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Kblaze8855
03-23-2022, 01:33 PM
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From nba Twitter


Im convinced they pick plays like that to highlight on social media just to start the argument about traveling to laugh at. Works every time. Instant fight with everyone over 30 outraged and all the young people telling them to learn the game.

I just wish I could have been in the meeting when they decided on the zero step/gather essentially legalizing 3 steps. You know it had to be because they were sick of hearing about it and being unable to stop the players doing it. The top level of ball has the most loose rules when players that good shouldn’t require it. Kids all over the world get called out for what the guys they emulate do legally. I imagine it’s eventually gonna have to filter down to the lower levels like 3 pointers.

Im sure many of you don’t remember but for a long time only the pros had the 3 and then some colleges and even then high school didn’t. We would play pickup and kinda have an informal 3 point line but it wasn’t drawn on. Now they all have them by default.

The nba apparently decides the rules and you see teens online arguing all kinda bullshit is legal in pickup and high school highlights because the nba allows it so…I guess they just wait out the old people and then nobody will remember a time you couldn’t just run to the basket.

Worst thing to me is those guys are so ****ing good. They don’t need the help but…it is what it is.

For at least a few more decades the leagues social media people can get a laugh.

Im Still Ballin
03-23-2022, 01:44 PM
It's been a few years since Harden's double stepback controversy; I still don't understand the gather step thing.

About the 3pt line: I was reading up about it, and apparently, the NCAA didn't universally take to it. Some conferences had it, while others didn't. Even the distance varied among them and year after year.

In the '80s in LSU's conference, the 3pt line was 19'9". Coach Dale Brown went back and watched Pete Maravich footage and calculated that, with the 3pt line, he'd have put up 57 points instead of 40 per game.

Crazy to think about.

Kblaze8855
03-23-2022, 01:47 PM
Yea when I was coming up only some conferences in college had 3s and they were different. I don’t think Reggie had threes at UCLA but the next season they had it. I don’t know when it was universal in college but when I was young it usually wasn’t there.

Xiao Yao You
03-23-2022, 01:58 PM
ACC had a 17'9" line. Probably only lasted a season. Watched Sam Perkins hit a dozen or so one game from that line

Kblaze8855
03-23-2022, 01:59 PM
Speaking of NBA softness filtering down to lower levels:


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That tech is “We forefit” everyone walk off the court to show how serious we take this bad. If I’m the coach that ref has to see me. I’m about to set some terrible examples about respect and sportsmanship.

Kblaze8855
03-23-2022, 02:01 PM
ACC had a 17'9" line. Probably only lasted a season. Watched Sam Perkins hit a dozen or so one game from that line


Yea I know they had it down south for a while because the courts when I’d be down in the summer would have one drawn on with chalk or just scratched into dirt. It wasn’t consistent. I don’t know how young you have to be to always have had 3 pointers. I don’t think anyone under….35ish…would remember that.