All they have to do is call carrying, traveling, and moving screens. Have players get paid for games in uniform. And have the media tell the truth about players attitude or lack there of on court.
@@seymourbunyan9474doesn’t look like the but too much emphasise if anything they clampped it down harder on smaller players like trey young and Steph okay but these other guys are fucking way bigger then the little guys and they do it more
Allow hand checks above the 3-point line. Simple as this. Between the half-court and the 3-point line you are allowed to put more hands on the player before he reaches his release point. Be more conservative with illegal screens. Stop allowing the wiiiiiiide shifting stance while setting the pick. This will make the players to go to the 3 to be open as much. Make basketball a fight again. Outside of slapping and undestepping, most should be tolerated.
Forreal. I feel like Moving Screens aren't even in the refs lexicon anymore, they let players get away with too much offensively but they gimp the ability to play good D.
we had that in the 90s and early 2000s, it led to some very boring basketball, 80 to 70 point games like both teams were made up of Russel Westbrick clones chucking away. No thank you. The rules changed for good reason.
That tush push comparison is soo spot on. It’s nice because only the eagles can do it, but if every team suddenly starts doing it and it’s an automatic 4 yards it’s going to be bad for the league.
THAT is it. 5:20. No one is saying it. When I was growing up, the Ben Wallace pistons played different than the Steve Nash Suns. What made the ‘15 warriors so special was their style was so unique. We hadn’t seen anything like it. Now every team just shoots 3s, iso, and run pick and roll. It’s dry
Yep, gettin' there. College basketball has become much more equitable for the athletes and unwatchable for the viewer. As for the NBA I've taken to watching classic games from the 80's and 90's to get my B-ball fix.
I disagree that no one plays defense. With the 3-point shot, defenders have to cover way more ground than ever before. I've been watching the NBA since the 1970s, and they play way more defense now and defense is way more difficult than ever before. 90s-era NBA, when defense was supposedly at its best, they weren't playing basketball. They were wrestling.
@@burmajones803yea exactly there’s defense, it’s just every player out there is an elite scorer who are can create their own shot. And the three point offense is so hard to defend against because 4-5 shooters on the field with on and off ball screens creates mismatches and space for offense unlike before.
I dont think its the 3 point shot thats the turn off. Yes, it makes for some aesthetical sameness but the bigger problem is the officiating. Calling soft fouls takes any physicality and intensity out of the game. FIBA game is so much better to watch and more intense even though their 3 pt line is closer. Nobody wants to see guys like Embiid, Harden, Trae, SGA shoot 15 FTs a game and get more than half their points from foul baiting.
Completely agree. Watching the Olympics was the best bball i've seen. FIBA rules also means removing the defensive 3 sec rule which means you have to be able to move the ball more to move the center out of the paint
I thinks it’s both tho. Because the threes make the game sloppy. The fouls slow it down and the offense have all the leverage but in the worse way possible.
Why do we keep having to change the game to accommodate these player's mindset? Getting rid of the All Star game, shortening the season, changing the 3-point line, needing an in-season tournament to make the players play harder, and making guys not load manage. Everyone who grew up loving the NBA is going to turn their backs on it. Adam Silver has no backbone whatsoever and has ruined it by no drawing a line.
It was exciting when 6'3" Stephen Curry was killing teams with 3 point shots, but when you have 7'4" Wembanyam shooting them it becomes a lot more lame.
Make the refs call moving screens that are getting guys wide open threes and start calling 3 to 4 step walks into open threes. Change doesn't have to be drastic. You don't want the game to go from one extreme to the other, because fans will tire of the next extreme.
Problem is that defense is at a disadvantage against the thee point shooters. Bring the hand check back. Change the landing spot foul rule, so the landing spot is under you not in front of you. Ban screens outside the three point line
Move the 3 point line back, 25 feet with no corner three. Its an arbitrary reward added as a gimmick when the league was dying, youre giving three points for what is a long two anywhere else on the court. Also hand checking, flopping, carrying, start enforcing those rules too.
I don't agree with Nick Wright on a lot of things but in this one he echoes my sentiment almost perfectly. The casual fans who look at wins and losses to determine how entertaining the games are missing the point because their care only goes as far as their team does. When the playoffs hit and their team isn't in, I doubt they want to watch teams they don't actively root for shoot a bunch of 3s. It's boring to watch. The NBA figured out that you don't have to be Steph or Klay. Even the average NBA player can shoot 33% from deep and that's all that's required. This is why guys shooting 38% are considered good 3 point shooters. That's an awful percentage but it's analytically good. This is why the media keeps trying to sell us on the idea that Wemby can shoot 3s and it's like, yeah, physically he can but at 33%. Easiest thing the NBA can do to fix the issue is to move the 3-point line. Get rid of the corner 3 which forces teams to run their offense differently (you can't exactly have 5 guys standing at the top of the key) and move the 3-point line back. Make it a shot that's difficult to do. 33% can continue to be the baseline but make it harder to actually hit that mark.
if you move the arc back then 3 guys stand outside and big men go 1 on 1 with no ability for the double team since the line would be 35 feet away. it would turn into a game of 2 on 2 with 6 guys standing 35-40 feet away. you’d have to try this in some other league for years before messing with it.
@@shake6321 Maybe. You could still double because at this point you're then forcing your big men to either use their skills or learn to pass out of a double-team. Since the outside would be much smaller, it would be much easier for two defenders to cover the 3 shooters. With the range being longer you really have to consider who is out there. Draymond, for example, is not taking deep 3s. And look, I'm not saying that this is a perfect solution. It's not but it is a simple solution to implement since you don't have to change any actual rules and testing would of course be required. This is an idea that Chris Broussard has floated for years.
You might just as well ban the three then, because it will become the worst shot in basketball by a mile. A 40% three point shooter is considered a sniper. With your rule, this sniper will average 0.6 points a 3 on average, which is the equivalent to shooting 30% on a two pointer (a horrible shooter).
The reason why the 80s and 90s were fun to watch was because the games were a 1,000X more physical. Now, I know you cannot go back to that kind of physicality, but some physicality where the defense can actually hand check, an arm bar, so the offensive player has to be more creative. That brings out the art and poetry of the player's talents. Also, the rivalries between certain teams were for real. Everyone knew the Pistons and Bulls hated each other. That mattered a lot. There are no rivalries in today's game because players , for one, don't stay with their teams, and two......Do they even care? IDK Last, the refs need to let the players decide games. The refs disrupt the game over touch fouls and other insignificant calls. No one wants to watch refs dominant a game.
@@user-gc1wj8tt2p Of course I was being sarcastic, but there is truth to sarcasm. For one, the West was no where near as physical as the East, particularly the Pistons and the Knicks. They had something called the Jordan Rules which literally meant you knock MJ to his ass when he comes into the paint. I don't know how MJ survived the Bad Boys of Detroit tbh. There is NOTHING like this, nor are there any rivalries that come close to those teams today.
@@user-gc1wj8tt2p When the game was that physical, it escalated the drama between players and teams. Also, there was a lot more creativity because an offensive player had to do everything in his power to deceive, trick, and fool his defender because the defender could put his arm or hand on the player. They actually played defense. It made the game more entertaining and exciting, esp when a player like MJ did these spectacular moves. That doesn't really exist today. Sorry. It doesn't.
@@user-gc1wj8tt2p "drove by people EVERYTIME," LOL You have NO clue what you are talking about. MJ was easily the best player I have watched in my lifetime. Not even close. He made opponents look pathetic and they were actually allowed to play defense then. Plus, he was truly an insane competitor. The definition of a killer.
