olympics to add 3 on 3 basketball

[Knicksfever2010]

http://espn.go.com/olympics/story/_/id/9148662/olympics-mulling-addition-3-3-basketball-bmx

[christian1923]

USA could probably put together 30+ competitive teams:oldlol:

[Clutch]

Melo,LeBron,Durant

Game over :bowdown:

[Miss Bella]

Should be an interesting event to follow.

LeBron/Melo/Kobe should be an interesting trio.

[Knicksfever2010]

Melo,LeBron,Durant

Game over :bowdown:

melo vs any 3 and game is over. Melo is friggin BEASTING right now.

[hybridLB]

Lots of Good Basketball players who can't make it in the NBA (5 on 5 basketball, season long) would do wonders in a streetball 3 on 3 game!

would love to see this in the Olympics!

[Thorpesaurous]

Winner's outs? 21 by 1s and 2s? Three point check back line? Check backs on steals? Check backs on airballs? Win by 2? Win by 2 or straight to 27?

And generally speaking yeah, NBA players would dominate this, but you are right in that there are specifically really good players who lack the single skill of getting up and down the court, or the skill of playing an 82 game season 5 months, who could be surprisingly valuable. The right big man, who just doesn't get up and down the floor well, could be unusually valuable, like a guy like a healthy Yao.

[TheReturn]

It's not in yet, they're looking at it. Fun be fun though, I agree.

Jamal Crawford, Lebron James, Dwight Howard.

I know there's better players, but I would be fun watching Crawford operate with so much space around him, he'd humiliate opponents.

[Miss Bella]

I have change my mind, Kyrie Irving would be really fun too see in this he is already breaking ankles in the NBA.

[JerryWest]

Jamal, Jr Smith and Blake Griffin please!

[thabisyo]

Melo,LeBron,Durant

Game over :bowdown:

That great but i would like Melo, Lebron and Wade better. Melo and lebron already score at will, add another crazy scrorer/defender/shot blocker just for complete domination


But such a format would be so unfair. they should make a world vs america series

[poido123]

Current Jordan, Kobe, Lebron would be dominant. Only halfcourt as Jordan won't be able to keep up, but in a halfcourt game, he still has the skills to use his post up game, and have the stamina to hang in on defense without all the running.

[pegasus]

I doubt any NBA players would participate. It would be college and D-League players only.

[Flush]

Can you have any substitutes here?

[Kobe681]

Winner's outs? 21 by 1s and 2s? Three point check back line? Check backs on steals? Check backs on airballs? Win by 2? Win by 2 or straight to 27?

Here are the major rules they used at the 2010 Youth Olympics in Singapore (where Three-a-side half-court basketball successfully debuted, according to the OPs article):

Only half of the basketball court is used for the game.
Each team consists of 3 players and 1 substitute.
Game time: Two 5-minute periods or a team scores 33 points or more, whichever comes first. If tied at the end of regulation, 2-minute overtimes are used until the tie is broken or a team reaches 33 points.
Team must attempt a shot for goal in 10 seconds.
Ball must be taken out of the 3-point line and touched by 2 teammates (ball receiver/dribbler and 1 other teammate) before a shot can be attempted.Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basketball_at_the_2010_Summer_Youth_Olympics

EDIT: here is USAs team, which came in 4th.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_at_the_2010_Summer_Youth_Olympics#Ba sketball


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10 second shot clock? lol thats freaking awesome. thats a crazy fast-paced game.

And it looks like there is some kind of rule where you have to clear the ball back to the three point line. I hope its a check back on every possession. including steals and airballs.

[Thorpesaurous]

Here are the major rules they used at the 2010 Youth Olympics in Singapore (where Three-a-side half-court basketball successfully debuted, according to the OPs article):

Only half of the basketball court is used for the game.
Each team consists of 3 players and 1 substitute.
Game time: Two 5-minute periods or a team scores 33 points or more, whichever comes first. If tied at the end of regulation, 2-minute overtimes are used until the tie is broken or a team reaches 33 points.
Team must attempt a shot for goal in 10 seconds.
Ball must be taken out of the 3-point line and touched by 2 teammates (ball receiver/dribbler and 1 other teammate) before a shot can be attempted.Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basketball_at_the_2010_Summer_Youth_Olympics

EDIT: here is USAs team, which came in 4th.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_at_the_2010_Summer_Youth_Olympics#Ba sketball


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10 second shot clock? lol thats freaking awesome. thats a crazy fast-paced game.

And it looks like there is some kind of rule where you have to clear the ball back to the three point line. I hope its a check back on every possession. including steals and airballs.


Yeah, that's a good rule up there. So the ball not only has to be checked back, but when it is it's got to passed to someone after that, so no just grabbing a rebound and kicking it out for a three at that point.

[WayOfWade]

I feel like there should be multiple USA teams for 3v3, kind of like how there are multiple US swimmers and track athletes. I think the US 3 man team would be too good, and wouldn't have any competition. With two US teams, that would be fun to watch.

[Flash31]

The US team would beyond
dominate,they would murder the opposition like Wilt did

Cp3,Durant,LeBron
played at half court and 10 sec clock
disgustingly brutal for the other teams

A team of CP3/Westbrook/Curry and LeBeon/Durant/Melo with Wade/Bosh/Blake any of these combinations on a half court at 10 sec clock

Extermination

[Jolokia]

Stephen Curry/Kyrie Irving, Kevin Love, & Lebron

[alwaysunny]

I really like this idea. It'd open up a whole new aspects of the game. It would be interesting to see if some of the players' weakness would be exposed. Of course expect a lot of overreaction if that were to happen.

