3's

["Dan Forant" <dforant1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Leave the 3's alone and make the court wider therefore widening the paint
area.

DanF

----- Original Message -----
From:
> I totally agree with Kim. The three point shot wrecks the offensive flow.
I
> would be willing to consider a compromise to eliminating it - limit each
> team to 2 three-pointers per quarter, or 3 per half. This would introduce
> strategy - save your 3s until you need them.
>
> josh
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-celtics@xxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-celtics@xxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of
> Kim Malo
> Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 9:26 AM
> To: celtics@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: threes
>
>
> At 07:16 PM 1/23/2004, Douglas342@xxxxxxx wrote:
> >     OK, folks, forget for a minute about whether
> > Walter/Antoine/Pierce/Kobe/whoever takes/makes too many or not
> > enough.  Forget the Celtics for the moment.  If you're King of the NBA,
> > do you abolish the three-point shot?  If so, why?  If not, why not?  And
> > while you're at it, what do you tell Evil Antoine who wants a four-point
> > line maybe eight feet outside the three-point line?  (We won't talk
about
> > Psycho Antoine who wants five points for a shot from beyond half court.)
>
> Abolish it. I hate the shot. Look, basketball at its best is a game of
> continual motion and flow highlighted by athleticism and controlled
> aggression. The three point as an occasional option in an overall offense
> based in that is fine, but that's no longer what it's become. It's now an
> end in itself, and is there anything more ugly than a beautiful break
> ending in an unnecessary 3 point heave clanging off the rim with no one
> there to rebound. It's too tempting - you get extra points for taking the
> easy way out with a shot that doesn't require teamwork, motion, controlled
> athleticism and actually defeating the defense - the intellectual
> underpinnings of basketball at its best. Merely someone standing outside
> and heaving one up. In some cases taking us back decades to the days of
the
> set shot. It completely disrupts flow because of that and the long
rebounds
> it generates, turning basketball into a game of long ball HORSE. Ugh. Also
> eliminates a lot of strategy with things like fouls, since you're not
going
> to get them that way.
>
> I've no doubt Antoine was at least half kidding, although I have no doubt
> he'd take advantage of a 4 point line if it existed, but obviously any
such
> thing would just reward people even more for doing the wrong thing.
>
> Kim