I can say this as a basketball fan since I was 10 no, I'm 48 now. I was a basketball junkie! I liked college but I was a junkie for the NBA! I would watch all NBA content that I could! I would get all the VHS tapes, NBA Superstars etc. And of course all the Jordan tapes. Even when they switch to DVDs and blu-rays I think the last one I got was Jordan to the max. I would watch inside the NBA! I would watch the NBA stuff on like CNN and all that stuff. Sports center! I knew just about every player's name in the league just by looking at them. I say all of that to say this. I love the game of basketball! But what I don't love anymore is the NBA. The last 3 years I have not watched a game in its entirety. I still keep up on the general pulse of the league but I just don't like a lot of the players and I hate to sound like the old guy who's looking at the young guys think ing. It's not as good as it used to be but the personalities just aren't there like they used to be. I feel like a lot of the guys are unlikable honestly. And the fact that they just don't seem to want to play is ridiculous to me. And every team looks the same. Like you said, all they're doing is shooting threes. I think Kobe said it best. It's like you just move around until you get an open shot. Kind of by accident. There's no real set plays like they used to be. Plus games are all over the place. It's like what streaming platform do I need to watch which game.
Move the line back, eliminate the corner 3s and call moving screens that every team uses on almost every play to get shooters open. There, I just fixed 90% of issues with the on court product of the NBA.
Establish "destinated 3 point shooters". One team only allows to have 4 such players, and only 2 can play on court at the same time. The rest of the players only count 2 points even if they shoot behind the arc.
Make the 3 line a true arc to get rid of the corner 3. Also call offensive fouls when the offensive player hooks an arm or jumps into the defense to try to draw a foul.
NBA should have taken things seriously when Luka said the NBA is easier than Euro. Load management, tanking, cheap fouls and so many rules that makes offense easier.
There’s always been this misconception that 3 point shooting was exciting on a large scale because of Steph. No, Steph Curry shooting 3 pointers is exciting because he is a one of kind anomaly. Nobody gives a damn about anyone else shooting them. I don’t really like many of Nick’s rule change suggestions, but I agree something needs to be done. Boston is shooting 92 shots per game and 52 of them are 3s, that’s absurd.
When he talked about not being excited about the start of season it really hit me.....i feel the exact same. Ill watch my team a bit....but I'm not really interested in any other game. Nba definitely has a problem.
I think the Superstar problem comes down to the guys who arguably should be in the spotlight not being good fits for the role. Luka, Giannis, and Jokic are as good as anyone in the league but being foreigners they don't exactly fit the mold for the type of guy you build the league around. That might sound wrong but I group in Tatum with them for much of the same reason as he doesn't have much of a personality. He's a good dude but he's so vanilla that it's an insult to vanilla. He's more like white bread. Jaylen Brown would be a better fit but he's not the star on the team. Anthony Edwards seems like a good fit but he hasn't done anything. Hard to sell a player as the face of the league when his biggest accomplishment is making the All Star game and now that half his shots are 3s you lose a lot of the excitement. Doesn't help that his team is average right now. So who is left really? I feel like this is why the NBA is clinging to Steph and LeBron so much.
On the American side, Ja was gonna be up there with his high flying dunks and crazy moves but bro wanted to make it into the hood so he blew that opportunity up. He also got injured most of last season. Zion's fat, got baby mama drama, and has played less than half the possible games over 5 years due to injuries. And this season literally everyone else is getting injured too, even younger guys, so the situation's just getting worse. D Book has been consistently solid but is getting up there in age plus small market team.
That's another thing. The NBA doesn't gaf ab small market teams. The chart showing number of nationally televised games is insane. Teams with real talent, like Banchero for the Magic and the Cavs project got almost no screen time. How do you expect fans to follow storylines when they can't even see the storylines develop? The NFL has many small media-market teams like the Bills, Colts, Jaguars, Packers, but you couldn't tell from the coverage and fan bases.
@@mog7501 I think that the teams themselves can change that. Golden State wasn't exactly on every night until Steph won an MVP and a title. Going 73-9 the following year cemented that team as must watch TV. Garbage team like the Knicks have it built in because of where they are and while it is pretty top heavy, Milwaukee, OKC, and Minnesota all make the Top 10 in terms of televised games with Minnesota (25) only having 14 less than the Lakers (39). That's a healthy chunk of games IMO for a team that hasn't done anything. If they want to cement themselves, they need to be consistent. A team like Cleveland is the one to watch. They only have like 16 nationally televised game this season and rightly so. They too haven't done anything and have a bunch of Tier 2-3 players. They are off to a hot start right now and I'm curious to see where they end up and, if it's even remotely as good as the start would have you believe, where they rank next season in terms of televised games.
Players making more money than ever, no passion to win, and league being too buddy buddy. Long gone r the days of Jordan and Kobe willing to do whatever it takes to win. Most guys in the league are just out there to collect their checks and keep it pushing. If the players themselves aren’t interested why should the fans be. Also the nba finals has lost all its spectacle - feels like the regular season now.
Adam is more concerned with adding more flamboyant men into the teams dance team. Never should have had him making the rules for a product mainly for men who value being men.
My idea is crack down on carrying and traveling. Bring back the hand check. Defenders need to be allowed to defend. To add to Nick's idea is, maybe only allow 3 pointers in the 2nd quarter and 4th quarter. 1st and 3rd quarters, shots from anywhere only count as 2 points.
hand check was never legal...as the word is, is to check the player is within the distance...but people abused that exerting power with the hand check....
I'd like to see a cap on 3's. 7-8 attempts per quarter. After your attempts are exhausted they're just long 2's. I think that will bring back more mid range attempts and offensive diversity.
This was a great point. I grew up loving the 90's bulls and was an avid NBA until recently. Now I only watch the playoffs if there is a matchup I like...I didn't even watch the playoffs last year. People talk about the politics hurting the sport, but it's not politics it's just not good basketball to watch. The Warriors were amazing because of the ball movement. They didn't only jack up threes. A few years ago I was at a Celtic vs Bucks playoff game and I was falling asleep...everything was either a 3 attempt or a dunk...just boring.
I think they should bring back the hand check. That will give perimeter defenders better ability to push shooters off the 3pt line and what if we change all shooting fouls within the arc to be two free throws including and ones. Allowing 4 point plays at the rim.
The three actually gets you better shots inside the arc. By stretching the floor you get better openings for passes to cutters so better shots inside. Defenders have to cover twice the distance on every play. Defense is harder now.
Wow the players are resting sitting out games telling fans they do that care. Yet we are somehow supposed get amped for the games? This is the least surprising thing to happen.
@zbt62 when players sit and they are healthy that's the message to fans. Fans spend hundreds sometimes more to see a game then stars load manage. The all star game, no way you watch that and think they care.
What if they moved the 3 point line back even further? Could that perhaps incentivise play around the hoop, and, at the same time, make the 3 ball more of a thrill to see it go in?
Two of the last five champions (Warriors and Celtics) were higher volume three point shooting team. With the Warriors they do a great job of cutting for layups. Bucks, Lakers and Nuggets had dominant big men that needed to be accounted for. Joker and AD are putting up unreal numbers this season so I don’t think it’s a big problem now. I think because the NFL is fascinating right now people aren’t paying attention to the NBA but it will pick up
I said several years ago when people were screaming saying Steph Curry changed the game, BUT i said did it change for the better? It did not. Too many players shooting 3s that should not be. Today, players are better shooters than the 80s and 90s but still should not be shooting so many 3s.