Going out on a limb here, but I think LeBron wouldn't be as effective in a short-handed half court game.

[Fox]

LeBron, Wade and Durant.

[Fiba basketball]

You guys know best pro players won't play 3 on 3 right ?

Last year in fiba 3x3 world chapionship for seniors USA ( sent some ex college players I think ) lost to Serbia ( sent guys that aren't pro basketball players ) in quarter finals

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY6GTEnbWT8

in U18 USA lost to Serbia in finals

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_F2lvbyP3g

[CavaliersFTW]

Put Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes on a team anchored by an American NBA player and they would dominate those European scrubs :oldlol:

[LexiKhan]

So they take away wrestling, pretty much killing the sport outside of the WWE shenanigans. In turn they add a basketball spin-off that nobody will care about. Good move IOC :rolleyes: .

At least add that weird football-volleyball hybrid with the acrobatic kicks. That's something that could garner some interest.

[Teanett]

so no wrestling but 3on3? what a joke.

anyway i'd like to see jordan, iverson and sheed.

[Nero Tulip]

Cool, maybe eventually they can take some of the crappy NBA rules and take it to 3v3, and restore the NBA to real basketball. Casual fans can watch 3v3 and basketball fans watch the NBA, everybody wins.

[RoundMoundOfReb]

Put Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes on a team anchored by an American NBA player and they would dominate those European scrubs :oldlol:
They should make USA play 2 v 3

[Kobe681]

You guys know pro players won't play 3 on 3 right ?

Last year in fiba 3x3 world chapionship for seniors USA ( sent some ex college players I think ) lost to Serbia ( sent guys that aren't pro basketball players ) in quarter finals

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY6GTEnbWT8

in U18 USA lost to Serbia in finals

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_F2lvbyP3g

Cool vids. I never knew this existed.

Are pro players allowed to play in these tournaments?

[Noob Saibot]

10 seconds for a shot and two teammates have to touch the ball before shooting. talk about fast pace. expect some low quality shooting to occur in this event.

[Nero Tulip]

Cool vids. I never knew this existed.

Are pro players allowed to play in these tournaments?

I think they are, but regardless no club is going to take the risk and let them play in a competition no one gives a shit about.

[Fiba basketball]

Cool vids. I never knew this existed.

Are pro players allowed to play in these tournaments?

That was the first official 3x3 tournament so a lot of people still don't know about it .

Yes pro players are allowed . France sent pro players and I think Greece sent pro players but under the age of 23 or something like that . Spain sent some ex pro players like Garbahosa and Jimenez ( although he signed one month contract with Euroleague team Unicaja Malaga after a couple of months ) . I don't know if someone else sent pro players but it's interesting that team without pro players won the gold .

[Venja42]

Cool idea but they're getting rid of wrestling, baseball and softball for this!?

Bad move, in my opinion!

[DropStep]

So they take away wrestling, pretty much killing the sport outside of the WWE shenanigans. In turn they add a basketball spin-off that nobody will care about. Good move IOC :rolleyes: .

At least add that weird football-volleyball hybrid with the acrobatic kicks. That's something that could garner some interest.


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[AndOn3]

LeBron, Ray Allen/Kyle Korver , and Stephen Curry

game
over.

[flipogb]

let the Heat take care of this

[Euroleague]

I doubt any NBA players would participate. It would be college and D-League players only.

I don't think any professional players from anywhere would be allowed in it. The NBA will fight it with everything they have to make it into a bunch of street ballers.

[Euroleague]

That was the first official 3x3 tournament so a lot of people still don't know about it .

Yes pro players are allowed . France sent pro players and I think Greece sent pro players but under the age of 23 or something like that . Spain sent some ex pro players like Garbahosa and Jimenez ( although he signed one month contract with Euroleague team Unicaja Malaga after a couple of months ) . I don't know if someone else sent pro players but it's interesting that team without pro players won the gold .

A bunch of teams did. But I seriously doubt the NBA would ever agree to it.

And none of the other main national teams will either. Greece's federation president said he only let some under-23 players play there because it was the first tournament and they were hosting it.

He said in an Olympics tournament no one from the senior team would play in it.

[pinhead]

Basketball, Tennis, Golf and Proper Football should not even be in the Olympics, especially this 3 on 3 bullshit.

What next? Crazy golf?

The IOC piss me off

[tgan3]

It would look like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsbyjNkcxF8

[handbanana]

so basically serbia won every single 3on3 tournament ever played?

btw i don't see why teams would ban pro players from this, it's only 10 minutes total per game, much smaller risk of injury, and an olympic gold medal is still a big deal.

[ILLsmak]

10 seconds for a shot and two teammates have to touch the ball before shooting. talk about fast pace. expect some low quality shooting to occur in this event.

that two teammate thing just means they have to inbound the ball instead of shooting it themselves.

This seems like fun tho...

Edit: Not to mention some guys we've never heard of could come out and be factors...


-Smak

[Euroleague]

that two teammate thing just means they have to inbound the ball instead of shooting it themselves.

This seems like fun tho...

Edit: Not to mention some guys we've never heard of could come out and be factors...


-Smak

I watched some of the games and the 10 second shot clock was brutal. The best way to win games was to have either an absolute enforcer big man defensively, or to have an insane lights out shooter.

Guys that fell into just about any other category of player had problems being at all useful.

[eeemmad]

Give me Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving and James Harden. Game Blouses.

[CavaliersFTW]

I watched some of the games and the 10 second shot clock was brutal. The best way to win games was to have either an absolute enforcer big man defensively, or to have an insane lights out shooter.

Guys that fell into just about any other category of player had problems being at all useful.
Translation: NBA players would dominate