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The NBA has a precedent for changing rules to even the playing field when there's a completely dominant force in the league IIRC..
Wilt Chamberlain's dominance of the league forced them to widen the lane from 12 feet to 16 feet, because his presence was "unfair" for the compe ion IIRC..
The Warriors have maximized the value of 3-point shooting, to the point where they are virtually unstoppable and unbeatable, tbh..is it time for the NBA to widen the entire court and change the distance of the 3-point lines? This would open up more lanes for driving and attacking the rim, etc..
They have completely changed the concept of basketball, as Pop said yesterday..
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if they change, Curry automatically becomes one of the five greatest players of all time
I don't know about that, but I have this conspiracy theory about the League leveling inter-league games through officiating. The NBA was getting too much heat from its Playoff format and not going with a fairer Best of 16 bracket. All of a sudden the EAST is the hardest (on paper) and more geneous conference.
They can remove the 3pt line and instantly turn Curry into an inefficient player
After Curry wins FMVP, IMO
Should move the 3-point line from 23.9 feet to 25 feet tbh
The league has, and does, encourage certain styles of play, with the goal of making the game more exciting (and bringing in more money). I don't think it's designed to favor any team, conference, or anything else. It's marketing.
A few years ago, one particular NBA exec took things too far. He would send the refs "advisories", where he would encourage them to make certain calls more often. And his examples would be a half dozen clips of one player, doing whatever he wanted to stop. And afterwards, that one player would get hammered over and over again - as you would expect. That practice was stopped, and the exec was removed from being in charge of the referees. He should have been fired.
The 3P line has become a much bigger factor in the game, for sure. But teams always have the option of running a guy off the 3P line. The problem with doing that to Curry is that he will blow past you and get an easier shot, or make a perfect pass to get someone else a wide-open shot. He's a very good ball handler, he can create a shot for himself just about any time he wants it (because he only needs a crack of daylight), and right now he is shooting as well as anyone has ever shot the ball. The only way you could use the rules to stop that would be to make it legal for defenders to -hammer him, and only him. Probably not a good rule change.
That would mean getting rid of the sideline 3's altogether. They could accomplish just about the same thing by getting rid of the short sideline 3P line, and extending the curved arc all the way to the sidelines.
I think they ought to make a 4 point shot from beyond mid-court.
You could always bring back handchecking to stop Curry. Imagine Kawhi being allowed to guard him with handchecking.
It would have to be for Curry only, because if you made it league-wide, the highlight reel plays would be cut in half.
A league with handchecking would be unwatchable without Michael Jordan, tbh..
They could change the rules for better compe ion, while maintaining the entertaining product the league has had for the past 4 years..
Get the out of hear they had one of the most fortunate playoff runs in history then struggled against LeBron and some bums he found in the parking garage.
They have won 106 games out of their last 126..that's just ridiculous, tbh, the best run I have ever seen from an NBA team..
I watch the officials pretty closely and I don't see anything to suggest that it's true.
The officials are evaluated pretty thoroughly these days and they are graded much more objectively than they once were, and those evaluations are tied much more directly to playoff assignments than in the past (when tenure and status had as much or more more to do with who worked late in the playoffs than actual game evaluations).
Unless you believe that the league has urged the officials' office to be less objective in its evaluations (to ignore obvious errors that benefit the East in East-West games), or that the officials are willing to sacrifice the prestige of playoff assignments to effectuate some broader league wide mandate to even things out -- and at the same time wholly discount the obvious improvement of the middle of the East -- I don't think there's much reason to think that officiating is driving parity.
I think there are a significant number of teams in the East (Miami, Indiana, Charlotte, Detroit, Orlando, to name a few) that have gotten better by virtue of improved personnel, either through good coaching hires or player personnel decisions or by virtue of players returning from injury. As the quality in the middle of the East has improved, the overall balance of the league has improved -- as would be expected.
Not yet but we might see some new rules if the Warriors continue this dominance for the next few years.
I'd rather see the rules change on defense to open up post play again. No more doubling guys without the ball. GS is dominant for their defense too where they can prevent post ups and still get back. NBA should choke off smallball by letting bigs be bigs again.
Of course, I mean, I didn't expect anyone to take that seriously tbh
No changes...more power to Curry and the Warriors if they continue to produce under the current rules. People act like Curry's Warriors have won 5+ les or something.
1 ring. 1 damn ring and people are flipping the out. Dude is just on some next level . Why are Spurs fans ting bricks? You really think we are going to win every year? We have a shot this year, no doubt. You guys are jumping ship and freaking out because of Curry's dominance. If they win, they win. Spurs over everything but I would rather Curry win over Kobe, Lebron, Melo, Harden or anyone else other than the Spurs.
That at would be nice tbh. I want to beat them.
If they did that, Jimmer might get back in the league.
Holy . Had not looked at that.... Absolutely disgusting.
where is apa9 to agree with everything harlem has said?
Cross post this to reddit NBA so I can lol at their responses please.
this is almost as bad as the broncos are targeted by the refs take, tbh
it's the same shot that's been available since they moved the line back twenty years ago, tbh. this wouldn't even be a thread if daniel green wasn't playing like a huge got his year. and never would have been posted when the spurs won 5 because they got hot from three for the playoffs
spurstalk going to become more angsty when they realize supercurry and the lightskin crew is going to keep tim in his last year from getting number 6..
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