I don't fully agree with that take, last year's NBA playoffs had some very good series (DEN:MIN, IND:NYK, DAL:OKC, CLE:ORL...), it's just the regular season that has become unwatchable... There is too many games, no urgency on most of the nights, a bunch of injuries that accumulate and transfer then to the playoffs as well. How to solve it, not sure, but I wouldn't start with rules of the game, butchering the sport and making the game unnecessarily confusing. I would rather try with less regular season games, less playoff teams, more competitive advantage in the playoffs for higher seeded teams, etc. For example, drop back-to-backs and reduce number of games (RS) to 50-60 range, widen the play-in with 5th and 6th seed as well, so that you can still technically miss the play-offs as 5th seed and have to win 3 consecutive road games to make it as 10th. That gives you 6 playoff spots per conference so you adjust the first round with byes to 1st and 2nd seed, making it more desirable to finish high. That will boost intensity in the games and will result in less jacking of easy open threes. And if there is a team that consistently spaces their opponent with ball movement and makes easy shots for themselves (like Boston last year) or a player that just bombs threes regardless of coverage (like Curry), then so be it... Nothing wrong with that. But the league needs to realise that QUALITY always beats QUANTITY!
Yes, I believe they should address the number of regular season games. Decreasing the games will give them more importance and decrease the chances for injuries. 82 games is too many
@@GeneT2323 I would argue that with floor spacing and good 3pt shooting it requieres players to guard a lot more space than before and therefore move more and faster on defense which requires a lot more effort physically...
Drop back to backs and shorten the season? Why? Because players are soft as hell now? Fuck that. The game is far less physical now and yet...players in the 80s and 90s played 80s games regularly. That was with hand checking. That was with driving to the basket and trying to score over the greatest era of bigs the NBA ever saw. Modern players have every advantage. Advances in science, weight training, dietary knowledge...and yet...they somehow can't make it onto the damn floor back to back nights? REALLY?
I think the real issue is the lack of regular season importance. This is due to too many games in the regular season along with so many missed games for stars. Make the regular season 60 games and players will be forced to take every game seriously. Theres a reason nfl players don’t load manage, it’s because there’s only 17 games in the whole year…:
Don't shorten the season. Shorten the guaranteed money in their contracts, so that they will train hard and play hard. Then stir up some competitive news on the all star ⭐ game between the east versus the West. Don't change the old school all star game.
Create a 3 point penalty line for shooting too many 3's per half. Have the same line as is but create a penalty line that's near the logo and cut out the corner 3 once you go over something like 15 three's per half. Think beating the analytics with analytics. You still have a low percentage shot but high value in scoring shot, but then it becomes a much harder shot that devalues the 3 point shot once it's further back. Not every Joe Schmoe can waste a shot on a three point shot if it's going to devalue a sharp shooting a 3 point attempt.
Punish offensive players jumping into the defender to get a call. End the 3sec defense paint rule. Stop allowing those massive travellings, ball carrying and moving screens of modern NBA that are killing the defense. Let hand checking come into the game again. End the 3point no touch rule. And we will see a competitive game return to our lives again. Adam Silver created a toy league that even people like Luka or Gianni’s confirm it when they claim Europe now is way more tough than NBA
Its not the 3 pointers because 3 pointer celebrations sometimes are entertaining to watch. I think it’s 100% load management.When each season your playing for next season it loses the competitiveness.
The nba regular season is a bad product load management and players not competing and being buddy buddy has ruined the game . Lebron with the player empowerment has played a huge role
Switch to FIBA rules: 1) More physical 2) Shorter 3 pt-line and removal of defensive 3-sec rules means the half court is more compact and teams are forces to move the ball more and play with IQ 3) Play less games so that every regular season game is valued (i.e. Go from 82 games to 64 games
@ it showed that players will still create similar offense in FIBA rules as they do in the NBA. Even non-US countries were able to run similar stuff to what you see in the nba. I’m not looking at like shooting splits or the like where sample size matters
@@thejewishpeople1970the Olympics were really fun and had great ratings if I’m not mistaken. Also the US almost lost twice to teams with far less talent
Do what the NPB does and make regular season incredibly important. Give the first seed a free win in their series and/or 2 extra home games. Also reduce the Regular Season 10 games.
Everyone keeps fixating on the three point shot as the issue--it isn't. The fact that so many of the best players in the league aren't playing either due to injury (Kawhi), load management (Embiid), suspensions (Ja) or team drama (Harden, Ben Simmons) is a much bigger deal. Not to mention, when players do play they either show up with the energy of a kid sitting in a dentist's office waiting to have a cavity filled (Jokic) or they complain that the season is too long altogether (Lebron.) Eventually the NBA is going to cave and the season will be cut down to 65 games. Money wise it won't matter to the players because there's so much tv money now locked in for the next decade plus that having your max contract cut by 20% will still mean you're making more money than 82-game players did even a decade ago. The players don't care so the fans don't care. That's why they've dipped below WNBA ratings for the first time ever, because even though the women's game is an inferior product, the energy these girls are playing with now that there's new money on the table thanks to CC, means a completely different level of urgency compared to the men's game.
I have a way to fix it. Make consecutive two point baskets worth 3 points. And that extra point is counted as a team stat not individual so it won’t affect individual scoring records
Make it a gamble shot. Every shot beyond the ark is worth 4 points but a miss beyond the ark loses a point. This way it would stop people just chucking them up and a bad shooting night would put you in a hole and a hot shooting night wouldn't change because you're probably winning whether that shot was worth 3 or 4. That's a 20 point loss in production from a sniper who shoots 40% from 3pt range over the course of 100 shots.
Part of the problem is the media glaze for lbj and the lakers..part of that problem is nick wright..people get tired of hearing people on their knees all the time
Nick Wright has been on the record saying the NBA should have fewer Lakers/Warriors nationally televised games and more teams like the Timberwolves and Mavericks on national TV. I usually don't like his opinions but I think he's right on that one.
The problem is we don’t know these young guys. Bronny is the most talked about rookie mainly because he’s the only guy anybody knows. College basketball used to set the table for the nba and college basketball is basically unwatchable other than the tournament.
my problem with the new superstars is that they're just not interesting, there's no intrigue, no story there. they're great players but just not interesting. no meaningful rivalries, no history they're chasing etc. the Lebron vs Steph years were great because you either wanted to see the King or the Dynasty fall either way you had something to root for
I like limiting the number of 3s. It makes it more of strategic which will make coaching more important. Will also make each possession more organized and less chunking up 3s.
I'd look at some other issues. Like speed up the game. Only allow timeouts when there is a dead ball. Force the players to improvise rather than force us to watch a parade of timeouts at the end of games. Regarding the 3 pointer issue. Lets give the game the tie to evolve. I believe defensive schemes and game strategy will adjust.
You have to bring back allowing teams to play harder on defense. NBA prioritizes offense over defense and if they don’t change it the game isn’t going to change. It also goes back to the way the game is being taught at the AAU, HS, College level.
I don't think a 3-point cap is a good idea, because I'm okay with occasional games where a team is red hot from 3 is shooting a ton. I think the answer is simple, just let perimeter defenders play more physically, bring back hand checking.
Great place to start. Not sure it is enough but I wish they’d try it. Freedom of movement wasn’t likely defined as freedom to bore me with no movement as people camped in the corner for 3s
The thing I hate most about all the three pointers is that as soon as the ball is in the air, all five guys are already running back on defense. Defensive rebounds are such a skewed stat now, because defenders aren't really battling anyone for them.
