supporting fact that NBA games themselves
| are "unwatchable"._
|
| you are right, the ratings are down but not for all the
| sports, I think NBA specifically has an issue they need to
| resolve. and my words were harsh but I spoke my mind so-to-
| speak - I am losing interest watching games where it is not
| uncommon to see more than half the shots taken be 3's...
|
| I agree with both your points A and B. the article does
| mention hand-checking outside the box etc which totally
| makes sense. If I was Silver I would
|
| - SHORTEN the season. I would make Christmas opening night
| of the league. If NFL wants to take over everything NBA
| needs to either admit defeat or fight a bit, opening on
| Christmas would help both with making season shorter and
| making it more attractive.
|
| - Both your A and B points
|
| - Move 3-pt line back to 27+ feet
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