In the late s, when the ABA introduced the 3-pointer, a generation of coaches had to rethink everything they knew about the game, and it made things hectic.
One ABA coach admits that at first, he never used the 3-pointer unless his team was losing late in the game and was desperate for points. And as a coach, if you have a shooter with range, you have to give him the freedom to take the footer, which is a philosophy that goes against what you learned as a young coach--namely, pound the ball inside.
It wasn't just the coaches, either. The fans loved it right away, but there were growing pains among the players. Michael Jordan is a perfect example of that.
He played college basketball at North Carolina without a 3-point line. In his rookie season with the Chicago Bulls, he was 9-for from 3-point range. He never shot better than 20 percent from long range until his fifth season in the NBA.
But by the time his remarkable tenure with the Bulls wrapped up, he was consistently shooting better than 35 percent from 3-point range. At one time, it was only 19 feet at its shortest point. In addition to the players continuing to improve, the utilization of the shot continues to evolve as well. They'd want you to challenge the defense and get the highest percentage shot," Elmore said.
I'm not sure the percentages work from that standpoint, but it's a trend. Though the distances differ between all levels of basketball, the 3-point line is universal.
The NBA has a foot 3-point line in the corners and a foot, 9-inch line elsewhere. The WNBA and the international game plays with a foot, 6-inch line. Whereas size was a crucial factor in matchups in the past, the 3-point line gave smaller teams a great equalizer. Shaquille O'Neal is 1-for from 3-point range in his career, that one a humorous bank shot buzzer-beater.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar played half his pro career with no 3-point line and half of his career with it. He was 1-for from behind the arc in his career. More than anything, though, the 3-point line has made basketball a completely different experience for the fans--a more spread-out game with another level of energy that wasn't there before the s.
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There are two baskets in basketball, and each basket gets its own 3-point line. Thus, there are two three-point lines in basketball. Essentially, the 3-point line offers an opportunity for both teams to show off their sharp shooting since they both need an edge.
The line was first tested in in a college game between Columbia and Fordham, but it was not kept as a rule. He did this so as to differentiate the league from the NBA, which was already bigger at the time, and also to add a bit of excitement to the game. It was officially made into a rule, and the merger of the American Basketball Association ABA with the NBA a few years before, made it necessary for uniformity since the ABA used the 3-point system since its foundation.
Several of the players had been exposed to both systems and the league, so it fit to make one uniform system. It was first viewed as a gimmick, but it caught on and was enjoyed — Chris Ford of the Bolton Celtics was the first to score through a 3-point shot. The maximum distance of the 3-point line from the basket has frequently changed, especially in the past- Abe Saperstein 3-point line was 25 feet from the basket and there was no scientific reasoning why he chose that length.
At the same time, it will bring back the midrange game. Kent, though, agrees that players who were good three-point shooters before likely will be now, saying only those who were marginal three-point shooters are likely to be affected.
It does matter a lot. But when you spend the time to do it, you are going to get wide-open shots. The reason they put that rule in is because they thought it would open up the game. I think it is going to have the opposite effect. Several players mentioned something those who voted in the rule might not have thought about — the fact that there will now be two three-point lines on the floor, one for the men and one for the women. Their feet are going to be on the line.
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