Lots of good ideas, but before they implement any of those I would strongly recommend they clamp down on carrying and traveling and then see how many open freeze teams are still able to get before making any changes to things like number of three allowed per game or changing the arc which I would be down for eventually deciding, but we need to see what the game looks like with proper Handle rules
The reffing should be drastically altered before any of these major rule changes are implemented. More physicality allowed on defense including things like handchecking, no defensive 3 seconds, and crack down on illegal screens.
I think that’s crap. People who are American dislike the three ball. As long as Steph Curry is an instance ratings winner/getter, they are not doing anything to the three-point line
@@neutral_narrno he's not he needs lots of moving screens if you count how much pressure they can put on shooters he's bare top 10 boy shoots mostly open
One thing about Nick is whenever a Boston team starts winning championships he starts hating on them. 🤣🤣 He ain’t hating on the Patriots anymore because his Chiefs are dominant now. Now he wants to complain about the C’s! 🤣🤣
I totally agree, he is Celtics hater. No denying it. AND - I think NBA basketball is becoming way soft and is dominated by 3's, which is boring. So I agree with him that the rules need to be changed. I kind of like the idea of threes only being counted in the 2nd and 4th quarters.
You could start fining teams significantly if they go over a certain threshold of threes. That way it doesn’t totally disrupt the game completely but discourages chucking it up when your down 20 points lol
The NBA is the major sport that has the most analytical impact. Yes baseball uses more math than any other sport, but the analytical teams have historically been competitive but not able to win championships (I.e. the As and the Rays). To me the solution is simple. The problem with the 3 isn’t that it’s more than 2 it’s that the percentage at which they’re made, make them more valuable than 2s. If you shoot 30 shots and you need 30 points, you only need a third to go in from 3 but you need half from 2. The best 3 point shooters in the league are shooting greater than 36% (some are shooting 40%). The solution is to move the line back and eliminate the corner 3. They’ve got the shot location data to do it. Move the line back to where the league average data drops down to 29%. Then watch and adjust. If there are still too many 3s move it back and if there are too few move it forward.
I kind of agree that there is a problem brewing, but Nick’s proposed solutions are all terrible. The solutions most people have mentioned in the comments - allow hand checking above the three-point line, call moving screens more often, tighten up the ball carrying rules and travel rules - that would all work better than doing 3’s and 4’s, or having every team have a different 3 point line, or capping the # of 3s you get to take, NONE of that will work….. maybe actually making the three-point arc a true curved arc and eliminating the corner threes…. That might work
Either take the 3pt line off the floor or make it like the blue line in hockey (just a straight line, no arc, and make it 26' from the hoop). (I DO like the 15-shot cap idea though.) Eliminate zone defense (they only put that in to stop Shaq; no dominant center like that these days)
Shooting a ton of 3s dont bother me as much as players constantly fishing for fouls and flopping. Player like luka i want to be excited to watch but him and james harden are frustrating to watch as they constantly are just trying to draw fouls almost every play.
The easiest way to do it is just get rid of the three-point line entirely. But I kind of like the idea of having every team pick their own three-point line.
Major issue: NBA media consistently saying "THE REGULAR SEASON DOESN'T MATTER" This has drastically devalued the NBA in the eyes of the average fan. Stop devaluing the regular season. I find it so disrespectful to the fans and the NBA when the media devalues the regular season.
Baseball did not drastically change the sport nick. They just sped it up and gave defensive "restrictive lines" to ensure players are actually playing the position where its supposed to.
While not "drastic", it improved the product, both on TV and in person. And people still cry about the ghost runner and pitch clock, as if we wanna see a pitcher scratch his ass for 30 seconds.
3 pointers, no defense and player movement has ultimately hurt the NBA. As soon as a guy has a bad guy we are yelling trade. Superstars constantly moving takes away some of the specialness
All they have to do is call carrying, traveling, and moving screens. Have players get paid for games in uniform. And have the media tell the truth about players attitude or lack there of on court.
Start calling offensive fouls every time a luka or harden jumps into the defender. Thats a start
Yes
YES!!
they did i think 2 years ago it was a emphasis
@@seymourbunyan9474doesn’t look like the but too much emphasise if anything they clampped it down harder on smaller players like trey young and Steph okay but these other guys are fucking way bigger then the little guys and they do it more
I don't think we need more fouls. Game is too soft as it is. Physicality needs to be preserved
Allow hand checks above the 3-point line. Simple as this.
Between the half-court and the 3-point line you are allowed to put more hands on the player before he reaches his release point.
Be more conservative with illegal screens. Stop allowing the wiiiiiiide shifting stance while setting the pick. This will make the players to go to the 3 to be open as much.
Make basketball a fight again. Outside of slapping and undestepping, most should be tolerated.
Also, these defenses are hot garbage. They're double teaming the post and leaving known 3pt shooters wide open.
Forreal. I feel like Moving Screens aren't even in the refs lexicon anymore, they let players get away with too much offensively but they gimp the ability to play good D.
we had that in the 90s and early 2000s, it led to some very boring basketball, 80 to 70 point games like both teams were made up of Russel Westbrick clones chucking away. No thank you. The rules changed for good reason.
Or… hear me out, allow hand check everywhere, i know, crazy right, or is it?
to be fair, those wide stanced screens are STILL illegal. They just aren't called like they should be.
That tush push comparison is soo spot on.
It’s nice because only the eagles can do it, but if every team suddenly starts doing it and it’s an automatic 4 yards it’s going to be bad for the league.
I agree. That blew my mind
THAT is it. 5:20. No one is saying it. When I was growing up, the Ben Wallace pistons played different than the Steve Nash Suns. What made the ‘15 warriors so special was their style was so unique. We hadn’t seen anything like it. Now every team just shoots 3s, iso, and run pick and roll. It’s dry
Even if they had different styles , and some teams do, yall still wouldn’t watxh
When you are shooting 40 plus 3s per game, its no longer basketball, its handball
Facts
And this isn’t just at one team it’s all the teams!
@@MarkTheSWEoh, that Judy! 🫵
No it’s basketball. Play better defense
Handball doesn’t have three-point shots. So this comment makes no sense.
Everyone had a different play style in the 90's and early to mid 2000's, that's what made the product so great to watch.
I felt the same way as Nick. About the nba. I used to be a die hard nba fan. Now I dont care. No defense and everyone is jacking 3's up.
Yep, gettin' there. College basketball has become much more equitable for the athletes and unwatchable for the viewer. As for the NBA I've taken to watching classic games from the 80's and 90's to get my B-ball fix.
Yeah I'm getting there too. Jokic is the only player I enjoy watching today.
Not to mention this corny azz in season tournament. And the all star game is still boring
I disagree that no one plays defense. With the 3-point shot, defenders have to cover way more ground than ever before. I've been watching the NBA since the 1970s, and they play way more defense now and defense is way more difficult than ever before. 90s-era NBA, when defense was supposedly at its best, they weren't playing basketball. They were wrestling.
@@burmajones803yea exactly there’s defense, it’s just every player out there is an elite scorer who are can create their own shot. And the three point offense is so hard to defend against because 4-5 shooters on the field with on and off ball screens creates mismatches and space for offense unlike before.
I dont think its the 3 point shot thats the turn off. Yes, it makes for some aesthetical sameness but the bigger problem is the officiating. Calling soft fouls takes any physicality and intensity out of the game. FIBA game is so much better to watch and more intense even though their 3 pt line is closer. Nobody wants to see guys like Embiid, Harden, Trae, SGA shoot 15 FTs a game and get more than half their points from foul baiting.
Completely agree. Watching the Olympics was the best bball i've seen. FIBA rules also means removing the defensive 3 sec rule which means you have to be able to move the ball more to move the center out of the paint
I thinks it’s both tho. Because the threes make the game sloppy. The fouls slow it down and the offense have all the leverage but in the worse way possible.
Ita 100% the 3 point shot. Every game each team is jacking up as many threes as they can.
Embiid didn't shoot one single free throw all game last night. So stop
@@thebigmexicantroll6581 So cover the three point line and let them get layups lol. Foul baiting is the wayyyy bigger issue
Why do we keep having to change the game to accommodate these player's mindset? Getting rid of the All Star game, shortening the season, changing the 3-point line, needing an in-season tournament to make the players play harder, and making guys not load manage. Everyone who grew up loving the NBA is going to turn their backs on it. Adam Silver has no backbone whatsoever and has ruined it by no drawing a line.
It was exciting when 6'3" Stephen Curry was killing teams with 3 point shots, but when you have 7'4" Wembanyam shooting them it becomes a lot more lame.
That’s your opinion.😳
@@MistaP13 No That’s The Fact That Can Be Proven By The Data Of The League Having The Worst Ratings They’ve Had Since The 70’s
I rather watch Steph he’s fun
@ so is Wemby.
huh ?
Make the refs call moving screens that are getting guys wide open threes and start calling 3 to 4 step walks into open threes. Change doesn't have to be drastic. You don't want the game to go from one extreme to the other, because fans will tire of the next extreme.
Draymond would have to retire tomorrow if they started calling moving screens
@@Jjhawkk so would LeBron
Problem is that defense is at a disadvantage against the thee point shooters.
Bring the hand check back. Change the landing spot foul rule, so the landing spot is under you not in front of you. Ban screens outside the three point line
Move the 3 point line back, 25 feet with no corner three. Its an arbitrary reward added as a gimmick when the league was dying, youre giving three points for what is a long two anywhere else on the court.
Also hand checking, flopping, carrying, start enforcing those rules too.
I don't agree with Nick Wright on a lot of things but in this one he echoes my sentiment almost perfectly. The casual fans who look at wins and losses to determine how entertaining the games are missing the point because their care only goes as far as their team does. When the playoffs hit and their team isn't in, I doubt they want to watch teams they don't actively root for shoot a bunch of 3s. It's boring to watch. The NBA figured out that you don't have to be Steph or Klay. Even the average NBA player can shoot 33% from deep and that's all that's required. This is why guys shooting 38% are considered good 3 point shooters. That's an awful percentage but it's analytically good. This is why the media keeps trying to sell us on the idea that Wemby can shoot 3s and it's like, yeah, physically he can but at 33%.
Easiest thing the NBA can do to fix the issue is to move the 3-point line. Get rid of the corner 3 which forces teams to run their offense differently (you can't exactly have 5 guys standing at the top of the key) and move the 3-point line back. Make it a shot that's difficult to do. 33% can continue to be the baseline but make it harder to actually hit that mark.
so basically force teams to play 90’s basketball but without the physicality
so basically force teams to play 90’s basketball but without the physicality
if you move the arc back then 3 guys stand outside and big men go 1 on 1 with no ability for the double team since the line would be 35 feet away.
it would turn into a game of 2 on 2 with 6 guys standing 35-40 feet away.
you’d have to try this in some other league for years before messing with it.
@@shake6321 Agreed
@@shake6321 Maybe. You could still double because at this point you're then forcing your big men to either use their skills or learn to pass out of a double-team. Since the outside would be much smaller, it would be much easier for two defenders to cover the 3 shooters. With the range being longer you really have to consider who is out there. Draymond, for example, is not taking deep 3s.
And look, I'm not saying that this is a perfect solution. It's not but it is a simple solution to implement since you don't have to change any actual rules and testing would of course be required. This is an idea that Chris Broussard has floated for years.
The NBA also needs to stop the in-game sideline interview while the game is going. It makes no sense and it takes away from the action.
Tryna sell personality and drama
Love the idea of only counting 20 3s as 3s
New rule: If you take a 3-point shot and miss, your team loses a point. It's high risk, high reward.
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You might just as well ban the three then, because it will become the worst shot in basketball by a mile.
A 40% three point shooter is considered a sniper. With your rule, this sniper will average 0.6 points a 3 on average, which is the equivalent to shooting 30% on a two pointer (a horrible shooter).
The reason why the 80s and 90s were fun to watch was because the games were a 1,000X more physical. Now, I know you cannot go back to that kind of physicality, but some physicality where the defense can actually hand check, an arm bar, so the offensive player has to be more creative. That brings out the art and poetry of the player's talents. Also, the rivalries between certain teams were for real. Everyone knew the Pistons and Bulls hated each other. That mattered a lot. There are no rivalries in today's game because players , for one, don't stay with their teams, and two......Do they even care? IDK Last, the refs need to let the players decide games. The refs disrupt the game over touch fouls and other insignificant calls. No one wants to watch refs dominant a game.
1000x physical? LOL. Watch any nba finals esp when jordan was going to them, jordan just drove by people EVERYTIME, nostalgia is a urse.
@@user-gc1wj8tt2pyou’re living in a fantasy.
@@user-gc1wj8tt2p Of course I was being sarcastic, but there is truth to sarcasm. For one, the West was no where near as physical as the East, particularly the Pistons and the Knicks. They had something called the Jordan Rules which literally meant you knock MJ to his ass when he comes into the paint. I don't know how MJ survived the Bad Boys of Detroit tbh. There is NOTHING like this, nor are there any rivalries that come close to those teams today.
@@user-gc1wj8tt2p When the game was that physical, it escalated the drama between players and teams. Also, there was a lot more creativity because an offensive player had to do everything in his power to deceive, trick, and fool his defender because the defender could put his arm or hand on the player. They actually played defense. It made the game more entertaining and exciting, esp when a player like MJ did these spectacular moves. That doesn't really exist today. Sorry. It doesn't.
@@user-gc1wj8tt2p "drove by people EVERYTIME," LOL You have NO clue what you are talking about. MJ was easily the best player I have watched in my lifetime. Not even close. He made opponents look pathetic and they were actually allowed to play defense then. Plus, he was truly an insane competitor. The definition of a killer.
Adam Silver has turned the NBA into a kids' fantasy league.
3 fixes. Allow hand cheking beyond the 3 and eliminate the foul grifting. Harden, Gainnis, Embiid, Davis. Last start calling the flopping
The Commissioner is the problem. Not the players. The NBA needs a leader with Big cojones.
I can say this as a basketball fan since I was 10 no, I'm 48 now. I was a basketball junkie! I liked college but I was a junkie for the NBA! I would watch all NBA content that I could! I would get all the VHS tapes, NBA Superstars etc. And of course all the Jordan tapes. Even when they switch to DVDs and blu-rays I think the last one I got was Jordan to the max. I would watch inside the NBA! I would watch the NBA stuff on like CNN and all that stuff. Sports center! I knew just about every player's name in the league just by looking at them. I say all of that to say this. I love the game of basketball! But what I don't love anymore is the NBA. The last 3 years I have not watched a game in its entirety. I still keep up on the general pulse of the league but I just don't like a lot of the players and I hate to sound like the old guy who's looking at the young guys think ing. It's not as good as it used to be but the personalities just aren't there like they used to be. I feel like a lot of the guys are unlikable honestly. And the fact that they just don't seem to want to play is ridiculous to me. And every team looks the same. Like you said, all they're doing is shooting threes. I think Kobe said it best. It's like you just move around until you get an open shot. Kind of by accident. There's no real set plays like they used to be. Plus games are all over the place. It's like what streaming platform do I need to watch which game.
Records show steph and the warriors have been carrying the nba ratings not lebron btw
Where are the records. It’s hard to believe lebron and the lakers aren’t just as popular
Careful, you might make Wright cry more.
No help from Steve kerr
@@mattf3873 9 rings
@madscrambler referring to kerrs 5 rings in the 90s ad a role player lol... wasn't helping the ratings then either.
Move the line back, eliminate the corner 3s and call moving screens that every team uses on almost every play to get shooters open. There, I just fixed 90% of issues with the on court product of the NBA.
Keep the corner 3's. Do enforce moving wide screens.
Establish "destinated 3 point shooters". One team only allows to have 4 such players, and only 2 can play on court at the same time. The rest of the players only count 2 points even if they shoot behind the arc.
Make the 3 line a true arc to get rid of the corner 3. Also call offensive fouls when the offensive player hooks an arm or jumps into the defense to try to draw a foul.
they have calling that foul for 2 seasons, this is the 3rd. it is not legal anymore
Exactly 🎯..Luka
I don’t think calling more fouls is what casual fans want to see.
i don’t think eliminating the corner 3 will stop people from playing 5 out or going 1 on 1 mid range.
@@shake6321 It absolutely would, that's why u always have your weaker shooters at the corners to maximize percentages/shooting
NBA should have taken things seriously when Luka said the NBA is easier than Euro. Load management, tanking, cheap fouls and so many rules that makes offense easier.
There’s always been this misconception that 3 point shooting was exciting on a large scale because of Steph. No, Steph Curry shooting 3 pointers is exciting because he is a one of kind anomaly. Nobody gives a damn about anyone else shooting them. I don’t really like many of Nick’s rule change suggestions, but I agree something needs to be done. Boston is shooting 92 shots per game and 52 of them are 3s, that’s absurd.
It’s only the Celtics shooting that many
When he talked about not being excited about the start of season it really hit me.....i feel the exact same.
Ill watch my team a bit....but I'm not really interested in any other game.
Nba definitely has a problem.
I think the Superstar problem comes down to the guys who arguably should be in the spotlight not being good fits for the role. Luka, Giannis, and Jokic are as good as anyone in the league but being foreigners they don't exactly fit the mold for the type of guy you build the league around. That might sound wrong but I group in Tatum with them for much of the same reason as he doesn't have much of a personality. He's a good dude but he's so vanilla that it's an insult to vanilla. He's more like white bread. Jaylen Brown would be a better fit but he's not the star on the team. Anthony Edwards seems like a good fit but he hasn't done anything. Hard to sell a player as the face of the league when his biggest accomplishment is making the All Star game and now that half his shots are 3s you lose a lot of the excitement. Doesn't help that his team is average right now. So who is left really? I feel like this is why the NBA is clinging to Steph and LeBron so much.
On the American side, Ja was gonna be up there with his high flying dunks and crazy moves but bro wanted to make it into the hood so he blew that opportunity up. He also got injured most of last season. Zion's fat, got baby mama drama, and has played less than half the possible games over 5 years due to injuries. And this season literally everyone else is getting injured too, even younger guys, so the situation's just getting worse. D Book has been consistently solid but is getting up there in age plus small market team.
That's another thing. The NBA doesn't gaf ab small market teams. The chart showing number of nationally televised games is insane. Teams with real talent, like Banchero for the Magic and the Cavs project got almost no screen time. How do you expect fans to follow storylines when they can't even see the storylines develop? The NFL has many small media-market teams like the Bills, Colts, Jaguars, Packers, but you couldn't tell from the coverage and fan bases.
@@mog7501 I think that the teams themselves can change that. Golden State wasn't exactly on every night until Steph won an MVP and a title. Going 73-9 the following year cemented that team as must watch TV. Garbage team like the Knicks have it built in because of where they are and while it is pretty top heavy, Milwaukee, OKC, and Minnesota all make the Top 10 in terms of televised games with Minnesota (25) only having 14 less than the Lakers (39). That's a healthy chunk of games IMO for a team that hasn't done anything. If they want to cement themselves, they need to be consistent.
A team like Cleveland is the one to watch. They only have like 16 nationally televised game this season and rightly so. They too haven't done anything and have a bunch of Tier 2-3 players. They are off to a hot start right now and I'm curious to see where they end up and, if it's even remotely as good as the start would have you believe, where they rank next season in terms of televised games.
Players making more money than ever, no passion to win, and league being too buddy buddy. Long gone r the days of Jordan and Kobe willing to do whatever it takes to win. Most guys in the league are just out there to collect their checks and keep it pushing. If the players themselves aren’t interested why should the fans be. Also the nba finals has lost all its spectacle - feels like the regular season now.
Adam is more concerned with adding more flamboyant men into the teams dance team. Never should have had him making the rules for a product mainly for men who value being men.
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My idea is crack down on carrying and traveling. Bring back the hand check. Defenders need to be allowed to defend. To add to Nick's idea is, maybe only allow 3 pointers in the 2nd quarter and 4th quarter. 1st and 3rd quarters, shots from anywhere only count as 2 points.
hand check was never legal...as the word is, is to check the player is within the distance...but people abused that exerting power with the hand check....
I'd like to see a cap on 3's. 7-8 attempts per quarter. After your attempts are exhausted they're just long 2's.
I think that will bring back more mid range attempts and offensive diversity.
This was a great point. I grew up loving the 90's bulls and was an avid NBA until recently. Now I only watch the playoffs if there is a matchup I like...I didn't even watch the playoffs last year. People talk about the politics hurting the sport, but it's not politics it's just not good basketball to watch. The Warriors were amazing because of the ball movement. They didn't only jack up threes. A few years ago I was at a Celtic vs Bucks playoff game and I was falling asleep...everything was either a 3 attempt or a dunk...just boring.
Bring the 80s/90s rules and lest see who can really play.
Read the comments and see just how dumb fans are and their inability to comprehend. Yes Steph shooting 3s is amazing. The whole NbA doing it is bad.
Bring back hand checking.
He hit the nail on the head. Every time use to play different now they all play the same
I think they should bring back the hand check. That will give perimeter defenders better ability to push shooters off the 3pt line and what if we change all shooting fouls within the arc to be two free throws including and ones. Allowing 4 point plays at the rim.
The three actually gets you better shots inside the arc. By stretching the floor you get better openings for passes to cutters so better shots inside. Defenders have to cover twice the distance on every play. Defense is harder now.
Wow the players are resting sitting out games telling fans they do that care. Yet we are somehow supposed get amped for the games? This is the least surprising thing to happen.
Name 1 player who has said that
@zbt62 when players sit and they are healthy that's the message to fans. Fans spend hundreds sometimes more to see a game then stars load manage. The all star game, no way you watch that and think they care.
What if they moved the 3 point line back even further? Could that perhaps incentivise play around the hoop, and, at the same time, make the 3 ball more of a thrill to see it go in?
People will tell you LeBron is face of the NBA and Steph is the most watched every year for the last 11 years.
Lol are you serious? LeBron is like the face of all American Sports as a whole. Didn't you see him holding the flag at the Olympics?
Jersey sales(actual) money spent) say different. LeBron has led it 7 of the last 10 years. Steph has led it the other 3 times.
I’d rather watch warriors on a random night than lakers and i live in SoCal. Lakers need young talent and start transitioning away from lebron.
Wrong
@@swatisquantumyou might but ratings show other wise
Two of the last five champions (Warriors and Celtics) were higher volume three point shooting team. With the Warriors they do a great job of cutting for layups. Bucks, Lakers and Nuggets had dominant big men that needed to be accounted for. Joker and AD are putting up unreal numbers this season so I don’t think it’s a big problem now. I think because the NFL is fascinating right now people aren’t paying attention to the NBA but it will pick up
The NBA is more than just the five teams u mentioned
I said several years ago when people were screaming saying Steph Curry changed the game, BUT i said did it change for the better? It did not. Too many players shooting 3s that should not be. Today, players are better shooters than the 80s and 90s but still should not be shooting so many 3s.
I don't fully agree with that take, last year's NBA playoffs had some very good series (DEN:MIN, IND:NYK, DAL:OKC, CLE:ORL...), it's just the regular season that has become unwatchable... There is too many games, no urgency on most of the nights, a bunch of injuries that accumulate and transfer then to the playoffs as well. How to solve it, not sure, but I wouldn't start with rules of the game, butchering the sport and making the game unnecessarily confusing. I would rather try with less regular season games, less playoff teams, more competitive advantage in the playoffs for higher seeded teams, etc. For example, drop back-to-backs and reduce number of games (RS) to 50-60 range, widen the play-in with 5th and 6th seed as well, so that you can still technically miss the play-offs as 5th seed and have to win 3 consecutive road games to make it as 10th. That gives you 6 playoff spots per conference so you adjust the first round with byes to 1st and 2nd seed, making it more desirable to finish high. That will boost intensity in the games and will result in less jacking of easy open threes. And if there is a team that consistently spaces their opponent with ball movement and makes easy shots for themselves (like Boston last year) or a player that just bombs threes regardless of coverage (like Curry), then so be it... Nothing wrong with that. But the league needs to realise that QUALITY always beats QUANTITY!
Yes, I believe they should address the number of regular season games. Decreasing the games will give them more importance and decrease the chances for injuries. 82 games is too many
We've always had an 82 game regular season and no one has complained about the game being boring until recently with teams milking the 3-pt line.
@@GeneT2323 I would argue that with floor spacing and good 3pt shooting it requieres players to guard a lot more space than before and therefore move more and faster on defense which requires a lot more effort physically...
Playoffs was trash last year. There were good series but a lot of those series had a lot of blowouts. Not too many close games
Drop back to backs and shorten the season? Why? Because players are soft as hell now? Fuck that.
The game is far less physical now and yet...players in the 80s and 90s played 80s games regularly. That was with hand checking. That was with driving to the basket and trying to score over the greatest era of bigs the NBA ever saw. Modern players have every advantage. Advances in science, weight training, dietary knowledge...and yet...they somehow can't make it onto the damn floor back to back nights? REALLY?
Nick is 100% right
I think the real issue is the lack of regular season importance. This is due to too many games in the regular season along with so many missed games for stars. Make the regular season 60 games and players will be forced to take every game seriously. Theres a reason nfl players don’t load manage, it’s because there’s only 17 games in the whole year…:
Don't shorten the season. Shorten the guaranteed money in their contracts, so that they will train hard and play hard. Then stir up some competitive news on the all star ⭐ game between the east versus the West. Don't change the old school all star game.
Create a 3 point penalty line for shooting too many 3's per half. Have the same line as is but create a penalty line that's near the logo and cut out the corner 3 once you go over something like 15 three's per half. Think beating the analytics with analytics. You still have a low percentage shot but high value in scoring shot, but then it becomes a much harder shot that devalues the 3 point shot once it's further back. Not every Joe Schmoe can waste a shot on a three point shot if it's going to devalue a sharp shooting a 3 point attempt.
Punish offensive players jumping into the defender to get a call. End the 3sec defense paint rule. Stop allowing those massive travellings, ball carrying and moving screens of modern NBA that are killing the defense. Let hand checking come into the game again. End the 3point no touch rule. And we will see a competitive game return to our lives again. Adam Silver created a toy league that even people like Luka or Gianni’s confirm it when they claim Europe now is way more tough than NBA
Its not the 3 pointers because 3 pointer celebrations sometimes are entertaining to watch. I think it’s 100% load management.When each season your playing for next season it loses the competitiveness.
The nba regular season is a bad product load management and players not competing and being buddy buddy has ruined the game . Lebron with the player empowerment has played a huge role
Why not make all made baskets worth 2 points like the good ol' days?!
Switch to FIBA rules: 1) More physical 2) Shorter 3 pt-line and removal of defensive 3-sec rules means the half court is more compact and teams are forces to move the ball more and play with IQ 3) Play less games so that every regular season game is valued (i.e. Go from 82 games to 64 games
The tv contract they just signed is based on 82 games
This wouldn’t change much of anything though. Olympics literally proved that
@thejewishpeople1970 the Olympics is not a good reference point. Too short of a sample size and lower caliber of players, so it doesn't prove much.
@ it showed that players will still create similar offense in FIBA rules as they do in the NBA. Even non-US countries were able to run similar stuff to what you see in the nba. I’m not looking at like shooting splits or the like where sample size matters
@@thejewishpeople1970the Olympics were really fun and had great ratings if I’m not mistaken. Also the US almost lost twice to teams with far less talent
Do what the NPB does and make regular season incredibly important. Give the first seed a free win in their series and/or 2 extra home games. Also reduce the Regular Season 10 games.
Nick is the General Zod of sports talk.
Everyone keeps fixating on the three point shot as the issue--it isn't. The fact that so many of the best players in the league aren't playing either due to injury (Kawhi), load management (Embiid), suspensions (Ja) or team drama (Harden, Ben Simmons) is a much bigger deal. Not to mention, when players do play they either show up with the energy of a kid sitting in a dentist's office waiting to have a cavity filled (Jokic) or they complain that the season is too long altogether (Lebron.) Eventually the NBA is going to cave and the season will be cut down to 65 games. Money wise it won't matter to the players because there's so much tv money now locked in for the next decade plus that having your max contract cut by 20% will still mean you're making more money than 82-game players did even a decade ago. The players don't care so the fans don't care. That's why they've dipped below WNBA ratings for the first time ever, because even though the women's game is an inferior product, the energy these girls are playing with now that there's new money on the table thanks to CC, means a completely different level of urgency compared to the men's game.
Just make the 3 point line only activate with 3 seconds left on the shot clock. Make it a desperation play which it always should have been.
I have a way to fix it. Make consecutive two point baskets worth 3 points. And that extra point is counted as a team stat not individual so it won’t affect individual scoring records
Make it a gamble shot. Every shot beyond the ark is worth 4 points but a miss beyond the ark loses a point. This way it would stop people just chucking them up and a bad shooting night would put you in a hole and a hot shooting night wouldn't change because you're probably winning whether that shot was worth 3 or 4. That's a 20 point loss in production from a sniper who shoots 40% from 3pt range over the course of 100 shots.
Part of the problem is the media glaze for lbj and the lakers..part of that problem is nick wright..people get tired of hearing people on their knees all the time
So the media coverage is the problem for nba ratings?? That’s makes zero sense but ok
@Highroller16 media coverage has a lot to do with people's interest in things
Nick Wright has been on the record saying the NBA should have fewer Lakers/Warriors nationally televised games and more teams like the Timberwolves and Mavericks on national TV. I usually don't like his opinions but I think he's right on that one.
The problem is we don’t know these young guys. Bronny is the most talked about rookie mainly because he’s the only guy anybody knows. College basketball used to set the table for the nba and college basketball is basically unwatchable other than the tournament.
Bro the Celtics play beautiful basketball honestly, they get a little 3 happy sometimes but the way they move the ball is always fun to watch to me
A simple change is bring back the hand checking. This will force more drives to the basket and allow defenses to play actual defense
my problem with the new superstars is that they're just not interesting, there's no intrigue, no story there. they're great players but just not interesting. no meaningful rivalries, no history they're chasing etc. the Lebron vs Steph years were great because you either wanted to see the King or the Dynasty fall either way you had something to root for
I like limiting the number of 3s. It makes it more of strategic which will make coaching more important. Will also make each possession more organized and less chunking up 3s.
No why I love this game was the best slogan because everything was about the work and effort to win
Anything that helps you win games is good for the product, including 3s. The problem is the competitiveness.
Comparing 3 point shots to baseball shifts is a god awful analogy. It’s like banning the home run on baseball. Ridiculousz
It's like banning too many homeruns
I like this Nick Wright take. He's on it.
5:08 it means what? Hawk Tua?
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂... on cue, that was funny
Everybody wants to be Stephen Curry.
The cap on 3s is a brilliant idea!
I'd look at some other issues. Like speed up the game. Only allow timeouts when there is a dead ball. Force the players to improvise rather than force us to watch a parade of timeouts at the end of games.
Regarding the 3 pointer issue. Lets give the game the tie to evolve. I believe defensive schemes and game strategy will adjust.
I get the analytics behind it. Makes sense to shoot 34% from 3 than 50% from since you'll eventually score more.
You have to bring back allowing teams to play harder on defense. NBA prioritizes offense over defense and if they don’t change it the game isn’t going to change. It also goes back to the way the game is being taught at the AAU, HS, College level.
I don't think a 3-point cap is a good idea, because I'm okay with occasional games where a team is red hot from 3 is shooting a ton. I think the answer is simple, just let perimeter defenders play more physically, bring back hand checking.
Great place to start. Not sure it is enough but I wish they’d try it. Freedom of movement wasn’t likely defined as freedom to bore me with no movement as people camped in the corner for 3s
The thing I hate most about all the three pointers is that as soon as the ball is in the air, all five guys are already running back on defense. Defensive rebounds are such a skewed stat now, because defenders aren't really battling anyone for them.
It's not just the 3's - it's the Euro-Step with players taking 4 and 5 steps and carrying the ball.
Lots of good ideas, but before they implement any of those I would strongly recommend they clamp down on carrying and traveling and then see how many open freeze teams are still able to get before making any changes to things like number of three allowed per game or changing the arc which I would be down for eventually deciding, but we need to see what the game looks like with proper Handle rules
The reffing should be drastically altered before any of these major rule changes are implemented. More physicality allowed on defense including things like handchecking, no defensive 3 seconds, and crack down on illegal screens.
If they don’t shoot a 3 and try and drive to the basket it’s a penalty every time.
The only way they can fix this is by pushing the 3 point line out dramatically
I think that’s crap. People who are American dislike the three ball.
As long as Steph Curry is an instance ratings winner/getter, they are not doing anything to the three-point line
Stephs old bro
Steph's the greatest shooter of all time, so it's not a great comparison.
I am a Celtics fan and I love watching my team hit 23 as a night. Is that not fun? The people who dislike it are fans of teams that can’t shoot.
@Jjhawkk yea they hit 23 out of Luke 50 shots when I'm watching a team shoot 50 threes it's boring I'm turning off the tv
@@neutral_narrno he's not he needs lots of moving screens if you count how much pressure they can put on shooters he's bare top 10 boy shoots mostly open
How about just allowing defense to be played? Hand checks and being allowed to stop a players motion will stop the threes naturally.
One thing about Nick is whenever a Boston team starts winning championships he starts hating on them. 🤣🤣 He ain’t hating on the Patriots anymore because his Chiefs are dominant now. Now he wants to complain about the C’s! 🤣🤣
I totally agree, he is Celtics hater. No denying it. AND - I think NBA basketball is becoming way soft and is dominated by 3's, which is boring. So I agree with him that the rules need to be changed. I kind of like the idea of threes only being counted in the 2nd and 4th quarters.
You could start fining teams significantly if they go over a certain threshold of threes. That way it doesn’t totally disrupt the game completely but discourages chucking it up when your down 20 points lol
The NBA is the major sport that has the most analytical impact. Yes baseball uses more math than any other sport, but the analytical teams have historically been competitive but not able to win championships (I.e. the As and the Rays). To me the solution is simple. The problem with the 3 isn’t that it’s more than 2 it’s that the percentage at which they’re made, make them more valuable than 2s. If you shoot 30 shots and you need 30 points, you only need a third to go in from 3 but you need half from 2. The best 3 point shooters in the league are shooting greater than 36% (some are shooting 40%). The solution is to move the line back and eliminate the corner 3. They’ve got the shot location data to do it. Move the line back to where the league average data drops down to 29%. Then watch and adjust. If there are still too many 3s move it back and if there are too few move it forward.
I kind of agree that there is a problem brewing, but Nick’s proposed solutions are all terrible. The solutions most people have mentioned in the comments - allow hand checking above the three-point line, call moving screens more often, tighten up the ball carrying rules and travel rules - that would all work better than doing 3’s and 4’s, or having every team have a different 3 point line, or capping the # of 3s you get to take, NONE of that will work….. maybe actually making the three-point arc a true curved arc and eliminating the corner threes…. That might work
Wow, this is a rare time I actually agree with Nick
Either take the 3pt line off the floor or make it like the blue line in hockey (just a straight line, no arc, and make it 26' from the hoop).
(I DO like the 15-shot cap idea though.)
Eliminate zone defense (they only put that in to stop Shaq; no dominant center like that these days)
Point blank being back competitiveness to win as a team rather than incentivise for marketing value then who are the individuals that stand out
Shooting a ton of 3s dont bother me as much as players constantly fishing for fouls and flopping. Player like luka i want to be excited to watch but him and james harden are frustrating to watch as they constantly are just trying to draw fouls almost every play.
Having dunks count as 3 points is interesting. I think we would see more of the athletic players attacking and protecting the rim a lot more.
The easiest way to do it is just get rid of the three-point line entirely. But I kind of like the idea of having every team pick their own three-point line.
Major issue: NBA media consistently saying "THE REGULAR SEASON DOESN'T MATTER"
This has drastically devalued the NBA in the eyes of the average fan. Stop devaluing the regular season. I find it so disrespectful to the fans and the NBA when the media devalues the regular season.
Baseball did not drastically change the sport nick. They just sped it up and gave defensive "restrictive lines" to ensure players are actually playing the position where its supposed to.
While not "drastic", it improved the product, both on TV and in person. And people still cry about the ghost runner and pitch clock, as if we wanna see a pitcher scratch his ass for 30 seconds.
Simple solution is to make the 3 point shot strategic,that is,only allow the 3 point shot during the last two minutes of each quarter.
3 pointers, no defense and player movement has ultimately hurt the NBA. As soon as a guy has a bad guy we are yelling trade. Superstars constantly moving takes away some of the specialness